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	John Mason
		MASON, John, soldier, born in England in 1600; died in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1672.
		Mason was the involuntary cause of the repeal of the charter of the United States bank.
		Mason was early interested in sanitary reform, and was a founder of the Inebriates' home for Kings county, and of the American association for the cure of inebriates, of which he became president in 1875.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnmason (1915 words)

	John Alden Mason Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Mason was curator of the University Museum at Penn from 1926 until his retirement in 1958.
		The archaeologist John Alden Mason was Curator of the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania from 1926 until 1955.
		Mason's extensive correspondence covers all aspects of his life, from reports on his fieldwork to answering casual questions referred to him through the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where he was a curator from 1926 to 1955.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/m/mason.htm (1610 words)

	John Tyler and the pursuit of national destiny
		If John Tyler was not Lincoln's equal much less his better, it is also the case that as president he pursued a broad national agenda and was not simply an unyielding, doctrinaire sectionalist and states' rights advocate.
		President John Tyler's flexibility on the issues of executive power and the desirability of an energetic centralized national government at the expense of states' rights was consistent with the practices of his idols Jefferson and Madison when they occupied the White House.
		John Tyler also took exceptional pride in his role in the annexation of Texas and in retirement frequently hailed it as the crowning achievement of his presidency.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/crapol.htm (7513 words)

	Biographies of the Attorneys General
		John Breckenridge was born in Augusta County, near Staunton, Virginia, on December 2, 1760.
		John Jordan Crittenden was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, on September 10, 1787.
		Mason was elected Representative to Congress from Virginia from 1831 to 1837.
	www.usdoj.gov /jmd/ls/agbiographies.htm (12842 words)

	Buchanan, James. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		That with Mexico, which followed the annexation of Texas and the failure of the mission of John Slidell, led to the Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848).
		He collaborated with Pierre Soulé, minister to Spain, and John Y. Mason, minister to France, in drawing up the Ostend Manifesto (1854), which was promptly repudiated by the U.S. Dept. of State.
		Buchanan was nominated as a Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1856, with John C. Breckinridge as his running mate, and he won the election over John C. Frémont, the candidate of the newly formed Republican party, and Millard Fillmore, candidate of the Whig and Know-Nothing parties.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/BuchannJ.html (643 words)

	US People--Mason, John Y., Secretary of the Navy, March 1844 - March 1845 and September 1846 - March 1849.
		John Young Mason was born in Greensville County, Virginia, on 18 April 1799.
		Mason was nominated as Secretary of the Navy by President John Tyler in March 1844, serving to near the end of Tyler's term a year later.
		John Y. Mason left office at the end of the Polk Presidency and returned to Virginia, where he remained active in public affairs.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-m/jy-mason.htm (529 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mason
		Mason served in the Virginia legislature (1826-27, 1828-31), in the House of Representatives (1837-39), and in the U.S. Senate (1847-61).
		Mason, trained at Cambridge as an architect, became a leading man in British films in the 1940s and thereafter an international star.
		Mason served in the state legislature (1823-31), in Congress (1831-37), and as a federal judge (1837-44).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Mason&StartAt=21 (705 words)

	Rev. John Mason Peck (1887)
		DANVILLE, Ill. (1884) — John Mason Peck, the only child of Asa and Hannah (Farnum) Peck, was born Oct. 31, 1789, at South-Farms Parish, Litchfield Co., Conn. He came of Puritan stock, his ancestor Deal.
		John M. lived on his father's little farm and after his fourteenth year a large share of its cultivation was performed by him.
		At this age he was brought under a strong religious influence, and soon it became a serious alternative choice with him whether it was his duty to prepare himself for the ministry or remain upon the farm as the chief reliance of his poor and infirm parents.
	www.illinoishistory.com /peck-john-mason.html (475 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mason
		Brother of Thomson Mason; uncle of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803); granduncle of Armistead Thomson Mason; grandfather of James Murray Mason; great-granduncle of Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843).
		Mason, Samson (1793-1869) — of Clark County, Ohio.
		Great-grandnephew of George Mason; great-grandson of Thomson Mason; grandson of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803); nephew of Armistead Thomson Mason; son of John Thomson Mason.
	www.politicalgraveyard.com /bio/mason.html (1392 words)

	Internet Public Library: POTUS
		Children: Mary Tyler (1815-48); Robert Tyler (1816-77); John Tyler (1819-96); Letitia Tyler (1821-1907); Elizabeth Tyler (1823-50); Anne Contesse Tyler (1825); Alice Tyler (1827-54); Tazewell Tyler (1830-74); David Gardiner Tyler (1846-1927); John Alexander Tyler (1848-83); Julia Gardiner Tyler (1849-71); Lachlan Tyler (1851-1902); Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935); Robert Fitzwalter Tyler (1856-1927); Pearl Tyler (1860-1947)
		John Tyler -- from The Presidents of the United States of America
		John Tyler -- from the Hall of Forgotten Presidents
	www.ipl.org /div/potus/jtyler.html (414 words)

