Synopses & Reviews
The third of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Following an insightful analytical introduction, the entries provide biographical and career information on all of the Southern speakers. The volume concludes with valuable statistical appendixes based on an exhaustive database.
This book complements volumes on the West and Midwest. A volume on the Northeast is forthcoming.
Review
A good general reference source...excellent resources.Register of the kentucky Historical Society
Review
This work, like the others, consolidates information that otherwise would be time-consuming to retrieve. Using the bibliographies, interested researchers can pursue an individual or state in more depth. This work is recommended for academic and state libraries.American Reference Books Annual
Synopsis
Provides biographical and career information on Southern state house speakers from 1911 to 1994
About the Author
NANCY WEATHERLY SHARP is a member of the faculty and Assistant Dean at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introducion
Biographical Dictionary
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Political Party and Home County
Appendix 2: Years in Speakership and House
Appendix 3: Legislative Pathways
Appendix 4: Gender, Racial Background, Birth, and Death
Appendix 5: Education
Appendix 6: Religious, Military, and Marital Background
Appendix 7: Occupations
Appendix 8: Voluntary Organizations
Appendix 9: Public Offices before Speakership
Appendix 10: Public Offices after Speakership
Index