January 26, 2016 TR Getting Money out of Politics
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January 26, 2016 TR Getting Money out of Politics

2016-01-26

On this day in Labor History the year was 1907. That was the day that President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law an effort to get corporate money out of national politics. The law was called the Tillman Act. The act was named after its sponsor, Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina.  

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