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NELSON WILMARTH ALDRICH (1841- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NELSON WILMARTH See also:ALDRICH (1841- )  , See also:American politician, was See also:born at See also:Foster, Rhode See also:Island, on the 6th of See also:November 1841 . His first See also:political service was as a member (1869-1875) and See also:president (1871-1872) of the See also:Providence See also:common See also:council . He was a member of the See also:lower See also:house of the Rhode Island legislature in 1875 and 1876, and See also:speaker in the, latter See also:year . By this See also:time he had become a See also:power in Republican See also:state politics, and in 1878 and 188o was elected to See also:Congress . See also:Early in his second See also:term he was chosen See also:United States senator, and was re-elected in 1886, 1892, 1898 and 1905 . In the See also:Senate he was looked upon as the See also:special representative of the high protective See also:industries and moneyed interests, and he took a prominent See also:part in all legislation dealing with the See also:tariff, banking and the See also:merchant marine .

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