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Topic: James W Wadsworth, Jr


  
  Wadsworth - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism
James Wadsworth, Jr., was, at heart, a gentleman farmer.
Wadsworth was not your average farmer, but a member of the secret, fraternal club Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, whose lodges were called granges.
Wadsworth’s failed campaign for re-election in 1926, was probably due to his strident opposition to women’s suffrage.
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 Wadsworth
Peleg WADSWORTH - WADSWORTH, Peleg (1748—1829) WADSWORTH, Peleg, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in...
Jeremiah WADSWORTH - WADSWORTH, Jeremiah (1743—1804) WADSWORTH, Jeremiah, a Delegate and a Representative from...
James WADSWORTH - WADSWORTH, James (1730—1817) WADSWORTH, James, a Delegate from Connecticut; born in Durham,...
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 Thirsting After Righteousness
Wadsworth, in fact, had voted against the Eighteenth Amendment when it had come before the Congress, and he had since publicly endorsed the AAPA." Not until his defeat for reelection to the Senate in 1926, however, did Wadsworth take an active role in the antiprohibition organization.
Wadsworth came from a family prominent for generations in the life of the Genesee Valley, southwest of Rochester, and in the affairs of the nation.
Wadsworth's father, James, Sr., had managed the family's vast land holdings and had spent twenty years in Congress, serving as chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture for a decade after 1896.
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 The American Enterprise: Social Security's Cassandra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Wadsworth, by contrast, saw from a distance of 60 years not only the current Social Security mess but also, in a vision more phantasmagoric than the wildest foretellings of a crazed seer, the bulges of the beast that would become the American Association of Retired Persons (aarp).
Wadsworth had the pedigree to play the fop, but he did not.
The first James Wadsworth of Geneseo, who became obscenely land-rich through the dubious Treaty of the Big Tree in 1797, was dubbed by the Senecas "killer of trees." A later James Wadsworth, a Union general, fell at the Battle of the Wilderness.
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 James Wadsworth Family Papers (Library of Congress)
Copyright in the unpublished writings of the James Wadsworth Family in this collection and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library has been dedicated to the public.
A description of the James Wadsworth Family Papers appears in the Library of Congress _Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions_, vol.
Included in the collection is correspondence of John Hay, whose daughter Alice married James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., and whose letters, chiefly in the years 1882-1903, comment on life in London and Washington, D.C., in the late nineteenth century.
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 Bio, Convolvo, John W. Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
REMARKS: SYNOPSIS: Capt. John W. Consolvo was on a combat mission out of Da Nang, South Vietnam when his aircraft was hit by ground fire as he pulled off target.
Although Consolvo's mission was in South Vietnam near the DMZ, the ground fire that struck his aircraft came from Laos.
Consolvo radioed that the aircraft was incapacitated and ordered his radar intercept officer, CWO James J. Castonguay, to eject.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Wadham to Wagman
Wadsworth, George II (1893-1958) — of New York.
Father of James Wolcott Wadsworth; grandfather of James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.
Son of James S. Wadsworth; father of James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.
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 The Louis Wiley Collection
Wadsworth wrote briefly but courteously, refusing to come to the Society of the Genesee dinner because his business as a senator kept him in Washington.
Wadsworth, written with the desperate politeness of a man who knows he is explaining something to someone who isn't listening.
Wadsworth's unwillingness in 1915 apparently did not perturb Louis Wiley; for we find the following letter, dated in February, 1921, from John F. O'Ryan, major general of the New York National Guard: "Mrs.
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 Top20AmericanLiterature.com - American Literature Guide.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the post-war period, The Federalist essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay represent an important and historical discussion of government organization and republican values.
Fisher Ames, James Otis, and Patrick Henry are also valued for their political writings and orations.
In the 1950s the West Coast spawned a literary movement, the poetry and fiction of the "Beat Generation," a name that referred simultaneously to the rhythm of jazz music, to a sense that post-war society was worn out, and to an interest in new forms of experience through drugs, alcohol, and Eastern mysticism.
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 Brown James   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cached - UM-D James Ward BrownPh.D., University of Michigan.
Cached - Descendants of Chad BrownChildren of James Brown and Elizabeth Carr are:.
Children of James Brown and Ann Clarke are:.
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 Ida Clyde Clarke. American Women and the World War. Chapter XXXVI.
W hitelaw Reid, since America entered the conflict, has been prominently identified with the work that is being done in America for the relief of British war sufferers.
Many other American women have been to England since the war began and have done, and are doing, valuable work in all fields.
