American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

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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).

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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