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	Walter F. George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George was born on a farm near Preston, Georgia.
		George won, and was elected to his first full term of six years in 1926.
		George was a member of twelve committees while he was in the Senate, and chairman of five, including the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1940 to 1941 and from 1955 to 1957, and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance fom 1941 to 1947 and from 1949 to 1953.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_F._George (458 words)

	FCLR: History of Commissioner and Magistrate Offices -- © 1999 FMJA
		George Webb Morell served as commissioner for the circuit court of the Southern District of New York from 1854 to 1861.
		George F. Edmunds, also of Burlington, became a commissioner in 1882, while still a member of the United States Senate, and served until 1895, four years after he resigned from the Senate.
		Edmunds was a strong contender for the Republican nomination for president in 1880 and 1884 and, while senator, helped pass the Electoral Count Bill which resolved the disputed Hayes-Tilden election of 1876, drafted the basic sections of the Sherman Act, and declined several opportunities for appointment to the Supreme Court.
	www.fclr.org /articles/1999fedctslrev4(noframes).htm (6284 words)

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		EDMUNDS was returned, against his protest, to the state senate from Chittenden County, and was chairman of the judiciary committee.
		EDMUNDS reported the proposed measure, which provided for the appointment of an electoral commission, and which defined the duties of its members.
		Senator EDMUNDS was appointed a member of the electoral commission on the part of the Senate, and contributed efficiently to the lawful solution of the problem in which so many dangers lurked.
	www.rockvillemama.com /chittenden/edmundsgeorgefranklin.txt (992 words)

	MORMONS - LoveToKnow Article on MORMONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1855-1856 actual violence seems to have been offered to Judges George B. Stiles and W. Drummond; and about the same time Federal Indian agents in Utah complained that Mormon missionaries to the Indians were rousing them to hostilities against the United States.
		Under the Edmunds Act and the Edmunds-Tucker Act of March 1887 about 1200 persons were convicted of polygamy or unlawful cohabitation in Utah, Idaho and Arizona.
		There is much valuable material in the Reports of the Utah Commission appointed under the Edmunds Act, in Testimony before the Senate Committee in the Smoot case (1 9031905), and in the Report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections (Senate Report 4253, 59th Congress, 1st Session), also in the Smoot case.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MORMONS.htm (5474 words)

	WAMO
		On March 8th, 1854, a block of marble sent by Pope Pius IX as a tribute to George Washington and America that was to be part of the giant structure, was stolen.
		In the process, the image of George Washington is mythically anointed as a primordial hero, vital to the nation's identity.
		That premise was consecrated at the outset by the inauguration of the George Washington National Monument, the primal model of the presidency.
	www.netage.org /WAMO.htm (8343 words)

	The Supreme Court Historical Society
		The chairman was George F Edmunds of Vermont who had been in the Senate since the close of the war.
		Edmunds was an unwavering Republican, and the lines had been clearly drawn between him and Lamar on numerous issues in the Senate.
		Ames and the Republicans had accused Lamar, George and their followers of "intimidation, fraud and murder."[77] In return, the Republicans were accused of corruption and of having used military force to put themselves into office.
	www.supremecourthistory.org /04_library/subs_volumes/04_c18_j.html (9343 words)

	George S. Boutwell Collection at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
		The George S. Boutwell Collection consists primarily of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts appearing in various collections held by the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center.
		George S. Boutwell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1818.
		EDMUNDS, George F. To RBH dtd Washington, Mch.
	www.rbhayes.org /mssfind/ga_coll/GeorgeSBoutwell.htm (1217 words)

	George Franklin Edmunds
		EDMUNDS, George Franklin, statesman, born in Richmond, Vermont, 1 February 1828.
		Edmunds was active in the impeachment of Andrew Johnson; sided with President Grant against Charles Sumner, and acted an influential part in the passage of the reconstruction measures, adopting a conservative course.
		As a legislator, Senator Edmunds is noted for his legal acumen, his readiness in repartee, and his love of strictly parliamentary procedure.
	famousamericans.net /georgefranklinedmunds (663 words)

	George F. Edmunds (1828-1919)
		Author of the infamous Edmunds Act by which thousands of Mormon polygamists were imprisoned and the entire church leadership driven underground.
		Member of the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed presidential election of 1876, a decision that was overturned by the Supreme Court.
		Edmunds Act of 1882, the only legislation to bear his name.
	www.jfs.saintswithouthalos.com /Bios/a-g/edmunds,%20george.htm (229 words)

	George F. Edmunds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George F. Edmunds was born on February 1, 1828 in Richmond, Vermont.
		The George F. Edmunds Memorial Prize was created by George Edmunds' Daughter Mary M. Edmunds.
		The George F. Edmunds Memorial Prize is awarded at Vermont's History Day Contest.
	www.vermonthistory.org /educate/Edmunds/gEdmunds.HTM (228 words)

