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	James Wilkinson - LoveToKnow 1911
		Wilkinson then resigned (March 1778) his newly-acquired commission, but later re-entered the service in the quartermaster, He died in London on the 19th of general's department, and was clothier-general from July 1779 to March 1781.
		Wilkinson's ventures were not as lucrative as he hoped for, and in October 1791 he was given a lieut.-colonel's commission in the regular army, possibly, as a contemporary suggested, to keep him out of mischief.
		In 1803 Wilkinson was one of the commissioners to receive Louisiana from France, and in 1805 became governor of that portion of the Purchase above the 33rd parallel, with headquarters at St Louis.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /James_Wilkinson (880 words)

	James Wilkinson
		Wilkinson's indiscreet criticism of General Washington's authority forced his reassignment to administrative duty as clothier general, in which post he served until 1781.
		As military governor of the southwest territory, Wilkinson participated in the 1803 transfer of the Louisiana Purchase from France to the United States.
		Wilkinson died in Mexico on 28 December 1825.
	www.cr.nps.gov /museum/exhibits/revwar/image_gal/indeimg/wilkinson.html (377 words)

	James Harvie Wilkinson III - dKosopedia
		James Harvie Wilkinson III (born in New York, New York, September 29, 1944) is a federal judge serving on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
		Wilkinson was raised in Richmond, Virginia, and graduated with honors from Yale University in 1967.
		Wilkinson argued that the president's war powers allowed him to hold Hamdi without trial as an enemy combatant captured abroad and that he was not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/James_Harvie_Wilkinson_III (954 words)

	Merchants of Louisiana: James Wilkinson
		Wilkinson was to rally the westerners and the army that was loyal to him to establish the new country under his command and Spain's support.
		Wilkinson is forthcoming to Clark at this time he (Clark) resided in New Orleans, was subject to Spanish laws and had no obligation to the government of the United States or expectations of becoming a citizen of the United States.
		Wilkinson is chosen as co-commissioner with William C. Claiborne at the transfer of Louisiana to the United States.
	www.enlou.com /people/wilkinsonj-bio.htm (3019 words)

	James Wilkinson
		WILKINSON, James, soldier, born in Benedict, Maryland, in 1757; died near the city of Mexico, 28 December, 1825.
		Wilkinson was at this time deep in the Conway cabal, which proposed to elevate Gates to the chief command of the army, and the discovery of the conspiracy was due to his telling the secret in a convivial hour to Lord Stir= ling.
		Wilkinson performed good service against the northwestern Indians, and was promoted to a brigadier-generalship on 5 March, 1792, and to the supreme command of the army on the death of Wayne in 1796.
	www.famousamericans.net /jameswilkinson (1233 words)

	AllRefer.com - James Wilkinson (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Congress censured Wilkinson for delay in carrying the dispatch but rewarded him by promoting him to brigadier general (1777) and making him secretary to the board of war (1778), a position he was forced to leave because of his implication in the Conway Cabal.
		Wilkinson apparently took an oath of allegiance to Spain and received a Spanish pension of $2,000 (and later $4,000) a year.
		In 1791, Wilkinson reentered the army as a lieutenant colonel, and in 1792 he again attained the rank of brigadier general, serving under Anthony Wayne.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WilknsnJa.html (505 words)

	James John Garth Wilkinson - LoveToKnow 1911
		JAMES JOHN GARTH WILKINSON (1812-1899), Swedenborgian writer, the son of James John Wilkinson (died 1845), a writer on mercantile law and judge of the County Palatine of Durham, was born in London on the 3rd of June 1812.
		Wilkinson's preliminary discourses to these translations and his criticisms of Coleridge's comments upon Swedenborg displayed a striking aptitude not only for mystical.
		The vigour of his thought won admiration from Henry James (father of the novelist) and from Emerson, through whom he became known to Carlyle and Froude; and his speculation further attracted Tennyson, the Oliphants and Edward Maitland.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /James_John_Garth_Wilkinson (326 words)

	James Wilkinson
		The American soldier and adventurer James Wilkinson was born in Calvert county, Maryland, in 1757.
		Wilkinson then resigned (March 1778) his newly-acquired commission, but later re-entered the service in the quartermaster-general's department, and was clothier-general from July 1779 to March 1781.
		Wilkinson's ventures were not as lucrative as he hoped for, and in October 1791 he was given a Lt. Col.'s commission in the regular army, possibly, as a contemporary suggested, to keep him out of mischief.
	www.nndb.com /people/540/000050390 (818 words)

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		James Wilkinson was born in 1757 in Maryland to a merchant-planter.
		Wilkinson was very bright and rose quickly to the rank of lieutenant colonel under Major General Horatio Gates.
		Wilkinson became involved with the "Conway Cabal." This was a conspiracy which involved a letter sent from a group, which included General Thomas Conway, that wished to install General Gates as Commander-in-Chief of the army in place of General Washington.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/burr/Jwilk.htm (660 words)

