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Remington, David F.

Ashbel P. Fitch : champion of old New York / David F. Remington ; with a foreword by Joanne Reitano. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (328 pages)

OldControl:muse9780815651642.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forebears and early years, 1848-1885 -- Politics and the road to Washington -- National prominence, tariff speech : fiftieth congress, 1886-1888 -- New York's world's fair lost : fifty-first congress, 1888-1890 -- Republican overreach, democratic momentum : fifty-first congress, 1888-1890 -- Silver beckons : fifty-second congress, 1890-1892 -- New York and the election law in Cleveland's victory : fifty-second congress, 1890-1892 -- Repeal of the election law and Sherman Act : fifty-third congress, 1892-1894 -- New York City's watershed -- Reformers in charge, 1895 -- A crash and a bang -- Silver and the New York elections of 1896 and 1897 -- Passage.


English.

ISBN: 9780815651642 (electronic bk.) 0815651643 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper)

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB157155 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015805241 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Fitch, Ashbel P. 1848-1904.
Fitch, Ashbel P. 1848-1904.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Congress. House --Biography.
United States. Congress. House.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Legislators--New York--Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
Parlementaires--États-Unis--Biographies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--Legislative Branch.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political.
Legislators.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: E664.F535 / R46 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 328.73/092 B