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Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.
Joseph Gurney Cannon was an American politician who was a longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives. As speaker of the House (1903–11), he exerted incredible power and influence. Admitted to the Indiana bar in 1858, Cannon in 1859 moved to Illinois, where he continued the practice of law.
J oseph Gurney Cannon, grand old man of Congress, will retire from public life. At the age of 86, having served 23 terms in the House of Representatives, he feels that he has earned the right...
May 21, 2018 · Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836-1926) was the American politician whose arbitrary, often dictatorial, methods as Speaker of the House gave rise to the term "Cannonism." Joseph Cannon was born in Guilford, N.C., on May 7, 1836, of old English and Huguenot stock.
Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836-1926) was the influential Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives during most of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. “Uncle Joe” Cannon’s authoritarian reign as Speaker conflicted with Roosevelt’s desires to promote progressive legislation.
Cannon, Joseph Gurney. by Roy Parker, Jr., 1979. 7 May 1836–12 Nov. 1926. Joseph Gurney Cannon, congressman and speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in New Garden, Guilford County, the son of Gulielma Hollingsworth and Dr. Horace Franklin Cannon, one of the founders of Guilford College.
Joseph G. Cannon was born in Guilford, North Carolina, the son of Dr. Horace Cannon and Gulielma Hollingsworth Cannon. After the death of his father in 1851, Joseph went to work in a pottery in Annapolis, Indiana.
