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Ashbel P. Fitch

Remington, David F.

Ashbel P. Fitch champion of old New York / [electronic resource] : David F. Remington ; with a foreword by Joanne Reitano. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (328 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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Fitch, Ashbel P. 1848-1904.


United States. Congress. House --Biography.


Legislators--New York--Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.


Electronic books.

E664.F535 / R46 2011

328.73/092 B