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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1890 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The first electric chair, which was used to execute William Kemmler in 1890 The electric chair is a device used in 11 states in the United States for execution of criminals convicted of capital crimes.
		Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 â€“ June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and idea of the memexâ€”seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web.
		Elizabeth Lizzie (Jones) Bolden (born August 15, 1890 in Somerville, Tennessee) was verified in April 2005 as having been the oldest documented resident of the United States since the death of Emma Verona Johnston the previous December.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1890 (8610 words)

	Honoré Mercier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was re-elected in the 1890 election with an increased majority.
		He died in 1894 at the age of 54, and was interred in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Montreal, Quebec.
		He won a majority of seats in the 1886 election and became premier in 1887 after the minority government fell, won the 1890 election and was dismissed from office in 1891 and lost the 1892 election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honor%E9_Mercier (588 words)

	Mayors of the City of Seattle. Seattle Municipal Archives
		The Freeholders’ Charter of 1890 changed the term of office for the Mayor to two years and made the incumbent ineligible for re-election until after the lapse of two years.
		Smith was defeated for re-election in the 1936 primary election.
		Elections were to be held in odd-numbered years with terms of office beginning January 1 of the following even-numbered years.
	www.ci.seattle.wa.us /CityArchives/Reference/Mayors.htm (684 words)

	Qualifications and Fees for Mississippi Candidates
		Qualifications: A qualified elector, at least 25 years old, a resident of the Supreme Court district in which he/she seeks election, and a citizen of the state five years preceding the day of election.
		Qualifications: A qualified elector of the county and a resident in the district in which he/she seeks election.
		Qualifications: A qualified elector, a resident of the county and district two years preceding the day of election, a high school graduate or its equivalent, and completion of a course of training required by law within six months of the beginning of the term of office.
	www.sos.state.ms.us /elections/qual_feesmscands.asp (1239 words)

	United States History - MSN Encarta
		Black voting was not quickly extinguished; in the 1880s, some African Americans continued to vote in the upper South and in pockets elsewhere, but fl office holders and voting majorities vanished, fraud and intimidation were common, and fl votes often fell under conservative control.
		Between 1890 and 1908, starting in Mississippi, Southern states held constitutional conventions to impose new voting regulations, such as literacy testing—regulations that registrars could impose at will on fls and not on whites.
		In 1889 the Southern and Northwestern alliances merged and in 1890 became politically active.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_1741500823_22/United_States_(History).html (2053 words)

	I N H E R I T A G E
		Election results served up predictable victory for the ruling Democrats, despite loud outcries of foul play – some of which were even acknowledged by old-line regulars, given the visible depths to which the elections had been hijacked.
		Even with charges of election fraud during the 2000 presidential election a recent memory, it is nearly impossible to imagine an election like the one held in 1892.
		The degree to which election fraud and strong-arm tactics had on the outcomes that year is debatable; what is not, is that both were transparent and widespread.
	www.inheritage.org /almanack/b_populism_02.html (6009 words)

	TUSD History
		The 1890’s weren’t “Gay 90’s” as far as School District 1 was concerned with the defeat of a bond issue for a new school building, another defeat of a special tax election to provide operating funds, trouble with the principals (or superintendents) and teachers and criticism from the Daily Citizen.
		A “special tax election” for $4,000 was called for February 21 It was defeated by a vote of 163 to 123.
		Board Member F. Odermatt objected strenuously to “the election of any lady to fill the responsible positions of principal of the schools of this district on the grounds that the duties and responsibilities of the position are too arduous to be properly fulfilled by a lady teacher and the schools will suffer.” Mrs.
	www.tusd.k12.az.us /contents/distinfo/history/history05.html (3646 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of the Progressive Party in the 1924 elections, carrying Wisconsin and 17% of the national popular vote.
		Four years later, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, where he served until 1890.
		The Act, however, was so unpopular that he lost his seat in the 1890 election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette%2C_Sr. (1421 words)

	Burson v. Freeman, 504 U.S. 191 (1992).
		Because restrictions on speech around polling places on election day are as venerable a part of the American tradition as the secret ballot, Tenn. Code Ann.
		Ever since the widespread adoption of the secret ballot in the late 19th century, viewpoint neutral restrictions on election day speech within a specified distance of the polling place--or on physical presence there--have been commonplace, indeed prevalent.
		It is doctrinally less confusing to acknowledge that the environs of a polling place, on election day, are simply not a "traditional public forum"--which means that they are subject to speechrestrictions that are reasonable and viewpoint neutral.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/90-1056.ZC2.html (1131 words)

