Nelson W. Aldrich, American businessman and politician (born 1841)

Nelson W. Aldrich

American politician (1841–1915)

Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s, he was one of the "Big Four" key Republicans who largely controlled the major…