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Named In the News Alger to Retire from Senate in 1907
A long public service arc is traced for Mursella Alger of Michigan. Born in Ohio in 1836, he rose from lumber to secretary of war under McKinley, serving as a respected U.S. senator since 1902. The piece also profiles Milwaukee’s young mayor Sherburn Becker, the reformer type known as the “kid mayor,” and Upton Sinclair whose Jungle sparks White House interest and literary fame.
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Assell A. R Alglil
United States Senate
Ohio
Alger
Michigan
McKinley
Senate
Chicago
Milwaukee
Sherburn M. Becker
Edward S. Rose
Sherbie” Becker
Rose
Becker
T.ch
Harvard
Eos
8, & Merrill
St. Paul
Young Becker
Upton Sinclair
Roosevelt
Beef Trust
Sinclair
White House
Doubleday
Page & Co
Upton Bixclatra 9
Claigo
Pouchindtown
Serdar
Baltimore
James Schoolcraft Sheman
Utica
Republican Congressional Committee
House
Thomas B. Reed
Sherman
Reed
Hamilton College
Sherman Institute
Riverside
Cal
Jefferson Davis
Arkansas
James W. Berry
Berry
Davis
Powell Claston
Mexico
Clayton
Roose Rit
Little Rock