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Mount Vernon kingmaker Columbus Delano got R.C. Kirk noticed by Abraham Lincoln, who appointed him Minister to the Argentine Confederation in 1862.
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Argentine president Bartolomé Mitre appreciated Robert Kirk as a diplomat, and worked with him to make sure various Argentinian debts to the US were paid off. Unfotunately, Kirk’s pride led him to resign his post, ending his diplomatic career.
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William Dennison was elected Ohio’s governor in 1859. Robert C. Kirk was his lieutenant governor.
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The house Robert C Kirk lived in for many years on the corner of Newark and Kirk. The Italianate villa was built in 1868.
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