	American Justice, Story Panel 2 of 4 - Part Three, Exile - Rebellion
		U.S. Attorney General John Y. Mason, who was called to rule on the status of the Black Seminoles in 1848.
		The question before U.S. Attorney General John Y. Mason* was whether the fls who surrendered under Jesup's proclamation were legally free.
		The legal issue was thus related to the assertion put forth by John** Quincy Adams in 1836 and again in 1841 in connection to the Seminole war, that a general could liberate rebellious slaves under war powers.
	www.johnhorse.com /trail/03/b/31.htm (214 words)

	Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events:1850-1859 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Congress passes the Land Act of 1851, an attempt to sort out competing land claims by Mexican Americans, called Californios, who were longtime settlers in California, and the immigrants, often from other areas of the United States, who contested their claims.
		Minister to Great Britain James Buchanan, Minister to France John Y. Mason, and Minister to Spain Pierre Soulé meet in Ostand, Belgium and Aix-le-Chapelle to draw up the Ostend Manifesto, an attempt to purchase Cuba from Spain that emphasizes Cuba's strategic importance and threatens to take it by force should negotiations fail.
		John Brown leads an armed group of 21 to seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, is captured, and is executed.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/1850.htm (1230 words)

	USN Ships--USS Mason (DD-191)
		USS Mason, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer built at Newport News, Virginia, was commissioned in February 1920.
		Mason remained in "red lead row" for over seventeen years, but the outbreak of World War II in Europe brought her back to active duty.
		Mason (1799-1859), who served as Secretary of the Navy in 1844-1845 and 1846-1849.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/dd191.htm (363 words)

	John Y Lane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Y. Lane, a native of Tennessee, served in the War of 1812 under General Andrew Jackson.
		He and his family spent their first winter and summer in Salt Creek Township in a hut of poles, prairie grass and canvas.
		Lincoln related to Benjamin Perly Poore about his first experience of drilling his company of Tennesseans "I was marching in front of the men across a field when I desired to pass through a gate into the next enclosure.
	www.auxier-tickelgenealogy.com /auxier/johnylan.htm (148 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mason
		Mason EZ Pay Buy Now, Pay Later With Our Credit Plan.
		She was superintendent of schools (1883-84) in Mason City, Iowa.
		On Nov. 8, 1861, the British mail packet Trent, carrying James M. Mason and John Slidell, Confederate commissioners to London and Paris respectively, was halted in the
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Mason&StartAt=21 (731 words)

	John Nelson (lawyer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Nelson (June 1, 1791 – January 8, 1860) was Attorney General of the United States from 1843 to 1845 under John Tyler.
		Nelson was born in Frederick, Maryland, the son of politician Roger Nelson.
		President John Tyler appointed him Attorney General of the United States on July 1, 1843 which he served until the end of the Tyler administration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Nelson_(lawyer) (325 words)

	John Tyler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		right In May 1842, when the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island came to a head, John Tyler declined to use Federal troops to suppress the rioting adherents of a new state constitution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise.
		Having served in the provisional Confederate Congress in 1861, he was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives but died before he could take office, which could mean he is the only American president to die on foreign soil, depending on if one considers the CSA foreign or not.
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	john-tyler.kiwiki.homeip.net (1502 words)

	Copperhead Activities
		Soule' was instructed by Marcy to meet at Ostend, Belgium, with John Y. Mason, and James Buchanan, U. Minister to France and Great Britain, respectively, for the purpose of shaping a policy on the acquisition of Cuba.
		On the 29th day of Aug. 1864 the Democratic Convention was held in Chicago, which was also to be the time for the uprising of the Copperhead group, but owing to the great number of Union soldiers in the City, the plan had to be given up to be tried at another time.
		(John T. Shanks and Maurice Langhoon.) To verify the reports of these informers he enlisted the services of Col. Thomas H. Keefe, of the war department secret service, and Capt. E R.P. Shurly of the veteran reserve corps, acting adjutant general at Camp Douglas.
	users.aol.com /cinticwrt/copper.html (5864 words)

	Historical Virginians: Virginia Is For Lovers
		John B. Floyd — (1806 — 1863) Smithfield; Governor of Virginia (1849-1852); Secretary of War (1857-1861) http://library.thinkquest.org/12587/contents/personalities/jfloyd/jf.html
		John Y. Mason — (1799-1859) Greensville County; Secretary of the Navy (1844-1849), Attorney General (1845-1846);
		John W. Warner — (1927-) Amherst County; Secretary of the Navy (1972-1974); U.S. Senator (1979-present); http://warner.senate.gov/l
	www.virginia.org /site/features.asp?featureID=93 (700 words)

	USS Mason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Mason (DD-191) was named for John Young Mason, Secretary of the Navy under Presidents John Tyler and James K. Polk.
		The second Mason (DE-529) was named for Ensign Newton Henry Mason, a naval aviator and posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross awardee.
		The third Mason (DDG-87), commissioned in April 2003, honors the all-African-American crew of the second Mason.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Mason (157 words)

