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	Richard Coke (1829-1897)
		Born March 13, 1829 in Virginia and educated at William and Mary College, Richard Coke was admitted to the bar in 1850 at the age of 21 years.
		In 1861, Coke was elected by his county as a delegate to the state Secession Convention, where he voted for secession.
		Coke's popularity became abundantly evident in the gubernatorial election in 1873, when he defeated incumbent E. Davis by a margin of two to one.
	www.lsjunction.com /people/coke.htm (353 words)

	Richard Coke
		In 1861 Coke was a delegate to the Secession Convention in Austin and voted for secession.
		Coke won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1873 and, in a bitter and sometimes violent election, defeated Governor Edmund J. Davis, the Republican candidate, by a vote of 85,549 to 42,663.
		Coke was reelected to the Senate in January 1883 and again in January 1889, both times by unanimous vote in the legislature.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/Richard_Coke (783 words)

	Coke, Richard: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		Richard Coke achieved prominence as a politician and jurist in the state of Texas.
		Coke was born March 13, 1829, in Williams-burg, Virginia.
		After a tour of military duty during the Civil War, Coke became a district court judge in 1865 and subsequently presided as an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1866 to 1867.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/coke-richard (136 words)

	Richard Coke at AllExperts
		Coke was born in Williamsburg, Virginia to John and Eliza (Hankins) Coke.
		Coke was a delegate to the Secession Convention at Austin in 1861.
		Coke was elected governor as a Democrat in 1873 and took office in January of 1874.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ri/richard_coke.htm (467 words)

	Texas Governor Richard Coke: An Inventory of Records at the Texas State Archives, 1873-1877
		Records are from Richard Coke's tenure as governor of Texas from 1874 to 1876.
		Richard Coke, governor of Texas, held office from January 15, 1874 to December 1, 1876.
		Coke was born March 13, 1829 in Williamsburg, Virginia.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/40017/tsl-40017.html (535 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Richard Coke, Texas governor and United States senator, son of John and Eliza (Hankins) Coke, was born near Williamsburg, Virginia, on March 13, 1829.
		In 1861 Coke was a delegate to the Secession Convention
		Coke was reelected to the Senate in January 1883 and again in January 1889, both times by unanimous vote in the legislature.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fco15.html (849 words)

	Mary Evans Horne Coke
		Richard Coke enlisted in the Confederate Army and served during the entire war.
		Richard and Mary Evans Horne Coke endured the hardships of the Reconstruction period.
		Mary Evans Horne Coke was a frail woman and an invalid during the times that she was the First Lady of Texas.
	www.twu.edu /firstladies/meh_coke.htm (242 words)

	EepyBird.com: The Domino Effect
		The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments II - The Domino Effect
		A clever mechanism harnesses the power of one geyser of Diet Coke to drop the Mentos into the next bottle.
		The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II, by Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one).
	www.eepybird.com /exp214.html (268 words)

	E. Dawson to Richard Coke, August 1874 - Texas State Library
		Dawson to Richard Coke, August 1874 - Texas State Library
		NOTE: To enhance the readability of this transcription, the transcriber did not add the traditional notation of [sic] after each misspelling.
		Records of Richard Coke, Texas Office of the Governor, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/indian/showdown/dawson-coke-aug1874.html (120 words)

	RICHARD COKE - SIGNATURE(S)
		On February 1, 1861, delegate Richard Coke (1829-1897), voted for secession at the Texas Secession Convention.
		Coke served as judge of the Supreme Court of Texas from 1866 to 1867, when General Philip Sheridan, Military Governor of the 5th Military District (Texas and Louisiana), removed him, determining that Coke was an "impediment to reconstruction".
		This action gained popularity for Coke, who was elected Governor of Texas, serving from 1874-1877, the first in a line of Democratic Texas Governors that lasted until 1979.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/1_2001/texana/RICHARD_COKE.htm (217 words)

