Presidential Portraiture
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John Payne Todd Portrait
John Payne Todd Portrait
John Payne Todd, pictured here in a watercolor on ivory portrait by Joseph Wood, c. 1817, is buried in the historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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