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  U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > People > Officers & Staff > President Pro Tempore
The vice president of the United States is designated as the president of the Senate.
Since 1816, presidents pro tempore have received a larger salary than other senators, and, for a period after 1856, they were compensated at the same rate as the vice president.
Note: In March, 1890, the Senate adopted a resolution stating that presidents pro tempore would hold office continuously until the election of another president pro tempore, rather than being elected for the period in which the vice president was absent.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/President_Pro_Tempore.htm   (2490 words)

  
  Africa - List Of State Leaders In 1848
Africa - List Of State Leaders In 1848
List of state leaders in 1847 1847 state leaders - 1848 Events of 1848 - List of state leaders in 1849 1849 state leaders - State leaders by year -
Zulu - Mpande kaSenzangakhona, List of Zulu kings King of the Zulu (1840- 1872)
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 Federalist Party (United States) Summary
In most states the congressional elections were recognized, as Jefferson strategist John Beckley put it, as a "struggle between the Treasury department and the republican interest." In New York, the race for governor was organized along these lines.
Militia officers, state's attorneys, lawyers, professors and schoolteachers were in the van of this "conscript army." In all, about a thousand or eleven hundred dependent officer-holders were described as the inner ring which could always be depended upon for their own and enough more votes within their control to decide an election.
Those states were competitive and had the best-developed local parties and most elaborate campaign techniques, including nominating conventions and formal party platforms.
www.bookrags.com /Federalist_Party_(United_States)   (5832 words)

  
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Cleopatra: (69-30 BCE) Queen of ancient Egypt, she was the last ruler in the dynasty founded by Ptolemy I. Jesus Christ: (1st century) Believed by Christians to be the divine Son of God.
Known as a successful military leader, he was victorious over the Christian powers in the Mediterranean region and in Central Europe.
Leader of the Al-Qaeda the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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  A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts
The statistics of this edition are from the State census for 1885 (the last volume of which was issued in June of the present year) or from later sources, as, in part, from the clerks of the towns and cities.
The bowlders which cover the surface of the State were deposited in the glacial period, marks of which may be distinctly traced in the scratching of the ledges from the shore of the ocean to the summit of the mountains.
In the early settlement of the State, the people were greatly annoyed by the depredations of the fl and brown bear and the wolf, which ranged the deep forests, and often came by night to prey upon the cattle in the clearings.
capecodhistory.us /Mass1890/MassachusettsGazetteer.htm   (9999 words)

  
 [CTRL] [15a] Treason in America -- From Aaron Burr to Averell
State Chairman Schell was a close friend of Commodore Vanderbilt, and would serve as Vanderbilt's broker, financial manager and representative on corporate boards for the next two decades.
Thus Schell was in charge of the United States Customs operations for New York, and was in a position to notice, or not to notice, that ships were embarking from his bailiwick for the enslavement of tens of thousands of fls, and the included, usual deaths of thousands of them in transit.
In stating this argument in favor of freedom, "peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must," let me not be misunderstood....(31) New York in Wartime The city council rejected Wood's proposal for treason, and it may be said with confidence that the vast majority of New Yorkers, merchants and workers, were loyal to the Union.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg11717.html   (7458 words)

  
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United States, 511 U.S. A historical examination of the right to bear arms, from English antecedents to the drafting of the Second Amendment, bears proof that the right to bear arms has consistently been, and should still be, construed as an individual right.
It is absurd that a boilerplate state court divorce order can collaterally and automatically extinguish a law-abiding citizen's Second Amendment rights, particularly when neither the judge issuing the order, nor the parties nor their attorneys are aware of the federal criminal penalties arising from firearm possession after entry of the restraining order.
United States Gypsum Co., 438 U.S. However, eliminating the mens rea requirement is such a fundamental departure from longstanding principles of criminal law that courts have demanded an indication of legislative intent to do so.
www-2.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/wbardwel/public/nfalist/us_v_emerson.txt   (7147 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
The state was transformed into a leading manufacturing region in the late 19th century but continued as a major producer of farm commodities.
The state usually leads the nation in mining fluorite and also is a notable producer of cement, peat, clay, lead, zinc, natural gas, copper, gemstones, and tripoli (a type of diatomaceous earth).
The present boundaries of Illinois were established on Dec. 3, 1818, when it became the 21st state of the Union; the remainder of the Illinois Territory was attached to that of Michigan.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/illinois.html   (4250 words)

  
 Journal of San Diego History
Since the policies of the new state government caused the Californios many hardships, it is appropriate to study the community from the end of the American conquest through the formative years of state government.
After the state constitution went into effect in 1850, these regulations changed making it necessary for voters to be residents of the state six months prior to any election and a resident in a voting district for thirty days before an election.
The assembly and senate both approved an amendment to the state constitution requiring candidates for the legislature to be citizens of the state for two years and of their district one year prior to their candidacy.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/75summer/decline.htm   (19173 words)

