Albert Jeremiah Beveridge

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge , 1862-1927, U.S. Senator from Indiana (1899-1911) and historian, b. Highland co., Ohio. He was admitted to the bar (1887) and practiced law (1887-99) in Indianapolis. As a Republican Senator, he supported the policies of Theodore Roosevelt. With other Insurgents he opposed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act (1909) and was defeated for reelection (1910). He became (1912) an organizer of the Progressive party , ran (1912) for governor of Indiana on the party's ticket, and lost. Thereafter he devoted himself principally to writing history. His thorough, sober lives of John Marshall (4 vol., 1916-19) and Abraham Lincoln (unfinished; 2 vol., 1928) are outstanding.

Bibliography: See his Russian Advance (1903, repr. 1970); biography by J. Braeman (1971); C. Bowers, Beveridge and the Progressive Era (1932).

Beveridge, Albert J[eremiah] (1862–1927), insurgent Republican senator from Indiana (1899–1911), was an organizer of the Progressive party. After its defeat in his state, he turned to historical writing, producing a Life of John Marshall (4 vols., 1916, 1919, Pulitzer Prize), which is also a history of the early U.S. Supreme Court. His incomplete Life of Abraham Lincoln (2 vols., 1928) is noted for its treatment of Lincoln's career to 1858.