VINTAGE "Iowa Senator" William B. Allison Hand Signed 3X4 Card for Sale

VINTAGE "Iowa Senator" William B. Allison Hand Signed 3X4 Card For Sale

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VINTAGE "Iowa Senator" William B. Allison Hand Signed 3X4 Card:
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Up for sale a VINTAGE! "Iowa Senator" William B. Allison Hand Signed 3X4 Card Dated 1896.

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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. By

the 1890s, Allison had become one of the "big four" key Republicans

who largely controlled the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt of Connecticut, John Coit Spooner of Wisconsin and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Born in Perry, Ohio, Allison established a legal practice in Dubuque, Iowa and became a prominent member of the

nascent Iowa Republican Party. He was a delegate to the 1860

Republican National Convention and won election to the House of

Representatives in 1862. He served four terms in the House and won election to

the Senate in 1872. He became chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, serving for all but two years

between 1881 and 1908. Three different Republican presidents asked Allison to

join their Cabinet, but

Allison declined each offer. A significant number of delegates supported his

presidential nomination at the 1888 and 1896

Republican National Conventions. Allison emerged as a centrist and

pragmatic leader in the Senate, and he helped pass several important bills.

The Bland–Allison Act of

1878 restored bimetallism, but in a less inflationary manner than had been sought by Congressman Richard P. Bland. A prominent advocate of higher tariffs,

Allison played a major role in the passage of the McKinley Tariff and the Dingley Act. He also helped pass the Hepburn Act by offering the Allison amendment, which

granted courts the power to review the Interstate Commerce Commission's railroad rate-setting.

Allison sought a record seventh term in the 1908, but died shortly after

winning the Republican primary against progressive leader Albert B. Cummins.