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 John A. Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Alfred Alexander Lee (31 October 1891 - 13 June 1982) was a New Zealand politician and writer.
Lee was born in Dunedin in 1891, the son of Alfred Lee and Mary Isabella Taylor.
Lee and his allies, as well as being strongly socialist, were influenced by social credit theory, and believed that the government should take immediate control of the country's financial system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_A._Lee   (1198 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: John Lee Malvo
Lee Boyd Malvo (alias John Lee Malvo) (born February 18, 1985), along with John Allen Muhammad, was arrested on October 24, 2002 in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks.
John Lee Malvo (born Lee Boyd Malvo February 18, 1985), along with John Allen Muhammad, was arrested on October 24, 2002 in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks.
Una and Lee first met John Allen Muhammad in Antigua around 1999.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Lee-Malvo   (932 words)

  
 PBS - THE WEST - John Doyle Lee
John Lee's religious fervor only grew in intensity as the young religion entered its darkest hour.
Lee's involvement in the massacre -- the extent of which is still vigorously disputed and will probably never be known -- was to haunt him for the next two decades, and would ultimately lead to his execution.
Lee's first trial ended inconclusively with a hung jury, probably because of the prosecution's misguided attempt to portray Brigham Young as the true mastermind of the massacre.
www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/i_r/lee.htm   (932 words)

  
 Utah History To Go - Emma Lee
John Doyle and Emma set up housekeeping at Harmony, one of Brigham Young's "outer cordon" communities established in 1852 at the edge of the Great Basin in southwestern Utah.
John and his 19 plural wives, especially Emma, would spend much of the next two decades in an ultimately vain attempt to keep him out of reach of the law.
Lee was frequently absent from Lonely Dell, however, sometimes fleeing from the law and sometimes visiting his other homes and wives.
historytogo.utah.gov /emmalee.html   (932 words)

  
 Lee Boyd Malvo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lee appears to have attended high school under the name Lee Malvo in Jamaica before he and his mother emigrated to
Lee was usually placed in the care of friends and relatives.
Malvo was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Una James, a seamstress, and Leslie Samuel Malvo, a mason.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lee_Boyd_Malvo   (932 words)

  
 John 'Babbacombe' Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Henry George Lee, better known as John 'Babbacombe' Lee, (1864- 1941?) survived three attempted judicial executions in England and is known as the man they couldn't hang.
Folk song collector Gwilym Davies (www.cmarge.demon.co.uk) was given a notebook in 1971 by a Mrs Hunt, of Greywell, Hampshire, in which the words of a poem, 'The Death of John Lee' were written.
Lee was born in Abbotskerswell, Devon, served in the Royal Navy and was a known thief.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_'Babbacombe'_Lee   (342 words)

  
 John Lee Hooker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917– June 21, 2001) was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Among his many awards, John Lee Hooker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1991 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Hooker recorded over 100 albums and lived the last years of his life in San Francisco, California, where he licensed a nightclub to use the name Boom Boom Room, after one of his hits.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lee_Hooker   (342 words)

  
 Robert E. Lee - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
Hooker's advance to attack Lee in May, 1863, near Chancellorsville, Virginia was defeated by Lee and Stonewall Jackson's daring plan to divide the army and attack Hooker's flank.
Lee was born at Stratford, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, son of Revolutionary War hero Henry Lee ("Lighthorse Harry") and Ann Hill Carter Lee.
Lee served as an assistant in the chief engineer's office in Washington from 1834 to 1837, but spent the summer of 1835 helping to lay out the state line between Ohio and Michigan.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /robert_e._lee.htm   (342 words)

  
 edward.htm
John Selkirk LEE was born in Logan Co., AR 1894.
Alexander LEE was born in Johnston Co., NC circa 1808.
John Calvin LEE was born in AR 26 SEP 1875.
members.tripod.com /~rodpenn/edward.htm   (10340 words)

  
 History of John D. Lee
John D. spent the next four years in the care of a black nurse, in the home of John Doyle, who died in 1819.
Lee's role proved to be as a clerk and purchasing agent, positions in which his skills proved valuable.
Lee was the only one so punished and would later maintain that he became a scapegoat to take the public pressure off the more responsible Mormon leaders.
www.onlineutah.com /historylee.shtml   (1119 words)

  
 PBS - THE WEST - John Doyle Lee
John Lee's religious fervor only grew in intensity as the young religion entered its darkest hour.
Lee accepted the new doctrine, soon taking five more wives, and he remained devotedly loyal to the church leadership, especially the new leader, Brigham Young, whom Lee assisted during the Mormon flight to the "Winter Quarters" near the confluence of the Platte and Missouri rivers.
Lee's involvement in the massacre -- the extent of which is still vigorously disputed and will probably never be known -- was to haunt him for the next two decades, and would ultimately lead to his execution.
www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/i_r/lee.htm   (1305 words)

