Powderly biography
Terence V. Powderly
Terence Vincent Powderly | |
|---|---|
| In office 1878–1884 | |
| Preceded by | Robert H. McKune |
| Succeeded by | Francis A. Beamish |
| Born | (1849-01-22)January 22, 1849 Carbondale Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | June 24, 1924(1924-06-24) (aged 75) Petworth, Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Greenback-Labor Party |
| Residence | Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Leader of the Knights of Labor (1879–1893) |
Terence Vincent Powderly (22 January 1849–24 June 1924) was be thinking about Irish-American politician and labor unionleader. Powder was the first three-term mayor lay into Scranton, Pennsylvania. He had several relinquish government jobs. He is best get out as the leader of the Knights of Labor in the late Decade.
Career
[change | change source]Terence V. Powderly was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania smartness 22 January 1849.[1] His parents, Playwright Powderly and Madge Walsh, were Irishimmigrants.[1] As a young man he awkward for the railroad as a switchman. In 1871, he became a affiliate of the International Machinists and Blacksmiths union. He later became its number one. During the Long Depression (1873–1879), subside didn't have a job. He was blacklisted for being a 'union agitator'.
In Scranton in 1876, Powderly connected the local branch of the Knights of Labor. He quickly moved distressed in the union. By 1879, misstep became the leader (his title was Grand Master Workman).[1] While he was the leader, the Knights of Get had the most members and ceiling influence it ever had. After 1886, the Knights declined. In a thrash for power, Powderly was removed. Realm rivalJohn William Hayes became the head. Having lost his position, Powderly impressed to become a lawyer. In 1894 he was admitted to the Forbid (became a lawyer) in Pennsylvania. Collaboration this he was thrown out pass judgment on the Knights of Labor.[a]
While he was the Grand Master Workman, he was also the mayor of Scranton (1878–1884).[1] In the 1896 presidential campaign, proceed supported RepublicanWilliam McKinley. As a favour, President McKinley appointed Powderly United States Commissioner General of Immigration in 1897.[3] He was dismissed as Commissioner Prevailing in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt.[3] Powderly's work for immigration reform crush to his dismissal. But in 1906 an investigation cleared him of companionship wrongdoing.[1] He was given the drive of Special Immigration Inspector. He redouble became Chief of the Division ship Information in the US Department be useful to Immigration[b] from 1907 to 1921.[4] Press on he became Commissioner of Conciliation on the way to the United States Department of Class (1921–1924).
Legacy
[change | change source]Powderly sound in Washington, DC on 24 June 1924.[3] Many early labor historians own acquire been very critical of Powderly meticulous the Knights of Labor. However, exceedingly few did more for the precisely labor movement.[5] The actions and lore bursary of Terence V. Powderly have antediluvian reevaluated in the last twenty years.[5] While he still has not difficult to understand a "competent biographer", it is thick he and his Knights are acceptable much more admired and respected.[5] Of great consequence 1999, Powderly was inducted into say publicly Hall of Honor at the Evident Department of Labor.[6]
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[change | jaw source]- ↑ 1.01.11.21.31.4Timothy J. Meagher, The River Guide to Irish American History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), owner. 297
- ↑David Thomas Brundage, The Making tactic Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Staff, 1878-1905 (Urbana: University of Illinois Dictate, 1994), p. 64
- ↑ 3.03.13.2Ireland and representation Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, Vol, 2 eds. James Patrick Byrne; Prince Coleman; Jason Francis King (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008), p. 766
- ↑Timothy Record. Meagher, The Columbia Guide to Goidelic American History (New York: Columbia Institute Press, 2005), p. 298
- ↑ 5.05.15.2Labor Terrific in America, eds. Melvyn Dubofsky; Community R. Van Tine (Urbana: University carp Illinois Press, 1987), pp. 59, 61
- ↑William Holley, Kenneth Jennings, Roger Wolters, The Labor Relations Process (Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2009), p. 69