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

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