  
 Kansas and Kansans p.935-945
This election was held December 15, 1855, and the constitution adopted by a vote of 1,731 to 46.
In the meantime, on June 15th, the first National Republican Convention declared "that Kansas should be immediately admitted as a state of the Union, with her present free Constitution." On June 25th Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill in Congress to admit Kansas under the Topeka Constitution.
On December 21st the election was held under this call, the free-state men not voting, with the result of 6,266 for the constitution with slavery and 569 for the constitution with no slavery.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/935.html   (4199 words)

  
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The Texas State Cemetery is located approximately one mile east of the State Capitol between Navasota and Comal streets and consists of 18 acres.
From 1856 to 1866 there were a number of burials that included some of Texas’ most widely known leaders, Civil War generals, and other soldiers from Texas’ fight for independence and the Civil War.
Thirty-five years after Johnston’s return to Texas and the state burial ground, the renowned artist Elisabet Ney was commissioned to construct a monument for the fallen hero.
www.cemetery.state.tx.us /html/history.htm   (1034 words)

  
 [A-List] Turkey: "Soldier of God" opens fire in courtroom
Europeans, for their part, no longer saw the Ottoman state as an equal force as they had three centuries earlier, but as a pliant victim that could be manipulated for larger European purposes.
It is a strategy that the United States inherited after World War II, particularly after the Cold War, in the name of promoting, through trade, allegedly superior American values, vaguely identified as democracy and free-market entrepreneurship.
On the one hand, many European leaders came to understand the grave risks total Ottoman collapse posed to the general peace held together by a delicate balance of power.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2006-May/061083.html   (4269 words)

  
 Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
Each list stands alone for the purpose of allocating seats; party is not even a criterion used in the allocation of seats…Thus, parties have little control over the composition of their delegation in either house of Congress" (page 133).
The value of the returns for 1848 and 1856 is diminished, however, by the fact that the electoral districts of 1856 differed from those of 1848 and the regulations governing the suffrage also differed.
Nor had the leaders of the principal factions yet lost control over congressional nominations, as happened when interparty competition was banned under the National Front regime…The predictable result of a personalistic and faction-ridden congress coupled with a president holding dominant lawmaking powers was a congress ill-equipped to deal with fundamental challenges facing the country.
sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/colombia/general.html   (12648 words)

  
 Quia - STATE TEST REVIEW: Events, Laws, Organizations, etc.
Southern states could return to the union when 10% swore loyalty to the union.
The act required food and drug makers to list all ingredients on their packages and ended false advertising.
States that the U.S. can act as an "international police power" in the Western Hemisphere.
www.quia.com /jg/139989list.html   (848 words)

  
 The History of New York State
Know Nothings were at the head of the poll in New York state in 1855, electing Joel T. Headley to the Secretaryship of State by 148557 votes with Preston King, the Republican candidate, next with 136,698 votes; Hatch, Softs or Barnburner, 91, 336; and Ward, Hards or Hunker, 59,353.
He was still the leader of the North, or at least of the East; still the logical candidate for the Presidency.
The empire state had been properly organized behind Seward, and monopolized the whole of one hotel, sported a uniformed band and a stalwart body of marchers, led by a well-known pugilist.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/state/his/bk12/ch8/pt1.html   (4535 words)

  
 THE BLACK EXPERIENCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1969, the State Department of Education became the Department of Education, and the Commissioner of Education replaced the State Superintendent of Public Instruction as chief educational officer of the state (Ch.
The first state census was authorized by the Constitution of 1838 to commence in 1845 and to be continued at ten year intervals.  The purpose of this census was twofold: to supplement the Federal ten-year census that was carried out at the beginning of each decade and to determine Legislative electoral districts.
The state census was abolished in 1949 and the federal census served as the state’s census record beginning in 1950 (Senate Joint Resolution #46, 1949).
dlis.dos.state.fl.us /barm/BlackExperience/blackexp.html   (12189 words)

  
 [A-List] US imperialism: Henry Liu's analysis
About the state of the US economy, the president acknowledged that unemployment is now at 6 percent, which he claimed should serve as a clear signal to the US Congress a bold economic recovery package is needed so people can find work.
It was formed in 1856 by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge.
Bernard Lewis, who describes the separation of church and state as a Western disease, and Fouad Ajami are the neo-cons' favored Middle East experts who see the Arab World as ripe for liberation from itself into modernity by the West.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-May/044043.html   (5078 words)

