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The Senatorial Career Of William P. Frye, Ronald F. Banks
The Senatorial Career Of William P. Frye, Ronald F. Banks
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William Pierce Frye served as a Senator from Maine for a period of thirty years, 1881-1911. During this time the United States passed from a nation still binding the wounds of the Civil War to a nation which achieved the status of a world power. Frye was an active participant in this growth and as much as any single individual, symbolized the United States of this period.
Like his country, Frye was often impulsive as his opposition to the Bayard-Chamberlain negotiations illustrates. He was an artist at "twisting the lion's tail" and never failed to exploit this ability whenever the …