  
 Utah History Encyclopedia
JOHN D. John Doyle Lee was born on 12 September 1812 in Kaskaskia, Illinois Territory, about one hundred miles south of St. Louis.
John D. spent the next four years in the care of a black nurse, in the home of John Doyle, who died in 1819.
Lee was the only one so punished and would later maintain that he became a scapegoat to take the public pressure off the more responsible Mormon leaders.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/l/LEE,JOHN.html   (1305 words)

  
 John Doyle Lee
John Doyle Lee was born September 6th, 1812 in Kaskaskia, Illinois.
He was named for his maternal grandfather, John Doyle, who was one of the original eight settlers of the area.
After Elizabeth died (when John was three) he lived in his Grandfathers house and was taken care of by a black nurse who spoke only French.
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 Robert E. Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lee died from the effects of pneumonia, on the morning of October 12, 1870, two weeks after the stroke, in Lexington, Virginia, and was buried underneath Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, where his body remains today.
Lee's sentiments were against secession, which he denounced in an 1861 letter as "nothing but revolution" and a betrayal of the efforts of the Founders.
Lee's attacks resulted in heavy Confederate casualties and they were marred by clumsy tactical performances by his subordinates, but his aggressive actions unnerved McClellan, who retreated to a point on the James River where Union naval forces were in control.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_E._Lee   (4616 words)

  
 Malvo convicted - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
Malvo and Muhammad, 42, are the first two people tried under the post-September 11 terrorism law.
Defence attorney Craig S Cooley (left) and Lee Boyd Malvo (centre) sit and listen as court clerk Debbie Rose reads the verdict in this sketch in Chesapeake Circuit Court in Chesapeake, Va, yesterday.
Malvo, whose expressions had often been animated throughout the trial, leaned on his elbows at the table with a blank look on his face while the verdict was read.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20031218T230000-0500_53228_OBS_MALVO_CONVICTED.asp   (4616 words)

  
 CNN.com - The shameful treatment of John Lee Malvo - Nov. 21, 2002
The race is on to get capital murder convictions and the death penalty for the two Beltway sniper suspects, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo.
Malvo, not Muhammad, is the one who was pressured to confess without access to his guardian or lawyer.
Indeed, in a blatant case of the cart driving the horse, the jurisdiction for their trials was chosen with the "ultimate sentence" (in Attorney General John Ashcroft's words) in mind.
www.cnn.com /2002/LAW/11/21/findlaw.analysis.cassel.malvo   (4616 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Lee Malvo, Muslim hatemonger
From the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism.
Malvo's violent drawings and anti-American and anti-Semitic rantings show him to be every bit as blood-thirsty, hatemongering and martyr-craving as any Sept. 11 hijacker or Palestinian suicide bomber.
Malvo's lawyers say he was insane and "brainwashed." No more so than your average madrassa student in Jeddah or America-hating cave dweller in Tora Bora.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36055   (4616 words)

  
 CNN.com - Teen sniper suspect remains a mystery - Apr. 28, 2003
Malvo, a Jamaican native, was arrested along with John Allen Muhammad at a Maryland rest area in the early morning hours of October 24.
Malvo, also known as Lee Boyd Malvo, was arrested on a material witness warrant, but has since been charged with murder in the case.
Lee Boyd Malvo, a 17-year-old whose fingerprint led authorities to the sniper suspects, is described by one person as unremarkable and by another as "caring, and very respectful."
www.cnn.com /2002/US/10/28/sproject.sniper.malvo.profile   (4616 words)

  
 John Lee Hooker - Wikipedia
John Lee Hooker war eines der elf Kinder von William und Minnie Hooker.
Er bewegte den jungen John Lee Hooker dazu, sich neben dem Chorgesang auch für andere Musikrichtungen zu interessieren.
Mit vierzehn Jahren machte John Lee Hooker dann in Memphis, Tennessee Station.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lee_Hooker   (4616 words)

  
 John Lee Hocker Foundation
John Lee Hooker was born in the Mississippi Delta in 1917 or 1920, depending on whom you hear it from.
John Lee Hooker was able to play the blues music that he had learned from his stepfather and build a substantial following among the workers who originated in the rural South.
At age 14, John Lee headed north to escape the crush of the Great Depression and the omnipresence of the religious, who had decreed that blues music was the devil's music.
www.johnleehookerfoundation.org /history.html   (4616 words)

