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William Boyd Allison (March 2, 1829 – August 4, 1908) was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in the United States Senate.
William Boyd Allison (Perry, 2 de Março de 1829 — Dubuque, Iowa, 4 de Agosto de 1908) foi um político estadunidense. Um dos primeiros líderes do Partido Republicano de Iowa, ele representou o nordeste de Iowa na Câmara dos Representantes dos Estados Unidos antes de representar seu estado no Senado dos Estados Unidos.
William Boyd Allison: A Featured Biography. Said to be so cautious as a politician "that he could walk on eggs from Des Moines to Washington without breaking one of them," William Boyd Allison (1829-1908) of Iowa served 35 years in the Senate and chaired the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee for 25 of those years, longer than any other ...
William B. Allison was a U.S. representative (1863–71) and senator (1873–1908) from Iowa, cosponsor of the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, which expanded U.S. Treasury purchase of silver bullion and restored the silver dollar as legal tender.
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A Good Man in Africa. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1981; New York, Morrow, 1982. An Ice-Cream War. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982; New York, Morrow, 1983. Stars and Bars. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1984; New York, Morrow, 1985. The New Confessions.London, Hamish Hamilton, 1987; New York, Morrow, 1988. Brazzaville Beach.London, Sinclair Stevenson, 1990; Ne...
On the Yankee Station and Other Stories.London, Hamish Hamilton, 1981; New York, Morrow, 1984; revised edition, London, Penguin, 1988. The Destiny of Nathalie "X". London, Sinclair Stevenson, 1995; published as The Destiny of Nathalie X and Other Stories.New York, Knopf, 1997.
School Ties (includes the TV plays Good and Bad at Games andDutch Girls, and an essay). London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985; New York, Morrow, 1986. Care and Attention of Swimming Pools, and Not Yet Jayette(produced London, 1985). Stars and Bars, 1988; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, 1990; Mr. Johnson, 1990; Chaplin, 1992; A Good Man in Africa, 1994. On...
Introduction, Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. New York, Knopf, 1994. But for An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd would be firmly labelled an exponent of that familiar comic genre, the accident-prone hero novel, as practised by, among others, Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim ), Anthony Burgess (the Enderby series), and Tom Sharpe (the Wilt series). Both A ...
William Boyd Allison was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Iowa. He provided consul and friendship to every U.S. President from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt. He was a well respected U.S. politician and leading expert on the economy, monetary policy, U.S. government budget, and railroads.
The bulk of William B. Allison's papers are held by the Iowa State Department of History and Archives in Des Moines, Iowa. Included in the collection are two boxes of printed materials and a small box of letters which are unprocessed.
