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The last of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont. Following an analytical introduction, the entries provide biographical and career information on all of the speakers in the Northeast. The volume concludes with statistical appendices based on an exhaustive data base. The book complements volumes on the West, the Midwest, and the South. Together the volumes provide a useful source of information that is difficult to find elsewhere.

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?A unique and valuable study, highly recommended for academic libraries either alone or as part of the set.?-Choice

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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 three earlier volumes American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994 (Greenwood, 1997), American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994 (Greenwood, 1997), and American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1914 (Greenwood, 1999). 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 (1988). Kevin G. Atwater Gina Petonito Charles F. Ritter Jon L. Wakelyn

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