Claude A. Swanson of Virginia : A Political Biography /

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Spanning most of the years of the one-party South, the public career of Virginian Claude A. Swanson, congressman, governor, senator, and secretary of the navy, extended from the second administration of Grover Cleveland into that of Franklin Roosevelt. His record, writes Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., in th...

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Main Author: Ferrell, Henry C., Jr. (Henry Clifton), 1934-2020
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Swanson, Claude Augustus, > 1862-1939.
United States. > Congress.
United States. > Congress > Biography.
Legislators.
Governors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Governors > Virginia > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Virginia.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Spanning most of the years of the one-party South, the public career of Virginian Claude A. Swanson, congressman, governor, senator, and secretary of the navy, extended from the second administration of Grover Cleveland into that of Franklin Roosevelt. His record, writes Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., in this definitive biography, is that of ""a skillful legislative diplomat and an exceedingly wise executive encompassed in the personality of a professional politician.""As a congressman, Swanson abandoned Cleveland's laissez faire doctrines to become the leading Virginia spokesman for William Jennings.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9780813162959

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