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Nelson Aldrich (1841-1915) was a liberal Republican United States Senator from Rhode Island. He was the leader of his party in the Senate during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. He was the maternal grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller. He was a freemason. He sponsored the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill.

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    Abigail Pearce Truman Chapman

  • ALDRICH, Nelson Wilmarth B & W (Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 1)

    The signature of Nelson W. Aldrich

  • 1909 editorial cartoon mocking William Howard Taft, Nelson W. Aldrich, and Joseph Gurney Cannon (Des Moines Register and Leader)

    Taft tries to get progressive ideas into Aldrich

  • Portrait of Nelson Aldrich

    Portrait of Senator Aldrich

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