Fifty Years of Public Service / Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois
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Chapters (38)
- FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
- FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
- LIST OF PORTRAITS
- FOREWORD
- FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
- CHAPTER II SERVICE AS CITY ATTORNEY AT SPRINGFIELD 1855 and 1856
- CHAPTER III ELECTION TO THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE: LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES 1856 to 1858
- CHAPTER IV OTHER DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS OF THAT DAY 1858 and 1859
- CHAPTER V NOMINATION OF LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS FOR THE PRESIDENCY 1859 and 1860
- CHAPTER VI SPEAKER OF THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE AND A MEMBER OF CONGRESS 1860 to 1865
- CHAPTER VII LINCOLN 1860 to 1864
- CHAPTER VIII NOTABLES IN THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS 1864 to 1870
- CHAPTER IX THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON 1865
- CHAPTER X SPEAKER OF THE LEGISLATURE, AND GOVERNOR 1871 to 1883
- CHAPTER XI GRANT
- CHAPTER XII GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN
- CHAPTER XIII GENERAL JOHN M. PALMER
- CHAPTER XIV GOVERNOR RICHARD J. OGLESBY
- CHAPTER XV SENATORIAL CAREER 1883 to 1911
- CHAPTER XVI CLEVELAND'S FIRST TERM 1884 to 1887
- CHAPTER XVII CLEVELAND'S DEFEAT AND HARRISON'S FIRST TERM 1888 to 1891
- CHAPTER XVIII CLEVELAND'S SECOND TERM 1892 to 1896
- CHAPTER XIX McKINLEY'S PRESIDENCY 1896 to 1901
- CHAPTER XX ROOSEVELT'S PRESIDENCY 1901 to 1909
- CHAPTER XXI INTERSTATE COMMERCE
- CHAPTER XXII JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN
- CHAPTER XXIII MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
- CHAPTER XXIV WORK OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
- CHAPTER XXV THE INTEROCEANIC CANAL
- CHAPTER XXVI SANTO DOMINGO'S FISCAL AFFAIRS
- CHAPTER XXVII DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENTS BY PROTOCOL.
- CHAPTER XXVIII ARBITRATION
- CHAPTER XXIX TITLES AND DECORATIONS FROM FOREIGN POWERS
- CHAPTER XXX ISLE OF PINES, DANISH WEST INDIES, AND ALGECIRAS
- CHAPTER XXXI CONGRESS UNDER THE TAFT ADMINISTRATION
- CHAPTER XXXII LINCOLN CENTENNIAL: LINCOLN LIBRARY
- CHAPTER XXXIII CONSECUTIVE ELECTIONS TO UNITED STATES SENATE
- CHAPTER XXXIV CONCLUSION
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