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Senate Years of Service: 1899-1911 Party: Republican
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BEVERIDGE, Albert Jeremiah, a Senator from Indiana; born near Sugar Tree Ridge, Concord Township, Highland
County, Ohio, October 6, 1862; attended the common schools; graduated from Indiana Asbury (now
DePauw) University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1885; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1887 and
commenced practice in Indianapolis, Ind.; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on
January 17, 1899, reelected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, until March 3, 1911;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910; chairman, Committee on Forest Reservations and Game
Protection (Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee on Territories (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first
Congresses), Committee on Indian Depredations (Fifty-ninth Congress); returned to Indianapolis and
engaged in literary and historical pursuits; unsuccessful Progressive candidate for Governor of Indiana
in 1912; chairman of the National Progressive Convention at Chicago in 1912; unsuccessful candidate
as a Progressive in 1914 and as a Republican in 1922 for election to the United States Senate; died in
Indianapolis, Ind., April 27, 1927; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Bowers, Claude. Beveridge and the
Progressive Era. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1932; Braeman, John. Albert
J. Beveridge: American Nationalist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
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