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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 163

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161 affect the decision. Charles Sumner was elected to the senate for the full term and Robert Rantoul in the following October was elected to the house. Mr. Rantoul's election was significant because it was the result of a coalition of the democrats and free soilers. For twenty years the whigs by combining with the free soilers had carried the state but the latter party now combined with the democrats and Mr. Rantoul was elected to the house as the only democrat in the Massachusetts delegation. There are few who in their service reveal so much of their political record as Mr. Rantoul does. He is at once attacked as a coalition man and repudiated by some of the democrats. He defends himself thus, "If I am not a democrat
 
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