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Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois By: Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom (1829-1914) |
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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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Photo, by Prince Tota, Washington, D. C.
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SMCullom
FIFTY YEARS
OF
PUBLIC SERVICE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF
SHELBY M. CULLOM
SENIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS WITH PORTRAITS SECOND EDITION
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1911
Copyright
A. C. McCLURG & Co.
1911 Published October, 1911
Second Edition, December, 1911 PRESS OF THE VAIL COMPANY
COSHOCTON, 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
Elihu Root
FOREWORD "Oh, that mine adversary had written a book!" Such was the exclamation of one who, through the centuries, has
been held up to the world as the symbol of patience and long
suffering endurance, and who believed that he thus expressed the surest
method of confounding an enemy. I have come to that age in life where I feel somewhat indifferent
as to consequences, and, yielding to the suggestions and insistence
of friends, I determined that I would undertake to write some
recollections, as they occurred to me, of the men and events of my
time. Naturally, to me the history of the period covered by my life since
1829 is particularly interesting. I do not think that I am prejudiced
when I assert that while this period has not been great in Art and
Letters, from a material, scientific, and industrial standpoint it
has been the most wonderful epoch in all the world's history. About the period of my birth General Andrew Jackson was first
elected President of the United States. Jackson to me has always
been an interesting character. Theodore Roosevelt has declared
very little respect for him, and has written deprecatingly I might
say, even abusively of him... Continue reading book >>
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