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	James G. Birney Papers
		James G. Birney, whose public career encompassed the entire antislavery movement in America, was born to a wealthy Kentucky family.
		Birney's influence continued to grow in the antislavery movement with his lecturing, correspondence, and pamphleteering.
		Birney saw the need for a new political party whose sole purpose was to promote the abolition of slavery, and with his leadershi,p the Liberty Party was founded in 1840.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/B/Birney.html (321 words)

	James G. Birney
		The American reformer, James G. Birney, leader of the conservative abolitionists in the United States from about 1835 to 1845, was born in Danville, Kentucky, of a family of wealth and influence, on the 4th of February 1792.
		Birney's father was among those who advocated a "free state" constitution for Kentucky, and the home environment of the boy had thus fostered a questioning attitude towards slavery, though later he was himself a slave-holder.
		Birney soon relinquished its active control to Gamaliel Bailey in order to serve the Anti-Slavery Society as secretary and as a lecturer.
	www.nndb.com /people/258/000050108 (615 words)

	Bio. - James Birney - Bay City, Bay County, MI / Bay-Journal.com
		JAMES BIRNEY is a native of Danville, Kentucky, and the eldest son of the late James G. Birney.
		Birney was elected a member of the State Senate for the Saginaw district; was chairman of the committee on public instruction, and a member of the judiciary committee of that body.
		Birney is now residing at Bay City, and is devoting himself to the care of his estate and the editorial duties of the daily and weekly Chronicle.
	bay-journal.com /bay/1he/people/fp-birney-james-son.html (1306 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: James G. Birney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James Gillespie Birney (February 4, 1792–November 25, 1857) was an American presidential candidate for the Liberty Party in the 1840 and 1844 elections.
		James G. Birney was born in Danville, Kentucky.
		Birney, gained a world-wide fame by freeing all the slaves inherited from his father, and was a presidential candidate twice, in 1840-44, as an anti-slavery man. Mr.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-G.-Birney (1242 words)

	MEMOIRS OF DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE BAY COUNTY BAR
		James Birney was born at Danville, Kentucky, in 1817.
		James Birney was educated at Center College, Ky., and at Miami University, Ohio, from which latter institution he was graduated in 1836.
		Birney was a man of great public spirit and filled the many public offices, to which he was either elected or appointed, with ability and fidelity.
	www.mifamilyhistory.org /bay/baybar.htm (3522 words)

	James Birney - Ohio History Central - A product of the Ohio Historical Society
		James Birney was an abolitionist opponent of slavery in the years before the American Civil War.
		Birney was born on February 4, 1792, in Danville, Kentucky.
		Birney was rarely at home, as he lectured across the South, calling for the gradual end to slavery and the colonization of the former slaves in Africa.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=37 (685 words)

	HON
		Birney and his family secured it as a private dwelling, and it continued to be their home during the year’s residence in Saginaw, before their removal to Lower Saginaw.
		Birney was married on February 1, 1816, to Agatha McDowell, who was a daughter of United States Judge William McDowell and a niece of Governor Madison of Kentucky and of Bishop Madison of Virginia.
		Birney did not escape detraction from high places, but, in the light thrown by the progress of events in these subsequent years, when the people of the North and the South have learned to dispassionately study history, the name of James G. Birney has gained added and enduring luster.
	www.mifamilyhistory.org /bay/ganserbio4.htm (7095 words)

	James G. Birney
		James G. Birney, born in Danville Kentucky on February 4, 1792, he studied law and removed early to Alabama, where he prospered in his profession and held his office as district attorney.
		However, in 1834, he espoused the cause of immediate emancipation in his public letter, Letter on Colonization, which was followed by American Churches, the Bulwarks of American Slavery, Speeches in England, and Examination of the Decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Case of Stroder et al.
		Birney made arrangements to establish a newspaper to disseminate these views at Danville, where he resided, and where he held a professorship in the university.
	www.course-notes.org /biographies/jamesgillespiebirney.htm (343 words)

	Getting the Message Out! James Gillespie Birney
		by R.D. Monroe, Ph.D. James G. Birney (1792-1857) was born in Kentucky to a family that owned a plantation and slave work force.
		He was educated at Transylvania College and the College of New Jersey, graduating from the latter.
		Sketches of the Life and Writings of James Gillespie Birney.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/candidates-birney.html (120 words)

	Birney, James Gillespie
		Birney was trained in law and practiced in Danville.
		Birney's career was ended by an injury that invalided him in 1845.
		James Gillespie Birney: Slaveholder to Abolitionist (1955, reissued 1969).
	cyberspacei.com /jesusi/peace/abolitionism/Birney.htm (377 words)

