Antedating of "Lobbyist"

[Dave Wilton]

>From the 19 January 1848 Dixon (Illinois) _Evening Telegraph_
(Newspaperarchive.com):

The death of Joseph F. Freeman, a congressional lobbyist, has closed one
phase of the Garsson-May war contracts fraud case.

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Subject: Antedating of "Lobbyist"

lobbyist (OED 1863)

1849 _New Hampshire Gazette_ 31 July 2 (America's Historical Newspapers)
This interest and this feeling were taken advantage of and subjected to a
constant stimulation by a score of indefatigable lobbyists, who kept up an
untiring attack upon the members.

Fred Shapiro


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