	Textbooks by George F Edmunds - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George F Edmunds - University of Utah - B0007EB2II
		George F. Edmunds, of Vermont on the admission of Nebraska: Delivered in the United States Senate, December 19 and 20, 1866
		George F. Edmunds, of Vermont: On the joint resolution pledging the faith of the United States to the payment of the public debt in coin...
	www.directtextbook.com /author/george-f-edmunds/2 (359 words)

	PMaWotD_e: George F. Edmunds
		Among those who are universally conceded to be among the most prominent statesmen, is Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont.
		Edmunds is a Vermonter by birth, having been born at Richmond.
		His honors are universally felt to be due to his superior talents, exemplary diligence and exalted character.
	tomlayton.blogs.com /pmawotd_e/george_f_edmunds/index.html (295 words)

	The Nation, 02/19/1885 - Senator Edmunds and The Electoral Count
		The article focuses on the declaration made by U.S. Senator George F. Edmunds that, as President of the U.S. Senate, he had no "authority in law to declare any legal conclusion whatever" concerning the electoral count over which he presided earlier.
		...One is the Edmunds bill, which lias passed the Senate twice, and is an admirable measure, and the other is the Eaton bill, drawn by Congressman Eaton, of Connecticut...
		...Edmunds held in the bitter controversy of 1877, and he doubtless took genuine pleasure on Wednesday week in having his decision officially entered upon the record as a precedent...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v040i1025_04.htm (1049 words)

	Textbooks by George F Edmunds - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George F Edmunds - University of Utah - B0007DSW9G
		George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, January 20 and 24, 1877
		George F. Edmunds in the Supreme Court of the United States, February 10, 1871: In the case of Samuel Miller's executors, plaintiffs in...
	www.directtextbook.com /author/george-f-edmunds (326 words)

	Vermont in the Civil War - St. Albans Raid
		George P. Conger, who had recently returned from the war, was ordered to the park by Young, but he ran into the American House, out the back door to Lake Street, and gave the alarm.
		At the preliminary examination of the raiders, Andrew Tracy of Woodstock, Lucius B. Peck of Montpelier and George F. Edmunds of Burlington, three of Vermont's ablest lawyers, together with Bernard Develin of Montreal, appeared for the United States.
		It was reported at the time than when George F. Edmunds was asked if he would return to Montreal to ask for extradition in the even that any of the raiders were recaptured, he replied that if he did it would be at the head of a regiment.
	vermontcivilwar.org /staraid/crockett.php (4912 words)

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		George Washington Carver was one of the noblest souls that ever came to earth.
		In 1882 the Edmunds Act was passed which made polygamy a crime, punishable with a 5 year prison sentence, lose of voting rights, the right to serve on a jury or hold elective office.
		It was introduced by Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont and made polygamy in the territories a federal offense punishible by a fine of not more than $500, and imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/gdm/archive/v02.n006 (6691 words)

	Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography - Chapter III
		The better element made Senator George F. Edmunds their candidate, and Roosevelt urged his nomination on all comers.
		Some of his colleagues in the better element who had struggled as he had to defeat Blaine, and then, almost effusively, exalted Blaine as their standard-bearer, were less fortunate than he in having their sincerity doubted.
		George William Curtis, Carl Schurz, Charles Francis Adams, and other Independents of their intransigent temper formed a Mugwump Party and this turned the scale in electing Grover Cleveland President.
	www.worldwideschool.com /library/books/hst/biography/TheodoreRooseveltAnIntimateBiography/chap3.html (2088 words)

	Agency history for the Utah Commission. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Utah Commission, formally known as the Board of Registration and Election in the Territory of Utah, was established by the United States Congress through enactment of the federal Edmunds Act on 22 March 1882.
		Although Senator George F. Edmunds (R-Vermont), author of the Edmunds Act, envisioned that the commission would last only one year it endured for fourteen years.
		The Edmunds Act vacated all elective offices in Utah and prevented polygamists from registering to vote, voting, or holding office.
	www.archives.state.ut.us /referenc/xml/agencies/1249.html (1107 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 14, ELECTORS AND THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM: Library of Economics and ...
		This was introduced in the house, Dec. 22, 1823, by George McDuffie, of South Carolina, as chairman of a select committee on the subject.
		It combined the direct choice by the people, and the second popular election in case of a tie, of the Benton amendment, with a provision that, in case of the death of the successful candidate at the second popular election, the vice-president "then in office" should be president.
		The difficulty lies, not in the electoral system, but in the determination of congressmen of both houses, and of all parties, to meddle with a duty which the constitution distinctly intended to free from their control.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy405.html (5476 words)

	Encyclopedia: Teddy Roosevelt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He also helped secure passage of a bill reforming the way aldermen were elected and in 1883 served as minority leader but failed in a bid for speaker.
		As the New York delegate at the 1884 Republican National Convention he supported Vermont Senator George F. Edmunds for an unsuccessful nomination bid.
		Alice was the daughter of the prominent banker George Cabot Lee and Caroline Haskell Lee.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Teddy-Roosevelt (3788 words)

