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ALDRICH, NELSON WILMARTH (1841- )

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ALDRICH, See also:
NELSON
NELSON, HORATIO NELSON, VISCOUNT (1758-1805)
NELSON, ROBERT (s656-1715)
NELSON WILMARTH (1841- ) , See also:

AMERICAN

American politician, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Foster, Rhode See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, on the 6th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1841. His first See also:

POLITICAL

political service was as a member (1869-1875) and See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president (1871-1872) of the See also:

PROVIDENCE

Providence See also:

COMMON

common See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council. He was a member of the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

house of the Rhode Island legislature in 1875 and 1876, and See also:

SPEAKER

speaker in the, latter See also:

YEAR

year. By this See also:

time he had become a See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in Republican See also:

state politics, and in 1878 and 188o was elected to See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress. See also:

Early in his second See also:

TERM

term he was chosen See also:

UNITED

United States senator, and was re-elected in 1886, 1892, 1898 and 1905. In the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate he was looked upon as the See also:

SPECIAL

special representative of the high protective See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries and moneyed interests, and he took a prominent See also:

PART

part in all legislation dealing with the See also:

TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

tariff, banking and the See also:

MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant marine.

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