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- Crowbar Governor: The Life and Times of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
summary
While president of Aetna Life from 1879 to 1922, Morgan Bulkeley served four terms as mayor of Hartford, two terms as Connecticut’s governor, and one term as a United States senator. His friends and business and political acquaintances were a who’s who of the Gilded Age: Samuel Clemens, J. P. Morgan, Samuel and Elizabeth Colt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Albert Spalding, General Sherman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Katherine Hepburn, as well as every president from Ulysses Grant to Warren Harding. In 1874 Bulkeley formed the Hartford Dark Blues who soon joined the unruly National Association, antecedent of the National League. He served as the league’s first president for a year, and was later elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. It was during Bulkeley’s controversial “holdover” term as governor that he earned the nickname “Crowbar Governor.” He used a crowbar to remove a lock that had been placed on his office door after refusing to vacate the governor’s chambers on a technicality. Written in classic storyteller fashion, and augmented by copious research, Crowbar Governor offers readers a privileged glimpse into life and politics in Connecticut during the Gilded Age.
Ebook Edition Note: Eight images from the Connecticut Historical Society have been redacted.
Ebook Edition Note: Eight images from the Connecticut Historical Society have been redacted.
Table of Contents
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- CHAPTER 1. THE MAN
- pp. 1-8
- CHAPTER 2. THE JUDGE'S WORLD
- pp. 9-22
- CHAPTER 3. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
- pp. 23-39
- CHAPTER 4. RETURN TO HARTFORD
- pp. 40-59
- CHAPTER 5. MAYOR BULKELEY: PART ONE
- pp. 60-82
- CHAPTER 6. WEDDING BELLS
- pp. 83-92
- CHAPTER 7. MAYOR BULKELEY: PART TWO
- pp. 93-104
- CHAPTER 8. CROWBAR GOVERNOR
- pp. 105-127
- CHAPTER 9. ON THE SIDELINES
- pp. 128-144
- CHAPTER 10. FENWICK
- pp. 145-159
- CHAPTER 11. SENATOR BULKELEY
- pp. 160-182
- CHAPTER 12. TWILIGHT
- pp. 183-196
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. 197-198
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 253-258
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819570758
Related ISBN(s)
9780819570741
MARC Record
OCLC
726747131
Pages
300
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No