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Topic: John White (Kentucky politician)


  
  Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (John Q-John Z)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John XIV was pope from 983 to 984.
John XIX was pope from 1024 to 1032.
John XXI (Petrus Hispanus) was a Portugese pope from 1276 to 1277.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Jo-Jz)
John was a son of Christian I and king of Denmark in 1481.
John Burnet was a Scottish engraver and painter.
John Knox was a Scottish reformer and preacher.
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 John White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John White (Kentucky politician), (1802-1845), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
John White (administrator) (1946–), Commissioner of British Antarctic Territory and British Indian Ocean Territory, (1998–2001)
There have also been three Canadian politicians named John White, two of whom were contemporaries in the Parliament of Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_White   (163 words)

  
 The Kentucky Post
John White Stevenson of Covington was not supposed to be in charge, but through a twist of fate the burden of the times fell on his shoulders.
John White Stevenson's grandmother was the daughter of Carter Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Stevenson had served as Kenton County attorney, a member of the Kentucky Legislature from 1845 to 1847, a member of the state constitutional convention in 1849 and was one of three people selected to revise the state's criminal and civil codes.
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 Centre College Encyclopedia - John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court justice, was born on June 1, 1833, the fifth son of nine children of James Harlan, Kentucky lawyer- politician, and Elizabeth Shannon (Davenport) Harlan.
In 1876 Harlan led the delegation from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati, which was committed to the nomination of his law partner, Benjamin H. Bristow, for president.
Their son John Maynard was the father of the John Marshall Harlan who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Eisenhower in 1955.
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 Thomas Hart
John Morrison Clay was born in Fayette Co., KY February 21, 1821.
John Morrison Clay, August 10, 1887, she succeeded to his business of rearing and racing thoroughbreds and under the Ashland colors, yellow and blue, won several of the classics of the turf.
John Morrison Clay, the youngest son of the Sage of Ashland and the namesake of the founder of Morrison Chapel.
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 The John Marshall Harlan Collection - Harlan's Great Dissent
His father, James, was a lawyer and politician who served two terms in Congress in the 1830's and later held several public offices in Kentucky, among them secretary of state and attorney general.
John Harlan owned a few household slaves, and he did not free them until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. Constitution forced him to in December 1865.
John's wife Mallie, an Evansville, Indiana, native whom he married in 1856, wrote in a memoir that John had imbibed "a deep dislike of involuntary servitude in any form" from his father and teachers.
www.louisville.edu /library/law/harlan/harlthom.html   (2732 words)

  
 Early Black Berea--Berea's History
Located where the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains slope downward to meet the central plains of Kentucky's bluegrass, Berea College was originally founded in 1855 by an abolitionist, Reverend John G. Fee, with initial assistance from the American Missionary Association and a local antislavery politician and well-to-do Madison County landowner, Cassius M. Clay.
Among those returning was John G. Fee who preached to and taught thousands of slave men volunteering for the Union Army at Camp Nelson (Jessamine County), Kentucky.
The White Family Cemetery, located in front of Berea's post office on Glades Rd., is a rediscovered fl cemetery where an estimated 400 bodies are buried.
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 The Political Graveyard: American Bar Association, politicians, Kentucky
Judge of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, 1979-.
Kentucky state house of representatives, 1930-33, 1946-47, 1954-55, 1962-63, 1966-67 (76th District 1930-31, 75th District 1932-33, 49th District 1946-47, 1954-55, 1962-63, 56th District 1966-67); defeated in primary, 1973;
Kentucky state house of representatives, 1928-30; county judge in Kentucky, 1930-38; candidate for
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 Adolph Rupp: Fact and Fiction
Kentucky, despite not having any starter taller than 6-5, steadily improved over the year and formed into a fine-tuned machine, relying on the shooting of their two stars Pat Riley and Louie Dampier.
Kentucky was impressive during the tournament in dispatching Dayton 86-79 and the Cazzie Russell -led Michigan Wolverines 84-77.
Kentucky was desperately recruiting Webber out of high school, with Deron Feldhaus even volunteering to give up his scholarship in order to sign the big man from Michigan.
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 The Filson Historical Society - Manuscripts & Photos -Guide 1-100
Subjects include family news, his legal education in Kentucky and at William and Mary, politics, the Aaron Burr and Benjamin Sebastian trials, the Spanish Conspiracy, the Old Court-New Court controversy, War of 1812, and the various positions he served in at the state and federal government levels.
Benton's 8 July 1843 letter to Col. John Abert introduces and recommends Robert Campbell who was in Washington to collect debts owed to him by the federal government due to his advancing John C. Fremont supplies for his western expedition; and his 7 Nov. 1845 letter to Mrs.
The history covers early settlers in Kentucky and the Bernheim area; their cultural background; industries over the years in the Bernheim area (salt, iron, agriculture, rock quarrying, logging, distilleries, and the railroad); the Civil War and the postwar years; and the origin of Bernheim Forest (18 typed pages).
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 Ancestry of Walter Lee Scott
Kentucky for 637 acres, and one on Rough Creek for 256 acres.
JOHN 2's wife's name was CATHERINE but no maiden name has been found for her.
Creek in Hardin County, in Kentucky, and 256 acres on Rough Creek.
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 Eschaton
Right now I have ads from both John Barrow and Doug Haines who are both competing to be the nominee in Georgia's 12th.
Threatened with a subpoena for the documents, the White House relented somewhat last week and agreed to allow the full 10-member commission to hear a summary of key PDBs about the Al Qaeda terrorist threat that were given to Bush and before him, to President Clinton.
White House officials said Bush's campaign-style stop at Fort Polk had nothing to do with the controversy over gaps in his service record with the Air National Guard between May 1972 and May 1973.
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 John White Geary, Major General
John Geary was a student at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pa., when the death of his father forced him to begin adult life early.
For several years after the Civil War the citizens of Davis County complained about living in an area named for the President of the Confederate States of America, even though he was Secretary of War when the county was named for him.
In 1889, the county's name was changed to honor John W. Geary, Governor of Kansas Territory (1856).
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John Sherman Cooper (1901-1991), born in Somerset, Kentucky, served as a United States Senator (1947-1948, 1952-1955, and 1957-1973), ambassador to India and Nepal (1955-1956), and ambassador to East Germany (1974-1976).
He remembers meeting John Sherman Cooper for the first time when Cooper was a student at Centre College, and he recalls that their fathers were friends.
John Kerr, who was active in the Republican party in Kentucky at the county, district, and state levels, discusses his work for John Sherman Cooper and characteristics of Cooper's personality.
www.kyvl.org /kentuckiana/rawsgml/kuk/kukoralead/cooper.sgm   (10564 words)

  
 Kentucky Kernel - February 26, 1996
On Comedy Central's "Name that Politician," they asked: "What politician openly questioned whether or not the Jewish Holocaust occurred?" The answer was (surprise!) Pat Buchanan.
Here's another question: According to DeWayne Wickham of USA Today, what politician used to "hurl snowballs at a bus he called the 'Boston Blackie' that carried fl domestic workers through his neighborhood?" The answer is (surprise again!) Pat Buchanan.
In a logical, non-threatening way, they were able to provide perspectives on flness and institutionalized r acism that even the most highly educated fl people do not understand.
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 The Political Graveyard: White family of Kentucky
These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
Speaker of the U.S. House, 1841-43; state court judge in Kentucky.
U.S. Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1851-53; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
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 1590 [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Catherine de Ricci (1522-1590) was born in Florence, Italy in 1522 and was named Alexandrina at her baptism.
April 22 - Battle of Bicocca - French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory.
Henry Dudley was himself the son of John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley, "Lord Quondam", who was married to Cecily Grey.
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 General Colin L. Powell Biography -- Academy of Achievement
Powell was assigned to the Office of Management and Budget during the administration of President Nixon, and here he made a lasting impression on the Director and Deputy Director of the Office: Casper Weinberger and Frank Carlucci.
Powell, now a Colonel, followed his term as White House Fellow with service as a battalion commander in Korea and with a staff job at the Pentagon.
After study at the Army War College, he was promoted to Brigadier General and commanded a Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division.
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 Union Generals - G
Geary, John White A politician goes to war: the Civil War letters of John White Geary University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995
Notes His resignation was probably a result of being passed over for command of the cavalry by Sheridan, compounded by his wife's unhappiness at his long absences.
Born December 16 1812, nr Dayton OH Died July 30 1900, New Castle IN Pre-War Profession Farm laborer, lawyer, politician, judge.
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