Charles Ritter, Jon L. Wakelyn

American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

Herausgeber: Sharp, Nancy Weatherly

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Entries provide basic biographical and career information on more than 1,400 speakers. The book opens with an analytical introduction and includes useful statistical appendixes. The four volumes, covering state speakers in the West, Midwest, Northeast, and South, are designed to complement Charles R. Ritter's and Jon L. Wakelyn's book American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 (1989).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780313302145
• ISBN-10: 0313302146
• Artikelnr.: 25565519

Autorenporträt

NANCY WEATHERLY SHARP is a member of the faculty and Assistant Dean at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. She is author of Communications Research: The Challenge of the Information Age (1988). JAMES ROGER SHARP is Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is author of American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (1993, 1997) and The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the States After the Panic of 1837 (1970), and several articles. Gina Petonito Kevin G. Atwater Charles F. Ritter Jon L. Wakelyn

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Biographical Dictionary Bibliography Appendix 1:
Political Party and Home County Appendix 2: Years in Speakership and House
Appendix 3: Legislative Pathways Appendix 4: Sex, Race, Birth, and Death
Appendix 5: Education Appendix 6: Religious, Military, and Marital
Background Appendix 7: Occupations Appendix 8: Voluntary Organizations
Appendix 9: Public Offices Before Speakership Appendix 10: Public Offices
After Speakership