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		Doniphan began (1830) to practice law in Lexington, Mo., and served three terms in the state legislature, becoming involved in the Mormon issue.
		Although Doniphan was a slaveholding unionist, he sought a middle ground to stave off war in the 1850s and early 1860s and served as a delegate to the Washington Peace Conference in 1861.
		Alexander William Doniphan: Portrait of a Missouri Moderate.(Review)
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	Alexander William Doniphan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander William Doniphan (July 9, 1808–August 8, 1887) was an American lawyer and soldier, born in Mason County, Kentucky.
		At the beginning of the Mexican-American War in 1846, Doniphan entered the United States Army as colonel of the 1st Regiment of Missouri mounted volunteers, and served with honor in several campaigns, including the march of Stephen W. Kearny on Santa Fe and an expedition into Mexico.
		Doniphan married Elizabeth Jane Thornton in 1838 and had two sons, neither of whom lived past age 18.
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	alexander william doniphan: portrait of a missouri moderate by roger d. launius
		Alexander William Doniphan (1808-1887)--Missouri attorney, military figure, politician, and businessman--is one of the most significant figures in antebellum Missouri.
		From the 1830s to the 1880s, Doniphan was active in a variety of affairs in Missouri and held firm to several underlying principles, including loyalty, hard work, the sanctity of the republic, and commitment to Christian charity.
		Alexander William Doniphan will be of interest to academic specialists and general readers alike, especially those interested in Mormon studies, Missouri history, military history, and Western history.
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	Doniphan, Alexander William - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In 1838, Doniphan, as brigadier general of the state militia, was ordered against the Mormons by the governor but flatly refused to carry out orders to execute Joseph Smith and other Mormon leaders.
		When Kearny continued to California, Doniphan was left in command in New Mexico, where he subdued and made peace with the Navajo.
		Doniphan, who returned to law practice at Richmond, Mo., opposed secession and favored neutrality for Missouri in 1861.
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	Kansas Bogus Legislature - Alexander W. Doniphan
		Alexander Doniphan attended the Lexington Convention as the Whig candidate for the United States Senate vying with David Atchison, one of his Democratic opponents.
		Doniphan encountered no resistance and had a "friendly chat with Joseph Smith and the leading men, and appeared to be very friendly to the `mormons'." Caldwell County officials released their non-Mormon prisoners to Doniphan and surrendered their weapons.
		Doniphan reinforced General John Wool in the State of Chihauhua for the defense of Texas and to support the United States' claim to the Rio Grande as the border.
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	Mormon, Legal, Defence, Attorney, Lawyer, Lawyers, Justice, Alexander Doniphan, David R. Atchison, Judge, Austin A. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Col. Alexander William Doniphan, orator, jurist, statesman, soldier and Christian gentleman, was born in Mason County, Kentucky, July 9, 1808, and died in Richmond, Missouri, August 8, 1887.
		Alexander Doniphan was a strong supporter of all educational endeavors.
		William Wood, along with Rees (Reese), Doniphan, and Atchison, was the first to sign a formal letter about finances, fees, challenges, and expectations involving legal matters concerning the Saints in Missouri.
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	Alexander William Doniphan
		DONIPHAN, Alexander William, soldier, born in Mason County, Kentucky, 9 July 1808; died in Richmond.
		Alexander was graduated at Augusta College, Kentucky, in 1826, and on being admitted to the bar in 1830 began the practice of law at Lexington, Mo. Three years afterward he removed still farther west, to the village of Liberty, in Clay County.
		At the head of a considerable force of state troops, Doniphan imposed terms upon the prophet Joseph Smith ; the Mormons were obliged to give up their leaders for trial, lay down their arms, and leave the state of Missouri.
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	Gray's Doniphan County (Kansas) History, Pt. 1, Ch. 1
		The town was named for General Alexander William Doniphan, of Mexican war fame, and rightly proud of the name has she ever been.
		The Doniphan Herald, May, 1872, thus tells of a visit to the wine cellars of this place: "We visited the wine cellars of the Brenners this week, and to say that we enjoyed the sparkling fluid from the 1,000-gallon cask, would not half express our delight in that visit.
		Alexander Patterson, a clerk in the store, being a lover of peace and not wishing to have the harmony of the dancers disturbed, picked up his own pistol and warned Lenhart to behave himself.
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	A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Missouri
		Doniphan, the county seat, on the east bank of the Current River 30 miles southwest of Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., its nearest railroad station (1874), is a good business point and commands the trade of the entire county.
