Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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... candidate for a state office had to secure an absolute majority of the votes cast in order to be elected . When there were three or more par- ties in the field , as was often the case after the Anti - Masonic party appeared in 1832 , a ...
... candidate for a state office had to secure an absolute majority of the votes cast in order to be elected . When there were three or more par- ties in the field , as was often the case after the Anti - Masonic party appeared in 1832 , a ...
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... candidate in 1880. Kearney was looking as far ahead as the Republicans were . The canvass of 1878 ended with Talbot's election by 126,000 votes to Butler's 105,000 . The General attributed this outcome to the lavish use of money by his ...
... candidate in 1880. Kearney was looking as far ahead as the Republicans were . The canvass of 1878 ended with Talbot's election by 126,000 votes to Butler's 105,000 . The General attributed this outcome to the lavish use of money by his ...
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... candidate . The fact that Butler was favored by two labor oriented minor parties certainly must have influenced those present at a confer- ence of Democratic leaders held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York at some time in June , 1884 ...
... candidate . The fact that Butler was favored by two labor oriented minor parties certainly must have influenced those present at a confer- ence of Democratic leaders held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York at some time in June , 1884 ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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