Gray eminence in a gilded age: the forgotten career of Senator James McMillan of Michigan.(Biography)

From: Michigan Historical Review | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Drutchas, Geoffrey G. | Copyright information

On Monday, August 11, 1902, Michigan residents awoke to learn that their senior United States Senator, James McMillan, had died the day before from massive heart failure at his summer home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Over the previous weekend, Michigan newspapers had brimmed with coverage about the coronation of Queen Victoria's son, Edward VII. Now their headlines shifted to a man whose own spectacular rise to wealth, power, and position offered an American saga more ...

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