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  Quotes to Note 6/Political Graveyard
Political junkies, history majors, statisticians and trivia aficionados alike will find something to intrigue in The Political Graveyard.
A huge database of (mostly) dead politicians, the 'Graveyard' provides biographical information on everyone political, from state legislators and national convention delegates on up to governors, congressmen, Supreme Court Justices and U. Presidents.
Graveyard visitors who enjoy looking at the big picture should turn to the sections on demographics and affiliations, while fans of Masterpiece Theatre may want to check out the major political families.
members.tripod.com /blinfool/page35.html   (1027 words)

  
  Political Graveyard - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The Political Graveyard is a website and database that catalogues information about over 138,000 American political figures and political families, along with other information.
The names are sorted and indexed by surname, birthplace, positions held, demography, religion, occupation, cause of death, and final resting place, with each entry usually having less than five lines of text.
The name comes from the Political Graveyard's inclusion of the burial locations of the deceased.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/o/l/Political_graveyard.html   (298 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard
Please include the author, title, name of the political figure or figures it relates to, and (if possible) the ISBN number.
Gazetteer of cities, towns, parishes and counties mentioned in The Political Graveyard
The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.
www.politicalgraveyard.com   (1438 words)

  
 Harvard University IOP: Voter Information: Political Links
Pew Research Center: The People and the Press
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
www.iop.harvard.edu /voter_info_political_links.html   (43 words)

  
 Committee sends Boston Harbor LNG bill to political graveyard - Boston.com
A legislative committee has sent a bill proposing to lease a Boston Harbor island for an liquefied natural gas terminal to a graveyard for disfavored legislation.
BOSTON --A legislative committee has sent a bill proposing to lease a Boston Harbor island for an liquefied natural gas terminal to a graveyard for disfavored legislation.
The Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets made the decision to send the bill to "study" on Tuesday, said co-chairman, Rep. David Flynn, D-Bridgewater.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/15/committee_sends_boston_harbor_lng_bill_to_political_graveyard/?p1=email_to_a_friend   (334 words)

  
 National Governors Association
Humphreys first entered politics as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, a position he held in 1839.
His political career was temporarily interrupted with the outbreak of the Civil War.
He served as a captain in the Confederate Army, was severely wounded in the Gettysburg battle, and rose to the rank of brigadier general by the time he was discharged.
www.nga.org /portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=12c90646cf307010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD   (343 words)

  
 IS 531: Political Science Exercises
Political Science Net Station is an excellent "collection of connections" on the various aspects of political science.
Political Graveyard is a reasonably comprehensive site for U.S. political biography "or The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried." Surprising amount of information is available.
Political Information is a search engine for political news and opinion.
web.utk.edu /~wrobinso/531_ex_polsci.html   (2097 words)

  
 The Washington Monthly
That he's been steeped in vigorous activism on behalf of the tsunami victims and getting people involved in community activism generally, that he's made a peace with GWHB similar to Carter's and Ford's post-office affection for each other -- is an added gravitas bonus.
Perhaps, just perhaps, this has more to do with the political machinery that the GOP runs which finds work for everybody, acting as a conservative work-as-welfare socialism.
Politics is strewn with bodies littered on the side of the road.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2006_05/008860.php   (10295 words)

  
 RESOURCES & LINKS
The APIC has many members interested in 19th political campaign memorabilia and publishes a quarterly magazine The Keynoter which focuses on campaigns and campaign memorabilia.
Interesting for political campaign memorabilia collectors as it serves as a model for a well designed website devoted to a similar subject matter.
A scholarly treatise on the use of political memorabilia in campaigns.
www.politicalbadges.com /resources.htm   (822 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2004
Since Confederation, Canada has seen a parade of political parties vie to form the national government; and all have since fallen by the way save for one – the Liberals.
He reasoned that if Canada's political right united in one party, it could have broader national appeal and unseat the reigning Liberals at the polls.
The deal ended the Tories' 60-year run in federal politics – 15 of those as Canada's government and much of the rest as the official Opposition.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes2004/leadersparties/parties/graveyard.html   (1220 words)

