William B. Allison
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William Boyd Allison was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his st
Allison in 1870
Portrait of Senator Allison which hangs in the U.S. Capitol.
Sen. William Boyd Allison Monument, Des Moines, Iowa, 1916
Nelson W. Aldrich
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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s, he was
William B. Allison
…one of the "big four" key Republicans who largely controlled the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt of Connecticut, John Coit Spooner of Wisconsin and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Born in Perry, Ohio, Allison established a legal practice in Dubuque, Iowa, and became a prominent member of the nascent Iowa Republican…
Nelson W. Aldrich
Abigail Pearce Truman Chapman
Reformers hated and feared Senator Aldrich for killing reforms disliked by big business. 1906 Puck cartoon.
Taft tries to get progressive ideas into Aldrich