| LC control no. | n 88070988 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908 |
| Variant(s) | Allison, W. B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908 Allison, Wm. B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908 Allison, Mr. (William Boyd), 1829-1908 |
| Birth date | 1829-03-02 |
| Death date | 1908-08-04 |
| Place of birth | Perry (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Dubuque (Iowa) |
| Affiliation | Western Reserve College (1826-1882) United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | His The strength of our government, 1887: t.p. (Hon. William B. Allison) MoSU-L/NLT files (hdg.: Allison, William Boyd, 1829-1908; usage: W.B. Allison, Wm. B. Allison) In the Senate of the United States, 1892?: p. 1 (Mr. Allison) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, June 15, 2016 (Allison, William Boyd, a Representative and a Senator from Iowa; born in Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829; attended country schools, the academy in Wooster, Ohio, and Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.; graduated from Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio (now in Cleveland), in 1849; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Ashland, Ohio; unsuccessful candidate for district attorney in 1856; settled in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1857 and resumed the practice of law; served as a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1871); chairman, Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (1869-71); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1870, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate; resumed the practice of law in Dubuque; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1872; reelected in 1878, 1884, 1890, 1896, and again in 1902, and served from March 4, 1873, until his death on August 4, 1908; Republican Conference chairman (Fifty-fifth to Sixtieth Congresses); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-fourth to Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Forty-seventh to Fifty-second, and Fifty-fourth to Sixtieth Congresses), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Fifty-third Congress); died in Dubuque, Iowa; interment in Linwood Cemetery) |
| Associated language | eng |
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