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Frank O. Lowden was born in Minnesota in 1861, and was educated in Iowa. In 1886 he moved to Chicago to study law. After he received his bar diploma, he practiced law in Chicago with signal success: His first dash into politics was a failure; he was defeated for the gubernatorial nomination in the Illinois State convention. Two years later he was elected to the House of Representatives and there he stayed...
What will happen next, and whether the road will take another unexpected turn, no two political experts quite agree. Lowden's candidacy has been approved by important Republican organizations in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. In addition to this, the managers of the various Lowden-for-President clubs claim that their candidate will have the delegates of Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wisconsin. This would give him a bloc of about three hundred delegates in the convention. The estimate is optimistic but not impossible. For, as Mark Sullivan has pointed out, the present disposition of Lowden...
...with a reputation, was also pointed out as "the handsomest young man who ever walked the streets." He wooed and quickly won Jessie, 16-year-old daughter of irascible Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. But the Senator objected to their marriage, so Frémont surveyed in Iowa before eloping with Jessie. Vexed though the Senator was, he forgave and made Frémont his willing tool to open up the vast West. The young couple were presented to President Tyler in "the greatest crush in the White House since President Jackson had exhibited Colonel Meacham's gigantic...
...would benefit only a small class of rich people; because he thought taxes on estates are too easily evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East to be spent, enjoyed, inherited. Lately, however, Iowa has favored repealing the inheritance tax, too. Pressure from behind as well as above persuaded Mr. Green to accept a post which he refused last year. Awaiting the Senate's confirmation in his new office, Mr. Green told the House that "in the anticipated event there is much to regret...
Sabin Carr of Yale and Dubuque, Iowa, polevaulted 14 ft. 1 in., a new world's indoor and outdoor record...