	NASULGC : Council of 1890s Rules of Operation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		ARTICLE V. The purpose of the Council of 1890 Colleges/Universities is to represent collectively the interests of 1890 land-grant institutions including Tuskegee University, University of the District of Columbia and the University of the Virgin Islands.
		The purpose of the summer meeting is to share ideas and expertise in conjunction with other 1890 associations and the leadership of public and private enterprises central to advancing the 1890 mission.
		The election shall be conducted in accordance with policies and procedures as stipulated in the Rules of Operation and consistent with NASULGC's bylaws.
	www.nasulgc.org /1890/OperatingRules.htm (919 words)

	Elections BC -- Important Dates in BC Election History
		Voters in the general election approve a referendum providing a mechanism to recall sitting Members and to bring citizen initiatives before the Legislature or to province-wide referendum.
		Elections Amendment Act (SBC 1992 c.72) lowers the voting age to 18 from 19 and eases restrictions on voting day registration.
		The Election Act is amended (section 39.1) to allow Elections BC to use the federal voters list to update and add voters to the provincial voters list (Bill 54).
	www.elections.bc.ca /general/history.html (1531 words)

	Benjamin Harrison - MSN Encarta
		At the end of October, as the election neared, Harrison won a number of votes through a hoax known as the Murchison Letter.
		Harrison in 1890 signed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which declared combinations of businesses that restrained trade or commerce to be illegal and authorized the federal government to take action against such combinations, called trusts.
		The congressional elections of 1890 dealt a blow to Harrison's image.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564367_3/Benjamin_Harrison.html (1072 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower
		The Republicans lost both houses in the off-year congressional elections of 1954, but by such slim margins that the outcome could not be interpreted as a rebuke to the President.
		The GOP, also handicapped by a recession, suffered a disastrous defeat in the 1958 congressional elections as the Democrats sharply increased majorities in both the Senate and the House.
		In any case, the combination of setbacks and partisan complaints about the administration's foreign policy were politically damaging on the eve of the 1960 election.
	users.skynet.be /fa101291/personen/Ike.html (6259 words)

	1890 Palmyra Town Meeting Minutes
		At Two o’clock meeting was called to order and the different Town Officers presented and read their Reports which on motion were accepted and adopted by vote of the meeting.
		1890 called for the purpose of redistricting said town according to the new Election code the Election districts were divided as follows
		The first Election District of the Town of Palmyra shall be bounded as follows.
	www.palmyrany.com /minutes/TB/1890.htm (892 words)

	Federal Election Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The election was declared void on November 6, 1888.
		Montague won the February 20, 1890 by-election with a majority of 227 votes.
		The election was declared void December 24, 1896.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/process/house/electionsTrivia/index.asp?lang=E¶m=6&q=10 (341 words)

	History of the Kansas Appellate Courts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Once again the proposal was defeated in the 1890 election.
		In 1903 new rules were adopted which did away with the separate divisions and from that time cases were heard by the entire court.
		The Court of Appeals was re-established in 1977 as a seven-member intermediate appellate courts.
	www.kscourts.org /history.htm (744 words)

	HC 38 (As Introduced) - 2004 Regular Session
		"Section 140. The Governor of the state shall be elected by the people in a general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November of A.D., and on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in every fourth yearthereafter.
		* * * The person receiving a majority of the number of votes cast in the election for the office shall be declared elected * * *.
		"Section 142. In case of an election of Governor or any state officer by the House of Representatives, no member of that House shall be eligible to receive any appointment from the Governor or other state officer so elected, during the term for which he shall be elected."
	billstatus.ls.state.ms.us /documents/2004/html/HC/HC0038IN.htm (205 words)

	Alabama Governor Thomas Jones
		He was elected captain of the Montgomery Greys in 1876 and served as colonel of the 2nd Regiment, Alabama State Troops, from 1880 to 1890.
		In 1890 he defeated Reuben Kolb for the Democratic nomination for governor and was elected.
		Many of the issues in the 1890 and 1892 elections are indicative of the issues Jones faced during his administration.
	www.archives.state.al.us /govs_list/g_jonest.html (665 words)

	Frankfort, IL: A Community with 1890's Charm
		The committee shall be chaired by the immediate past president, the next two (2) current past presidents shall serve on the committee and the chairman shall select two (2) members from the general membership with board approval.
		The Nominating Committee shall serve as the judge of the election.
		By January 31, after the election of the new Board of Directors and Officers, the Budget Committee shall propose a budget for the coming year and submit it to the Board of Directors for approval.
	www.frankfortchamber.com /info/bylaws.asp (2127 words)

