The Lieutenant-Governor
| Title | The Lieutenant-Governor |
| Year of Publication | 1903 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 269 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Carryl, Guy Wetmore |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company |
| City | Boston |
| Keywords | assassinations; governors; journalists; labor strikes; police; trade unions; union organizers |
| Abstract | An anti-labor fable set in Alleghenia, a factitious state resembling Western Pennsylvania. Governor Elijah Abbot, elected by a labor-reform coalition, actively supports a mill strike, but mill owner Peter Rathbawne refuses to make concessions. When Abbot is shot, Lieutenant-Governor John Barclay heroically declares martial law and breaks the strike. |
| Author Biography | Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904) was born in New York and graduated in 1895 from Columbia. He was a writer for popular magazines and is best known as a humorist and poet of light verse. After fighting a fire in his home, he died at age 31 in New York. |
| Time | 1900s |
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