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David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.
- October 31, 1867, Madison, Indiana, U.S.
- Kensico Cemetery
- Murdered by shooting
David Graham Phillips’s series “The Treason of the Senate” ( Cosmopolitan, 1906), which inspired Pres. Roosevelt’s speech in 1906, was influential in leading to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, which provided for popular senatorial elections.
May 23, 2018 · Learn about the life and works of David Graham Phillips, a journalist and novelist who exposed social and political evils in America. Find out how he was shot by a violinist who believed he had libeled his family.
David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College (now DePauw University) - following which he received a degree from Princeton University in 1887.
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- January 24, 1911
- October 31, 1867
David Graham Phillips. David Graham Phillips was born in Madison on 31st October, 1867. After studying at Indiana Asbury University, Phillips found work as a reporter with the Cincinnati Times-Star. Later he worked for the New York Sun and the New York World.
From the assassination of David Graham Phillips in 1911 until 1932 when Isaac Marcosson published the first biography of this once-popular novelist, Phillips had peacefully passed into those obsolescent realms inhabited by many a romancer of the muckrake age.
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The Treason of the Senate was a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine by David Graham Phillips, published in 1906. The articles were each published a month apart, beginning with the forward in February and the last article, in July.