  
 John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker blues guitarist died at his home Los Altos surrounded by family and friends of natural causes on Thursday 21st June 2001, he is survived by eight children, 19 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.
John Lee was due to make a long awaited trip to Britain to top the bill at the Bishopstock blues festival, but due to illness had to cancel the month before.
John Lee's contact with music had until 1929, been restricted to the hymns he sang in church, found in Moore not only a stepfather but an inspirational blues teacher who taught John Lee to play acoustic guitar.
www.john-meekings.co.uk /jlhooker.html   (4616 words)

  
 Rex E. Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was a descendant of John D. Lee and Jacob Hamblin and a cousin to a number of Udall family politicians.
Johns, Arizona was a respected Constitutional lawyer, a Latter-day Saint (LDS; see also Mormon), an alumnus and tenth president of Brigham Young University from July 1, 1989 through December 31, 1995, clerked for former United States Supreme Court Justice Byron White and served as the United States Solicitor General under the Reagan Administration.
Current Supreme court nominee Samuel Alito served as assistant to Solicitor General Lee from 1981 to 1985, where Alito argued 12 cases before the Supreme Court.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rex_E._Lee   (249 words)

  
 JOHN DOYLE LEE PAPERS
John Doyle Lee was born in KasKasKia, Williamsburg Township, Illinois, on September 6, 1812 and died, by firing squad, in Iron County, Utah Territory, on March 23, 1877.
Flaherty's research into the records of the two trials and execution of John D. Lee led to his observation that, "The proceedings of the trials, testimonies of eyewitnesses and others involved, and Lee's own personal account indicate that the wrong man was fraudulously tried, convicted and executed."
Lee was reluctant to leave at a time when his personal affairs were not in order, but was persuaded by Church President Brigham Young to accompany President G. Smith and party (about 100 wagons) to found a colony in Iron County, Utah Territory.
www.lib.utah.edu /spc/mss/accn186/accn186.html   (1481 words)

  
 j f l e c k : : a t : : i n k s t a i n: John D. Lee
Lee's a complicated fellow, a Mormon pioneer who was central to the settlement of southern Utah and northern Arizona in the 19th century, and who was convicted and executed for his role in the notorious 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Lee, his four sons and his wife Emma, who had only just given birth to a baby girl in January, spent 21 days rebuilding the dam, water their young fruit trees and vines by hand.
The back story: Lee and his family had arrived in the winter of 1871, in large part to establish a river crossing that the Mormon leadership believed was vital to the community's future.
www.inkstain.net /fleck/archives/001932.html   (590 words)

  
 Some Descendants of John Doyle Lee
John noted in his diary, "I have 60 persons who depend on me for their daily sustenance." Under those circumstances it was not surprising that during that crisis, Mary Leah took her family to Kanarraville to stay with her parents.
After his burial, John visited the family, noting in his journal, that Mary Leah was "in the dark and under a heavy trial." That statement was in reference to her attitude toward him, rather than grief for the passing of her father.
John died 18Sep 1938 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, and was buried 20Sep 1938 in Virgin, Washington, Utah.
www.wadhome.org /lee/chapter_16.html   (12988 words)

  
 John D. Lee -- Portrait of a Mormon Scapegoat
John D. Lee's introspective portrayal of the event, composed while awaiting execution and then published posthumously by his attorney, is probably the most honest, concise, and accurate rendition of the massacre and what lead up to it, and what happened afterward.
Having now made an assertion that I think I could be John D. Lee incarnate, here again to help set things straight, I will say that I am still open to the possibility that I am wrong.
Lee, under command of those in authority, executed a bloody scene of vengeance; and as the horrendousness of the deed sank into their collective conscience, they realized that the fruits of their doctrine and desires were not good; and they changed gradually.
www.greaterthings.com /Word-Number/People/JohnDLee   (4681 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - RED WATER by Judith Freeman
John D. Lee, known as "Father" to the women he married, remains somewhat of a mystery throughout the novel, as do the details of the massacre and his involvement in it.
While the Mountain Meadows Massacre and John D. Lee drive much of the action and create much of the tension, this story is about the women who were left to pick up the pieces of their lives as their community turned its back on them.
One man, John D. Lee, was tried for this crime and in 1857, 20 years after the massacre, confessed and was executed by firing squad.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375420924.asp   (768 words)

  
 John Lee Carroll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Lee Carroll (September 30, 1830– February 27, 1911), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 37
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lee_Carroll   (119 words)

  
 John D Lee - History
John Doyle Lee was born eighteen months after Elizabeth Reed's marriage to Ralph Lee.
John D. Lee was one who was read to fight to the death in its defense but when word came of the massacre at Haun's Mill, Joseph Smith, the Mormon leader, decided to surrender himself in order to avert another bloody tragedy.
Then John D. Lee became even more vitally involved in the activities of the Church.
www.johndlee.net /history-lee.htm   (119 words)

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