Ashbel P. Fitch
Subtitle: champion of old New York
By: David F. Remington ; with a foreword by Joanne Reitano
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780815609889
Subjects: United States; United States. Congress. House; Legislators; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forebears and early years, 1848-1885; title: Politics and the road to Washington; title: National prominence, tariff speech : fiftieth congress, 1886-1888; title: New York's world's fair lost : fifty-first congress, 1888-1890; title: Republican overreach, democratic momentum : fifty-first congress, 1888-1890; title: Silver beckons : fifty-second congress, 1890-1892; title: New York and the election law in Cleveland's victory : fifty-second congress, 1890-1892; title: Repeal of the election law and Sherman Act : fifty-third congress, 1892-1894; title: New York City's watershed; title: Reformers in charge, 1895; title: A crash and a bang; title: Silver and the New York elections of 1896 and 1897; title: Passage.