	David Bell Birney (1825-1864)
		Birney was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the son of an abolitionist from Kentucky, James G. Birney.
		Birney's new position was from the Devil's Den, to the Wheatfield, to the Peach Orchard, part of a salient directly in the path of the Confederate assault, and it was too long a front for a single division to defend.
		As Birney watched the few survivors of his division gather about him on Cemetery Ridge, he whispered to one of his officers, "I wish I were already dead." Sickles was grievously wounded by a cannonball and Birney assumed temporary command of the corps, despite having received two small wounds himself.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/birney.html (787 words)

	Family Pictorial of James Gillespie Birney - Bay City, Bay County, MI / Bay-Journal
		His father, also James G., came to America in 1783 at the age of sixteen, he lived for a brief time in Pennsylvania before settling in Danville, Kentucky where he met and married Martha Reed.
		Young James developed a deep faith, exceptional mind and sound convictions during his up bringing and these prepared him well for the challenges of his times.
		In 1963, Sidney Glazier, professor of history at Wayne State University, concluded that James G. Birney was among twenty two of the most outstanding citizens in the history of Michigan.
	www.bay-journal.com /bay/1he/people/fp-birney-pictorial.html (538 words)

	WILLIAM BIRNEY, USA
		His father, James G. Birney, was an ardent abolitionist, moved the family north.
		Birney's regiments became the 2d Division of the XXV Corps, and participated in the last assaults on the Petersburg line.
		Birney was brevetted a major general on March 13, 1865, and left military service in August of that year.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USABirney.html (347 words)

	James Gillespie Birney — Infoplease.com
		In 1837 he became executive secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and he was a vice president of the World's Anti-Slavery Convention at London in 1840.
		In contrast to William Lloyd Garrison, Birney constantly advocated political action.
		by D. Dumond, 1938); biographies by W. Birney (1969) and B. Fladeland (1955, repr.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0807665.html (198 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Birney,
		It was formed by those abolitionists, under the leadership of James G. Birney and Gerrit Smith, who repudiated William Lloyd Garrison's nonpolitical stand.
		Birney, their presidential candidate in 1840, received a little more...
		While in college he became a disciple of the evangelist Charles G. Finney and was influenced by Charles Stuart, a retired British army officer who urged Weld to enlist in...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Birney, (742 words)

	Princeton University Senior Theses brief display
		James, Douglas Craig (1962): The American in Europe as a Theme in the Novels of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway.
		James, Thomas Lipscomb (1975): Alexander Hamilton and James Madison: The Proclamation of the Neutrality and the Pacifiers.
		James, Jr., William A. Henry James' Revisions: A Study of the Portrait of a Lady and His Later Period.
	libweb5.princeton.edu /theses/thesesvw.asp?Lname=&Fname=&Submit=Search&Title1=james&department=&Class=&Adviser= (4523 words)

	James K. Polk
		James Knox Polk followed a career path which was blazed by Andrew Jackson.
		James Knox Polk was born on his family farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1795.
		James Polk began his journey to greatness in the land "where the weak grow strong, and the strong grow great", North Carolina.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/bio/public/polk.htm (1244 words)

	James Birney Anti-Slavery Collection
		James G. Birney was born into a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family in 1782, but a religious conversion sparked his desire "to devote his life to the cause of truth in some moral or religious enterprise." Gradually convinced of the sinfulness of slavery, he left a successful law practice to become an agent for abolition.
		As an abolitionist writer and publisher, James Birney recognized that books, pamphlets and newspapers were the lifeblood of anti-slavery agitation.
		It contained materials gathered by James Birney in the course of his anti-slavery labors, and items gathered by William Birney while preparing a biography of his father.
	www.library.jhu.edu /collections/specialcollections/manuscripts/birney.html (265 words)

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		Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American Anti-Slavery Society.","","02900","0001.gif","1","1","","0001.tif" "Correspondence, between the Hon.
		Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American Anti-Slavery Society.","","02900","0002z.gif","2","2","","0002z.tif" "Correspondence, between the Hon.
		Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American Anti-Slavery Society.","","02900","0003.gif","3","3","","0003.tif" "Correspondence, between the Hon.
	memory.loc.gov /rbc/rbaapc/02900/rbaapc02900.data (1764 words)

	James K. Polk
		James K. Polk became the first “dark horse,” or little-known candidate, to win the Presidency when he unexpectedly defeated Henry Clay in the election of 1844.
		James G. Birney (1792-1857) of the Liberty Party, an antislavery party, received 62,300 votes.
		The vote for Birney's party in New York cost Clay the electors of that state and gave the victory to Polk.
	www.gallatindesign.com /websites/presidents/biographies/11_polk_bio.html (1921 words)

