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 WEAVER, JAMES B. - LoveToKnow Article on WEAVER, JAMES B.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
WEAVER, JAMES' BAIRD (1833-), American lawyer and political leader, was born at Dayton, Ohio, on the I2th of June 1833.
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Eventually the weaver was called upon to furnish articles possessing lustre, softness and delicacy; or those that combine strength and durability with diverse colorings, with a snowy whiteness, or with elaborate ornamentation.
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 James Weaver -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Weaver studied (The collection of rules imposed by authority) law in Bloomfield then later at the (Click link for more info and facts about Cincinnati Law School) Cincinnati Law School.
Weaver became increasingly disechanted with the Republican Party and the presidential administration of (18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)) Ulysses S. Grant, viewing it as under the control of big business at the expense of farmers and small businessment.
Weaver had believed that he had struck a deal with Bryan that (Click link for more info and facts about Tom Watson) Tom Watson, who had helped found the Populist Party with Weaver, would be Bryan's running mate.
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 US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(b) Prolonged exposure to pornography fosters increased estimates of the incidence of pre- and extramarital sexual activity, as well as increased assessments of male and female promiscuity.
(b) Psychoticism exacerbates the influence of pornography on men’s rape proclivity.
Weaver, J. Pornography and sexual callousness: The perceptual and behavioral consequences of exposure to pornography.
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 James B. Weaver
James B. Weaver was born in Dayton Ohio on June 12, 1833, and graduate from the Cincinnati Law School in 1856, beginning to practice at Bloomfield, Iowa.
After the Civil War, Weaver as a Republican was a district attorney and a federal assessor of internal revenue in Iowa for some years.
Transferring his allegiance to the Greenback Party, he was later elected to Congress on its ticket in 1878 and again in 1884 and 1886.
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 The effect of media violence
Weaver III, head of the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech, and Dolf Zillmann of the University of Alabama.
Weaver and Zillmann found that no matter what type film the students saw, they reacted in a hostile manner toward the experimenter if they were provoked,.
The two tests, Weaver says, were not looking for the mass murderers of the world, but were trying to determine the effects of films with gratuitous violence on the general population.
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 Weaver, James B --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irwin, James B. astronaut and air force test pilot James B. Irwin was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 17, 1930.
Eads, James B. The best-known achievement of James B. Eads was the construction of the steel triple-arch bridge in St. Louis, Mo. The Eads Bridge was the largest bridge of any type built up to that time, and it was considered a landmark in engineering.
Formed by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger in 1948, The Weavers achieved success on college campuses, in concert, and on records until disbanding in 1963.
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 UIowa Libraries - Papers of James Baird Weaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Baird Weaver was born in Dayton, Ohio, on June 12, 1833.
This collection is comprised mostly of correspondence between James Baird Weaver and Clara Vinson Weaver, and most of the letters are from the Civil War period.
There are a few letters from others in the Weaver family and a copy of a speech Weaver delivered in the House of Representatives.
www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc100/MsC48/MsC48_weaverjamesbaird.html   (625 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - James Baird Weaver (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
James Baird Weaver 1833–1912, American political leader, b.
He helped form the Farmers' Alliance : an agrarian reform movement : and when that organization became the Populist party, Weaver ran (1892) as its presidential candidate.
Weaver became one of the important leaders of the free-silver movement, backed William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential campaign, and after the decline of Populism retired from national politics.
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 Weaver, James & Elizabeth (Fielder)  Family
James Weaver aided in building the first schoolhouse in the Town of Lisbon; his home was the first meeting place of the English Episcopal Church prior to the construction of Saint Alban's, now in the Village of Sussex, Lisbon Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
James was the first to introduce hop-growing to the Town of Lisbon and to the entire State of Wisconsin.
WEAVER (Source: "Sister-in-law becomes wife", by Fred H. Keller, Sussex Sun, 11/27/2001, It is possible that there was a possible baby, but it died quickly unnamed, and it is only a footnote in genealogy.), b.
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 Gratuitous Media Violence Can Increase Violent Responses To Provocation, Acceptance Of Violence, Studies Show
The two studies were conducted by James B. Weaver III, head of the Department of Communications Studies at Virginia Tech, and Dolf Zillmann of the University of Alabama.
Weaver and Zillmann found that, when treated either neutrally or abusively by a research assistant and then put in a position to harm this assistant, both provocation and exposure to violent films markedly increased the expression of hostile behavior toward the research assistant.
The study showed that prolonged exposure to gratuitously violent films is capable of escalating hostile behavior in both men and women and of instigating such behavior in unprovoked research participants.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-04/VT-GMVC-260499.php   (323 words)

