American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994

James Roger Sharp · Nancy Weatherly Sharp · Kevin D. Atwater · Gina Petonito · Charles F. Ritter · Jon L. Wakelyn

juni 1999 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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The third of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Following an insightful analytical introduction, the entries provide biographical and career information on all of the Southern speakers. The volume concludes with valuable statistical appendixes based on an exhaustive database.

This book complements volumes on the West and Midwest. A volume on the Northeast is forthcoming.

Om författaren

JAMES ROGER SHARP is Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (1993, 1997). The Sharps are the editors of the two earlier volumes, American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994 and American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994 (Greenwood, 1997).

NANCY WEATHERLY SHARP is a member of the faculty and Assistant Dean at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. She is the author of Communications Research: The Challenge of the Information Age (l988).

Kevin G. Atwater asst. ed.

Gina Petonito asst. ed.

Charles F. Ritter adv. ed.

Jon L. Wakelyn adv. ed.