	James K. Polk
		In 1806, when James was 11 years old, the Polk family moved to the Duck river valley in central Tennessee, where Ezekiel Polk, James's grandfather, had a farm.
		James was not a healthy youth, and severe abdominal pains prevented him from leading an active life.
		Sarah Polk was as vivacious and sociable as Polk was quiet and solitary.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/James_Polk (3393 words)

	Birney, James Gillespie. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1837 he became executive secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and he was a vice president of the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention at London in 1840.
		In contrast to William Lloyd Garrison, Birney constantly advocated political action.
		He became the acknowledged leader of like-minded abolitionists who, forming the Liberty party, nominated him for the presidency in 1840 and 1844.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bi/Birney-J.html (194 words)

	ABOLITIONIST JAMES BIRNEY
		Birney, a former slave owner-turned-publisher in Danville, Ky., moved to New Richmond after threats from pro-slavery people in his hometown.
		Birney on U.S. At his death in 1851, he was considered a leading abolitionist, although overshadowed by Mr.
		Birney helped arrange the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London and assisted runaway slaves who were captured and tried in Cincinnati.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/11/29/loc_fromtime29.html (783 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		After failing to secure satisfactory commitments from candidates of the major parties, the delegates established the new party with the intent to commit the national government to oppose any action that would strengthen the institution of slavery.
		In 1840 the Liberty party nominated James G. Birney for president but failed to put together an effective campaign, and Birney received only 7,053 votes.
		In that year Birney was again nominated, and in the election of 1844 he received 62,197 votes.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0245880-00&templatename=/article/article.html (313 words)

	Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (B) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Father of James Birney(1817-88), and William (1819-1907) and David Bell (1825-64), both of whom became Civil War generals.
		Father-in-law of James Mease, and grandfather of the Pierce Butler who married Fanny Kemble.
		Born as Butler Mease, son of James Mease, and also grandson of the elder Pierce Butler.
	www.jmisc.net /BIOG-B.htm (6035 words)

	A.P.E. - James Polk 's Domestic Policy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James K. Polk was the first dark horse candidate in the history of the United States.
		Martin Van Buren was expected to win the Democratic nomination, but at the convention Polk was elected on the 9th ballot.
		Clay switched his position on Texas at the last moment, and this cost him New York, as the only anti-Texas candidate, James G. Birney earned enough votes to give the majority to Polk, who received the 36 electoral votes and won the election.
	library.thinkquest.org /11492/cgi-bin/pres.cgi/polk_james?domestic (263 words)

	Centre College Board of Trustees Minutes (1835)
		On motion, it is ordered that James G. Birney, James Barbour, and Phineas G. Rice, be appointed a committee to report generally upon the best measures to be taken to promote the interests of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
		Birney, Chairman of the Committee appointed on the 25th instant to report on the general interests of the Asylum, presented the following report, viz.
		Joseph McDowell appointed Trustee by Synod at its late meeting in room of James G. Birney, resigned, appeared, and having taken the oath of office before the Board, took his seat as a member.
	www.centre.edu /web/library/sc/minutes/bt2_1835_text.html (1555 words)

	Descendants of James G. Birney - Bay City, Bay County, MI / Bay-Journal.com
		His family is mostly from the Kentucky area, though he first settled in PA. James Jr.
		The information provided here should not be interpretted as validated facts, rather it is a "best efforts" rendition of the heritage of this Birney family.
		Descendants of James Gillespie Birney II James G. (b.
	www.bay-journal.com /bay/1he/people/fp-birney-descendants.html (638 words)

	AAP Biography
		- Andrew, James O. Anthony, Susan B. Not for Ourselves Alone, PBS
		Fee, John G. Autobiography of John G. Fee, University of North Carolina Ferris, Benjamin
		Phelps, Amos A. Phelps, Anson G. Phillips, Stephen C. Phillips, Wendell
	americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu /biography.htm (174 words)

	Welcome To The 2006 Birney Park Classic Car Show Website
		Birney Park is located on N. Madison Ave.
		Birney Park was originally called the Madison Avenue Park, then later, renamed Birney Park after pioneer James G. Birney.
		Shown is the beautiful water fountain that once was the center piece of the park where the corner sidewalks into the park crossed each other.
	www.birneyparkclassiccarshow.com (248 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Birdell to Bishoff
		Birney, Arthur A. — of District of Columbia.
		Birney, James Gillespie (1792-1857) — also known as James G. Birney — of Huntsville,
		Son of James Gillespie Birney and Mary Reed Birney; married 1816 to Agatha McDowell; uncle of
	www.politicalgraveyard.com /bio/birdsall-biship.html (963 words)

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