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The Senate Four

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"The Senate Four": (L-R) Orville Platt, John Spooner, William Allison, and Nelson Aldrich, in 1903. Library of Congress.

Four men, known as the "Senate Four," controlled Senate activity around the turn of the 20th century.


 

 
  

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