Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from William Boyd Allison: A Study in Practical Politics
This life of one of Iowa's most distinguished citizens is the eighteenth full-length volume published by the State Historical Society of Iowa in its Biographical Series. It is the story of a man who represented Iowa longer in the halls of Congress than any other Iowan. It is the story of a long legislative career rarely equaled in the annals of Ameri can congressional history.
William Boyd Allison represented Iowa for forty-three years in Washington - eight years in the House of Representatives (1863 1871) and thirty-five years in the United States Senate (1873-1908) He was nominated for an unprecedented seventh term in the Senate and, had he lived, his service would have extended over forty-two years. His career ended an era which had seen a handful of Senators (allison, Aldrich, Hale, Platt, and Spooner) virtually write the laws of this Nation. Such men as Robert M. La Follette, Charles Curtis, William E. Borah, and John H. Bankhead, were just beginning their senatorial careers when Allison died in 1908.
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