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Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927

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Personal name headingBeveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927
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Variant(s)Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927
Birth date1862-10-06
Death date1927-04-27
Place of birthSugar Tree Ridge (Ohio)
Place of deathIndianapolis (Ind.)
AffiliationIndiana Asbury University (Greencastle, Ind.)
United States. Congress. Senate
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Progressive Party (1912)
Profession or occupationLegislators
Lawyers
Found inHis The life of John Marshall, 1916 title page (Albert J. Beveridge)
NUCMC data from N.J. Hist. Soc. for Honeyman, A. Autograph coll., 1870-1931 (Albert Beveridge)
Bio. Dir. Am. Cong., 1961 (Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, sen. fr. Ind.; b. near Sugar Tree Ridge, Concord Township, Highland Co., Ohio, 1862; grad. Ind. Asbury (now De Pauw) U., 1885; studied and practiced law; elec. as Rep. to U.S. Senate, 1899, reelec. 1905; d. Ind., Ind., 1927)
Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, Apr. 4, 2014 (Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, a Senator from Indiana; born near Sugar Tree Ridge, Concord Township, Highland County, Ohio, October 6, 1862; attended the common schools; graduated from Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1885; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Indianapolis, Ind.; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on January 17, 1899, reelected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, until March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910; chairman, Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee on Territories (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Indian Depredations (Fifty-ninth Congress); returned to Indianapolis and engaged in literary and historical pursuits; unsuccessful Progressive candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1912; chairman of the National Progressive Convention at Chicago in 1912; unsuccessful candidate as a Progressive in 1914 and as a Republican in 1922 for election to the United States Senate; died in Indianapolis, Ind., April 27, 1927; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery)
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