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BL
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980062
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b734432
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| Main Entry
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Grossman, Mark.
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Speakers of the House of Representatives, 1789-2009.
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| Publication Statement
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Millerton :: Grey House Publishing,, 2009.
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1 online resource (632 pages)
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| ISBN
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1592374832
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: 9781592374830
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| Notes
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Letters from Robert C. Winthrop, 1872 & 1883.
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| Contents
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Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction and Study Guide; Speaker Biographies; Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg; Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.; Jonathan Dayton; Theodore Sedgwick; Nathaniel Macon; Joseph Bradley Varnum; Henry Clay; Langdon Cheves; JohnW. Taylor; Philip Pendleton Barbour; Andrew Stevenson; John Bell; James Knox Polk; Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter; John White; John Winston Jones; John Wesley Davis; Robert Charles Winthrop; Howell Cobb; Linn Boyd; Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; James Lawrence Orr; William Pennington; Galusha Aaron Grow; Thomas Stanley Bocock.
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Andrew Stevenson Addresses the House of Representatives on his Election as Speaker, 1827Representative John W. Jones of Virginia Speaks on Slavery, 1835; Honorable James L. Orr's Speech on Slavery, 8 May 1850; Letters of Representative Edwin Barber Morgan on Speakership Contest of 1855-56; Speaker Nathaniel Banks Attempts to Win Free Soil Votes for Presidential Nominee John C. Frémont, 1856; Schuyler Colfax's Letter on the Election of Nathaniel Banks as Speaker, 1856; Excerpts from John Sherman's 1895 Autobiography: the Controversial Speakership Election of 1859.
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Newton Leroy GingrichRobert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr.; John Dennis Hastert; Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi; Historical Essays; The Speaker of the House of Commons in England: Formation of the Office; The Speaker in the Earliest Legislative Bodies in American History; Difficulty in Studying Early Speakers Using Historical Documents; The Role of the Speaker in the Impeachments of Three Presidents; The Office of the Speaker from Frederick Muhlenberg to David Henderson (1789-1903); The Office of the Speaker from Joseph Cannon to Nancy Pelosi (1903-2009).
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Schuyler ColfaxTheodore Medad Pomeroy; James Gillespie Blaine; Michael Crawford Kerr; Samuel Jackson Randall; Joseph Warren Keifer; John Griffin Carlisle; Thomas Brackett Reed, Jr.; Charles Frederick Crisp; David Bremner Henderson; Joseph Gurney Cannon; James Beauchamp Clark; Frederick Huntington Gillett; Nicholas Longworth; John Nance Garner; Henry Thomas Rainey; Joseph Wellington Byrns, Sr.; William Brockman Bankhead; Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn; Joseph William Martin, Jr.; John William McCormack; Carl Bert Albert; Thomas Phillip O'Neill, Jr.; James Claude Wright, Jr.; Thomas Stephen Foley.
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The Four "Missing" Speakers Who Served Less Than a DayFive Controversial Elections for Speaker -- 1839, 1849, 1855, 1859, and 1923; Speaker pro tempore Samuel Sullivan Cox; Primary Documents: Articles, Letters, and Speeches; John Rutledge Writes of the Election of Theodore Sedgwick as Speaker, 1799; Theodore Sedgwick's Letter: "To the Electors of the First Western District," 1800; Excerpt from 1903 Biography of Nathaniel Macon on being Elected Speaker, 1801; Langdon Cheves's Remarks on being Elected Speaker upon Resignation of Henry Clay, 19 January 1814.
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Legislators-- United States-- Biography.
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Statesmen-- United States-- Biography.
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United States-- Politics and government.
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United States.-- Congress.-- House.
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| Dewey Classification
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328.73092
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| LC Classification
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JK1411 -- G767 2009eb
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