  
 List of state leaders in 1856 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1855 state leaders - Events of 1856 - 1857 state leaders - State leaders by year
Manuel de Regla Mota y Álvarez de Fuentes, President of the Dominican Republic (1856)
United States: Franklin Pierce, President of the United States (1853–1857)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1856   (901 words)

  
 FINAL RULE: RIO GRANDE SILVERY MINNOW, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A proposed rule to list the Rio Grande silvery minnow as endangered with critical habitat was published in the Federal Register on March 1, 1993 (58 FR 11821).
Section 4(b)(6)(C) states that a concurrent critical habitat designation is not required, and that the final decision on designation may be postponed for 1 year from the date of publication of the final rule to list the species.
The Service's regulations (50 CFR 424.12(a)(2)) state that critical habitat is not determinable if information sufficient to perform required analyses of the impacts of the designation is lacking or if the biological needs of the species are not sufficiently well known to permit identification of an area as critical habitat.
www.fws.gov /endangered/r/fr94543.html   (7759 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in the fall of 1866 serving until the fall of 1870.
Upon the conclusion of the Civil War he was dispatched by Chief Pitchlyn as a delegate to the Ft. Smith conference with the United States commissioners where a preliminary treaty or armistice was signed.
The first Masonic lodge to be formed in what is today the State of Oklahoma was located at Boggy Depot, was chartered by the Grand Lodge of Arkansas in October, 1869, and named Oklahoma Lodge, A. and A. by Rev. Allen Wright.
digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v019/v019p314.html   (3593 words)

  
 Cult Survivors Handbook
Cult leaders are often addicts and sociopaths, who have little regard for anyone but themselves.
Often, they blame the victims for "tempting" them or for behaving so badly that they "deserved it." Psychopathic child molesters can easily lie to try to justify their actions, and in cults, abusive men routinely lie to talk their way out of trouble when parents and others who try to stand up to them.
The main reason a child may get stuck is due to their frustration in acting out the Oedipus/Electra complex, which states children want to kill one parent and have sex with the other.
surrealist.org /writing/handbook2.html   (4028 words)

  
 Creating A Commonwealth
The United States Constitution, federal laws, and treaties are considered to be the "supreme law of the land." The judges of every state are bound by it, regardless of anything contrary in individual state constitutions or laws.
In reference to Pennsylvania, the word "commonwealth" is synonymous with "state." The term is of English derivation and implies a special devotion of the government to the common "weal," or the welfare of its citizens.
Interestingly, the state seal of Pennsylvania does not use the term, but as a matter of tradition it is the legal designation used in referring to the state.
www.legis.state.pa.us /WU01/VC/visitor_info/creating/whole_creating.htm   (15978 words)

  
 UMCP Higher Education- About
The University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) is the state flagship institution for the state of Maryland.
The Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) is a state commission, operating as an extension of the Maryland General Assembly and is "is the State of Maryland's higher education coordinating board responsible for establishing statewide policies for Maryland public and private colleges and universities and for-profit career schools.
If there are others you feel should be added to this list please e-mail me with their names at ebaum@umd.edu.
www.education.umd.edu /EDPA/students/Pages/about.htm   (1215 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
While in that city a public meeting was held where resolutions of approval were passed praising the officer and a sword was presented him to show the gratitude of the citizens of the state.
In 1865 conditions on the Great Plains had become so disturbed by the turbulent state of the Indians that congress sent a committee to make an investigation; as a result a "piece commission" was selected to visit all of the western tribes to make new treaties and distribute food supplies and blankets among them.
He did not agree with other observers that there would be a damming of the tide of immigration on the frontier in the middle of Kansas and Nebraska; he contended that the land agents and railroads had greatly exaggerated the agricultural possibilities of the country.
digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v020/v020p322.html   (7789 words)

  
 Seven to Save 2000
Under federal and state historic preservation law, an exploration of alternatives to demolition is required during this process.
In addition, officials at the New York State Department of Transportation and State Historic Preservation Office have advocated strongly with Pennsylvania officials for the retention and rehabilitation of the bridge.
If this were to happen, it would truly be a missed opportunity for the people of Randolph to see the best, and perhaps only, chance for substantial investment in the future of their downtown and in the historic fabric that defines the unique character of their community.
www.preservenys.org /seven2002.htm   (5551 words)

  
 Collections Pertaining to Women's History and Women's Issues - State Library & Archives of Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Florida State Archives, under the Florida Department of State, is the official repository for the public records of the state of Florida.
The Florida State Society is the central organizing committee for the various local chapters of the DAR, a women's society of descendants of American Revolutionaries whose mission is to promote historical, educational and patriotic work.
Bolton's instrumental role in the fight for equal rights for women and other minorities in the state and country is well documented in these records which reflect her life's work.
dlis.dos.state.fl.us /barm/fsa/women'sguide.htm   (6171 words)

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