Fifty Years of Public ServicePersonal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Illinois Eyaleti'nden Kıdemli ABD Senatörü'nün Kişisel Anıları - Fifty Years of Public Service
Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois

Produced by Ed Ferris

Transcriber's notes:

The dieresis is transcribed by a preceding hyphen. Caps and small caps have been set as upper and lower case. Names have been corrected

Chapter VIII: "La Fayette", Indiana, kept as a contemporary variant spelling. McPherson, "clerk of the house" changed to "Clerk of the House" (of Representatives).

LoC call number: E661.C9

FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE

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SMCullom

FIFTY YEARSOFPUBLIC SERVICE

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OFSHELBY M. CULLOMSENIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS

WITH PORTRAITS

SECOND EDITIONCHICAGOA. C. McCLURG & CO.1911

CopyrightA. C. McCLURG & Co.1911

Published October, 1911
Second Edition, December, 1911

PRESS OF THE VAIL COMPANYCOSHOCTON, U. S. A.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER
     I Birth to Admission to the Bar, 1829 to 1855
    II Service as City Attorney at Springfield, 1855 and 1856
   III Election to the Illinois Legislature: Lincoln-Douglas
          Debates, 1856 to 1858
    IV Other Distinguished Characters of that Day, 1858 and 1859
     V Nomination of Lincoln and Douglas for the Presidency, 1859
          and 1860
    VI Speaker of the Illinois Legislature, and a Member of
          Congress, 1860 to 1865
   VII Lincoln, 1860 to 1864
  VIII Notables in the Thirty-ninth Congress, 1864 to 1870
    IX The Impeachment of President Johnson
     X Speaker of the Legislature, and Governor, 1871 to 1883
    XI Grant
   XII General John A. Logan
  XIII General John M. Palmer
   XIV Governor Richard J. Oglesby
    XV Senatorial Career, 1883 to 1911
   XVI Cleveland's First Term, 1884 to 1887
  XVII Cleveland's Defeat and Harrison's First Term, 1888 to 1891
XVIII Cleveland's Second Term, 1892 to 1896
   XIX McKinley's Presidency, 1896 to 1901
    XX Roosevelt's Presidency, 1901 to 1909
   XXI Interstate Commerce
  XXII John Marshall Harlan
XXIII Members of the Committee on Foreign Relations
  XXIV Work of the Committee on Foreign Relations
   XXV The Interoceanic Canal
  XXVI Santo Domingo's Fiscal Affairs
XXVII Diplomatic Agreements by Protocol
XXVIII Arbitration
  XXIX Titles and Decorations from Foreign Powers
   XXX Isle of Pines, Danish West Indies, and Algeciras
  XXXI Congress under the Taft Administration
XXXII Lincoln Centennial: Lincoln Library
XXXIII Consecutive Elections to United States Senate
XXXIV Conclusion

Index

LIST OF PORTRAITS

S. M. Cullom
Shelby M. Cullom, while a Law Student
Richard Yates
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
James G. Blaine
Andrew Johnson
Shelby M. Cullom, while Governor of Illinois
Ulysses S. Grant
John A. Logan
John M. Palmer
Richard J. Oglesby
Grover Cleveland
James A. Garfield
William McKinley
William Howard Taft
Cushman K. Davis
William P. Frye
John C. Spooner
Theodore Roosevelt
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