TODD, Albert May, a Representative from Michigan; born near Nottawa, St. Joseph County, Mich., June 3, 1850; attended the district school and was graduated from Sturgis (Mich.) High School; studied at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; moved to Kalamazoo, Mich.; engaged in business as a manufacturing chemist; unsuccessful Prohibition candidate for Governor in 1894; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful Democratic candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits in Kalamazoo; founded a museum of art and a library of ten thousand rare books and illuminated manuscripts; died in Kalamazoo, Mich., October 6, 1931; interment in Mountain Home Cemetery.
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[ Top ]Todd, Albert May. Hawaiian annexation and extension of American influence. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898.
------. Municipal ownership, with a special survey of municipal gas plants in America and Europe; comprising a view of the general principles of public ownership; its relation to the public welfare: With a special study of gas works in American and European cities under both public and private ownership; a comparison of efficiency, costs, and rates of charge; and the influence of public ownership on general prosperity, good government and democracy. Chicago, Ill.: Public ownership league of America, 1918.
------. Ornithological books by Gould, Sharpe and others, incunabula, mainly writings of classical authors, Ashendene, Kelmscott and other press publications. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1941.
------. Public ownership of railroads. Statement of Hon. Albert M. Todd, president of the Public ownership league of America, in the Hearings before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, February 21, 1919. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919.
------. Relation of public ownership to democracy and social justice. Chicago: Public Ownership League of America, 1920.
------. The subversion of American liberty by the plutocratic trust monster. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898.
