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The files, 1908-1912, of the National Monetary Commission (2,362 items; 4,724 images) from the papers of U.S. representative and senator from Rhode Island Nelson W. Aldrich (1841-1915) are part of a larger collection available for research use onsite in the Manuscript Reading Room of the Library of Congress. Established by the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908, the National Monetary Commission was ...
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s, he was one of the "Big Four" key Republicans who largely controlled the major decisions of the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt, William B. Allison, and John Coit Spooner. Because of his impact on ...
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (6 Nov 1841 - 16 Apr 1915) 0 references. Oxford Reference overview ID
Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island rose from the position of grocery clerk to become one of the most powerful senators of his era. Elected to the Senate in 1881, he chaired the Committee on Finance from 1898 to 1911, becoming an influential expert on the economy. He sponsored the Aldrich-Vreeland Act which established the National Monetary Commission.
Nelson W. Aldrich. O presidente Taft tenta colocar ideias progressistas em Aldrich. O título diz: Vinho Novo em Garrafas Velhas. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich ( Foster, Rhode Island, 6 de novembro de 1841 — Nova Iorque, 16 de abril de 1915) foi um proeminente político americano e um líder do Partido Republicano no Senado, onde atuou de 1881 a 1911.
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841-1915) served as United States Senator from Rhode Island, 1881-1911. Following the Panic of 1907, with its accompanying rash of bank failures, he cosponsored the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908, providing for the establishment of a National Monetary Commission to study banking and currency operations at home and abroad and to suggest changes in American practices.
Aldrich family lore tells of a time when Nelson was nine years old and his mother gave him money to buy lunch and go to the circus. He went to the circus, but skipped lunch and used that money to buy a copy of The Tinker’s Son, or I’ll Be Somebody Yet , a kind of self-help book, but not one for a nine year old.
