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  Frank Hague
Frank Hague was born on January 17,1876, to Irish immigrants Margaret and John from County Cavan, the second of eight children.
Hague then advanced Norton's candidacy to represent his congressional district in the House of Representatives to which she successfully was elected for thirteen consecutive terms (1923-1949).
Hague died in his Park Avenue apartment New York City on January 1, 1956, at age 79, and is buried in an impressive mausoleum at the north-central part of Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City.
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 The Political Machine of Frank Hague of Jersey City, New Jersey
Frank Hague was expelled from school in the sixth grade as a troublemaker and never returned.
Hague achieved a reputation as an economizer by cutting the number of employees in the Street and Water Department from 218 to 116.
Hague ran a slate of five, including himself, called the the "Unbossed." All but one of the five commissioners were under the control of Hague.
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 Frank Hague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Hague (1896 - 1956) was the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from 1917 to 1947.
Hague rose through the Democratic machinery of Hudson County, which drew much of its strength by providing newly arrived immigrants with the rudimentary social services denied by the state's Protestant elite.
Hague's pride and joy was the Jersey City Medical Center, which he began creating almost as soon as he became mayor.
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 HAGUE, FRANK. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As mayor of Jersey City (1917–47), Hague built one of the strongest urban political machines in the nation.
Accused of corruption and large-scale intimidation of municipal employees, Hague was a controversial figure.
He lost much of his power in the 1949 elections, when his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, was defeated in the mayoralty race; and in 1952 the state Democratic organization ousted him from his post as national committeeman.
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 Frank Hague - Encyclopedia.com
Hague, Frank, 1876-1956, American politician, mayor of Jersey City, N.J., b.
As mayor of Jersey City (1917-47), Hague built one of the strongest urban political machines in the nation.
Franks is not a war criminal; The Hague sets dangerous precedent for U.S. military.(OPED)
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 The Pragmatic Populism of a Non-Partisan Politician
Hague's power far exceeded that which was legally vested in him as mayor of Jersey City--an office he held from 1917 to 1947.
In Edison's eyes, the shadow state government which Frank Hague manipulated from Jersey City would--given the increasing centralization of power under FDR--ultimately cause New Jersey to be stripped of any semblance of sovereignty and self-rule.
Thus, as the rift between Edison and Hague became more pronounced, increasing numbers of individual Republicans began to view constitutional reform as a means of escaping their party's unsavory alliance with Frank Hague.
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 Jersey City Online - The Political Machine of Frank Hague of Jersey City, New Jersey  Frank Hague came from a ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hague was not extradited to Boston so he never had to stand trial but the "Red Dugan affair" of 1904 was brought up time and time again.
Hague began a program of actually cleaning the streets and enforcing the city's anti-littering ordinance.
Hague continued to be mayor of Jersey City for thirty years.
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 Untitled Document
Franciscus Petrus Cornelius Maria (Frank) Van Morkhoven was born Nat 28, 1922 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, and died suddenly of aortic aneurysm on March 21, 1993, in Houston, Texas.
Frank had a wonderful memory, and was able to recall virtually everything he had learned during his early education throughout his life.
Frank was in Owerri, Nigeria with Shell from Jan. 1954 to April, 1956, and again returned to The Hague paleontological laboratory where he worked from April, 1956 to Dec., 1959.
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 Hague v. CIO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It involved Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Frank "Boss" Hague who had used a city ordinance to prevent labor meetings in public places and stop the distribution of literature pertaining to the CIOs cause.
District and circuit courts ruled in favor of the CIO which brought the suit against the mayor for these actions.
Hague appealed to the Supreme Court which ruled against him and held that Hague's ban on political meetings violated the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hague_v._CIO   (127 words)

