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Seniority and Power: The Senate Four

The Senate Four: Orville Platt, John Spooner, William Allison, and Nelson Aldrich

The Senate Four: Orville Platt, John Spooner, William Allison, and Nelson Aldrich

 

The Senate Four (left to right): Orville Platt, John Spooner, William Allison, and Nelson Aldrich, meet informally at Aldrich’s Newport, Rhode Island, estate in 1903.

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