Frederick W. Whitridge, acting president, was formed to carry on the relief work for Great Britain and her Allies.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: Writer Profile :: FREDERICK W. BYRON JR.
FREDERICK W. It is always somewhat distressing, as the opening of the baseball season rolls around, to see writers all over the country scurry to their typewriters and proudly name the New York Yankees as their carefully considered choice to win the American League pennant.
FREDERICK W. Robert Oppenheimer '26 concluded his observations on atomic theory and the relationships between atomic mechanics and classical mechanics Friday in Sanders Theatre, and then went on to the topic, "The Proper Study of Mankind." He was delivering his sixth William James Lecture on Philosophy and Psychology.
FREDERICK W. It is only with a large amount of trepidation that a part-time sportswriter approaches his typewriter after the season is over, and attempts to call up a few cliches to summarize the efforts of a team which has just completed three or four months of practice, meets, injuries and disappointments.
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 TIME.com: Letter -- Sep. 13, 1926 -- Page 1
Ordinarily, when a distinguished jurist-statesman refuses an invitation to a public banquet, it is only necessary for him to use the words "sorry" and "impracticable," finish off with a sonorous and obviously academical paragraph of good wishes, and sign his name.
The rest of the letter was an emphatic endorsement of Senator Wadsworth in Mr.
It was as if, in that letter, he and the dead Vice President had waived party differences, touched their glasses in a toast to an able legislator.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Frank Mitchell, J. Kent, George Doshier, Mitch Bell, and the brothers Judd, Jeff, and Lige Campbell were among the outstanding JA employees during its early years.
served for a year in that capacity and then was succeeded by James W.
Wadsworth held that position until 1915, when he was elected to the United States Senate from his home state of New York.
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 Meadville Tribune - James Samuel Jackson Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
James Samuel Jackson Jr., 91, of 851 Dogwood Drive, Meadville, died Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006, at Meadville Medical Center.
He was born in Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 26, 1914, a son of James S. and Alice Krueger Jackson.
He was a member of the Chippewa Rifle Club of Wadsworth, Ohio, an avid amateur photographer and enjoyed traveling.
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 Women Suffragists and Partisan Politics, New York, Abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The 1920 re-election campaign of Senator James W. Wadsworth, Jr.
Mary Garrett Hay led the campaign against Wadsworth, a notable opponent of woman suffrage.
For her effort she was drummed out of the leadership of the Republican party.
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 Deed Index, 1789-1845, Letter "W", Ontario County, New York
James Dennis Benjamin 1801 7 347 Wadsworth Jr.
James Walford James 1819 33 170 Walford Or McNaFanny Sherwin Henry 1837 62 377 Walker Jr.
Samuel Whedon Samuel 1802 7 578 Whedon Jr.
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 Kermit and Belle Roosevelt Papers (Library of Congress)
In the correspondence exchanged with his brother, Theodore Roosevelt, there are references to political and economic affairs in Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands, where Theodore served as governor from 1929 to 1932 and governor- general from 1932 to 1933.
The General Correspondence series includes letters exchanged with Vincent Astor, Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Merian C. Cooper, C. Suydam Cutting, Stanley Field, president of the Field Museum of Natural History, and Edmund Heller.
These files were maintained by the Virginia Hotel Company and concern the Roosevelts' interest and involvement in various Willard family businesses, including the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. Other relevant material includes the files of Joseph W. Wyatt, a cousin of Belle Roosevelt, who handled many of her business and legal affairs.
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Washington, D.C. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers of the family of James Wadsworth (1768-1844) and his brother, William Wadsworth (1761-1833), who settled in Geneseo, N.Y., in 1790 and endowed schools and libraries there.
The papers of the James Wadsworth Family were given to the Library of Congress by James W. Symington, Evelyn W. Symington, James J. Wadsworth, and Reverdy Wadsworth between 1960 and 1983.
The Wadsworth Family Papers were arranged and described in 1961.
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 James Wolcott WADSWORTH, Jr.
James W. Wadsworth, Jr.: The Gentleman From New York.
Fausold, Martin L. James W. Wadsworth, Jr.: The Gentleman from New York.
Porter, David L. “The Man Who Made the Draft—Representative James Wadsworth.” Aerospace Historian 22 (Spring 1975): 29-32.
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 Charles Dewey Hilles Jr., Skull & Bones 1924
New York Times, Sep. 20, 1925.) He was also an usher at the wedding of his Yale '24 classmate Allen Aloysius Ryan, the grandson of tobacco financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, who declined election to Scroll and Keys (Yale Tap Day Brings Honors To Juniors.