  
 Frank Hague Summary
After Hague left office, his nephew and a former deputy mayor were named defendants in a $15 million suit brought by the city administration on behalf of city employees who allegedly had been required to kick back 3 percent of their annual salaries to the Hague machine during the 1917-1949 period.
Frank Hague (1896–1956) was the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from 1917 to 1947.
Boss Hague is most famously quoted for having said, "I am the law," in reference to his suppression of a 1937 labor strike.
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 Frank Hague Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The American political leader Frank Hague (1876-1956), mayor of Jersey City, N.J., for three decades, was one of the major city bosses in the 20th century.
Frank Hague was born on Jan. 17, 1876, in Jersey City, N.J. At 16, after little schooling, he went to work.
In 1896 he was picked by one of the Democratic district leaders to run for constable, given $80, and told to "use your head." Young Hague was elected and began his lengthy career in municipal politics.
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 APP: WHO'S THE BOSS?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hague served as Jersey City mayor from 1917 to 1947.
Hague was known for using strong-arm tactics to get his way.
Hague, who had a home in Deal, died in 1956 at the age of 79.
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Franklin Benjamin HAGUE [Parents] was born 30 Mar 1888 in Of Wayne Twp, Noble Co., OH.
Otto Russell HAGUE [Parents] was born 12 Mar 1895 in Of Wayne Twp, Noble Co., OH.
Grace Mabel HAGUE was born 28 Jul 1896 and died 20 Dec 1965.
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 JerseyCityHistory.com - Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague
Frank Hague was Mayor of Jersey City from May 15, 1917 until his retirement on June 17, 1947.
It's generally conceded that Hague's influence was a factor in the election of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Frank Hague's second in command, John V. Kenny, opposed Egger's intallation by organizing a broad-based coalition.
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 School of Fine & Performing Arts - News & Events
Hague, whose work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., among other major venues, sometimes spent half a year using chainsaws and chisels to free the figures he saw within a single 600-pound tree trunk.
Hague's early works have been noted for their sinuous, gestural, human-like form, though they became more abstract as the artist aged.
Though their media differ, Hague and Ruellan are both members of the modernist school of art that emerged from the Art Students League in New York City during the 1920s.
www.newpaltz.edu /artsnews/release.cfm?id=188   (800 words)

  
 GET NJ - Memoirs of Hudson County - Hudson County Corruption in the Kenny Era
Frank Hague was elected mayor of Jersey City in 1917, and for more than 30 years the city and surrounding Hudson County were his personal fiefdom.
Hague, whose salary never exceeded $7500 a year, was worth an estimated eight million dollars when he died in 1956.
Hague's downfall started in the spring of 1949 when one of his ward leaders, John V. Kenny, challenged his choice for the mayoralty.
www.getnj.com /hud70/memoir/memoir.shtml   (625 words)

  
 Anne Frank - Arts & Culture
Frank asked his secretary Miep Gies to assist the family by bringing food and supplies and to maintain Frank's business with his other collogues.
The Franks, van Pels, and Pfeiffer lived on the third and fourth floors of what Anne called the "Secret Annex," and they occasionally visited the third floor and the front-house attic.
Instead, I submit based on my encounter with Anne Frank's story, that it was about her unique ability to capture so many deeply insightful perspectives and emotions, at a level well beyond her unfortunately few years of life.
www.yucommentator.com /media/paper652/news/2004/03/18/ArtsCulture/Anne-Frank-638524.shtml   (895 words)

