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  Retirement of the Honourable Johno Johnson - 03/07/2001 - NSW Parliament
John Johnson's religious beliefs are evident and genuine but he does not discriminate against those who are of a different religion or no religion at all.
John Johnson is his capacity to walk across the political divide and compliment people on the opposite side of politics for a job well done.
John Johnson's neighbour, he and I have enjoyed the odd cigarette together—even though he was unaware of the fact that I was enjoying the same experience.
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20010703005   (23191 words)

  
  COB News and Multimedia
Johnson had retired but this summer was asked to meet with Dean Anderson, USU Professor David Olsen and Darwin John at the New Yorker Club in Salt Lake City.
Darwin John is chairman of the BIS Advisory Council.
Johnson explained that students who graduate with strong entrepreneurial skills will be better prepared to create new businesses and to fuel the success of smaller local established businesses.
www.usu.edu /cob/newsmultimedia/bottomline/johnjohnson.cfm   (389 words)

  
  Reverdy Johnson - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Johnson, Reverdy (1796-1876), American statesman and one of the leading Whig Party members who helped keep the border states in the Union during the...
Reverdy Johnson (May 21, 1796 February 10, 1876) was a statesman and jurist from Maryland.
Born in Annapolis, Johnson was the son of a distinguished Maryland lawyer and politician, John Johnson (1770...
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 Reverdy Johnson
JOHNSON, Reverdy, statesman, born in Annapolis, Maryland, 21 May, 1796; died there, 10 February, 1876 He was educated at St. John's college, studied law with his father, John Johnson, chancellor of the state, and was admitted to the bar in 1815.
Johnson was invariably outspoken in his opinions of all public matters, his decided opposition to the proscriptive doctrines of the "Know-Nothing" party led him, together with many of the Whig leaders in Maryland, to unite with the Democrats in 1856 and in the subsequent support of Buchanan's administration.
Johnson joined the Douglas wing of the party, and was active in his efforts to secure its success, he was a member of the peace congress in Washington in 1861 and in 1862.
famousamericans.net /reverdyjohnson   (886 words)

  
 Frontiersmen of New York
Sir John's position of wealth and respectability-surrounded as he was by a large body of tenantry, ready at all times to do his bidding and if necessary defend his person; was a constant source of anxiety to the whigs of the county-kept alive no doubt by both false and truthful rumors.
Johnson was removed to Albany, where she is said, for a time, to have been retained as a hostage for the conduct of her husband.
John Butler was also instrumental in raising a similar regiment for his command, many of whom accompanied him and Col. Guy Johnson in their flight to Canada the summer before.
threerivershms.com /simmssirjohncourse.htm   (4388 words)

  
 John Talbot, Colonial Statesman, American Patriot, and Georgia Planter
John Williston Talbot was born July 13, 1735 on the Virginia frontier in what is now Bedford County, Virginia, the fourth child and the fourth son of Matthew Talbot and his first wife, Mary Williston.
John was remarried in 1768 to Mary Phoebe Moseley in Campbell County, Virginia.
John Talbot's plantation, call Mt. Pleasant, was located near the plantation of the widow of General Nathaniel Greene and, indeed, serious questions exist as to whether Eli Whitney was working on the Widow Green's plantation or John Talbot's when he invented the Cotton Gin.
www-personal.umich.edu /~abw/johntalbot.html   (2927 words)

  
 Johnsons in the United States Senate, Part 2
obert Ward Johnson was born 22 Jul 1814 in Scott County, Kentucky, son of Benjamin Johnson and Matilda Williams.
He was a nephew of Vice President and Congressman Richard Mentor Johnson; and nephew of Congressmen James Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson.
illiam Samuel Johnson was born 7 Oct 1727 in Stratford, Cn., a son of Samuel Johnson and Charity Floyd.
www.geocities.com /~rewoodham/johnsen2.html   (2305 words)

  
 John Johnson - related news, photos, topics, and quotes - Daylife
Towboat pilot John Johnson broke away from his remaining barges and held the Admiral against the levee.
John Johnson, a deputy administrator for the Farm Service Agency, said there is no indication that the payments were improper, since...
John Johnson (1805 – February 5, 1867), Democratic-Republican U.S. Representative from Ohio.
www.daylife.com /topic/John_Johnson   (514 words)

  
 Reverdy Johnson Summary
Johnson also served in the U.S. Senate and as minister to Great Britain but he is best remembered for his constitutional arguments in the Dred Scott case.
Johnson used his expertise in constitutional law to try to convince the Court that the case was not so much about Scott's freedom but the constitutional right of white Americans to enslave other African Americans.
Born in Annapolis, Johnson was the son of a distinguished Maryland lawyer and politician, John Johnson (1770 - 1824).
www.bookrags.com /Reverdy_Johnson   (1133 words)

  
 Johnson, 55, former 'C-L' editor, dies - The Clarion-Ledger
Johnson, former executive editor of The Clarion-Ledger, was a full-time professor and holder of Ole Miss' Kelly Gene Cook Sr.
Johnson, who was born in Oxford and grew up in Natchez, came to Jackson in 1982 to serve as associate editor of The Clarion-Ledger.
Johnson was an informal adviser to the staff of Ole Miss' campus newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, for which he and Overby had labored together years earlier.
orig.clarionledger.com /news/0209/15/m07.html   (951 words)

  
 John Sherman
John went to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he was sent to school, and kept steadily and generally under good masters until he was fourteen years old.
John was in the current of politics which bore him away forever from his profession.
John Sherman is very tall, erect, exceedingly spare, brown-haired, gray-eyed, has a large head, high and square in front, has firm square jaws, a large mouth, with thin lips, expressing in an uncommon degree decision, firmness, and self-control, but betraying his emotional nature, which is tender and sympathetic.
www.all-biographies.com /politicians/john_sherman.htm   (2862 words)

  
 John Foster Dulles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American statesman who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.
Both his grandfather John W. Foster and his uncle Robert Lansing served as Secretary of State.
The Washington Dulles International Airport (located in Dulles, Virginia) and John Foster Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas) were both named in honor of Dulles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Foster_Dulles   (1348 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
John Sullivan, one of the most distinguished commanders in the Revolutionary War, was son of John Sullivan, an Irish immigrant from Limerick who settled in Belfast, Maine in 1723.
In horticulture, John Barry and William Doogue, who laid out the grounds of the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia, and the Public Gardens at Boston, were of Irish birth.
Of the fourteen provinces now (1906) constituting the territorial divisions of the Church in the continental united States, nine are governed by archbishop of Irish blood, and forty-eight of the bishops of the seventy-eight dioceses comprised in these provinces are of the Irish race.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08132b.htm   (15857 words)

  
 John Home
John Home, who during his whole life retained a proud recollection of his honourable ancestry, was educated, first at the grammar school of his native town, and then at the university of Edinburgh.
In the early part of the succeeding year, he reappeared in arms as a volunteer, and was present at the disgraceful affair of Falkirk, where he was taken prisoner.
The present age, however, has, by its growing indifference to even his sole successful play, pronounced that his reputation on account of that exertion, was in a great measure the result of temporary and local circumstances, and that, being ill based, it cannot last.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/home_john.htm   (3165 words)

  
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Johnson's grotesque appearance did not prevent her from saying to her daughter on their first introduction, ``This is the most sensible man I ever met.'' Her praises were, we may believe, sweeter to him than those of the severest critics, or the most fervent of personal flatterers.
To Johnson he was known as the nobleman who had a wide social influence as an acknowledged _arbiter elegantiarum,_ and who reckoned among his claims some of that literary polish in which the earlier generation of nobles had certainly been superior to their successors.
Johnson corked the bottle, and a discussion of ways and means brought out the manuscript of the _Vicar of Wakefield._ Johnson looked into it, took it to a bookseller, got sixty pounds for it, and returned to Goldsmith, who paid his rent and administered a sound rating to his landlady.
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 Undercovering John H. Johnson
John H. Johnson might have been a historical figure in the life of America and especially fl America, but you could hardly tell that from America's front pages and network newscasts after he died Monday at age 87.
Johnson, founder of the company that publishes Ebony and Jet magazines, was missing from most front pages, according to a survey of the front pages posted on the Newseum's Web site.
While Johnson was on page 4B, she said, the USA Today cover story was "Paroled gangsters find they can't go home again," with two mug shots of African Americans on the jump page.
www.maynardije.org /columns/dickprince/050810_prince   (1731 words)

  
 Philip Johnson's Empire | varnelis.net
Johnson’s unique position can be gauged from a remark by a dealer —nameless, of course—to the effect that Johnson was the only collector to whom he would give a 50 percent discount as long as it meant placing an artist in his collection.
Johnson was a natural as the ideological sponsor of this debate.
Johnson described him as “a strong man. There were some on the board who didn’t like the design, but deButts could outvote the entire board.”[43] He wanted a “monument for the biggest company in the world,” a structure on the level of the Seagram Building, but not a glass box.
www.varnelis.net /architecture/philip_johnsons_empire   (6493 words)

  
 Britannica Online Service :: Search
Johnson, J.J. American jazz composer and one of the genre's most influential trombonists.
Johnson, James P. highly influential fl American jazz pianist who also wrote popular songs and composed classical works.
Johnson, John H. magazine and book publisher, the first African American to attain major success in those fields.
www.britannica.co.kr /boltitles/j/j8.html   (1567 words)

  
 Orderly Book of Sir John Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sir John's further aggressive movements were prevented by the early setting in of winter, which rendered the navigation of Lake Ontario too dangerous for the certain dispatch of the necessary troops and adequate supplies.
Sir John, with his own lips, declared, in regard to the cruelties suffered by the "Whigs during his first inroad, that "their Tory neighbors, and not himself, were blamable for those acts." It is said that Sir John much regretted the death of those who were esteemed by his father, and censured the murderer.
For Sir John Johnson to have turned his back on all those characteristics which, by generous minds, are regarded as the finest qualities in man-gratitude, loyalty, consistency-might have made him popular with those who would have profited by his treason, but would have damned him in greater degree with those whose opinions he valued.
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 The Scotsman - Obituaries - Douglas Johnson
Douglas William John Johnson was born in Edinburgh in 1925, the son of a town planner who moved the family to Lancaster when Douglas was a child.
Johnson was too busy - as a teacher, academic administrator, intellectual journalist and first-call adviser - to write all the books he mooted.
Johnson was appointed to his UCL chair in 1968, the year of les evenements, but rarely pulled back the curtain to reveal his own political sympathies.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=531552005   (851 words)

  
 Rossiter Johnson
Johnson saw no need for temporizing; on May 20, 1869, he married Helen Louise, daughter of Dr. Asahel C. Kendrick, Munro Professor of Greek at the University, and took her to Concord, New Hampshire, where he became editor of a Republican organ, The Statesman.
Johnson was convinced of a genuine need on the part of many readers, interested primarily in plot, for condensed versions of the literary masterpieces.
In the ensuing twenty-five years, Dr. Johnson was a familiar figure on the Manhattan literary scene, accomplishing a prodigious amount of work and garnering three honorary degrees (A.M. in 1873, Ph.D. in 1888, and LL.D. in 1893) from his alma mater, the University of Rochester.
www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?PAGE=2488   (2466 words)

  
 John Victor Johnson Odyssey from Finland to Florida
My grandfather John Victor Johnson ("Victor") was born Johan Vicktor Johansson Bäckman on April 30, 1881 in the parish of Sideby on the western coast of Finland in Ostrobothnia between Kristinestad and Björneborg (Pori) in the province of Vasa.
John died in 2002 and was buried at sea in a Navy ceremony.
John was a lieutenant who was serving as the Supply Officer on the U.S.S. Minneapolis, a heavy cruiser.
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 Philip Johnson - Great Buildings Online
Philip Johnson was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906.
Johnson, an urbane, elegant figure, was perhaps the most socially prominent New York architect since Stanford White.
Johnson had originally designed as a guest house for John D. Rockefeller 3d, then in an elaborately decorated apartment in Museum Tower above the Museum of Modern Art and always on weekends in the famous Glass House compound.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Philip_Johnson.html   (1141 words)

  
 Old Fort Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This was mainly due to William Johnson, an Irishman who had immigrated to New York in 1734 and established himself as a planter and fur trader in the Mohawk Valley.
Johnson (himself a land speculator) had no trouble in getting them to part with their claim to Ohio in exchange for a defined boundary of their lands.
Angered by the American arrest of Sir John Johnson (William's son) for loyalist activities, Brant defied the Iroquois council and led his warriors north to stop the American attempt to capture Canada during the winter of 1776-77.
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 Reverdy Johnson at AllExperts
Reverdy Johnson (May 21, 1796 – February 10, 1876) was a statesman and jurist from Maryland.
Born in Annapolis, Johnson was the son of a distinguished Maryland lawyer and politician, John Johnson (1770 - 1824).
In 1868 he was appointed minister to the United Kingdom and soon after his arrival in England negotiated the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty for the settlement of disputes arising out of the Civil War; this, however, the Senate refused to ratify, and he returned home on the accession of General Ulysses S. Grant to the presidency.
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 Josefa Johnson
Johnson interpreted this as a flmail threat (Josefa had told Kinser about some of her brother's corrupt activities).
Josefa Johnson had been trying to keep up with her famous and powerful brother through the only readily available means a woman then had.
Johnson, who is not related to LBJ, also said he alone among the jurors favored acquittal and that he forced the guilty-with-suspended-sentence verdict by threatening to cause a hung jury.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKjohnsonJ.htm   (3538 words)

  
 -- www.57productions.com --
John Hegley is a poet & comedian, musician & singer, cartoonist & dancer.
The long-awaited CD from John Hegley is launched on the 1st of December 2005.
John's poem - Not Waving - is featured on the jukebox & his work is sampled in more depth on the CD Poetry in Performance Volume 1.
www.57productions.com /artist_info.php?id=38   (149 words)

  
 TBH, Johnson-Guy
Johnson was born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, in 1911 and died under still-mysterious circumstances near Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1938.
Soft-spoken, mild-mannered John Hurt was born in Teoc, Mississippi, in 1893, and lived most of his life in neighboring Avalon.
Born in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, slum in 1894, Bessie was orphaned in her early teens and was forced to eke out a living singing and dancing on Chattanooga street corners.
www.thebluehighway.com /tbh1.html   (822 words)

  
 JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1... - Online Information article about JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1...
Turks that king John was able to exhaust his opponent and compel him to come to terms.
John was the last national king of Hungary.
His merit, as a statesman, lies in his stout vindication of the national See also:
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 Orderly Book of Sir John Johnson
THE accompanying waifs, possessing in themselves as little intrinsic interest as continuity, are a few random footprints of Sir John Johnson's life of exile, spared by the tides of a century which have effaced many of his once deeper impressions on American affairs.
And this, with the acquittances of the said Sir John Johnson, Bt., or his assigns, shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge.
A letter from Major General Hope, Commander-in-Chief andc., to Sir John is apparently interesting, as throwing further light on a restless escapade, which is referred to in the life of that early representative of the possibilities and effect of education, even upon a savage mind.
www.threerivershms.com /johnjohntories.htm   (12366 words)

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