		Alexander William Doniphan, born in Macon County, Kentucky in 1808, the youngest of ten children, a noted lawyer and orator, was elected as Colonel of the Missouri troops during the Mexican War.
		James Alexander Hemenway (1860-1923), served as representative in Congress from 1895 to 1905, and as Senator from 1905 to 1909.
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	Mexican War - Search View - MSN Encarta
		One contingent would remain to pacify Santa Fe, while another, under Colonel Alexander William Doniphan, was dispatched south to Chihuahua in north central Mexico.
		The arrival of Doniphan, whose forces had attacked and occupied Chihuahua, fortified Taylor’s base and made most of northern Mexico secure for U.S. forces.
		William Dirk Raat, B.S., Ph.D. Professor, Department of History, State University of New York, College at Fredonia.
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	DONIPHAN County, Part 13
		His father is a farmer, and resides near Lewisburg, Pa. He is a descendent of Dr. Alexander Brown, a former professor in Yale College and a nephew of the celebrated Presbyterian divine, Rev. Matthew Brown, of the city of Philadelphia.
		JOHN P. JOHNSON, the pioneer settler and banker of Highland, Doniphan County, Kan., came to the Territory soon after the passage of the Kansas and Nebraska Bill, May, 1854, and has been prominently connected with the political and financial interests of his county and State since its formation.
		From Williams County he came to Kansas and and settled in this county in 1865, and is farming near Highland.
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	New Mexico - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Here he organized a civil government and compiled a code of laws, some of which are still in force, thus exceeding his instructions and ignoring the territorial claims of Texas, out of which had grown the war.
		Alexander William Doniphan's (1808-1887) setting out (Dec. 1846) on his heroic expedition to join Gen. Wool at Chihuahua, some of the inhabitants revolted, and in January 1847 assassinated the governor, Charles Bent, and a number of Americans and Mexicans who had taken office under the new regime.
		The governor by military appointment, Colonel John Munroe (1796-1861), refused to surrender his jurisdiction in favour of the state officials until authorized to do so by Congress, and for a time there was much writing of pronunciamentos by the military and the quasi-state officials.
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	LDSGetaway.com :: L.D.S. Family Travels: Liberty, Missouri: Scene of Anguish and Revelation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Alexander McRae was 6’6” and suffered back pain the rest of his life from being stooped over for over four months.
		As a young attorney, Alexander Doniphan represented Church members in legal actions taken against those who had driven the Saints from their homes in Jackson County.
		Alexander Doniphan did defend Porter Rockwell at the Independence courthouse and was able to prove him innocent.
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	Walker, Whittaker, and Allen/Mormon History. Chapter 3
		Another commentator, Thomas G. Alexander, saw an element of self-discovery in the movement: most of the new Mormon historians were "active" and "devout" Mormons using their professional training to understand their heritage.
		Alexander's next Mormon book, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet, realized a biographical interest that George Ellsworth had first engendered in Alexander when he was a student at Utah State University.
		William Mulder, who began his career as an editor for the LDS Improvement Era before accepting a position at the University of Utah, insisted on a traditional approach to the craft: history should be a literary art, not simply a science.
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	AllRefer.com - Alexander William Doniphan (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Alexander William Doniphan[don´ifun] Pronunciation Key, 1808–87, American lawyer and soldier, b.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Doniphan,
		Doniphan, Alexander William DONIPHAN, ALEXANDER WILLIAM [Doniphan, Alexander William], 1808-87, American lawyer and soldier, b.
		Steve Adams.(People)(named joint superintendent of Highland and Midway school districts in Doniphan County, Kan.)(Brief Article)
		Ministry, Seeks to Buy Doniphan, Neb., Christian Radio Station from University.
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	Mason Family Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Alexander William DONIPHAN was born on 8 Jul 1808 in Mason County, Kentucky.
		Alexander William DONIPHAN and Elizabeth Jane THORNTON were married.
		Elizabeth Jane THORNTON was also known as Elizabeth Jane Doniphan.
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	"Reverend" Robert Sallee JAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The ancestors of founder COL. ALEXANDER WILLIAM DONIPHAN were neighbors of the James family of colonial Virginia, as was the family of founder WILLIAM C. Rev. Lewis Craig, ancestor of founder RANDOLPH R. CRAIG, came with "The Traveling Church" from Virginia into Kentucky to form the Elkhorn Church.
		The family of founder WILLIAM CARSON was well known to the John M. James family in Pulaski County, Kentucky.
		WILLIAM PARTEE, founder of the Partee Center for Baptist Studies at Wm.
