American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

by Charles F. Ritter, James Roger Sharp, Nancy Weatherly Sharp, Jon L. Wakelyn

Overview

The second of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Entries provide basic biographical and career information on more than 1,400 speakers. The book opens with an analytical introduction and includes useful statistical appendixes. The four volumes, covering state speakers in the West, Midwest, Northeast, and South, are designed to complement Charles R. Ritter's and Jon L. Wakelyn's book American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 (1989).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313302145
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/25/1997
Series:	Strategic Thought
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile:	1080L (what's this?)

About the Author

NANCY WEATHERLY SHARP is a member of the faculty and Assistant Dean at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. She is author of Communications Research: The Challenge of the Information Age (1988).

JAMES ROGER SHARP is Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is author of American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (1993, 1997) and The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the States After the Panic of 1837 (1970), and several articles.

Gina Petonito

Kevin G. Atwater

Charles F. Ritter

Jon L. Wakelyn

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Biographical Dictionary
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Political Party and Home County
Appendix 2: Years in Speakership and House
Appendix 3: Legislative Pathways
Appendix 4: Sex, Race, Birth, and Death
Appendix 5: Education
Appendix 6: Religious, Military, and Marital Background
Appendix 7: Occupations
Appendix 8: Voluntary Organizations
Appendix 9: Public Offices Before Speakership
Appendix 10: Public Offices After Speakership

Editorial Reviews

The second of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers, covering speakers from 13 midwest states. Entries of less than one page provide basic biographical and career information on some 1,400 speakers. Includes an analytical introduction and 10 statistical appendices on aspects of speakers' backgrounds including political party, gender, race, religious affiliation, and other public offices held. Volumes on state speakers in the four regions of the US are designed to complement , by Ritter and Wakelyn (1989). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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