1910's Government and Politics | Deaths

Nelson W. Aldrich, 73, conservative Republican senator from Rhode Island (1881-1911), coauthor of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909, and author of the "Aldrich Plan," which laid the groundwork for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, 16 April 1915.

Randolph Bourne, 32, radical political writer best known for his antiwar essays published in The Seven Arts magazine, 22 December 1918.

William E. Chandler, 81, secretary of the navy (1882-1885), secretary of the Republican National Committee (1868, 1872), and Republican senator from New Hampshire (1889-1901), 30 November 1917.

Daniel De Leon, 61, leader of the Socialist Labor Party and a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, 11 May 1914.

Stephen B. Elkins, 69, railroad and mining magnate, Republican senator from West Virginia (1895-1911), and author of the Elkins Act of 1903, which forbade railroads from offering rebates...