  
 Military.com Content
The Almanac of American Politics --Biographical information on every member of the House and Senate, congressional district profiles, and political analysis.
U.S. Political Parties and Elections -- (University of Pennsylvania Library) This guide is designed to assist in locating information on major U.S. political parties and the election process at the federal level.
Political Graveyard -- "The website that tells where the dead politicians are buried" also gives information about their lives, and about historic cemeteries.
www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1/?file=vote_resources   (549 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard a who's-who of departed
The resource tells where they were born, where they died, what office they served and where they are buried, along with assorted pertinent facts, such as if they died in a duel or served in the Peace Corps.
The Political Graveyard (politicalgraveyard.com) has grown tremendously since 1996, when Kestenbaum, who works at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, first posted it on the World Wide Web.
On July 1, 1996, The Political Graveyard was born.
www-personal.umich.edu /~jeda/ThePoliticalGraveyard.htm   (926 words)

  
 Spring 2000 Michigan Today--Cool Blue Web site
The Political Graveyard is a compendium of the final resting places of nearly 35,000 American political figures–a cyber Book of the Dead of politicians.
Among several subtopics in Lawrence Kestenbaum's Political Graveyard is a compilation of the nation's 142 political dynasties (see http://politicalgraveyard.com/plfamily.html).
Each family in Kestenbaum's "Incomplete List of Political Families" has "four or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption." They are listed in descending order by the number of politician members, with the 28 entries for the Breckinridge-Preston family of Virginia and Kentucky (1750-1979) leading the list.
www.umich.edu /~newsinfo/MT/00/Spr00/mt8s00.html   (927 words)

  
 Echoes from the political graveyard  [Bluegrass Institute]
From the political graveyard, outgoing Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton resurrects the most familiar theme during his stormy tenure: Raising taxes is the only way to save the Commonwealth’s sinking economic ship.
After all, it’s politically less painful to raise taxes on smokers than enact spending cuts critical to the state’s future economic health.
Patton and his party to Kentucky’s political graveyard, in which there also is room for the next administration should it stray from its mandate to cut the size of this monstrous government.
www.bipps.org /article.asp?ID=65   (755 words)

  
 Political USA: Resources/Directories
Through our in-depth features, articles and large resource of links we are attempting to provide Canadians and the world with a comprehensive guide to politics on the net.
National Political Index - An index of substantive political information for voters, political activists, political consultants, lobbyists, politicians, academicians, and media editors with a wide range of products, information, services, simulations, games, and polling.
Political Graveyard - A database of history, politics, and cemeteries.
www.politicalusa.com /link/Resources/Directories   (264 words)

  
 Alan Keyes and the politics of hate and hypocrisy by Andy Martin
Political Gateway tries to bring input from all sides of the political arena to allow free and open discourse on a range of subjects.
Yes, Alan Keyes—much to the surprise of the somnolent Chicago media—has arisen from the political graveyard to haunt us again--with a new episode of homophobia, one involving his daughter.
He takes extremist stands knowing that a tiny fragment of the political community agrees with him and will pay to hear his radical nonsense.
www.politicalgateway.com /main/columns/read.html?col=254   (1021 words)

  
 PoliticsOnline - News, Tools & Strategies
Created in 1996, PoliticalGraveyard.com is the work of Lawrence Kastenbaum, attorney, academic, preservationist, and hosts one of the web's largest databases on the political players of the past.
Graveyard not only houses an exceptional database of national cemeteries, and related links, but also gives you information on past Democratic National Conventions dating back to 1832 and Republican National Conventions dating back to 1856 - we're talking about locations, dates, and when available, even the delegations that attended.
Next time you have to go to one of those political cocktail parties or fundraisers, take five minutes on this site and you'll come up with all sorts of obscure and interesting facts to astound and amaze even the most hardened political junkie.
www.politicsonline.com /content/main/hotsite/hotsite_display.asp?id=142   (410 words)

  
 First Presbyterian Church Graveyard, Knoxville TN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Although 1800 is the earliest death date inscribed on a tombstone in the cemetery, the site may have been used by the pioneers as a community burying ground as early as 1786 when James White's fort was built.
Among those buried in the church graveyard are James White, the founder of Knoxville; Rev. Samuel Carrick, our first minister; Hugh Lawson White, a candidate for U.S. President in 1836; territorial governor William Blount; and Col. John Williams, a member of Congress.
The graveyard at First Presbyterian Church was used to inter the citizens of Knoxville for 79 years.
www.fpcknox.org /graveyard.htm   (506 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Washington city, D.C.
The Political Graveyard has no official connection with any of those areas or governments.
Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
www.potifos.com /tpg/geo/DC/wa.html   (446 words)

  
 Political Science and Public Policy Resources : People
Although not focusing on political biographies as such, this web site does provide links to many politicians from around the world available over the web.
Tracks the skeletons in the closets of major and sometimes not so major national political figures, keeping track of allegations by mainstream and semi-mainstream sources.
It's maintained by Real People for Real Change, a group of West Coasters claiming to be "fed up with politics, especially media coverage of politics" and pledging "to do something (about it) besides bitch and drink like everybody else does".
www.lib.msu.edu /harris23/govdocs/people.htm   (921 words)

  
 ALIC - Politics, Presidents, Congress, and Foreign Policy
Helpful general sites relating to politics, as well as campaigns and elections, and links to political parties.
The American Political Development Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs has created a website to support scholars and professors in the interdisciplinary study of the deep historical roots of politics in the United States.
Catalogued and annotated by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr., this is a unique collection of American political cartoons, caricatures, and illustrations.
www.archives.gov /research/alic/reference/politics.html   (736 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Political ruin familiar sight
The county has a long-standing history of scandals and foul-ups resulting in embarrassment and sometimes even political ruin.
Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman talks on the phone before a horse ride on which she was made aware of a recommendation she be charged with felonies.
Salt Lake County is also a well-known political graveyard.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595089217,00.html   (951 words)

  
 POLITICAL
The phrase political is a rather general phrase and focusing on it wouldn’t draw targeted traffic much like the phrases in the Forget It group.
It will be easier to make it for the head positions with such phrases and they will draw more targeted traffic to your page.
I suggest you not to focus on these phrases political media planning, political maps they are too general, neither on none - they are too specific.
www.gmphost.com /_seo/political.html   (226 words)

  
 Nir Boms & Erick Stakelbeck on Iranian Human-Rights Abuses on National Review Online
Of course, that was supposed to change with Khatami's ascension to the presidency in 1997, as Iran's young people embraced him as a visionary who could break the iron grip wielded by fundamentalist mullahs over every aspect of Iranian society.
In April 2003, Jamil Bassam and Abrahim Khodabandeh, two Iranian political refugees and democracy activists who had lived in Britain for over 30 years, were visiting family in Syria when they were arrested at their Damascus hotel.
While that remains unlikely, two weeks ago, protests were held by Iranian activists in Washington, D.C., London, Stockholm, Oslo, Rome, Frankfurt, Berlin, and the Hague to condemn the two men's handover by Syrian authorities and the lack of a response from the British government on the matter thus far.
www.nationalreview.com /voices/boms_stakelbeck200405040826.asp   (996 words)

  
 politicians - Ask.com Web Search
Profiles of famous politicians and political leaders is a collection of biographies, famous political quotes and politics information.
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news...
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and...
www.ask.com /web?q=politicians   (298 words)

  
 Washington Bulletin by John J. Miller on National Review Online
Engler's final important political goal is to leave the governorship to his hand-picked successor — and that means helping deliver a victory for Posthumus.
Not only does Granholm appear to be a viable candidate in a Democrat-leaning state, but this will be the first off-year election in which UAW members have a paid holiday.
At the very least, Democrats who pander should be made to pay a political price; either they should really be committed to the idea of reparations and actively try to make them a reality, or they should quit trying to take political advantage of the grievances of a racial minority.
www.nationalreview.com /miller/miller092702.asp   (679 words)

  
 LSU Libraries -- American Politics
With more than 13,500 members residing in over 70 countries worldwide, the American Political Science Association is the world's largest professional organization for the study of politics.
This is a searchable site of the full text of the Constitution and analysis and interpretations of the Constitution in the form of annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Look no further than the Political Graveyard, a U.S.-oriented site of dead politicians and the cemeteries they are buried in.
www.lib.lsu.edu /soc/polisci/american.html   (766 words)

  
 Political Sushi - Politics in the Raw
It lives up to its description of "Politics in the Raw" by dispensing with the usual text-laden, dull format of other political sites and providing a bare-bones (but groovy) look that belies the fact that it's actually a smorgasbord of information.
The serious and the irreverent share space here, where you can glean all the political information you need and still have time to participate in the "where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?" survey.
Although not outrageous or over-the-top like the Political Gossip sites that crowd the 'net waves, this cool site is refreshing to folks seeking to avoid obtuse clutter, yet garner valuable political info.
www.politicalsushi.com /Articles/hotsite.htm   (295 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard - Presented 230622   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Political Graveyard is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing more than 107,000 politicians, living and dead.
Considering the number of pages which exceed 19,000 having had a scant few broken links, the author has exhibited authorship of the highest quality.
Not only do we think the author should receive your award, he should also achieve a high place of honor for such an outstanding work.
www.faeriekeeper.net /230622.htm   (123 words)

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