James Sovereign
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James Sovereign
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James Richard Sovereign was an American labor unionist. Born in Grant County, Wisconsin, Sovereign grew up in Illinois, where his family farmed. He worked as a cattle rancher, then in bridge and tunnel construction, before in 1874 becoming a marble cutter, settling in Iowa. In 1881, he joined the Knights of Labor (KoL), in which he soon became prominent as a lecturer and journalist. In 1890, Sovereign was elected as the Iowa Commissioner of Labor Statistics, and he was soon elected by the state'
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American labor unionist
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2023-05-27T07:13:58Z
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