Albert J. Beveridge

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge ( born October 6, 1862 Concord Township, Highland County, Ohio, † April 27, 1927 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American politician.

Biography

After attending school, he first completed a degree at DePauw University, which he finished in 1885; then he studied law. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar and established a law firm in Indianapolis.

On January 17, 1899, he was elected as a candidate of the Republican party for U.S. senator and represented by his re-election in 1905 of 4 March 1899 to 3 March 1911, the interests of Indiana in the United States Senate. During his membership in the Senate he was temporarily Chairman of the Committee on Forest Reserves and Wildlife, and a member of the Committee on Territories. In 1910 he defeated his Democratic challenger John W. Kern.

After his return to Indianapolis, he worked in the fields of literature and history. In 1912 he was a candidate for the Progressive Party as governor of Indiana, but was defeated by Democratic candidate Samuel Ralston. In 1912, he was Chairman of the National Convention of the Progressive Party in Chicago, nominated Theodore Roosevelt as presidential candidate of the party. In 1914 he ran again unsuccessfully for the Progressive Party and then again in 1922 for the Republican for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

In 1920 Beveridge the Pulitzer Prize in biography or autobiography for The Life of John Marshall, a four-volume biography of John Marshall.