American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

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

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN:
  9780313302145
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780313032073
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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).

Table of contents

• Contents
• Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Biographical Dictionary
• Bibliography
• Appendix 1 Political Party and Home County
• Appendix 2 Years in Speakership and House
• Appendix 3 Legislative Pathways
• Appendix 4 Gender, Racial Background, 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
• Index
• About the Contributors