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  Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Charles T-Chz)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles V (Charles The Wise) was king of France.
On the death of Charles VI he refused to acknowledge Maria Theresa as heiress and in support of his own claims he invaded Austria with an army, took Prague and was crowned King of Bohemia and in 1742 was elected Emperor.
Charles Voysey was the founder of the Theistic Church.
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 Encyclopedia: William Jennings Bryan
Bryan was trained as a lawyer at Northwestern University and received his bachelor's degree at Illinois College.
Bryan was said to have enjoyed this colorful nickname, until opponents ridiculed it by saying it was appropriate thing to call Bryan since the Platte River was narrow, shallow and widest at the mouth.
Bryan was asked by William Bell Riley to represent the World Christian Fundamentals Association to act as counsel for the association at the trial.
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 Descendants of James Bryan
Bryan) was born 1753, and died November 01, 1815.
Bryan) was born March 1868 in ohio, and died June 07, 1924 in Roswell NM.
Bryan) was born August 11, 1912 in Dayton Ohio, and died April 24, 1974 in Ruidoso, NM.
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 NETonline - Next Exit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles W. Bryan served as governor of Nebraska during the roaring twenties from 1923 to 1925, and again from 1931-1935.
A populist figure like his brother, Bryan ran on a platform of a fiscally conservative government and a non-interventionist approach in the affairs of the citizenry.
Although there's no record of Bryan ever receiving an Admiralship himself, he did finish out his political career in Nebraska and spent much of his time writing and commenting on the politics of the day.
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 Corporal Charles W. Bryan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The patrol was assigned to detach itself from the unit inconspicuously and reconnoiter the terrain surrounding Hill 881 North.
In addition, Corporal Bryan was instructed to abort the mission and withdraw if the infantry unit became engaged with the enemy.
Subsequently, the infantry unit was directed to attack the hostile emplacements, and realizing the unit was greatly depleted by casualties, Corporal Bryan requested permission from his unit to reinforce the infantry company with his patrol.
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 Bryan Surname of Bourbon County, Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bryan’s life is the fact that he suffered from a severe attack of whooping cough when over eighty years of age.
W., the youngest, was born July 19, 1848: he graduated in the classical department of the Kentucky Wesleyan College, in 1869, and the law department of Columbia College, New York, in 1872; he is a lawyer by profession; has been elected Police Judge of his native town (Millersburg) three consecutive terms.
Bryan was married, October 13, 1868, to Miss Mollie E. Owen, a native of Scott County, and daughter of Charles Owen, a farmer of that county.
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 M'Adoo on 30th Ballot Sags to 415 1/2, Smith up to 323 1/2; J.W. Davis Spurts to 126 1/2; Bryan Starts War on Him; ...
One of these is the opposition of William J. Bryan, who became extremely active yesterday in an effort to throw a monkey wrench into the Davis political machinery, which had seemed to be well oiled and running smoothly.
Bryan was unwilling yesterday to discuss who the convention's nominee might be taking the position that as a Delegate at Large from Florida he was pledged to support Mr.
What Governor Bryan said was not recorded but it was understood that he was not displeased.
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 Cpl. Charles W. Bryan
On January 20, 1968, Corporal Charles W. "Bill" Bryan, Bravo Company, 3rd Recon Battalion, was killed as he tried to save the lives of two fellow Marines during a fierce battle with an estimated battalion size force of NVA on Hill 881-North, about five miles northwest of Khe Sanh.
I had named him Bill Bryan Foster, and she was so proud, saying that they looked very much alike.
Bryan on my mind, I thought it would be better to write, instead of after thirty-five years suddenly appearing on the phone wanting to talk about Bill.
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 Jane and Maria Bryan and their Descendants
When Mary was twenty-four, she met and married one Charles W. Stauffer, son of Henry and Katherine Stauffer of Scottdale, Pa., February 12, 1890.
Charles Stauffer was for years engaged in the retail and wholesale meat marketing business in Scottdale, and after he retired from the business, continued to engage in buying and selling cattle and other livestock.
Both Mary and Charles are actively engaged in the Methodist Church work of their community and only recently have they withdrawn from the most pressing duties social activities call for.
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 School of Engineering and Applied Science - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bryan Hall was dedicated to the memory of two internationally known engineering alumni, Charles W. Bryan, Jr., former president of Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company and University board member, and his father, Charles Bryan, chief engineer of the American Bridge Company.
The principal private donor behind Bryan Hall was renowned dietitian Mary DeGarmo Bryan, wife of Charles W. Bryan, Jr.
