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CORNELIUS NEWTON BLISS (1833– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 72 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNELIUS NEWTON BLISS (1833– )  ,
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American merchant and politician, was born at Fall
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River, Massachusetts, on the 26th of
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January 1833 . He was educated in his native city and in New Orleans, where he early entered his step-
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father's counting-house . Returning to Massachusetts in 1849, he became a clerk and subsequently a junior partner in a prominent Boston commercial house . Later he removed to New York City to establish a branch of the
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firm . In 1881 he organized and became president of Bliss, Fabyan &
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Company, one of the largest wholesale dry-goods houses in the country . A consistent advocate of the protective tariff, he was one of the organizers, and for many years president, of the American Protective Tariff
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League . In politics an active Republican, he was chair-man of the Republican state committee in 1887 and 1888, and contributed much to the success of the Harrison ticket in New York in the latter
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year . He was treasurer of the Republican
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national committee from 1892 to 1904, and Was secretary of the interior in President McKinley's
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cabinet from 1897 to 1899 .

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