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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: State of New York
The great central plain of the State, lying between the mountainous districts of the south and west and the Great Lakes and the Adirondacks and the eastern mountain ranges on the north and east, is renowned for the fertility of its soil and the extent of its manufactures.
It enacted that the law of the State should be constituted of the Common Law of England and of the Acts of the Legislature of the Colony of New York, as together forming the law of the colony on 19 April, 1775 (the day of the battle of Concord and Lexington).
The State institutions for the care of the insane and juvenile delinquents are numerous, and the almshouses, hospitals, and other charitable agencies under the care of the counties and other municipalities abound throughout the State.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11029a.htm   (11181 words)

  
 Bangladesh (08/05)
Mujib became president of the Awami League in 1966 and emerged as leader of the Bengali autonomy movement.
The AL blames the ruling party for several high-profile attacks on opposition leaders, and asserts that the ruling party is bent on eliminating Sheikh Hasina and the AL as a viable force.
Relations between Bangladesh and the United States were further strengthened by the participation of Bangladesh troops in the 1991 Gulf war coalition, and alongside U.S. forces in numerous UN peacekeeping operations, including Haiti in 1994, as well as by the assistance of a U.S. naval task force after a disastrous March 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3452.htm   (8335 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of state leaders in 1859   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The emperor or huangdi (皇帝 in pinyin: huang2 di4) of China was the head of government and head of state of China from the Qin dynasty in 221 B.C. until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
Prince Mikheil, Mikheil (Michael) Sharvashidze (died 1866) was the head of state of the principality of Abkhazia and reigned from 1822 to 1864.
Lists of state leaders by year Dom Pedro IIs family Dom Pedro II and President Ulysses S. Grant, Philadelphia Exposition, 1876 Dom Pedro II in his old age Dom Pedro II of Brazil Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil (December 2, 1825-December 5, 1891) was the second and final Brazilian Emperor.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-state-leaders-in-1859   (5522 words)

  
 Government Schooling Comes to America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It was as president of the State Senate that he became intimately involved in the movement to concentrate control of education in the hands of state.
As president of the State Senate, Mann was instrumental in establishing the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837 during the height of Whig and Unitarian influence in the state.
Michigan was the first state, upon its entrance into the Union in 1835, to constitutionally prohibit the use of public funds "for the benefit of religious societies or theological seminaries." The second state was Wisconsin, which included an identical prohibition in its original constitution of 1848.
www.educationreview.homestead.com /GovSchool.html   (4109 words)

  
 States Rights, One of the Causes of the Civil War
Their leaders, Jefferson and Madison, arguing that the state legislatures should decide, ably expounded their views in two sets of resolutions, one written (anonymously) by Jefferson and adopted by the Kentucky legislature (1798--1799) and the other drafted by Madison and approved by the Virginia legislature (1798).
The resolutions urged all the states to join in declaring the Alien and Sedition Acts null and void and in demanding their repeal at the next session of Congress, but none of the other states went along with Virginia and Kentucky.
State rights and strict construction were usually the arguments of the party out of power (and so they were to he throughout American history).
www.civilwarhome.com /statesrights.htm   (3802 words)

  
 Colonel William B. Ochiltree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was instrumental in the state constitutional convention of 1845, and a member of the Texas legislature.
In 1859, however, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a representative of the ultra-Southern wing of the Democratic party against John Reagan, whose opposition to reopening the slave trade had lost that group's support.
In November, 1860, Ochiltree was active in local meetings that demanded that state leaders not submit to the election of Abraham Lincoln, arguing that his election threatened slavery and a loss to Southern equality in the Union.
www.angelfire.com /tx/RandysTexas/page80.html   (520 words)

  
 Wyandotte County, Part 10
He was a member of the Legislature in 1868 and in 1870, and to his organizing force and ability as Chairman of the Committee on State Library during his latter term, is largely due the present admirable condition of that educational institution of which Kansas citizens are so proud.
He was elected to the Legislature in 1859, and re-elected to the next term.
Moore was married in Wyandotte, Kan., in 1859, to Miss Mary Johnson, of that town.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/wyandotte/wyandotte-co-p10.html   (3407 words)

  
 Kansas and Kansans p.935-945
The Wyandotte Constitution, drawn in 1859, is the beneficent instrument under which Kansas was admitted and its people have enjoyed such happiness and prosperity.
This election was held December 15, 1855, and the constitution adopted by a vote of 1,731 to 46.
In the meantime, on June 15th, the first National Republican Convention declared "that Kansas should be immediately admitted as a state of the Union, with her present free Constitution." On June 25th Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill in Congress to admit Kansas under the Topeka Constitution.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/935.html   (4199 words)

  
 Letters of Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, 1854-1859, edited by Lela Barnes, Kansas Historical Quarterly; August 1937
A patent was issued February 14 1859, and on July 1 of that year, Isaiah Walker and his wife, Mary, executed a warranty deed conveying the land to the Topeka, association.
It was mainly a comparison of Kansas with the western states and territories through which Holliday traveled on his return from the East for the purpose of examining the merits of each and satisfying himself of the superiority of Kansas.
Charles Gibbons, a Quaker, was chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican state committee in 1856.
www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1937/37_3_barnes.htm   (21924 words)