	Spaniards, Scoundrels, and Statesmen: General James Wilkinson and the Spanish Conspiracy, 1787-1790
		Wilkinson became a prominent figure in Kentucky society; many remarked that he was an amiable man with a "pleasing voice and charming manners." (4) Despite his popularity in some circles, Wilkinson came to be involved in a bitter rivalry with a young Kentucky lawyer and politician, Humphrey Marshall.
		The arrival of James Wilkinson was indeed a remarkable event in the history of the young district of Kentucky.
		Wilkinson's heightened personal popularity as a result of the trip to New Orleans and the opposition of his court faction allies to the Constitution of 1787 was likely to have convinced him that any proposal he might make would be well received.
	history.hanover.edu /hhr/98/hhr98_1.html (6637 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| On short list for high court? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Wilkinson said that while the ad was repugnant, "nothing is more thoroughly democratic than to have the high and mighty lampooned and spoofed." The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the emotional distress award.
		But in the end, Wilkinson's decisions take most seriously what the statute says and what it was meant by legislators to say, previous court decisions on the same issue, and the need for consistency in the law.
		Wilkinson's writings include four books, the latest dealing with his concern that affirmative action in a time of great growth of minority populations is creating ethnic separation rather than bringing America's peoples together as citizens of "One Nation Indivisible" - the title of Wilkinson's book.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779267385 (1905 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		James Wilkinson, whose many self-seeking adventures included service as the senior officer in the United States Army but only indirect involvement with Texas, was born in 1757 in Calvert County, Maryland.
		In 1783 Wilkinson moved to Kentucky and established commercial connections in New Orleans, and in 1787 he swore allegiance to the Spanish governor there in return for payment, although he never helped Spain vitally.
		Wilkinson himself hoped to be awarded an empresario grant to settle a colony in Texas.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/fwi87.html (544 words)

	James Wilkinson speaker - International Speakers Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In 2002 Wilkinson traveled to the Kingdom of Morocco to conduct a series of seminars for a broad spectrum of Moroccan political parties as part of the fledgling democratic effort sanctioned by King Mohammed VI.
		Wilkinson began his undergraduate work at Weatherford College in Weatherford, Texas where he was recruited as a collegiate tennis player.
		Wilkinson was born in Nacogdoches, Texas and graduated in 1988 from Tenaha High School in Tenaha, Texas.
	www.internationalspeakers.com /speakers/ISBB-63YNVY/James_Wilkinson (833 words)

	Jim Wilkinson
		Wilkinson coordinated the command's strategic communications activities throughout its 25-nation area of responsibility, including those related to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.
		Wilkinson served as spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during the 2000 presidential transition.
		Wilkinson received his B.B.A. in finance from the University of Texas at Arlington and his M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University.
	www.whitehouse.gov /government/wilkinson-bio.html (198 words)

	Ohio River Valley forts: Cantonment Wilkinsonville, James Wilkinson
		General James Wilkinson was head of the US Military for the entire Louisiana District.
		Wilkinson accepted the Louisiana Purchase for the US from France in 1803.
		Wilkinson eventually turned against his old friend, Burr, leading to Burr's impeachment and Federal trial on treason charges in 1807.
	www.southernmostillinoishistory.net /wilkinsonville.htm (713 words)

	Capt. James W. Wilkinson
		James W. Wilkinson was born in Newark, Ohio 0\on November 9, 1916.
		Wilkinson's White Flight was bounced by four(4) FW-190s in the vicinity of Orleans, France.
		Wilkinson continued to pursue another gaggle of enemy southwards but was unable to close because his aircraft had been seriously damaged when the horizontal stabilizer was struck when he jettisoned his belly tank.
	www.78thfightergroup.com /history/jwilkinson.html (2762 words)

	James Wilkinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilkinson asked for and received a pension of $7,000 from Miro and also requested pensions on behalf of several prominent Kentuckians, including: Harry Innes, Benjamin Sebastian, John Brown, Caleb Wallace, Benjamin Logan, Isaac Shelby, George Muter, George Nicholas, and even Humphrey Marshall (who at one time was a bitter rival of Wilkinson's).
		Wilkinson's Spanish involvement, although suspected, was not proven until 1854, with the publication by Louisiana historian Charles Gayarré of his correspondence with Rodríguez Miró, the Spanish governor of Louisiana.
		Wilkinson appears as a major character in the novel To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis and Clark, by Frances Hunter (2006 - ISBN 0-9777636-2-5), in which he draws explorer Meriwether Lewis into a conspiracy to separate the western territories from the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Wilkinson (1506 words)

	Wilkinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		James R. Wilkinson, M.D. Dr. Wilkinson is a 1964 graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
		Wilkinson began his residency in 1979 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama.
		Dr. Wilkinson is Board Certified by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and serves on the Board of Directors of Kentucky Medical Insurance.
	www.healthsearchonline.com /pages/ortho/wilkinson.htm (175 words)

	Jim Wilkinson - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Wilkinson is bringing the lessons about access and message that the Bush administration learned in Gulf War II--where he helped to manage the program of embedding reporters in combat units--to the home front.
		Wilkinson was put in the position of feeding, informing and calming the most motivated media army in the world in Qatar.
		Wilkinson was made deputy director of communications for planning in the Bush White House, and was among the aides who set up the Sept. 14, 2001, visit to Ground Zero that redefined George W. Bush's Presidency.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=James_R._Wilkinson (1480 words)

	The War of 1812
		He was involved in a plot to remove George Washington, and had to resign as clothier general to the army due to financial irregularities.
		After Henry Dearborn's resignation at the head of the 9th Military District, Wilkinson was appointed to replace him and arrived at Sacket's Harbour on August 20, 1813.
		Wilkinson was ill and clearly reluctant to move along the St. Lawrence which was the objective of Secretary of War Armstrong.
	www.galafilm.com /1812/e/people/wilkinson.html (366 words)

	Dr. J. H. Wilkinson Biography
		James Hardy Wilkinson, FRS, who made an outstanding contribution to computing through his work on numerical analysis, died on October 5.
		In this research, Wilkinson departed from existing approaches and devised a new type of analysis based on a different philosophy.
		Wilkinson, despite the many honours bestowed upon him, never lost contact with those around him, nor adopted an ostentatious life-style.
	www-fp.mcs.anl.gov /wilkinson/fellowship/wilkinson_wilkinson.html (385 words)

	Key Figures in the Aaron Burr Trial
		General James Wilkinson, commander of the Army of the United States, played a major role in the Burr Conspiracy, first as a co-conspirator and later as Burr's chief nemesis and the prosecution's chief hope for conviction.
		Wilkinson knew the West as well as any man and sensed that many westerners were ready to move against the Spanish.
		Wilkinson was dismayed, writing to a friend: "I had anticipated that a deluge of testimony would have poured forth from all quarters to overwhelm him [Burr] with guilt and dishonor.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/burr/burrkeyfigures.html (2268 words)

	Part 2, Notes from Proofs of the Corruption of General James Wilkinson - by Daniel Clark
		James Wilkinsonís accountable receipt for our part of the cargo per the Speedwellís proceeds and for a debt due by Craig and Johnston for 318l.
		Wilkinson and family, and in January 1799 set out in company with them for Natchez, having provided a boat for my own accommodation and Mr.
		JOHN MERCIER, jun. Of the city of New-Orleans, being duly sworn, maketh oath, that he was one of the clerks in the office of the governor in the time of the Spanish dominion during a period of nine years, from the year 1792 to the year 1801.
	www.enlou.com /documents/Clark/proofsnotes2.htm (3760 words)

	Aaron Burr, James Wilkinson and the Southwest Conspiracy
		David K. Clapsaddle, P.H.D. In the summer of 1806, Gen. James Wilkinson dispatched Lt. Zebulon Pike to conduct an exploratory expedition of the Southwest.
		Wilkinson, governor of the Territory of Louisiana and commanding officer of the United States Army, was at the same time on the payroll of the Spanish government.
		Following are chronologies of Burr’s and Wilkinson’s lives which hopefully will shed light on their characters and ill uminate their roles in the above mentioned conspiracy.
	www.stjohnks.net /santafetrail/pike/aaron-burr-james-wilkinson.html (717 words)

	James Stafford and Lucretia Reins
		Children were: William James Wilkinson, Sarah Wilkinson, John Wilkinson, William Owen Wilkinson.
		Children were: Mary E Wilkinson, Sarah Lucy Wilkinson, Olivia Wilkinson, William J Wilkinson.
		Children were: Catherine Wilkinson, Henry Wilkinson, Jessie Green Wilkinson, Lelia J Wilkinson, Corbett Wilkinson, Charles James Wilkinson.
	www.johnstafford.org /jamesluc/d121.htm (969 words)

	The American Experience \| The Duel \| People & Events \| James Wilkinson
		Entrusted with the control of the newly acquired territory of Louisiana, this Revolutionary War hero was a double agent on the Spanish payroll and a co-conspirator with the traitor Aaron Burr.
		Wilkinson served honorably in the Revolution under General Horatio Gates.
		In 1787 Wilkinson turned traitor and began a long-lasting relationship as a secret agent of Spain.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande13.html (240 words)

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