Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon represented...

Steel Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926), U.S. Representative from Illinois and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; nicknamed "Uncle Joe" Joseph J...

speakership reached its apogee during the term of Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903–1911). Cannon exercised extraordinary control over the legislative process...

for former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Joseph Gurney Cannon. The first congressional office buildings were constructed immediately...

William Howard Taft of Ohio; Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon of Illinois also had support among the delegates, but Cannon had no desire to leave his position...

of 1898. Instead, Senator Nelson Aldrich and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon worked to pass the Payne-Aldrich tariff, which reduced rates on some...

chairmanship to Joseph Gurney Cannon, who had served more nonconsecutive terms in the House and would have outranked Henderson had Cannon not lost his House...

– via Internet Archive, digitized in 2007. House Document 108–204 – The Cannon Centenary Conference: The Changing Nature of the Speakership Official website...

term, breaking the record of 23 terms first set by former Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon, whose service had been non-consecutive, whereas Sabath's was not...

Paxton Record. Paxton, IL. May 22, 1873. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com. "CANNON, Joseph Gurney, (1836 - 1926)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress...

Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926), United States politician Joseph E. Johnston (1807–1891), Confederate general during the American Civil War Joseph Ligambi...

Democratic New York Retired 1930–present 19 46 years, 0 days 999 N/A Joseph Gurney Cannon (H, I) Republican Illinois Defeated in 1890, came back to the House...

The speakership reached its zenith during the term of Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon, from 1903 to 1911. The speaker's powers included chairmanship of...

as "Czar Reed". In the 1890s and 1900s, Reed and his successor, Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-Illinois) used the Rules Committee to centralize the power of...

Schanfarber Timothy L. Woodruff, Businessman and Former Politician Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the House Augustus E. Willson, Governor of Kentucky Henry...

statement to the Republican National Convention, which was read by Joseph Gurney Cannon: "We want Perdicaris alive or Raisuni dead." While it was clear that...

opposed any restrictions on immigration. In 1906, the House Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon, a conservative Republican, worked aggressively to defeat a proposed...

Chicago. Joseph Gurney Cannon, who also served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives during four congresses and after whom the Cannon House...

Lincoln of Springfield, Illinois. He also became a mentor to young Joseph Gurney Cannon. In 1850, Usher was elected to serve in the Indiana General Assembly...

Jonathan Cannon (born 2000), American baseball player Joseph A. Cannon (born 1949), American businessman and politician Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926)...

had been associated with progressives, had to deal with Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon who was a part of the conservatives. Sherman, who had more experience...

Russia. Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, was sometimes referred to as Czar Cannon (a play on the giant cannon of the same name) as a result...

of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress, losing to Cannon (who regained...

Spooner, Wisconsin James Kimbrough Jones, Arkansas House members Joseph Gurney Cannon, Illinois John Dalzell, Pennsylvania Thomas Chipman McRae, Arkansas...

Taft was nominated with 702 votes to 68 for Knox, 67 for Hughes, 58 for Cannon, 40 for Fairbanks, 25 for La Follette, 16 for Foraker, 3 for President Roosevelt...

Webster, John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, Thomas Brackett Reed, Joseph Gurney Cannon, George William Norris, Jeannette Rankin, and Everett Dirksen. The...

which overwhelmingly passed his version of the bill. House Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon commented on Roosevelt's desire for executive branch control: "That...

Burnette, actor James E. Callaway, politician John H. Campbell, jurist Joseph Gurney Cannon, longtime Speaker of the US House Philip F. Deaver, author Gary Forrester...

of measures intended to check the power of the disliked Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon (R–Illinois). The modern version, however, was adopted in 1931 by...

(1836–1932) Ohio 8 December 5, 1881 March 4, 1883   Himself 1881–1883 48th Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926) Illinois 15 March 4, 1883 March 3, 1889   Carlisle 1883–1889...