Winthrop W. Aldrich
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Winthrop Williams Aldrich was an American banker and financier, scion of a prominent and powerful political family, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Aldrich during World War I
Aldrich with Marilyn Monroe, 1957
Portrait of his wife, Harriet Alexander, in 1909 before their marriage, by Joaquín Sorolla.
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
Winthrop W. Aldrich
…prominent and powerful political family, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Aldrich was born in Rhode Island in 1885, to Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and the former Abigail Pearce Truman Chapman. He attended Harvard University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1907 and a J.D. degree in 1910. Among…
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