Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
House documents
Author: Hiram R. Rhea
Author: West Virginia Blue Book
Author: Senate Joint Resolutions
Author: Ohio. General Assembly. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Army Appropriation Bill
Author: William R. WarnockCatalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
Book Description
Pioneer Citizens' History of Atlanta, 1833-1902
Author: Pioneer citizens' society. AtlantaPublisher:
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Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Claude A. Swanson of Virginia
Author: Henry C. FerrellJr.Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Spanning most of the years of the one-party South, the public career of Virginian Claude A. Swanson, congressman, governor, senator, and secretary of the navy, extended from the second administration of Grover Cleveland into that of Franklin Roosevelt. His record, writes Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., in this definitive biography, is that of "a skillful legislative diplomat and an exceedingly wise executive encompassed in the personality of a professional politician." As a congressman, Swanson abandoned Cleveland's laissez faire doctrines to become the leading Virginia spokesman for William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic platform of 1896. His achievements as a reform governor are equaled by few Virginia chief executives. In the Senate, Swanson worked to advance the programs of Woodrow Wilson. In the 1920s, he contributed to formulation of Democratic alternatives to Republican policies. In Roosevelt's New Deal cabinet, he helped the Navy obtain favorable treatment during a decade of isolation. The warp and woof of local politics are well explicated by Ferrell to furnish insight into personalities and events that first produced, then sustained, Swan-son's electoral success. He examines Virginia educational, moral, and social reforms; disfranchisement movements; racial and class politics; and the impact of the woman's vote. And he records the growth of the Hampton Roads military-industrial complex, which Swanson brought about. In Virginia, Swanson became a dominant political figure, and Ferrell's study challenges previous interpretations of Virginia politics between 1892 and 1932 that pictured a powerful, reactionary Democratic "Organization," directed by Thomas Staples Martin and his successor Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., defeating would-be progressive reformers. A forgotten Virginia emerges here, one that reveals the pervasive role of agrarians in shaping the Old Dominion's politics and priorities.
WORLD WAR VETERANS' LEGISLATION.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' LegislationPublisher:
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Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Centennial History and Handbook of Indiana: The Story of The State From Its Beginning to The Close of The Civil War, and a General Survey of Progress
Author: George S. CottmanPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018523163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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