Hilles's father was descended from Hugh Hilles, who emigrated from England in 1743 and settled in Philadelphia; and his mother was a member of the Lee family of Virginia, whose uncle, Charles Dewey, was a cousin of Admiral Dewey.
Frederick W. Hilles presented his crony from the Yale English Department, Douglas Maitland Knight, to be installed as the youngest president in the history of Lawrence College.
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 Preliminary Guide To Environmental Sources - Historical Records Repositories in New York State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There are numerous letters from Orlando Neely of New York City to his cousin Lucinda M. Pine concerning his romance and the demands of business, 1834-1838, and many from J.F. Barnard to J.B. Moss on legal matters, 1850-1857.
The committee was headed by David D. Comey as executive director; Cornelia H. Hill was chairman, and Alfred W. Eipper headed the Scientific Advisory Committee.
and Eliza Ann Ferris, and the grandson of Horace Mack, Jr.
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 Poet: James W. Washington, Jr. - All poems of James W. Washington, Jr.
Artist James W. Washington, Jr., created public sculptures in his home city of Seattle, Wash., that were acclaimed...
Paul Karlstrom, The Spirit in the Stone: The Visionary Art of James W. Washington, Jr.
HistoryLink Essay: Seattle Landmarks: James W. Washington Jr.
www.poemhunter.com /james-w-washington-jr/poet-4579   (231 words)

  
 Alibris: Browse Books by ISBN
0650978448: James Phinney Baxter, historian, Portland, Maine, 1831-1921; a short biography written for the Maine writers' research club.
0651054444: James W. Porch and the port of New Orleans
0651054827: James W. Wadsworth, Jr.; a biographical sketch
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 The Whitney Family
Robert W. de Forest, and his wife was a niece of Walter and Oliver Gould Jennings, SandB 1880 and 1887.
Todd, who was former EPA Adminstrator Christine Todd Whitman's father, left shortly later to become a director of the Equity Corp. (Chosen as a Director of Equity Corporation.
New York Times, Mar. 12, 1947.) J.H. Whitney and Co. partner James F. Brownlee was a trustee of the Ford Foundation from 1953 to 1960.
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 The Civil War Defenses of Washington: Historic Resource Study (Part 2, Chapter 3 Endnotes)
An illustrated History: The City of Washington, By the Junior League of Washington, Edited by Thomas Froncek (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), 320; RG328, NCPC, General Records, Planing files, 1924-67, 535, Parks and Recreation, Battery Kemble Park, John Nolen, Jr., Director of Planing to Mr.
Fort Park System: A Re-evaluation Study of Fort Drive, Washington, D.C. April 1965, By Fred W. Tuemmler and Associates, College Park, Maryland (Washington, DC: National Capital Planning Commission, 1965), 1, 8.
James I. Robertson, Jr., Civil War Sites in Virginia: A Tour Guide.
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 Famous Anglicans and Episcopalians | Notable Anglicans
James Blish - acclaimed science fiction writer; author of A Case of Conscience; etc.
William James Early Bennett (1804-1886) Anglican clergyman known best as the vicar of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge and St. Barnabas, Pimlico in the mid 19th century.
Zealous to bring the Gospel to the inner city of London, Bennett persuaded the congregation of St. Paul's to establish a mission, (a chapel of ease) for the poor population in Pimlico.
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 Genealogy Books: "W" Surnames
James S. WADSWORTH of Geneseo: Brevet Major-General of United States Volunteers
The WALLs of Walltown; The Known Descendents of James WALL of Anson County, North Carolina
The Family of Samuel W. WALLACE: 1673 Descendants and a Full Name Index of 3,585 Names...
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 The Political Graveyard: Livingston County, N.Y.
James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926) — also known as James W. Wadsworth — of Geneseo,
James S. Wadsworth (1807-1864) — of New York.
Son of James Gillespie Birney and Mary Reed Birney; married 1816 to Agatha McDowell; uncle of
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 Contents | Vol. 3 No. 2| World History Connected
The Problem with Any World History Textbook: James Loewen and the World History Survey.
Del Testa, David W., Florence Lemoine, and John Strickland, eds.
McNeill, William H., Jerry H. Bentley, David Christian, David Levinson, J.R. McNeill, Heidi Roupp, and Judith P. Zinsser, eds.
worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu /3.2   (410 words)

  
 APPENDIX IV
Same committee reappointed except that John W. Harreld, R-Oklahoma replaced James W. Wadsworth, Jr., R-New York.
Appointed 9/17/1969 to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Marlow W. Cook, R-Kentucky, to accept another Committee assignment).
Elected 7/11/1978, to fill vacancy on death of James B. Allen, D-Alabama).
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