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... Grant . Grant was a West Pointer whose first Civil War position was a desk job for Illinois Governor Richard Yates . He came to prominence late in the war , amid rumors of heavy drinking and violent criticism for his bloody campaigns in ...
... Grant . Grant was a West Pointer whose first Civil War position was a desk job for Illinois Governor Richard Yates . He came to prominence late in the war , amid rumors of heavy drinking and violent criticism for his bloody campaigns in ...
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... Grant's grandson , " Wash- burne distinguished himself greatly " and was the only foreign minister to remain in Paris throughout the days of the Commune . Other Illinois Republicans chosen by Grant for national posts included Giles ...
... Grant's grandson , " Wash- burne distinguished himself greatly " and was the only foreign minister to remain in Paris throughout the days of the Commune . Other Illinois Republicans chosen by Grant for national posts included Giles ...
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... Grant's seeming ineffectiveness encouraged them . Former Governor John Palmer , Judge David Davis , and Senator Lyman Trumbull all fought for the nomination of the Liberal Republican party in 1872. The three Illinoisans split western ...
... Grant's seeming ineffectiveness encouraged them . Former Governor John Palmer , Judge David Davis , and Senator Lyman Trumbull all fought for the nomination of the Liberal Republican party in 1872. The three Illinoisans split western ...
Contents
Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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