Bryan, who died in 1986, helped promote and develop the nation’s school lunch program and was chairwoman of a committee that revised the U.S. Navy’s cookbook.
www.seas.wustl.edu /history/bryan.asp   (120 words)

  
 1924 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the early balloting many delegations appeared to be jockeying for position, and some of the original votes were purely complimentary and seemed to conceal the real sentiments of the delegates.
Louisiana, for example, which was bound by the "unit rule", first complimented its neighbour Arkansas by casting its 20 votes for Sen. Joseph T. Robinson, then it switched to Sen. Carter Glass, and on another ballot Gov. Albert C. Ritchie got the twenty, before the delegation finally settled on John W. Davis.
Jonathan M. Davis 11 votes (1.0%) Charles W. Bryan 11 votes (1.0%) 13.
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 Robert McCown on the Redpath Chautauqua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles Homer devised a method to keep an eye on the weather: "Moreover we would secure a weather committee in each city.
He stopped in the middle of one of his rounded periods, dipped both hands into a large pitcher of ice water that stood on the table before him, and came up with two handfuls of crushed ice, which he held to his throbbing bald head for a minute or two.
Bryan and LaFollette were part of this movement, along with such men as Joseph W. Folk of Missouri, Hiram Johnson of California, and Albert B. Cummins of Iowa.
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 Pioneers
She was married to Charles A Bush on 28 Jan 1872 in Jackson Co, WV.
Charles Smith was born in 1849 in Wirt Co WVA.
Charles Smith was born in Sep 1872 in Wood Co, WV.
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 United States Democratic Party article - United States Democratic Party United States political parties Senate House ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After the war, the Democrats were a shattered party, but eventually gathered enough support to elect reform candidate Grover Cleveland to two (non-consecutive) terms in the presidency.
In 1896 the Democrats chose William Jennings Bryan over Cleveland as their candidate, who then lost to William McKinley.
The Democrats did not regain the presidency until Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote and Woodrow Wilson won with a modest plurality in 1912.
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 Election of 1924
Charles G. Dawes of Illinois was the vice-presidential nominee in proceedings that were the first to be broadcast over radio.
John W. Davis of West Virginia, formerly ambassador to Great Britain and a corporate lawyer with ties to J.P. Morgan, achieved the two-thirds vote for nomination.
Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska was selected as the vice-presidential nominee; he was the brother of The Great Commoner, but had no matching record of accomplishment.
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 barnescharlesw.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles Wesley Barnes, born 1821 in Harrison County, Kentucky to Oliver and Polly Brown Barnes, was the grandson of Revolutionary dragoon John Barnes and his Culpeper County wife Milly, who had come to Harrison County in 1799.
When Charles Wesley was orphaned at the age of fourteen, he chose Robinson landowners Thompson and Catherine Eckler Conrad as his guardians.
In 1842 he married their daughter Gooly, and in 1845 they settled in Grant County on the road from Williamstown, known from 1836 to 1880, as Steammill Road.
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 Charles W. Chesnutt: Selected Bibliography
Andrews, William L. "Charles Chesnutt's 'Magical Realism.'" Fiction, Social Change and Charles W. Chesnutt's Fayetteville: A Series of Public lectures presented at Fayetteville State University on November 19 -20, 1988 as a part of a project funded by the national Endowment for the Humanities.
De Santis, Christopher C. "The Dangerous Marrow of Southern Tradition: Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Paternalist Ethos at the Turn of the Century." Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 38.2 (2000): 79-97.
Petrie, Paul R. "Charles W. Chesnutt, the Conjure Woman, and the Racial Limits of Literary Meditation." Studies in American Fiction 27.2 (1999): 183-204.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Bryan
Son of Kenneth Cole Bryan and Mary (Hayes) Bryan; married to Shada I. Pfleuger.
Bryan, Henry — of Racine, Racine County, Wis.
Bryan, Joseph Hunter (1782-1839) — of North Carolina.
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 Cherry County, NE History - Communities
Charles Shaul sold his holdings and entered the service of the railroad where he remained until he reached the retirement age.
Charles Faulhaber established the first registered herd of Hereford cattle in Cherry County; also built the first modern ranch home in the Brownlee Community, in 1912.
W. Walker was Superintendent of the Sunday School and leader in the prayer meeting services.
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 Charles W. Bryan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Wayland Bryan (February 10, 1867 - March 4, 1945), was the younger brother of perennial U.S. Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.
Bryan was also notable as the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1924, where he was picked largely because of his name to serve as running mate to conservative easterner John W. Davis.
This page was last modified 17:35, 9 October 2005.
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 July 1937
CHARLES C. Charles C. Beach, 57, former Wacoan, died at his home in Houston, Friday morning.
