Background
Augustus was born on May 21, 1867 in Shelbyville, Kentucky, United States, the son of the Reverend William Stanley, a journalist and later a minister of the Christian or "Campbellite" Church, and Amanda Owsley.
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Augustus Owsley Stanley
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After attending local schools, he enrolled in the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College in Lexington in 1886. He transferred to Centre College in Danville two years later and received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1889.
Career
After teaching for four years, Stanley was admitted to the bar in 1894 and practiced in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. In 1898 he moved and settled in Henderson, Kentucky.
Service as a presidential elector for William Jennings Bryan in 1900 and well-received speeches led to a congressional race in the Second District in 1902. Following a narrow victory in the primary, he won the general election and began six consecutive terms (1903 - 1915) in the House of Representatives.
Amid the Black Patch War, Stanley sought legislation to repeal a federal tax on tobacco. Opposition to trusts led Stanley in 1910 to sponsor a congressional probe of the U. S. Steel Corporation. The Stanley Committee's hearings (1911 - 1912) dealt with such controversies as the steel corporation's acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company in 1907. The hearings prodded the federal government to file an antitrust suit against U. S. Steel in 1911, and were, wrote Louis D. Brandeis, "a large factor in educating public opinion generally in regard to big business. "
The committee's majority report criticized the company's economic influence and offered proposals that rejected federal regulation in favor of legal restraints on corporate size. Many of Stanley's recommendations were included in the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. Stanley sought his party's nomination for senator in the August 1914 primary against former governor Beckham and the incumbent governor James B. McCreary. The liquor question was the most important issue in a close election that Beckham won over Stanley by seven thousand votes.
As governor, Stanley sought to reform Kentucky's tax system, to pass workmen's compensation laws, and to secure larger appropriations for higher education. When a mob in Murray, Kentucky, threatened to lynch a black prisoner in January 1917, Stanley dispersed the crowd, telling them that he came not "to snatch the accused from punishment but to save him from violence. "
Stanley was not happy as governor, but he made a creditable record as state executive. The death of Senator Ollie James in August 1918 opened Stanley's way to the Senate. He appointed an ally to James's unexpired term and secured the Democratic nomination for the general election in November. Stanley had the support of the Wilson administration, but his "German veto" and wet sentiments were a handicap.
He won the election by only six thousand votes. He continued as governor until May 19, 1919, when he was sworn in as senator. Republican control of the Senate limited Stanley's impact during his single term.
He was renominated in 1924, but opposition from the Ku Klux Klan and prohibitionists, combined with a general Republican tide, cost him his seat. He became the commission's chairman in 1933 and remained in office until February 1954, when the Eisenhower administration obtained his retirement.
He died in Washington, District of Columbia.
Achievements
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Augustus Owsley Stanley first gained national attention for supporting Kentucky tobacco growers against the Tobacco Trust. Later Stanley was remembered for his calling for antitrust investigations: one of them regarded to the American Tobacco Company. He claimed that they were a monopsony that drove down prices for the tobacco farmers of his district. So this investigation resulted in broke up of the American Tobacco Company by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1911. He was one of the participants who helped to draft the charter for the Dark District Tobacco Planters Association. Stanley also chaired a committee that conducted an antitrust investigation of U. S. Steel, which brought him national acclaim. Many of his ideas were incorporated into the Clayton Antitrust Act.
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Violations Of Antitrust Act Of 1890: Hearings Before The Committee On Rules Of The House Of Representatives On House Resolution No. 139, To Investigate Violations Of The Antitrust Act Of 1890
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United States Steel Corporation: Hearings Before the Committee On Investigation of United States Steel Corporation. House of Representatives. In Eight Volumes; Volume 1
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United States Steel Corporation: Hearings Before The Committee On Investigation Of United States Steel Corporation. House Of Representatives. in Eight Volumes, Volume 1, Issues 1-11
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How the Stanley Bill (S. 3410) for Compulsory License of Patents Imperils Inventors, Manufacturers, and the American Patent System
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United States Steel Corporation: Hearings Before The Committee On Investigation Of United States Steel Corporation, Volume 5
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Politics
A dynamic orator, Stanley moved easily into the turbulent Democratic politics of Kentucky. As an antiprohibitionist, he opposed the dry faction led by Governor John C. W. Beckham.
He spoke out against what he believed to be abuses of civil liberties in enforcing prohibition, and denounced government centralization.
As his Senate career showed, however, his heart lay with older Democratic principles of limited government, states' rights, and economic conservatism. For several generations of Kentuckians, Stanley was "the silver-tongued orator, the portly, almost bald storyteller, " who animated state campaigns.
He was also opposed by the Ku Klux Klan, then a powerful organization in the state, because of his opposition to bigotry and secret organizations.
Views
Quotations: "The most conspicuous 'progressive, '" he remarked in 1922, "is the most ingenious inventor of new ways and means of invading the vested rights of the States and the liberties of the citizens. "
Personality
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Upon his death, a newspaper accurately described him "as among the last and best of the old-fashioned Kentucky political orators. "
Connections
After he settled in Henderson, Kentucky, he married Sue Soaper on April 29, 1903. They had three sons.
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