"Well, isn't this a billion dollar country?"
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Members of the United States House of RepresentativesRepublican Party (United States) politiciansUnited States Secretaries of the TreasuryGovernors of Ohio
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Responding to Democrat critics who labelled the 51st Congress (March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1891) a "Billion Dollar" Congress. Reported in Henry L. Stoddard, As I Knew Them (1927), ch. 21
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Charles Foster (Ohio politician)
Charles William Foster Jr. (April 12, 1828 – January 9, 1904) was a U.S. Republican politician from Ohio. Foster was the 35th governor of Ohio, and later went on to serve as Secretary of the Treasury under Benjamin Harrison. From 1871 to 1879, he served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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