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Lafayette B. Gleason

American political activist (1863–1937)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ6471352 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lafayette Blanchard Gleason (May 30, 1863 – October 24, 1937) was the secretary of the Republican State Committee of New York from 1906 to 1937, and he was also the General Secretary for seven Republican National Conventions.

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“Lafayette B. Gleason” enters the record as american political activist (1863–1937). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lafayette, Gleason and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1863, 1937, 1906—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1863-05-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lafayette, Gleason and American.
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“Lafayette B. Gleason” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lafayette, Gleason and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6471352. VIAF identifies the subject as 88558505. The Library of Congress control number is no2009083066. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1863, 1937 and 1906.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lafayette B. Gleason” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.