Nelson Aldrich microfilm collection, 1777-1930 (bulk 1879-1915) [microform].

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Nelson Aldrich microfilm collection, 1777-1930 (bulk 1879-1915) [microform].

Chiefly correspondence, printed matter, and materials, relating to tariff legislation and the National Monetary Commission, supplemented by diaries, notebooks, speeches, research notes, serials, financial papers, and miscellany, focusing on Aldrich's 30 years as U.S. senator from Rhode Island and his concern with national economic and fiscal policies, particularly protective tariff rates and conservative monetary policies favored by powerful northeastern business interests, particularly reflected by Commission correspondence of Abram Piatt, special assistant, Arthur B. Shelton, secretary, and staff members Charles E. Alden, Jr., J. Williard Sheetz, and William A. Slade, and occasional correspondence and speeches of Aldrich promoting monetary reform. Principal correspondents include William B. Allison, Henry B. Anthony, Jonathan Bourne, Jr., Charles R. Brayton, Jonathan Chace, William E. Chandler, Charles A. Conant, Henry P. Davison, Eugene Hale, Philander C. Knox, Charles Warren Lippitt, Stephen B. Luce, Orville H. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Henry M. Teller, Paul M. Warburg, and George Peabody Wetmore.

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Alden, Charles E.

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Piatt, Abram

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Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908

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Iowa legislator; United States House of Representatives, 1863-1871; United States Senate, 1873-1908. From the description of Letter : Dubuque, Iowa, to W[illiam] W[orth] Belknap, Washington, D.C., 1873 Oct. 22. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496685 U.S. Senator and Representative from Iowa. From the description of Papers of William B. Allison, 1862-1916. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 148787411 William ...

Knox, Philander C. (Philander Chase), 1853-1921

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Lawyer and public official. From the description of Papers of Philander C. Knox, 1893-1922 (bulk 1901-1921). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79632215 Philander C. Knox (1853-1921) was an attorney and politician from southwest Pennsylvania. Knox served as U.S. Attorney General (1901-1904), U.S. Senator (1904-1909, 1917-1921), and as Secretary of State (1909-1913) under William Howard Taft. From the description of Philander C. Knox letter to N.B. Billingsley, 1882 M...

Aldrich, Abby Pearce Chapman, 1845-1917

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Teller, Henry Moore, 1830-1914

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U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876-1909. From the description of Receipt, 1880. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768334 Lawyer of Central City, Colo., U.S. Senator from Colorado, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior. From the description of Papers, 1877-1900. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13659484 American politician and Secretary of the Interior of the United States in the Chester A. Arthur administration. ...

Warburg, Paul M. (Paul Moritz), 1868-1932

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Paul M. Warburg (1868-1932): member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., N.Y., until appointed member of Federal Reserve Board, 1914-1918; member of U.S. Section International High Commission, 1917; chairman of the board of International Acceptance Bank, N. Y., and of The Manhattan Company; director of B & O Railroad, Western Union Telegraph Co., several other corporations. From the description of Paul Moritz Warburg papers, 1904-1932 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702167424 ...

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Davison, Henry Pomeroy, 1867-1922

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Henry Pomeroy Davison was born on June 12, 1867 in Troy, Pennsylvania, son of George B. and Henrietta Davison. After completing his education he became a bookkeeper in a bank managed by one of his relatives, and at age 21 he gained employment at a bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the hometown of his wife Kate Trubee. Three years later he moved to New York City where he was employed by the Astor Place Bank, and sometime later became president of the Liberty National Bank. Several years later he w...

United States. National Monetary Commission.

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The United States Monetary Commission was organized under joint resolution of August 15, 1876. From the description of Documents of the United States National Monetary Commission in regards to Portugal, 1710-1877. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 429235322 ...

Platt, Orville Hitchcock, 1827-1905

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Republican lawyer who served as secretary of state of Connecticut, 1857-58, as member of Connecticut state senate and house of representatives, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1879-1905. Died in office 1905. From the description of Letter, June 28, 1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882387 U.S. senator, public official, and lawyer of Connecticut. From the description of Signature of Orville Hitchcock Platt, 1865. (Unknown). Wor...

Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930

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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) was an American politician who served as U.S. President (1908-1912) and Chief Justitce of the Supreme Court (1921-1930). 1857 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 15th 1878 Graduated from Yale University 1880 Graduated from Cincinnati Law School ...

Sheetz, J. Williard

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Anthony, Henry B. (Henry Bowen), 1815-1884

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American journalist and politician. He was governor of Rhode Island, 1849-50, and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1858-1884. From the guide to the Henry B. Anthony letters, 1850-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1859-1884. Anthony was Governor of R.I. from 1849-1850 and editor of the Providence Journal newspaper from 1838-1858. He graduated from Brown University in 1833. ...

Conant, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915

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Lippitt, Charles Warren, 1846-1924

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Governor of Rhode Island and textile manufacturer. Brown class of 1865. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1764-1920]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122586386 ...

Gardner, Henry B. (Henry Brayton), 1863-1939

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Bourne, Jonathan, 1811-1889

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Hall, Eugene, 1836-1918

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Shelton, Arbhur B.

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Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915

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Architect; d. 1986. From the description of Nelson W. Aldrich interview, 1985 Apr. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185109 Father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; financier and philanthropist who served as U.S. representative (1879-1881) and senator (1881-1911) from Rhode Island and chairman of the U.S. National Monetary Commission (1908-1912). From the description of Nelson Aldrich microfilm collection, 1777-1930 (bulk 1879-1915) [microform]. (Providence ...

Slade, William Adams, 1874-1950

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Librarian. From the description of The torch race : typescript poem, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980978 ...

Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917

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U.S. secretary of the navy, senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. From the description of William E. Chandler papers, 1863-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982265 U.S. Secretary of the Navy, senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. From the description of Papers [microform], 1876-1882. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 62739785 William E. Chandler, a Republican, was U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1889-1901, Assistant ...

Wetmore, George Peabody, 1846-1921

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Governor and U.S. representative and senator from Rhode Island. From the description of George Peabody Wetmore papers, 1885-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80376908 Biographical Note 1846, Aug. 2 Born, London, England 1867 Graduated, Yale College, New Haven, Conn. ...

Luce, Stephen Bleecker, 1827-1917

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Stephen B. Luce was the founder and first president of the Naval War College, Newport, RI. From the description of Letter, August 25, 1856. [1856] (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 725387880 From the description of Letter, 1878. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 741119897 Luce was the founder and first president of the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI. From the description of Letter, March 28, 1890. [1890] (Naval War College). WorldCat r...

Chace, Jonathan, 1829-1917

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