	Quebec general election, 1890
		The Quebec general election of 1890 was held on June 17, 1890 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
		A historical database for the census of 1890 for the Swedish Counties of Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Jämtland and Värmland.
		Tony Blair is now facing the prospect of a general election campaign overshadowed by pro-hunting protests as the Lords refuse to support a delay in a ban until after the election.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=1890_Quebec_election (1301 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - Slider
		He also ran for President of the United States as the Progressive Party candidate in the 1924 elections.
		A florid orator given to periodic bouts of "nerves," he made many enemies over the years, particularly for his opposition to the United States' entry into World War I and his defense of freedom of speech during wartime.
		Theodore Roosevelt called him a skunk who should be hanged when he opposed the arming of American merchant ships; one of his colleagues in the Senate said he was "a better German than the head of the German parliament" when he opposed the Wilson Administration's request for a declaration of war in 1917.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/La_Follette%2C_Robert_Marion (570 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - InformationBlast
		He is best remembered for his support for direct election of United States Senators and opposition to big businesses.
		A florid orator given to periodic bouts of "nerves," he made enemies over the years for his opposition to the United States' entry into World War I and his defense of freedom of speech during wartime.
		Theodore Roosevelt called him a skunk who should be hung when he opposed the arming of American merchant ships; one of his colleagues in the Senate said he was "a better German than the head of the German parliament" when he opposed the Wilson Administration's request for a declaration of war in 1917.
	www.informationblast.com /Robert_M._La_Follette%2C_Sr..html (584 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The first, which centered on the arrival of the railroad and the progress it precipitated, occurred between 1882 and 1890.
		In November 1891, however, a mysterious fire destroyed the courthouse, and one day later the county commissioners received a petition from Lufkin citizens asking for a new election to decide if the courthouse should be in Lufkin.
		When the election was held on January 2, 1892, Lufkin won, 1,076-436.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/LL/hdl5.html (1072 words)

	Faulkner County Historical Society
		In the 1890 election the farmers' Union-Labor ticket contained a combination of Republican and populist candidates, and the fusion ticket won the county.(12) Thus by 1890 Democratic leaders throughout Arkansas determined to remove the fl vote, and by so doing, to destroy the opposition alliance of the poor.
		By the end of 1890, the Conway applicants expected a spring departure and had sent in a total of $197 to the ACS office in Washington for their passage.
		Founded just a few years earlier, it was a sizeable settlement by 1890 with a 40-room hotel, several stores, a junior college, and a ferry crossing the creek.(21) Race relations became more tense in the area in fall 1890 when white and fl residents quarrelled over title to some government homestead land.
	www.faulknerhistory.com /articles/backtoafrica.htm (4396 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Desmond stood as 'a representative of the small settler and the working man', and polled 190 votes with a radical platform including a land tax and a tax on the unearned increment, resumption of the Crown's right of pre-emption on Maori land, annual parliaments, and the abolition of the Legislative Council.
		1890 was the year of the maritime strike - one manifestation of 'the present world-wide mobilisation of the army of social discontent', Desmond told the Auckland Star - and he became active in the trade union movement.
		Desmond did not stand for Parliament in 1890, despite initial intentions, but he succeeded in upstaging the candidates with his claim that the election was being run by an international capitalist conspiracy involving the London-based Globo Assets Company, the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company and the Employers' Association of Auckland.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=2D9 (1202 words)

	Garfield County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Until Burwell won its first election on February 16, 1890, with 228 votes to 148 for Willow Springs, the latter remained the authorized county seat.
		The minutes show: "On motion the building erected by certain bondsman to be donated to the county of Garfield Nebraska, was this day tendered by said committee and the same is hereby accepted." The building was used until 1963, when it was replaced with a modern one story structure.
		In 1890, the population of Garfield county was 1,659.
	www.loupbasinrcd.net /garfield.html (689 words)

	American President
		Although not a landslide shift comparable to election swings in the twentieth century, McKinley's victory ended the pattern of close popular margins that had characterized elections since the Civil War.
		Wyoming (1890), Colorado (1893), Idaho (1896), and Utah (1896) each gave women the right to vote, although these advances resulted from each state’s particular political circumstances rather than the power of the suffragist movement.
		Voter participation peaked in the election of 1896 at around 80 percent of the eligible voters in non-southern states.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/williammckinley/biography/email.html (6979 words)

	Why the Re-election of Incumbents Year After Year Is a Threat to Democracy
		The decline includes sharp drops in primary and general election turnout and even steeper drops in attention to televised debates and other forms of election communication.
		In the presidential general election, Americans' opportunity to be part of the action is determined by the Electoral College.
		In fact, although the overall voting rate in 2000 was somewhat higher than it had been in 1996, turnout actually fell in nine states, all of which were safely in the Bush or Gore column.
	www.hnn.us /articles/1144.html (1385 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - Slider
		La Follette was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1884, where he served until 1890.
		His opposition to "pork barrel" projects and his support for a protective tariff helped secure his appointment to the Ways and Means Committee, where he helped draft the Tariff Act of 1890.
		In 1912 he ran for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States, but lost to William Howard Taft, due largely to many Progressives supporting Theodore Roosevelt's third-party candidacy.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Robert_M._La_Follette%2C_Sr. (570 words)

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