  
 Governor: Text of the 2004-05 Budget Address
And while other states were cutting back their support for public education, they saw us work together to improve our public schools.
We all can show Pennsylvanians that their leaders have a shared vision for the future, that we can make tough decisions and that we can do it together reasonably, respectfully and on time.
To expand this effort across the state and into the private sector, I am also proposing an Advanced Energy Portfolio Standard so that in 10 years, ten percent of all energy generated in our state will come from clean, efficient sources of power.
www.governor.state.pa.us /governor/cwp/view.asp?a=1101&q=436369   (6810 words)

  
 Mississippi Women and the Woman Suffrage Amendment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
National suffrage leaders concluded that since one of the most conservative states in the nation had given serious consideration to enfranchising women in order to restore White supremacy in politics, suffrage leaders might use the race issue to persuade the South to lead the way for woman suffrage.
The state's chapters of the temperance union and the Daughters of the American Revolution never came out as a group in favor of woman suffrage, but many of their members actively promoted woman suffrage in the state.
She was highly influential in convincing southern suffrage leaders to support the proposed amendment — even though a former friend and ally, New Orleans suffrage leader Kate Gordon, a strong state's rights suffragist, opposed woman suffrage by federal action and urged all southern women to oppose it.
mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature23/women.html   (3077 words)

  
 Romania (08/05)
Basescu appointed PNL leader Calin Popescu-Tariceanu as Prime Minister, whose government was approved by the Parliament on December 28, 2004.
He is the Chief of State, charged with safeguarding the constitution, foreign affairs, and the proper functioning of public authorities.
Other elected leaders, both from the governing and opposition parties, expressed opposition to new elections, noting that they are difficult to achieve under the constitution and could detract from government efforts to implement reforms necessary for EU accession.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35722.htm   (7251 words)

  
 Reservations in Texas - Texas State Library
In the more settled east and north-central parts of the state, the remaining Indians were generally peaceful, but they were unhappily hemmed in by white settlers and other tribes.
When Texas was annexed to the United States, it retained control of its public lands.
In 1859, they were joined by their close relatives, the Coushattas.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/indian/statehood/page2.html   (982 words)

  
 Your 1792 Counterparts
North Carolina has had two types of governors: as a colony, Royal Governors appointed by the King of England, and as a state, elected governors.
Seven (elected) governors of North Carolina are buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, NC.
He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1859, but withdrew March 6, 1861, in anticipation of North Carolina's secession from the Union.
www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us /vvisits/acwholie.html   (637 words)

  
 1859
1856 1857 1858 - 1859 - 1860 1861 1862
February 14 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
December 2 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1859.html   (801 words)

  
 Topics in Kansas History: Politics & Government, Essay on Territorial Government
In 1855, he was elected governor of Kansas under the free- state Topeka Constitution.
By 1859 the free-state element had firm control of the Kansas territorial legislature.
Most of the radical proslavery leaders had moved to more hospitable localities, and the issue of slavery was nearly dead in Kansas.
www.kshs.org /research/topics/politics/essay_territorial.htm   (1673 words)

  
 The North Carolina State Bar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Oklahoma State Regents,38 that an African American student admitted to a previously segregated graduate school could not be subjected to patterns and practices of segregation interfering with the students meaningful classroom instruction and interaction with peers, such as making a student sit in the classroom doorway.
Said John H. Hall, the State Bar’s President in 1955-1956, “This will no doubt be an eventful year in the Bar’s history, and the lawyers throughout the state will, to an unusual degree, be looked to and called for guidance and leadership in solving many of the key problems which are certain to arise.
That amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” Lake argued that the Supreme Court’s decision had allowed the federal government to usurp state rights.
www.ncbar.com /Journal/journal_9,1.asp   (14631 words)

  
 Governor Pease - Letter from E.D. Burleson - Texas State Library
Some leaders, most notably Sam Houston, tried to negotiate peace treaties with the tribes.
Other Texans held that the only solution was to drive all tribes from the borders of Texas.
By 1859 these people had been deported to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
www.tsl.state.tx.us /governors/earlystate/pease-burleson.html   (445 words)

  
 ADAH: Madison Historical Markers
The Rev. Henry C. Lay, second rector, was consecrated Missionary Bishop of the Southwest (1859).
This dashing cavalry leader of the Confederacy was killed at Greeneville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1864.
In a time when yellow fever, malaria, and cholera threatened, Dr. Thomas Fearn and his brothers Robert and George were drawn by the cool air and medicinal springs to establish a small colony on the northern section of Monte Sano Mountain in 1827.
www.archives.state.al.us /markers/imadison.html   (5829 words)

  
 Furman: Secession Era Editorials Project
There is at least no cause for uneasiness elsewhere in the State, notwithstanding the reports concerning the complicity of the negroes in the business.
The leader of the conspiracy is stated to be Captain BROWN, of Kansas notoriety.
we have no doubt was intended to be carried throughout the entire Southern States -- having for its object plunder, violations of female chastity, and an indiscriminate slaughter of all who should oppose its fearful march.
history.furman.edu /~benson/docs/jbmenu.htm   (1228 words)

  
 1859   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Hostilities partly due to Napoleon 's fear of the Nationalism in Italy.
October 12 - Self-described "Emperor of the United Joshua A. Norton 'orders' the United States Congress to dissolve.
November 24 - British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species a book which argues that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection (it immediately sold out its initial run).
www.freeglossary.com /1859   (1063 words)

  
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 ipedia.com: List of state leaders in 1859 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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