<html>
<body>
<font size=3>lobby [various combinations]<br>
Courtesy EAN.<br>
------------<br>
<br>
“lobby member” 1818 antedates OED2 1848 [dict.], a1860-<br>
<br>
He ... has been heretofore employed to advocate, by extraneous influence,
the petitions for charters, associations, &c. &c. which have been
presented to different legislatures, and is well known as a <i>lobby
member</i>.<br>
<br>
American Beacon, published as The American Beacon and Commercial Diary
{Norfolk, VA]; Date: 03-06-1818; Volume: VI; Issue: 24; Page: [2].<br>
-------------<br>
<br>
“lobby manager” 1825 not in OED2<br>
<br>
See the jesuitical leader parading the lobbies ... with a view to hunt
and find out and proscribe the man who ... had played what he calls the
“traitor” to the lobby managers!<br>
<br>
New-Hampshire Patriot, published as New-Hampshire Patriot & State
Gazette; Date: 02-28-1825; Volume: XVII; Issue: 830; Page: [2]<br>
-------------<br>
<br>
“lobby man” 1827 antedates OED2 1934 [dict., for a different sense],
1958-<br>
<br>
We are sorry that these two divisions [of a party] should fall into a
quarrel ... Had not this untoward event occurred, the amalgamation might
have lasted a year ... Amalgamation expires with the dispersion of the
lobby men!<br>
<br>
New-Hampshire Patriot, published as New-Hampshire Patriot & State
Gazette; Date: 06-25-1827; Volume: XIX; Issue: 951; Page: [3].<br>
<br>
(Also The Pittsfield [MA] Sun.; Date: 12-16-1858; Volume: LIX; Issue:
3039; Page: [1].)<br>
---------------<br>
</font></body>
</html>
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org