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John Peter Altgeld

Born: 1847 in Westerwald, Germany
Died: 1902 in Joliet, Illinois

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Altgeld was governor of Illinois from 1893-1897.

Biography: John Peter Altgeld moved to Chicago where he founded a prosperous law firm that employed such rising stars as Clarence Darrow.He became the 20th Governor of the state of Illinois from 1893 until 1897. He was a leading figure of the Progressive movement, Altgeld improved workplace safety and child labor laws, and rejected calls in 1894 to break up the Pullman strike with force.


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Selected Titles

American speeches.
ISBN: 1931082987 OCLC: 65521563

Library of America : New York : ©2006.

Collects the unabridged texts of important speeches, including Patrick Henry's liberty or death speech, women's rights speeches by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Grover Cleveland's address dedicating the Statue of Liberty.

  Cost of something for nothing ...
ISBN: 1278097252 OCLC: 936233205

Nabu Press, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012.

  GOV. JOHN P. ALTGELD'S PARDON OF THE ANARCHISTS AND HIS MASTERLY REVIEW OF THE HAYMARKET RIOT ... (CLASSIC REPRINT).
ISBN: 1334296723 OCLC: 981164266

FORGOTTEN BOOKS, [S.l.] : 2016.

  Live questions :
ISBN: 1240001193 OCLC: 943239465

Gale Ecco, Making Of Mode, [Place of publication not identified] : 2010.

The autobiography of Mother Jones /
ISBN: 0882861670 OCLC: 21041873

C.H. Kerr Pub. Co., Chicago : 1990.

  The mind and spirit of John Peter Altgeld :
ISBN: 0836918606 OCLC: 478955

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : 1960.

 

 

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