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WILLIAM BOYD ALLISON (1829-1908)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 697 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM BOYD ALLISON (1829-1908)  ,
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American legislator, was born at Perry,
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Ohio, on the 2nd of March 1829 . Educated at
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Allegheny and Western Reserve Colleges, he studied law, and practised in Ohio until 1857 . In that
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year he settled in
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Dubuque,
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Iowa, where he took a prominent
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part in Republican politics; and in 186o he was a delegate to the
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national convention at Chicago which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the
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presidency . In 1861 he was appointed a member of the staff of Governor
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Samuel J . Kirkwood (1813-1894), and was of
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great service in the
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work of equipping and organizing the Iowa
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volunteers . From 1863 until 1871 he served with distinction in the House of Representatives; in 1873 he was elected to the
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United States Senate, and re-elected in 1878, 1884, 189o, 1896 and 1902 . Here he became one of the highest authorities on questions connected with
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finance, and from 1897 he was a member of the Senate committee on finance . In 1881-1893, and again from 1895, he was chairman of the committee on appropriations, in which position he had great influence . He declined offers of the secretaryship of the
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treasury made to him by Presidents Garfield and Harrison . He was a prominent
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candidate for the presidential nomination in the Republican national conventions of 1888 and 1896 . In 1892 he was chairman of the American delegation to the International Monetary
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Conference at Brussels . He died at Dubuque, Iowa, on the 4th of August 1908 .

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