  
 Jersey City History - The Early Career Of Mayor Frank Hague - Chapter 6 - Hague’s Rise to the Mayoralty
Hague instinctively realized that many of Wittpenn’s associates would be seeking new leadership, a new star to follow.
Patrick Griffin, Mayor of Hoboken, was the first to jump on Hague’s bandwagon, just as he had been one of the first to climb aboard Wilson’s five years earlier.
Hague went out of his way to ask both Moore and Brensinger to campaign with him in the fall election of 1916.
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 Why I Was Glad to Be Born an Irish-American in Jersey City
I was seven years old the first time I met Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City.
Frank Hague took over Jersey City in 1917 and suddenly no one was humiliating Catholics anymore.
Hague took Jersey City and then the whole state of New Jersey away from the WASPs.
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 if one of these bottles should happen to fall- jersey songs by tris mccall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Frank Hague: The most powerful machine boss in New Jersey history, Hague ruled the state Democratic party from his seat as Jersey City mayor -- a position he held for thirty years.
Hague was urban, autocratic, intolerant, unpretentious, ambitious, and willing to devote his muscle to constructing something grand out of base materials, and, as such,
Frank Marciano: A candidate for mayor of Hoboken in '92; Marciano earned his shout-out through of the clarity of his vision for the local stretch of the waterfront: he saw parks, public gathering-places, performing centers, and light rail where others could only imagine condominium complexes.
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 City of Jersey City Gold Bond - 1926 Signed by Mayor Frank Hague
Certificate Vignette Frank Hague was born, January 17, 1876 and died, January 1, 1956.
A product of grinding poverty who was expelled from school by age thirteen, Hague built a political juggernaut whose influence reached beyond the governor's mansion to the White House.
In 1932 Hague delivered so many votes for FDR that the President funneled millions from the Works Progress Administration to help build Roosevelt Stadium and Jersey City Medical Center.
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 UBERHIPPY - Short Stories - Frank Hague's Christmas Quarter by Anthony Olszewski
Frank Hague's eyes took on a steely glint.
What to others would only have been a sea of faces, to Frank Hague each and every one was an individual - a son of two voters, perhaps the grandson of four voters, a voter himself in a couple of years.
But, Mayor Hague let the child know that he wasn't smart enough to fool Frank Hague.
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 Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
Hague was elected Mayor of JerseyÊCity in 1917, a position he would hold for 30 years.
In 1924, Hague supported Mary Norton, the first Democratic women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (she served 13 consecutive terms).
Hague died in his Park Avenue apartment in New York City leaving behind a legacy of political intrigue and corruption almost unparalleled in American political history.
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 Frank Hague - TheBestLinks.com - Biography, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New Jersey, United States Democratic Party, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Hague grew up in a slum, but as mayor he enjoyed palatial homes, European vacations, and a private suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
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 Sun Herald - 04/02/02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Frank Patterson Hague, 55, also known as Jennifer Patterson, was arrested Saturday on 63 counts of passing forged documents, 63 counts of grand theft and one count of scheming to defraud, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Hague was being held in Lee County Jail early Monday on a $1 million bond pending an April 26 court appearance.
Under the contract, Hague was to draw money from an escrow account to pay for construction costs, periodically submitting invoices to Brown.
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 Irish Abroad - Irish American News
The former mayor of Jersey City, Frank Hague, had given the medal to Fleming’s father, Teddy, in recognition of his duty during World War I. The medal had been lost by Thomas himself while retracing his father’s steps in France.
It was buried in the mud for 30 years and its sudden appearance caused a media sensation in France and the U.S. The experience caused Thomas Fleming to reflect on his father and the circumstances that brought the medal into existence.
Frank Hague, as it turns out, was a legend in New Jersey, a man who built up the Irish American machine to such an extent that he was almost guaranteed over 90% support in over 20 New Jersey’s city wards.
www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/entertainment/afamilysmysteries.asp   (497 words)

  
 City of Jersey City Gold Bond - 1926 Signed by Mayor Frank Hague
Frank Hague was born, January 17, 1876 and died, January 1, 1956.
A product of grinding poverty who was expelled from school by age thirteen, Hague built a political juggernaut whose influence reached beyond the governor's mansion to the White House.
In 1932 Hague delivered so many votes for FDR that the President funneled millions from the Works Progress Administration to help build Roosevelt Stadium and Jersey City Medical Center.
www.scripophily.net /citofjercitg.html   (1209 words)

  
 Frank Hague's Pawns | TIME
Eleven Negroes, ten women and a man, have languished for five months in the county jail without any charge against them, unable to see a lawyer, unable to see their families or friends—all because Frank Hague is out to get a political opponent.
Ever since stocky James J. Donovan was elected mayor of the oil-refinery town of Bayonne on a "Home Rule—Not Hague Rule" platform, he has had trouble with Hague's stooges in the county.
But to all others in the county the warning was clear: don't be even an innocent bystander when Frank Hague is out for vengeance.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,884609,00.html   (496 words)

  
 Netherlands - Anne Frank Huis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday, three weeks before she went into hiding, and the attic in which she wrote that diary is the focus of this moving, often upsetting place.
By July 1942 the Germans were tightening the noose around the neck of Amsterdam's Jewish population and Anne (13) and her sister Margot (16), along with their parents, went into hiding in the family's business premise.
The Frank family, along with the Van Daan family and a Mr van Dussel, survived there, hidden in the attic, until betrayed to the Germans in August 1944 - a date tantalisingly close to the capitulation and defeat of the Third Reich.
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