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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaAlbert Jeremiah BEVERIDGE
(1862-1927)
Senate Years of Service:
1899-1911Party: RepublicanBEVERIDGE, Albert
Jeremiah, a Senator from Indiana; born near Sugar Tree
Ridge, Concord Township, Highland County, Ohio, October 6, 1862;
attended the common schools; graduated from Indiana Asbury (now
DePauw) University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1885; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Indianapolis,
Ind.; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on
January 17, 1899, reelected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899,
until March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910;
chairman, Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection
(Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee on Territories (Fifty-seventh
through Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Indian Depredations
(Fifty-ninth Congress); returned to Indianapolis and engaged in
literary and historical pursuits; unsuccessful Progressive
candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1912; chairman of the National
Progressive Convention at Chicago in 1912; unsuccessful candidate
as a Progressive in 1914 and as a Republican in 1922 for election
to the United States Senate; died in Indianapolis, Ind., April 27,
1927; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American
Law; Bowers, Claude. Beveridge and the Progressive Era.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1932; Braeman, John. Albert J.
Beveridge: American Nationalist. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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