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. More @Wikipedia
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