Robert C. Winthrop- US Senator and Representative A standing CDV of Winthrop who was a prominent Massachusetts politician and orator who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives while Abraham Lincoln was a freshman congressman. The two men had a complicated political relationship based on their differing party views and approaches to the issue of slavery, with Winthrop opposing the new Republican Party and its abolitionist faction. Clipped corners, slight side trim. Back marked E. Anthony, New York, from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery.