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  John McCain-Henry Clay
A Senate committee, headed by John F. Kennedy in 1957, was assigned the task of assessing and honoring his past members.
John McCain is one of the most respected of Senators in the United States and he has been given many awards for his service, including the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award.
Henry Clay ran for the US Presidency three times and despite being one of the most popular and known political figures of the era, lost each race.
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  John Henry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Henry is an 18th century U.S. Senator from and Governor of Maryland.
John Henry is a 19th century U.S. Representative from Illinois.
John Henry is a 1995 pop song by Marques Bovre and the Evil Twins, from their album Flyover Land.
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 Facts about topic: (John Henry)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John Henry is a prominent toxicologist (One who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment), a professor at Imperial College (additional info and facts about Imperial College) in London and a consultant to Britain's National Poisons Information Service.
John Henry is a 1995 (additional info and facts about 1995) pop (A sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring) song by Marques Bovre and the Evil Twins, from their album Flyover Land.
John Henry (Hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong fl man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill), the "steel-driving man", is an African-American (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) folk hero.
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 John Henry (senator)
John Henry (November 1750- December 16, 1798) was a Governor of Maryland and member of the United States Senate.
During that time he was chosen as a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland from 1778 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1786; during his service, he was a member of the committee that prepared the ordinance for the government of the Northwest Territory.
He was elected to be one of the first two Senators from Maryland, serving 1789 till his resignation on December 10, 1797, to take the Governorship.
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 H. John Heinz III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry John Heinz III (October 23, 1938 – April 4, 1991) was an American politician from Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives (1971–1977) and the United States Senate (1977–1991).
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Heinz was the son of the Henry J. Heinz II, heir to the H.
Heinz was elected to the Senate in 1976 and reelected in 1982 and 1988.
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 Encyclopedia: John Henry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The original John Henry story is one of almost Norse fatalism: an ambidextrous giant narrowly defeats a steam drill in a contest to drive steel through a mountain, to make way for a railroad.
John Henry Days is full of human embodiments of this theme, people pursuing symbolic victories for their own obscure reasons, even at significant personal risk.
If John Henry were at the Alamo, his death would augur prosperity for future generations of his countrymen, rather than the end of a way of life for himself and thousands of his fellows.
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 John Henry (senator): bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John Henry (November 1750–December 16, 1798) was a Governor of Maryland (additional info and facts about Governor of Maryland) and member of the United States Senate (The upper house of the United States Congress).
Henry served as a member of Maryland House of Delegates (additional info and facts about Maryland House of Delegates) from 1777 to 1780 and a member of the Maryland State Senate (additional info and facts about Maryland State Senate) from 1780 to 1790.
He was elected to be one of the first two Senators (A member of a senate) from Maryland, serving 1789 till his resignation on December 10, 1797, to take the Governorship.
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 Encyclopedia: John Henry (senator)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives.
John Henry (November 1750 - December 16, 1798) was a Governor of Maryland and member of the United States Senate.
During that time he was chosen as a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland from 1778 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1786 ; during his service, he was a member of the committee that prepared the ordinance for the government of the Northwest Territory.
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 Biography of Senator John Osmeña   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Senator John Osmeña is known as the “Lone Ranger” for his independent-mindedness and taking fearless stance despite overwhelming odds.
After the assassination of Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino on August 21, 1983, he was the first political exile to return to the country to help in the fight against the Marcos dictatorship.
Senator John Henry Osmeña was born on January 17, 1935 to Emilio Osmeña and Ma.
www.senate.gov.ph /senators/sen_bio/josmena_bio.htm   (614 words)

  
 Eaton, John Henry on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Eaton remained close to Jackson and completed (1817) the biography of Jackson begun by John Reid.
He was appointed (1818) to the Senate to fill a vacancy and defended Jackson's earlier activities in Florida.
Twice elected (1821, 1826) to the Senate, Eaton resigned in 1829 to enter the cabinet.
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 John McCain-Henry Clay
A Senate committee, headed by John F. Kennedy in 1957, was assigned the task of assessing and honoring his past members.
John McCain is one of the most respected of Senators in the United States and he has been given many awards for his service, including the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award.
Henry Clay ran for the US Presidency three times and despite being one of the most popular and known political figures of the era, lost each race.
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 John Henry - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John Henry (senator), (1750-1798), U.S. Senator for and Governor of Maryland.
John Henry (album), a They Might Be Giants music album, released in 1994.
John Henry was also the title of a 1931 novel by Roark Bradford, based on the legend.
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 JOHN HENRY BRIGANCE, Military History of
John Henry fought in over 17 Civil War battles and survived them all without major injury, only to be hit with a bullet in the very last battle his Regiment fought.
John Henry was in a cotton warehouse that was being used as a field hospital.
John Henry was in Company K as shown on the cover of this report that contained 132 members at the start of the war.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1801-1850 > Youngest Senator
They arrived at that number by adding five years to the twenty-five-year minimum they had established for House members, reasoning that the deliberative nature of the "senatorial trust" called for a "greater extent of information and stability of character" than would be needed in the House.
While he was waiting, his defeated Republican opponent, former incumbent Senator Henry Hatfield, filed a petition with the Senate charging that Holt's failure to meet the constitutional age requirement invalidated his election.
The Senate dismissed Hatfield's arguments, observing that the age requirement applies to the time of oath-taking rather than the time of election, or the time the term begins.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Youngest_Senator.htm   (458 words)

  
 Biography of H. John Heinz III: Carnegie Mellon Libraries
Henry John Heinz III, the only child of philanthropist and industrialist H.J. Heinz II and Joan Diehl (Heinz) McCauley, was born on October 23, 1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In addition to working for Senator Scott, Heinz was also active in the campaigns of Governor William Scranton for the Republican Presidential nomination (1964), Judge Maurice B. Cohill for Juvenile Court (1965), Richard L. Thornburgh for Congress (14th Congressional District, 1966), Robert Friend for County Controller (1967), and John Tabor for Mayor (1969).
As chairman of the Senate's informal steel caucus, he argued that the voluntary import restraint program adopted by the Reagan Administration should be replaced by strict import quotas, and was sharply critical of the President's decision in 1984 to reject tariffs and quotas for the steel industry.
www.library.cmu.edu /Research/Archives/Heinz/HJH_Bio.html   (5472 words)

  
 Patrick Henry: St. John's Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Henry was thought in his attitude to resemble St. Paul, while preaching at Athens, and to speak as man was never known to speak before.
It was Pätrick Henry, born in obscurity, poor, and without advantages of literature, rousing the genius of his country, and binding a band of patriots together to hurl defiance at the tyranny of so formidable a nation as Great Britain.
William Wirt, Henry's first biographer, gives a condensed account from the recollections of Judge Tyler and Judge Tucker: 3 "He rose at this time with a majesty unusual to him in an exordium, and with all that self-possession by which he was so invariably distinguished.
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 Clay, Henry -> Senator on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He now planned to reestablish the Bank of the United States, but the unexpected accession of John Tyler to the presidency and his vetoes of Clay's bills caused Clay to resign his Senate seat.
Clay denounced the extremists in both North and South, asserted the superior claims of the Union, and was chiefly instrumental in shaping the Compromise of 1850.
Irmo firefighter Clay Henry talks about his experiences traveling and promoting a healthy life style as a result of the commercials he's appeared in for the fast food chain Subway.
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 African-Americans in West Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John Brown and a group of raiders wanted to establish a colony for runaway slaves in the mountains of western Maryland as an outpost for those escaping from the South.
Finally, a compromise between Restored Government Senator Waitman T. Willey and Committee on Territories Chairman Benjamin Wade of Ohio determined that, after July 4, 1863, all slaves in West Virginia over twenty-one years of age would be freed.
Legend has it John Henry defeated one of these machines in a digging competition at the Big Bend Tunnel at Talcott.
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 Policy Committee Meeting Minutes 2000
Senator Kawamoto said that a separate set of State objectives were unnecessary and that the ORTP study should not be incorporating the City's Trans2K proposals as givens, as it seems to indicate in Objective #20.
Senator Ihara moved and Representative Moses seconded that the Policy Committee grant the request from Eye of the Pacific to be a member of the CAC.
Senator Ihara stated that the charts were not clear, and that narratives should be attached to the graphs to better explain their purpose.
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 biography edwards john senator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
EDWARDS, John, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Seneca, South Carolina on June 10, 1953; attended public schools in Robbins, North Carolina; B.A. worker; attorney and partner with Edwards andamp; Kirby, Raleigh, N.C...
EDWARDS, John, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Stafford County, Va...
Senator John Edwards is a Democrat from North Carolina.
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 John Henry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
It was made into a Broadway play andlater a musical featuring PaulRobeson in the title role and Ruby Elzy as Julie Anne.
John FlournoyHenry is a 19th century U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
" John Henry " isa 1995 pop song by Marques Bovre and the Evil Twins, from their album FlyoverLand.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: FAULK, JOHN HENRY
John Henry Faulk, humorist and author, fourth of five children of Henry and Martha (Miner) Faulk, was born in Austin, Texas, on August 21, 1913.
During the 1980s he traveled the nation urging university students to be ever vigilant of their constitutional rights and to take advantage of the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment.
John Henry Faulk Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffa36.html   (992 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: KIRBY, JOHN HENRY
John Henry Kirby, primarily known as a lumberman and East Texas timberland owner, son of John Thomas and Sarah (Payne) Kirby, was born on a farm near Peach Tree Village, Tyler County, on November 16, 1860.
He married Lelia Stewart of Woodville in November 1883 and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1885.
John Henry Kirby Papers, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/KK/fki33.html   (670 words)

