SPEAKER US HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES CONGRESSMAN IL JOE CANNON AUTOGRAPH SIGNED 1905
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JOSEPH G. CANNON(1836 – 1926)40th SPEAKER OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1903-1911 - CONSIDEREDTO BE THE MOST DOMINANT SPEAKER IN UNITED STATES HISTORY&US REPUBLICAN PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM ILLINOIS 1873-1923!
Cannon ruled the House of Reps with aniron hand and greatly reduced the influence of individual members. Thenewspapers frequently lampooned Cannon as a colorful rube. "Uncle Joe, " as he was known, oftenclashed with fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt, ass...erting that Roosevelt "has nomore use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriagelicense."The Cannon House Office Building, the oldest Congressional office building in Washington, D. C., completed in1908, was named in his honor in 1962!<<>> HERE’S CANNON’S SIGNATURE REMOVEDFROM A TURN-OF-THE-20th-CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED: “J. G. CannonJany 20th1905”The document measures 6¼” x 7” andis in VERY FINE CONDITION Afine Piece of American Political History to add to your Autograph, Manuscript& Ephemera Collection!<<>[::]<>>BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLEJOSEPH GURNEY CANNONJosephGurneyCannon (07 May 1836–12 November 1926), Speaker of the House, was born in New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina, the son of Horace Franklin Cannon and GulielmaHollingsworth. His father, a country school teacher and self-taught doctor, hated slavery. Cannon moved with his Quaker parents to Bloomingdale, Indiana, in 1840, studied law at the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the barin 1858. He then moved to Tuscola, Illinois, in 1859 and served as state’sattorney for the Twenty-seventh Judicial District of Illinois from March 1861to December 1868. In 1862 he married Mary Pamela Reed; they had three children.In 1869 he settled in Danville, Illinois. Elected as a Republican in 1872 tothe Forty-third Congress, Cannon served, with the exception of two terms(Fifty-second Congress, 1891–1892, and Sixty-third Congress, 1913–1915) when hewas defeated for reelection, until 1923, when he retired from public life. Inall, Cannon served a total of forty-six years in Congress, the longest tenureof any member prior to World War II.No significant piece of legislation bears Cannon’s name. As a conservativeRepublican gaining seniority, Cannon moved to positions of enhanced prestigeand power from chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post OfficeDepartment (Forty-seventh Congress) to that of the Committee on Appropriations(Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congress). Seniority brought him to theSpeaker’s chair and to the chair of the Rules Committee in 1903. As Speaker hewas both the presiding officer and Republican party leader, and as chairman of theRules Committee he controlled access to the floor for all major bills. Cannonvigorously exploited the authority of his position, taking full advantage ofhis power over committee assignments and his right to determine which memberscould speak on the floor. His resolution of voice votes was arbitrary. He onceruled, “The Ayes make the most noise, but the Nays have it.” The term“Cannonism” came into widespread use during his tenure to describe hisironfisted rule. As Speaker, Cannon was not sympathetic to the progressive wingof his party and considered himself, as a seasoned poker player, a standpatterhostile to insurgent efforts, for example, to lower tariff rates or to modifythe rules. As a party leader with some friction he went along with Theodore Roosevelt’s(1858–1919) legislative program and strongly endorsed that of Roosevelt’ssuccessor, William HowardTaft. Since Taft was not as active an executive as hispredecessor, Cannon found himself in a stronger position to oppose insurgentefforts at reform.By fully utilizing the dictatorial powers of his office, Cannon raised theauthority of the Speaker to its highest peak, though he introduced fewparliamentary changes. However, Cannonism came to an end in March 1910, wheninsurgent Republicans joined by the Democrats revolted against the Speaker’sauthority, removing him from membership on the Rules Committee and ending hispower to select committee members and to direct floor action. George WilliamNorris, a Republican insurgent from Nebraska, through aparliamentary maneuver, bested the usually astute Speaker when he askedpermission to introduce a measure privileged by the Constitution. Cannonlaughingly agreed. Norris’s resolution called for removing the Speaker from theRules Committee.After twenty-nine hours of debate, Cannon, recognizing that the motioncould not be defeated, offered to resign. His offer was not accepted, andCannon retained his post until the end of the Sixty-first Congress. He lost hisbid for reelection in 1912 but was successful in 1914 and in succeedingelections until his voluntary retirement at age eighty-seven at the conclusionof the Sixty-seventh Congress on 3 March 1923. He retired to Danville, where hejoined the Methodist church and was visible in the Second National Bank, whichhe helped found with his brother, William Cannon, or on his daily walk or motorouting. He died in Danville.As Speaker, Cannon, known as “Uncle Joe, ” exhibited a jauntiness in hisdress and deportment. A fiscal conservative, a strict constructionist of thelaw and the Constitution, opposed to special privileges for any group or class, Cannon was an obstinate, ruthless, and resourceful member of Congress. At timeshe was coarse in remarks and aroused the enmity of those in and out of Congresswhom he thought sought special favors. But he bore no grudges and was respectedand even well liked by both Republicans and Democrats.BibliographyThe Joseph G. Cannon Papers are on deposit in the State Historical Libraryin Springfield, Ill. See too, Uncle Joe Cannon: The Story of a PioneerAmerican as told to L. White Busbey (1927); Blair Bolles, Tyrantfrom Illinois: Uncle Joe Cannon’s Experiment with Personal Power (1951);William Rea Gwinn, Uncle Joe Cannon, Archfoe of Insurgency: A History ofthe Rise and Fall of Cannonism (1957); and Richard Lowitt, George W.Norris, The Making of a Progressive, 1861–1912 (1963). Extensiveobituaries are in the Washington Post and the New York Times, both 13 Nov. 1926. [Source: American National Biography]I am a proud member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club(UACC), The Ephemera Society of America, the Manuscript Society & theAmerican Political Items Collectors (APIC) (member name: John Lissandrello). 