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Back to SearchNelson Aldrich: Jekyll Island, the Aldrich Plan, and an Income Tax Gamble
Episode 12801
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was born in Foster, Rhode Island, in 1841, the son of a mill hand, and began as a clerk for a wholesale grocery firm, eventua…
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Slade Gorton: Fish Stick Heir Who Sued Baseball and Won the Mariners
Episode 12800
Thomas Slade Gorton III was born in Chicago in 1928 and grew up in Evanston, heir to the seafood family behind Gorton's of Gloucester, but chose law …
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Charles Curtis: Kaw Vice President, the Curtis Act, and an Early ERA
Episode 12799
Charles Curtis was born in 1860 in the Kansas territory, of Kaw, Osage, and Potawatomi descent on his mother's side and a descendant of Chief White P…
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Albert Fall's Road From Frontier Murder Trials to a Black Bag of Cash
Episode 12798
Albert B. Fall was born in Kentucky in 1861 and was working in a cotton factory by age 11, an experience that left him with lifelong respiratory prob…
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Harry S. Truman: Failed Haberdasher, Battery D Captain, Atomic Decision
Episode 12797
Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884 and grew up in Independence, where he practiced piano at five in the morning and worked as a Sha…
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William Borah, Lion of Idaho: The Irreconcilable Who Sank the League
Episode 12796
William Edgar Borah was born in 1865 in rural Illinois, the seventh of ten children. His father sent him to a Presbyterian academy in Enfield to trai…
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John Quincy Adams: Monroe Doctrine Author, Gag Rule Foe, Amistad Lawyer
Episode 12795
John Quincy Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1767 to John and Abigail Adams and raised to embody the ideals of the new republic. As a boy he transl…
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George Graham Vest: Old Drum, Man's Best Friend, and Guarding Yellowstone
Episode 12794
George Graham Vest was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1830, graduated from Centre College in 1848, and earned his law credentials from Transylvania …
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Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Secretary of State Turned London Barrister
Episode 12793
Judah P. Benjamin was born in 1811 on St. Croix in the Danish West Indies to Sephardic Jewish parents and raised mainly in the Carolinas. He entered …
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The Church Committee: MKUltra, COINTELPRO, and the CIA's Family Jewels
Episode 12792
In January 1970 Army intelligence officer Christopher Pyle revealed that the military was spying on civilians, and in December 1974 Seymour Hersh rep…
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