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Nevada: The Rotten Borough
Ostrander, Gilman M. | April 18, 1966 issue

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Nevada's first Senator was William M. Stewart, the leading lawyer on the Comstock Lode for the principal Comstock mining companies, which were incorporated in San Francisco. Nevada had won statehood in 1864, during a period of ruinous litigation among the mining companies, and also at a time when the claims of all of them were entirely unsupported by federal law. According to the state's first attorney general, Nevada became a state to escape the dead-fall of her Territorial courts. An equally pressing reason was to get passed in Congress a law validating the local miners' regulations, upon which the claims of the mining companies were based.

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NEVADA -- Politics & government; LEGISLATORS; STATE governments; FEDERAL legislation; BUSINESS enterprises; MINING corporations; NEVADA; UNITED States
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