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William Boyd Allison

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

William Boyd Allison 1829–1908, U.S. Senator from Iowa (1873–1908), b. Ashland co., Ohio. He served (1863–71) in the House of Representatives and entered the Senate in 1873. One of the most influential Republican members of Congress, he spoke for the farmers of the Midwest and was considered a political moderate. Allison opposed high tariffs on goods needed in quantity by the farmers and helped to build compromise tariff bills. He changed the bill for "free and unlimited coinage" of silver to allow specified limited coinage and thus gave his name to the Bland-Allison Act .

Bibliography: See biography by L. Sage (1956).

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Boyd, William

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Boyd, William (1952– ) British novelist and short story writer, b. Ghana. His sometimes grimly comic works are often set in Africa, where he grew up. These include A Good Man in Africa (1981), An Ice-cream War (1982), and Brazzaville Beach (1990). His most ambitious novel, The New Confessions (1987), ranges across the whole history of the 20th century.

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