He became Speaker of the House, presided over one of the greatest concentrations of power ever held by a Speaker, survived a revolt against his authority, served forty-six years in Congress, and eventually had one of the great congressional office buildings on Capitol Hill named for him.

She would spend the final thirty-seven years of her life defending Wilson, preserving his papers and possessions, shaping his public memory, and keeping his Washington home almost as a shrine.

He was a Democrat in a region where Lincoln Republicans were often dominant, yet his personal relationships crossed party lines. In 1874, he won election to the United States House of Representatives.

By the time Burnett published Little Lord Fauntleroy in 1886, the marriage of American wealth to English rank had become one of the most familiar social dramas of the age.

The Parkinson family belonged to a generation that had grown up with the memory of migration, persecution, settlement, and the long struggle over Utah's place within the Union. Their religious faith was not a private matter confined to Sunday worship.