	Penn History--William Pepper Memorial Statue
		All the surroundings told of the greatness of the man, of his foresight and masterful grasp of affairs, of his power for work and of his independence of thought, in contrast with his gentle simplicity, fortitude, and cheerful self-sacrifice.
		The Honorable George F. Edmunds, a warm personal friend of the late Dr. Pepper, as well as one of his most esteemed co-workers, at the request of the Committee had consented to be its official representative.
		They practically form one whole, and properly belong to this record The address delivered by Dr. Horace Howard Furness or the occasion of the presentation of the bust in 1894, although published at the time, forms part of the history of the movement, and is also reprinted and added to the present report.
	www.library.upenn.edu /vanpelt/pennhistory/pepper/pepper.memorial.html (2329 words)

	Excerpt: Culture Clash and Accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the end of the third year it was apparent that meeting the deficit was becoming a perennial difficulty At this time an editorial appeared in the Mormon publication the Juvenile Instructor which actually sealed the fate of this parochial school in one of Salt Lake City's most prestigious and wealthiest Mormon wards.
		In addition to fears that orthodox religion might be undermined by secular schools, leaders such as Brigham Young and George Q. Cannon had reservations about tax money being used to support public schools, which went contrary to their ideological assumption that individual families, not the public treasury, should be the basis for funding schools.
		However, as a back-up in his efforts to have free schools established in Utah, Allen had made arrangements (should his bills not be acted on) for Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont to introduce the same Utah bill as federal legislation.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/culture.htm (9258 words)

	BurlingtonFreePress.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sixty-five years ago Republican Gov. George Aiken flirted briefly with the presidency.
		Edmunds, a reform Republican, finished third on the initial ballot at the 1884 GOP convention, but quickly faded on subsequent ballots.
		Vermont claims Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur, but when it came to national politics it was their political careers in vote-rich Massachusetts and New York that counted, not their Vermont birth.
	www.burlingtonfreepress.com /specialnews/dean/19.htm (865 words)

	News of Chester Arthur's Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Carr, his son Alan, Surrogate Rollins, and Dr. William A. Valentine, assistant to Dr. George A. Peters, Gen. Arthur's regular physician, were at the bedside.
		George Langden Ingraham, Nathaniel Gibbs Ingraham, Allan Campbell, Edwards Pierrepont, Mr.
		George A. Peters, speaking yesterday of some of the features and incidents of Gen. Arthur's illness, said he had never known a more heroic patient.
	starship.python.net /crew/manus/Presidents/caa/caaobit.html (5602 words)

	Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882
		During the Arthur administration, Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont took up the cause in Washington.
		The Edmunds Act of 1882 made "unlawful cohabitation" illegal, thus removing the need to prove that actual marriages had occurred.
		Memorabilia related to Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882 is at auction on eBay.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h734.html (281 words)

	Names of Nova Scotia men lost at sea 1900 - 1908 whose names are on the Gloucester MA Fishermen's Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Campbell, age 50, married, Nova Scotia; dory strayed Niagara at Quero Bank, on Apr 6, 1900.
		George A. Horton, age 50, married, Queensport; Alva at Georges, on Jan 26, 1902; one child.
		George Hawkins, age 25, single, Beaver Harbour; Alva at Georges, on Jan 26, 1902.
	www.lostatsea.ca /nsglou2.htm (3576 words)

	ROOSEVELT, THEODORE (1858— ) - Online Information article about ROOSEVELT, THEODORE (1858— )
		vote than Henry George, the candidate of the United Labor party.
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		Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/ROOSEVELT_THEODORE_1858_.html (4915 words)

	§35. Imperialism and Expansion. XXI. Political Writing Since 1850. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. ...
		Prominent among its critics were those who had been identified with the abolition of slavery, notably George S. Boutwell, George F. Hoar, George F. Edmunds, Samuel Bowles, John Sherman, Charles Francis Adams, and Carl Schurz.
		Illustrative of the sentiments of these men is the following passage from the Autobiography of George F. Hoar upon the conquest of the Philippines:
		Co-operating with this group were Samuel Gompers, the labour leader, Edward Atkinson, statistician, Professor Sumner, David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford University, and Andrew Carnegie.
	www.bartleby.com /227/1435.html (1017 words)

	George F Edmunds Middle School Burlington, Vermont (Public Schools)
		George F Edmunds Middle School Burlington, Vermont (Public Schools)
		George F Edmunds Middle School is located in Burlington on the shores of Lake Champlain.
		Over 350 students attend Edmunds Middle School and are greeted each day by teams of teachers, administrators and other faculty devoted to inspiring students to become lifelong learners.
	www.ohwy.com /vt/l/l0256061.htm (108 words)

	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873 : a machine readable transcription.
		That the petition and papers of George N. Thomas, on the files of the Senate, be referred to the Committee on Pensions.
		That the petition and papers of George W. Hall and others, owners of the bark A 1, on the files of the Senate, be referred to the Committee on Claims.
		That the petition and papers of George W. Kirk, on the files of the Senate, be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ll/llsj/066/llsj066.sgm (14151 words)

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