CHARLES C. The body of Charles C. Beach, 57, former Wacoan, who died at his home in Houston, Friday morning, will arrive in Waco at 2:05 p.
CHARLES W. Charles W. Grayson, 79, died suddenly at his home, Waco Route 3, near China Spring, where he had been living for the last 43 years, Wednesday at 2:30 a.m.
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 Democratic Party (United States) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the nation's focus changed to issues of national security and increasing isolation of the United States as the sole remaining and increasingly proactive superpower.
By 2004, the failure of George W. Bush's administration to find weapons of mass destruction, mounting combat casualties in Iraq, and the lack of any end point for the War on Terror were also issues in the American national elections.
John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, won his Party's nomination by upsetting anti-war candidate, former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean, in the Iowa caucus and winning the majority of state primary races that followed.
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 700 FAMOUS NEBRASKANS - Public Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Agriculturist, military officer, politician, known as Nebraska's greatest booster as member of Nebraska Board of Agriculture for four decades, served in territorial legislature and one term as Nebraska governor, wrote first common-school law for the state, was one of initiators of Arbor Day, and the major organizer of the Nebraska State Historical Society.
Diplomat, author, U.S. Congresswoman, was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives from a southern state, first woman member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, her appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark in 1933 made her the first woman to serve as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service.
Consult Thomas W. Tipton, Forty Years of Nebraska at Home and in Congress, Vol 9 (Nebraska State Historical Society, 1902) 61-73, 305-313 and Dictionary of American Biography, Vol 16 (1935) 380-381 and Who Was Who in America, Rev Ed,Vol H (1967) 535-536.
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 The Virtual Wall® - Charles Bryan, CPL, Marine Corps, Mc Kinney TX, 20Jan68 34E083
Bill Bryan and I graduated from McKinney High School in May of 1966, and two weeks later were in San Diego, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Platoon 1042, on the buddy plan.
I am proud to say that Bill Bryan was my friend, I have thought about him every day since, and will think about him every day until the day I die.
The engagements on 20-24 Jan 1968 were reminiscent of the famous "Hill Battles" that took place around Khe Sanh in the spring of 1967 and were a preliminary to the extended fighting which characterized the seige of Khe Sanh.
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 My Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Caswell-Pridgen Graveyard is located on highway 58 between SR 1217 and 1215 in Greene Co., NC She was married to Samuel R. Pridgen.
She was married to Charles Edward Land in Aug 1956.
Children were: Charles Jennings Bryan, Wiley Barnes Bryan.
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 MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1938: Nebraska
In the recent election ex-Governor Charles W. Bryan, running on an independent platform for homestead tax exemption and old-age pensions, was a poor third to Roy L. Cochran, Democrat, the first Nebraska governor to be re-elected for a third consecutive term.
Johnson; Secretary of State, Harry R. Swanson; Auditor of Public Accounts, Ray C. Johnson; Treasurer, T. Bass; Attorney General, Walter R. Johnson; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Charles W. Taylor.
The state judiciary is headed by Chief Justice Charles A. Goss.
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 Democrats Nominate Davis and C. W. Bryan; Former, Acclaimed, Calls Party to Battle; Smith Promises to Work Hard for the ...
overnor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, brother of William J. Bryan, was nominated for Vice President on the first ballot, with a vote of 739, after a sweeping number of changes were recorded from the original votes of the States.
The nomination of Governor Bryan for second place was the direct result of a conference held by leaders with John W. Davis, the Presidential nominee, at the Manhattan Club, between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning when the convention was in recess, pending some decision on a candidate.
Davis was asked regarding the Bryan choice and he declared that the selection in his opinion was an excellent one.
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 Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles W. Bryan gives this account of Flanders Callaway: "The definite identification of his parents with the Bedford County Callaway community permits an accurate study of his early influences.
I hereby appoint and direct that William T. Lamme and Morgan Bryan of the state aforesaid and County of Montgomery shall have Guardianship and tuition of my Children during minority and I earnestly intreat their utmost care in and about the morals and education of my said Children.
Zarina Lamme married WILLIS BRYAN, a son of DAVID BRYAN, who was the first settler within the present limits of Warren Co. Hulda married JOHN BRYAN, called "Long Jack", on account of his extraordinary height, who was also a son of DAVID BRYAN.
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 .: Biography of Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909) - American Vice Presidents :. .: All American Patriots ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles Fairbanks was born on May 11, 1852, in a modest log house in Ohio.
Charles excelled at his studies, graduating eighth out of forty-four in the class of 1874.
Charles Fairbanks assumed the principal Republican campaign duties for the ticket in 1904, as tradition dictated that incumbent presidents remain at work in the White House.
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