Isaac Roosevelt

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Economics, People, Postwar Politics (>1783), Prewar Politics (<1775) October 31, 2019 October 30, 2019

Isaac Roosevelt: Merchant, Federalist, Banker, New Yorker

by Keith Muchowski

On Saturday September 17, 1938 New York governor Herbert H. Lehman and 5,000 others assembled in Poughkeepsie to observe the sesquicentennial of the Empire…

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