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Cannon ruled the House of Reps with aniron hand and greatly reduced the influence of individual members. Thenewspapers frequently lampooned Cannon as a colorful rube. "Uncle Joe, " as he was known, oftenclashed with fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt, ass...erting that Roosevelt "has nomore use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriagelicense."The Cannon House Office Building, the oldest Congressional office building in Washington, D. C., completed in1908, was named in his honor in 1962!<<>> HERE’S CANNON’S SIGNATURE REMOVEDFROM A TURN-OF-THE-20th-CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED: “J. G. CannonJany 20th1905”The document measures 6¼” x 7” andis in VERY FINE CONDITION Afine Piece of American Political History to add to your Autograph, Manuscript& Ephemera Collection!<<>[::]<>>BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLEJOSEPH GURNEY CANNONJosephGurneyCannon (07 May 1836–12 November 1926), Speaker of the House, was born in New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina, the son of Horace Franklin Cannon and GulielmaHollingsworth. His father, a country school teacher and self-taught doctor, hated slavery. Cannon moved with his Quaker parents to Bloomingdale, Indiana, in 1840, studied law at the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the barin 1858. He then moved to Tuscola, Illinois, in 1859 and served as state’sattorney for the Twenty-seventh Judicial District of Illinois from March 1861to December 1868. In 1862 he married Mary Pamela Reed; they had three children.In 1869 he settled in Danville, Illinois. Elected as a Republican in 1872 tothe Forty-third Congress, Cannon served, with the exception of two terms(Fifty-second Congress, 1891–1892, and Sixty-third Congress, 1913–1915) when hewas defeated for reelection, until 1923, when he retired from public life. Inall, Cannon served a total of forty-six years in Congress, the longest tenureof any member prior to World War II.No significant piece of legislation bears Cannon’s name. As a conservativeRepublican gaining seniority, Cannon moved to positions of enhanced prestigeand power from chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post OfficeDepartment (Forty-seventh Congress) to that of the Committee on Appropriations(Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congress). Seniority brought him to theSpeaker’s chair and to the chair of the Rules Committee in 1903. As Speaker hewas both the presiding officer and Republican party leader, and as chairman of theRules Committee he controlled access to the floor for all major bills. Cannonvigorously exploited the authority of his position, taking full advantage ofhis power over committee assignments and his right to determine which memberscould speak on the floor. His resolution of voice votes was arbitrary. He onceruled, “The Ayes make the most noise, but the Nays have it.” The term“Cannonism” came into widespread use during his tenure to describe hisironfisted rule. As Speaker, Cannon was not sympathetic to the progressive wingof his party and considered himself, as a seasoned poker player, a standpatterhostile to insurgent efforts, for example, to lower tariff rates or to modifythe rules. As a party leader with some friction he went along with Theodore Roosevelt’s(1858–1919) legislative program and strongly endorsed that of Roosevelt’ssuccessor, William HowardTaft. Since Taft was not as active an executive as hispredecessor, Cannon found himself in a stronger position to oppose insurgentefforts at reform.By fully utilizing the dictatorial powers of his office, Cannon raised theauthority of the Speaker to its highest peak, though he introduced fewparliamentary changes. However, Cannonism came to an end in March 1910, wheninsurgent Republicans joined by the Democrats revolted against the Speaker’sauthority, removing him from membership on the Rules Committee and ending hispower to select committee members and to direct floor action. George WilliamNorris, a Republican insurgent from Nebraska, through aparliamentary maneuver, bested the usually astute Speaker when he askedpermission to introduce a measure privileged by the Constitution. Cannonlaughingly agreed. Norris’s resolution called for removing the Speaker from theRules Committee.After twenty-nine hours of debate, Cannon, recognizing that the motioncould not be defeated, offered to resign. His offer was not accepted, andCannon retained his post until the end of the Sixty-first Congress. He lost hisbid for reelection in 1912 but was successful in 1914 and in succeedingelections until his voluntary retirement at age eighty-seven at the conclusionof the Sixty-seventh Congress on 3 March 1923. He retired to Danville, where hejoined the Methodist church and was visible in the Second National Bank, whichhe helped found with his brother, William Cannon, or on his daily walk or motorouting. He died in Danville.As Speaker, Cannon, known as “Uncle Joe, ” exhibited a jauntiness in hisdress and deportment. A fiscal conservative, a strict constructionist of thelaw and the Constitution, opposed to special privileges for any group or class, Cannon was an obstinate, ruthless, and resourceful member of Congress. At timeshe was coarse in remarks and aroused the enmity of those in and out of Congresswhom he thought sought special favors. But he bore no grudges and was respectedand even well liked by both Republicans and Democrats.BibliographyThe Joseph G. Cannon Papers are on deposit in the State Historical Libraryin Springfield, Ill. See too, Uncle Joe Cannon: The Story of a PioneerAmerican as told to L. White Busbey (1927); Blair Bolles, Tyrantfrom Illinois: Uncle Joe Cannon’s Experiment with Personal Power (1951);William Rea Gwinn, Uncle Joe Cannon, Archfoe of Insurgency: A History ofthe Rise and Fall of Cannonism (1957); and Richard Lowitt, George W.Norris, The Making of a Progressive, 1861–1912 (1963). Extensiveobituaries are in the Washington Post and the New York Times, both 13 Nov. 1926. [Source: American National Biography]I am a proud member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club(UACC), The Ephemera Society of America, the Manuscript Society & theAmerican Political Items Collectors (APIC) (member name: John Lissandrello). 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