Theodore E - Burton | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

John Sherman's public career extended from March 1855 to April 1898, a period of more than forty-three years. It included being a member of the House of Representatives and of the Senate, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State. Contents: Ancestry, Early Life and Surroundings; Election to Congress; Member of the House of Representatives, The Thirty Sixth Congress; Civil War and its Problems; National Banking System; Reconstruction Period; Financial Conditions after the Civil War; Reduction of Taxation; National Debt; Final Accomplishment of Legislation for Resumption; Secretary of the Treasury; Return to the Senate; Foreign Affairs; In the Senate; Secretary of State. Illustrated.