  
 Waimanalo Neighborhood Board, City and County of Honolulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Senator Hemmings stated that he would be introducing a bill regarding vehicle registration change where the last registered owner of the vehicle would be found liable.
Senator Hemmings replied that Hawaii should be energy reliant with the key question being should be done by the government or by individuals.
Senator Hemmings replied by stating that most of the donors to political campaigns are contractors.
www.co.honolulu.hi.us /nco/nb32/01   (3718 words)

  
 John Henry - newman, belter, faulk christmas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Henry back in the picture When Theo Epstein left the Red Sox abruptly on Halloween, principal owner John Henry was on the brink of tears, openly wondering if he were fit to own the franchise
Letters: Back off, Gov Henry : To the individuals who are chastising Governor Henry for voicing his opinion about the Shawnee football game, as an individual elected to a political office it does not deprive that person of his or her rights or privileges to the freedom of speech
Patrick Henry handles North, 79-59 It was a demonstrative 32-minute oration on the virtues of the game Minneapolis Patrick Henry took the liberty of displaying its enormous athleticism in handing North its first boys basketball loss of of the season Saturday afternoon at North
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 John Forbes Kerry - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John Forbes Kerry was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. presidential election, 2004.
Kerry was a co-founder of the Vietnam Veterans of America and became a spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War -- Morley Safer would describe him as "a veteran whose articulate call to reason rather than anarchy seemed to bridge the call between the Abbie Hoffmans of the world and Mr.
John Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz/Teresa Heinz Kerry.
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 Historic Houston: Great Houstonians: John Henry Kirby
IKE Jim Hogg, John Henry Kirby has a state forest reserve named for him.
Lawyer, lumberman, oil man and "Father of Industrial Texas," John Kirby was born on November 16, 1860 in Tyler County, Texas, to Sarah (Payne) and John Thomas Kirby.
Kirby became a clerk in the Woodville, Texas law office of Samual Bronson Cooper, a senator in the Texas legislature.
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 The Manila Times Internet Edition | OPINION >The deep secrets of Ms. Emmie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Emmie has practically spend her adult life working on the national budget (through four presidents, countless Senate presidents and House speakers and hordes of jokers with the title of lawmakers).
Former senator John Henry Osmeña has a photographic memory, especially of human frailty.
John is an engineer, quick in math and adept with anything that involves numbers.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/sept/12/yehey/opinion/20040912opi3.html   (1543 words)

  
 April 2002 Boston Baseball: Why John Henry and Tom Werner Won the Sox Talks
When Henry bought the Marlins in 1998, he inherited the terrible stadium lease former owner Wayne Huizenga had "negotiated" with himself for the Marlins.
Henry would swap the Marlins for the Red Sox; Jeffrey Loria would swap the Expos for the Marlins; and MLB itself would buy and operate the Expos until the club could be contracted or re-sold at a huge profit to Washington, D.C. interests.
The scheme still hinged on Henry's group winning the auction for the Red Sox...but with Selig's buddy John Harrington handling the sale, that was easily arranged.
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