  
 American President
Since President Rutherford B. Hayes had declared that he was only going to serve one term (1877-1881), the 1880 election was wide open.
Weaver, running on a soft-money platform, won over 300,000 popular votes but no electoral college delegates.
Acting on the advice of James G. Blaine, whom he had appointed secretary of state, Garfield moved to destroy Conkling's power once and for all by appointing William H. Robertson for the collectorship of the Port of New York.
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 The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers . . .
Lieutenant James Weaver was shot and killed with his own service weapon during a struggle with a juvenile prisoner on Tollgate Road, in Petersburg, at 1330 hours.
The officer was returning the juvenile from a court appearance in Amelia County to the Crater Juvenile Detention Center when the suspect jumped from the back seat of the patrol car to the front seat.
Lieutenant Weaver was flown to VCU Medical Center where he succumbed to his wounds several hours later.
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 Weaver House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sitting on the upstairs porch sipping a cup of coffee, it's easy to close your eyes and imagine the sound of a horse-drawn carriage pulling up, filled with men in top hats and women with parasols.
Since 1988, Shaffer has turned her talents to the historic Bloomfield home, built in 1867 by Gen. James B. Weaver, a Bloomfield lawyer, Civil War general and two-time Presidential candidate.
The bath represents a major change to the interior, as the upper half of the foyer was closed off to create it.
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 Wofford College Newsroom - Southern Seen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Polk was an unknown Jackson Democrat from Tennessee, for whom the Democrat Convention went in a surprise move instead of picking Martin Van Buren.
In 1880, James A. Garfield was elected over Winfield Scott Hancock by only 1,878 votes, and James B. Weaver’s Greenback-Labor party took some 306, 000 votes from the two.
James B. Weaver (People’s Party) took away a million votes in 1892 from Cleveland and/or Benjamin Harrison.
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 ipedia.com: James Weaver Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Baird Weaver was a populist United States politician.
James Baird Weaver (June 12, 1833 - February 6, 1912) was a populist United States politician.
He threw his support behind William Jennings Bryan in 1896, which helped Bryan win the Democratic Party nomination, but did not win him the general election.
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The Populist movement was composed mostly of A. farmers B. factory workers C. immigrants D. fls 18.
This man was the first Populist candidate for president; he ran in 1892 A. Benjamin Harrison B. Grover Cleveland C. James B. Weaver D. William McKinley 19.
The main platform plank/policy of the Populist was A. Free Silver B. raising tariffs C. lowering income taxes D. deregulating the railroads 20.
www.harwich.edu /depts/history/Ah/t21a23.doc   (1008 words)

  
 James B. Weaver
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Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos.
WEAVER, James B., candidate for the presidency, born in Dayton, Ohio, 12 June, 1833.
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 Encyclopedia: James B. Weaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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In 1892 he was the presidential nominee of the Populist Party and chose a strategy of forming alliances with African-Americans in the South.
In one of the better showings by a third-party candidate in U.S. history, Weaver received over a million popular votes, and won four states (Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, and Nevada) and 22 electoral votes.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-B.-Weaver   (770 words)

  
 Reader's Companion to American History - -PEOPLE'S PARTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In Omaha on July 4, 1892, the Populists nominated James B. Weaver, a former Union general, for president and James Field, an ex-Confederate from Virginia, for vice president.
The Omaha Platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adapted from the earlier alliance program, called for government ownership of communication and transportation, the free coinage of silver, a progressive income tax, paper currency, the direct election of senators, the eight-hour day, and a new "Subtreasury" scheme for creating agricultural credit.
Weaver received a million votes, carrying five western states, but the Populists made little headway among nonfarm workers.
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 Election of 1892
Despite support for rivals James G. Blaine and William McKinley, Harrison managed to secure renomination on the first ballot.
The primary plank in the democratic platform called for the enactment of a tariff for revenue only—an obvious reaction to the McKinley Tariff.
Weaver and the Populists became the first third party since 1860 to register electoral votes.
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 November 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1892 - U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
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 The Civil War's Last Campaign
James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party, and the Politics of Race and Section
In the presidential election of 1880, Gen. James Baird Weaver made his case for the meaning of their victory in Civil War.
The Civil War's Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party, and the Politics of Race and Section is published by the University Press of America and distributed by
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 Search Results for weaver - Encyclopædia Britannica
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Weaver, Robert C. noted economist who was the first African American to serve in the U.S. cabinet.
American politician who leaned toward agrarian radicalism; he twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. presidency, as the Greenback-Labor candidate (1880) and as the Populist candidate (1892).
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 1892 FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 WEAVER, James Baird (1833-1912) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Life and Public Services of James Baird Weaver, embracing a full account of his early life; his ambition as a student; his early political career and rapid advancement; his...
“Disgruntled ‘Chronic Office Seeker’ or Man of Political Integrity: James Baird Weaver and the Republican Party in Iowa, 1857-1877.” Annals of Iowa 49 (Winter/Spring 1988): 187-207.
“Political Fusion in Iowa: The Election of James B. Weaver to Congress in 1878.” Arizona and the West 20 (Spring 1978): 25-40.
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 Election of 1880
The Half-Breeds were followers of James G. Blaine of Maine and were supporters of mild civil service reform.
On the 36th ballot the Republicans united, more or less, behind the candidacy of James A. Garfield of Ohio, who had ties to the Half-Breeds.
Chester A. Arthur, a Stalwart and close ally of Conkling, was chosen for vice president to balance the ticket.
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 James B. Weaver Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James B. Weaver Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
Weaver became increasingly disenchanted with the Republican Party and the presidential administration of Ulysses S. Grant, viewing it as under the control of big business at the expense of farmers and small businessment.
Instead Bryan chose Arthur Sewall, a conservative opponent of trade unions from Maine.
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 (James MOSS - Clint MURPHY )
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 Symphony in B-Flak: France-Normandy-2 (25-Jun-44 to 2-Aug-44)
The rest of the men, called the Residue, left with their equipment on June 30 for a place two miles north of Falmouth via Exeter.
For the first time the kitchen was preparing class B rations daily, a welcome relief from all the C's and K's we had been receiving.
The original text of Symphony in B Flak, published by B Battery in 1945, is in the public domain.
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