John Powell Irish (1843–1923) was a leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Iowa, a landowner in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California, a fiery and influential public speaker, and an opponent of prejudice against Japanese, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, women's suffrage and labor unions. He was, according to U.S. Interior Secretary Franklin K. Lane, "a fiery orator of the denunciatory type."[1] He was reckoned as "a leader among editorial writers" of his generation.[2]
- ^ "Anne Wintermute Lane and Louise Herrick Wall, editors, The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, p. 9". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2010-12-28.
- ^ "Joseph Eugene Baker," Past and Present of Alameda County, California, volume 2