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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaBEVERIDGE, Albert Jeremiah
(1862—1927)
Senate Years of Service:
1899-1911
Party:
Republican
BEVERIDGE, 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
; 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.
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah. Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858.
2 vols. 1928. Reprint. St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1921.
___. Americans of To-day and To-morrow
. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., 1908.
___. The Art of Public Speaking
. 1924. Reprint. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1974.
___. The Bible as Good Reading
. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., 1907.
___. John Marshall. 1916-1919.
Reprint (4 vols. in 2). New York: Chelsea House, 1980. Originally published as The Life of John Marshall.
___. The Meaning of the Times, and Other Speeches
. 1908. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
___. The Russian Advance
. 1903. Reprint. New York: Praeger, 1970.
___. Work and Habits
. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., 1908.
___. The Young Man and the World
. New York: D. Appleton Co., 1905.
Bowers, Claude G. Beveridge and the Progressive Era
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932.
Braeman, John. Albert J. Beveridge: American Nationalist
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
___. “Albert J. Beveridge and the First National Child Labor Bill.” Indiana Magazine of History
60 (March 1964): 1-36.
___. “Albert J. Beveridge and Statehood for the Southwest, 1902-1912.” Arizona and the West
10 (Winter 1968): 313-42.
Coffin, John A. “The Senatorial Career of Albert J. Beveridge.” Indiana Magazine of History
24 (September 1928): 139-85; (December 1928): 242-94.
Levine, Daniel. “The Social Philosophy of Albert J. Beveridge.” Indiana Magazine of History
58 (June 1962): 101-16.
Mangelsdorf, Karen Underhill. “The Beveridge Visit to Arizona in 1902.” Journal of Arizona History
28 (Autumn 1987): 243-60.
Palermo, Patrick F. “Albert Beveridge and the Republican Rhetorical Tradition: The Making of a Senator.” Hayes Historical Journal
5 (Spring 1985): 29-43.
Parker, James R. “Beveridge and the Election of 1912: Progressive Idealist or Political Realist.” Indiana Magazine of History
63 (June 1967): 103-14.
Remy, Charles F. “The Election of Beveridge to the Senate.” Indiana Magazine of History
36 (June 1940): 123-35.
Ross, Herold T. “The Oratorical Career of Albert J. Beveridge.” Ph.D. dissertation, State University of Iowa, 1932.
Stern, Sheldon M. “American Nationalism vs. The League of Nations: The Correspondence of Albert J. Beveridge and Louis A. Coolidge, 1918-1920.” Indiana Magazine of History
72 (June 1976): 138-58.
Thompson, J.A. “An Imperialist and the First World War: The Case of Albert J. Beveridge.” Journal of American Studies
5 (August 1971): 133-50.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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