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	MMFF Newsletter, updated 1 August 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Alexander William Doniphan, one of the few supporters of the Saints and a resident of Richmond for nineteen years, did not disappear into the historical abyss of the Richmond cemetery.
		Alexander William Doniphan was a prominent Clay County lawyer beginning in 1833.
		General Doniphan, on reaching Far West, in Caldwell county, Missouri, after some slight engagements, where the principal Mormon forces had assembled, numbering about 1,000 men, commanded by Colonel G. Hinkle, demanded their surrender their prominent leaders for trial, and that the remainder of the Mormons should, with their families, leave the state.
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	Rare books on the American West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Colonel Alexander William Doniphan was ordered by General Kearney to take troops from Santa Fe to Chihuahua, Mexico, to support General Wool.
		On his way, at the Bracito River, Doniphan was faced with a superior Mexican force that demanded surrender, saying that if he did not they would charge and give no quarter.
		Doniphan replied with his famous "Charge and be damned." In the subsequent battle, the Mexicans were routed in short order, and Doniphan proceeded on his way.
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	Western Writers Chat July 2004 Newsletter Part No.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		When Doniphan pushed open the door to the Baker house in the early hours of the morning, Mary Beth was there to tell him that Roderick was in the living room.
		Doniphan lifted him with little effort and carried him outside to one of his supply wagons wherein he had arranged a bed.
		LAW OF THE LAND recreates the often overlooked 1881 trial of William H. Bonney in Mesilla, New Mexico Territory, for the 1878 murder of Sheriff William Brady during the height of the bloody Lincoln County War.
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		Brief look at the life of Alexander Doniphan who moved to Liberty, Missouri, in 1833.
		Highlights as his most outstanding accomplishment the leadership of the First Missouri Regiment in the Mexican War.
		He was part of a group which secured the Baptist college, "William Jewel," for Liberty.
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	MISSOURI WILLIAMS FAMILY
		Major Williams took Old Jule to his farm in Ray County, Missouri and, grateful for her long and faithful service, tenderly cared for her until her death at age 37.
		Major Williams is buried in the family cemetery adjoining this property where Old Jule is also buried.
		A.E. Williams, Swanwick, Missouri (on the site of the homestead of Major R. Williams, grandfather of the bride and one of Missouri's grandest men and hero of two wars).
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	Far West Cultural Center - Resource, Far, West, Cultural, Center, Farwesthistory.com, Log, House, Charles, C., Rich, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Alexander L. Baugh, A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Ph.D. dissertation, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1996.
		Jan Shipps and John Welch, eds., The Journals of William E. McLellin (Provo, UT: BYU Studies, Brigham Young University, 1994).
		Roger D. Launius, Alexander William Doniphan: Portrait of a Missouri Moderate (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998).
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	The Mormons in Missouri: A Bibliography
		Baugh, Alexander L. "The Battle Between Mormon and Missouri Militia at Crooked River." In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Missouri.
		Hartley, William G. "St. Louis and the Nauvoo Exodus: The Experience of the John Ellison Family." Nauvoo Journal 10 (Fall 1998): 39-47.
		Launius, Roger D. "Alexander William Doniphan and the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri." John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 18 (1998): 63-110.
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	Genealogy Images of History Dk - Do (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Honored by his tribe in that he was given custody of the famous treaty signed by William Pen and the Chief of the Delaware Tribe at Shackamaxson.
		Trouble was, he was so good that even his friends were fearful of their hair – and they were right – cause after a scalp was taken – who knows from whom it came.
		DONIPHAN, Alexander William, Colonel * - 1846 era - Missouri Army Colonel named in story entitled "THE FANTASTIC SPY WHO SMASHED THE MEXICANS" by Lawrence Cortesi about James Magoffin who saved the day for an numerically inferior U. Army fforce against 7,000 Mexican troops guarding Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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	Chihuahua Trail
		Doniphan engaged and defeated Mexican troops at El Brazito, about 25 miles up the Rio Grand from The Pass, and he engaged and defeated another Mexico force near the Sacramento River trail crossing, 20 miles north of the city of Chihuahua.
		In late 1846, when Colonel Doniphan marched down the trail to do battle with the enemy at El Brazito and the Sacramento River during the war with Mexico, he crossed the Jornada del Muerto with nearly 1000 troops, according to Robert Selph Henry in The Story of the Mexican War.
		Santa Fe – "The town is very irregularly laid out, and most of the streets are little better than common highways… The only attempt at anything like architectural compactness and precision consists in four tiers of buildings whose fronts are shaded with a fringe of portales [entrances] or corredores [corridors] of the rudest possible description.
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