	Search Results for "Ostend"
		Ostend Manifesto, document drawn up in Oct., 1854, at Ostend, Belgium, by James Buchanan, American minister to Great Britain, John Y. Mason, minister to France, and...
		It is a major commercial and fishing port, connected...
		...Pierre Soule, minister to Spain, and John Y. Mason, minister to France, in drawing up the Ostend Manifesto (1854), which was promptly repudiated by the U.S. Dept....
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Ostend (278 words)

	Ostend Manifesto at AllExperts
		The Ostend Manifesto was a secret document written in 1854 by U.S. diplomats at Ostend, Belgium, describing a plan to acquire Cuba from Spain.
		The document declared that "Cuba is as necessary to the North American republic as any of its present members, and that it belongs naturally to that great family of states of which the Union is the Providential Nursery."
		On orders from U.S. Secretary of State William L. Marcy, three U.S. diplomats (minister to Britain James Buchanan, minister to France John Y. Mason, and minister to Spain Pierre SoulÃ©) devised a plan to purchase Cuba, for $130 million, for the United States.
	en.allexperts.com /e/o/os/ostend_manifesto.htm (312 words)

	NOAA History - Tools of the Trade/Ships/C&GS Ships
		JOHN Y. Schooner, length 62.8 feet, beam 17 feet, draft 5.3 feet.
		Named for John Y. Mason, 16th Secretary of the Navy, March 1844 to March 1845, under President John Tyler and Attorney General and then 18th Secretary of the Navy under President James K. Polk from September 1846 to March 1849.
		Schooner, length 63 feet, beam 18 feet, draft 5.5 feet.
	www.history.noaa.gov /ships/ship13.html (122 words)

	Ahern, Naval History at the APS
		Among topics covered are privateers and privateering, prize cases, the British and Continental Navies, and the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
		The correspondence is concentrated in the 1840s and 1850s when he began his worldwide travels, and reflects his interest in arctic exploration as well as his search for Sir John Franklin.
		The various Peale Family collections include numerous letters and reports relating to the expedition and the specimens collected, as well as a number of sketches made by Peale during the voyage.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/naval/parti.htm (1061 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Jackson had gotten more votes in 1824 than the other three candidates in the presidential election, but he had not won a majority, and the House of Representatives had passed over him to choose John Quincy Adams as president.
		Polk's Jeffersonian ideology of states' rights and limited government made him originally sympathetic to the doctrine of nullification that John C. Calhoun developed to oppose high protective tariffs.
		Meanwhile many of Jackson's former supporters in Tennessee, led by Congressman John Bell, were breaking away from Jackson's Democratic party.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0317430-00 (1904 words)

	John Jay College Athletics
		New York, N.Y. --- The John Jay women’s swimming and diving team fell on Thursday evening as they were defeated by Baruch College 68-26 at the John Jay Pool to fall to 3-3 (2-3 CUNYAC) on the season.
		The Bloodhounds evening was highlighted by their win in the opening event as the team of Kelly Calderon (Bronx, NY/ St. Francis Academy), Amanda Garcia (Astoria, NY/ St. John’s Prep), Lorraine Virgilio (Woodside, NY/ Riverbend), and Katelyn O’Shea (Union, NJ/ Union) teamed up to win the 200 yard Medley Relay (2:24.02).
		Vaughn Mason (Bronx, NY/ Alfred E Smith) recorded a team-high 17 points (7-for-10) for the Bloodhounds, while Alex Valerio (Flushing, NY/ Francis Lewis) added 14 off the bench.
	www.johnjayathletics.com (218 words)

	Ostend Manifesto
		The Southerners did not want freed slaves so close to their shores and others thought Manifest Destiny should be extended to Cuba.
		In 1854 three American diplomats, Pierre Soulé (minister to Spain), James Buchanan (minister to Britain), and John Y. Mason (minister to France) met in Ostend, Belgium.
		Mason Pierre Soulé Introduction to the Ostend Manifesto Related:Antonio Maceo timeline
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h147.html (293 words)

	Miller Center of Public Affairs - American President: An ...
		Children: Mary Tyler (1815-1848), Robert Tyler (1816-1877), John Tyler (1819-1896), Letitia Tyler (1821-1907), Elizabeth Tyler (1823-1850), Anne Contesse Tyler (1825), Alice Tyler (1827-1854), Tazewell Tyler (1830-1874), David Gardiner Tyler (1846-1927), John Alexander Tyler (1848-1883), Julia Gardiner Tyler (1849-1871), Lachlan Tyler (1851-1902), Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935), Robert Fitzwalter Tyler (1856-1927), Pearl Tyler (1860-1947)
		John Bell (1841 - 1841), John C. Spencer (1841 - 1843), James M. Porter (1843 - 1844), William Wilkins (1844 - 1845)
		John J. Crittenden (1841 - 1841), Hugh S. Legare (1841 - 1843), John Nelson (1843 - 1845)
	www.millercenter.virginia.edu /academic/americanpresident/tyler (340 words)

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