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See also:MILLS, See also:ROGER See also:QUARLES (1832– ) , See also:American legislator, was See also:born in Todd See also:county, See also:Kentucky, on the 3oth of See also:March 1832. He went to See also:Texas in 1839, studied See also:law, and was admitted to the See also:bar by a See also:special See also:act of the legislature before he was twenty-one. He entered the Confederate See also:army in 1861, took See also:part as a private in the See also:battle of See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson's See also:Creek, and as See also:colonel commanded the Tenth Texas See also:Infantry at See also:Arkansas See also:Post, Chickamauga (where he commanded a See also:brigade during part of the battle), Missionary See also:Ridge and See also:Atlanta. He served in the See also:national See also:House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1873 to 1892 and in the See also:Senate from 1892 to 1899. He made the See also:tariff his special study, and was See also:long recognized as the leading authority in See also:Congress. As chairman of the Ways and Means See also:Committee of the House of Representatives in 1887–1889 during See also:President See also:Cleveland's first See also:administration, he led the fight for reform. From his committee he reported in See also:April 1888 the " Mills See also:Bill," which provided for a reduction of the duties on See also:sugar, earthen-See also:ware, glassware, See also:plate See also:glass, woollen goods and other articles, the substitution of ad valorem for specific duties in many cases, and the placing of See also:lumber (of certain kinds), See also:hemp, See also:wool, See also:flax, See also:borax, See also:tin plates, See also:salt and other articles on the See also:free See also:list. This bill was passed by the Democratic House on the 21st of See also:July, and was then so amended by a Republican Senate as to be unacceptable to the house. The tariff thus became the See also:chief issue in the presidential See also:campaign of 1888. In 1891 Mills was a See also:candidate in the
Democratic See also:caucus for See also:Speaker of the house, but was defeated by See also:Charles F. Crisp (1845–1896) of See also:Georgia. During the free See also:silver controversy he adhered to the Cleveland See also:section of the Democratic party, and failed to be re-elected when his See also:term in the Senate expired in 1899. He then retired to See also:Corsicana, Texas, where he engaged in business and the practice of law.
End of Article: MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )
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