	Killer Coke
		This year, Coke's brand name was valued at $65.3 billion, a loss of 3% or close to $2 billion -- a loss of more than $2 billion over the past two years.
		Wardlaw, a huge Coke shareholder, said in the 2004 Coke shareholders' meeting: "As far as my proposal on China business principles which I am bringing to you for the third time, I introduced this proposal because I, along with many other socially conscious shareholders, are concerned about Coke, its reputation and its share price.
		Coke is accused of contaminating water and farmland in India.
	www.corporatecampaign.org /killer-coke (8900 words)

	Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. - Portrait of Mr. Coke of Brookhill
		Coke’s costume may be that of a military regiment or militia as many such units were posted in and around Bath during this period.
		The Cokes were an ancient Derbyshire family who had owned the Elizabethan house and its estate, Brookhill Hall in Pinxton for generations.
		The estate and house at Brookhill was inherited by George Coke’s eldest son, Rev. D’Ewes Coke (1747-1811) who was painted in a group portrait with his wife, Hannah and Daniel Parker Coke, M.P. by Joseph Wright of Derby that dates to c.1782 (Derby Museum and Art Gallery).
	www.steigrad.com /cat/gainsborough01.html (558 words)

	National Governors Association
		RICHARD COKE was born in Williamsburg, Virginia and graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1849.
		Coke organized his own administration, however, which meant that for a brief time there were two state governments.
		Coke went on to serve in the Senate until 1895, when he declined renomination.
	www.nga.org /portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=91c1c2bbf6576010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD (296 words)

	Major Richard Coke - Obituary, EDP, 10 May, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Major Richard Coke, who has died aged 83, was well-known in Norfolk as a forest conservationist and a soldier with a distinguished military record.
		Richard Coke, third son of the second Earl of Leicester, he was a deputy lieutenant of Norfolk from 1977 and was High Sheriff in 1981, succeeding Major David Jamieson, who died recently aged 80.
		Weasenham Wood, on land owned by the family since the 1780s, was taken in hand by Major Coke's grandfather and American conifers were planted to fill gaps between clumps of old Scots pine over an extensive area between Fakenham and Swaffham.
	apling.freeservers.com /Names/RichardCoke.htm (335 words)

	Bonfire Coalition for Students - Heritage
		Richard Coke, US Senator, Texas state Governor, and the Father of the A&M College of Texas.
		Senator Coke was born in Williamsburg, VA in 1829.
		It was due to Governor Coke that A&M finally became a college as it was him who fought to push the legislation through that finally established A&M as a school.
	stuact.tamu.edu /stuorgs/bcs/heritage/rareport/coke.html (669 words)

	John COKE (Sir Knight) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the parliament of 1625 Coke acted as a secretary of state; in this and later parliaments he introduced the royal requests for money, and defended the foreign policy of Charles I and Buckingham, and afterwards the actions of the King.
		His son, Sir John Coke, sided with the parliament in its struggle with the King, and it is possible that in later life Cokes own sympathies were with this party, although in his earlier years he had been a defender of absolute monarchy.
		Coke, who greatly disliked the papacy, is described by Clarendon as a man of very narrow education and a narrower mind; and again he says, his cardinal perfection was industry and his most eminent infirmity covetousness.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/JohnCoke.htm (294 words)

	Coke County, Texas at AllExperts
		Coke County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.
		Coke is named for Richard Coke, the fifteenth governor of Texas.
		About 9.70% of families and 13.00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.00% of those under age 18 and 12.80% of those age 65 or over.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/co/coke_county,_texas.htm (417 words)

	Coke building should be renamed (Texas A&M)
		Coke was many things, but he certainly cannot be considered a patriarch of this fine University.
		Coke would be deserving of a tribute on the AandM campus if he had contributed to our University in a meaningful way.
		I don't know anything about Richard Coke or Matthew Gaines, but most men who were lynched for cattle rustling in the West were white...lynching is obviously wrong, but the writer fails to show that Coke's attitude in this case was because of the race of the alleged rustlers.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/787369/posts (1635 words)

	Coke of Holkham Hall, Norfolk
		Thomas William COKE, Earl of Leicester of Holkham [pronounced Lester of Hokum] (1752 - 1842).
		Undountedly, the most famous of Norwich School's 'old boys' in this period [last 16th century] was Edward Coke, recorder of Norwich from 1572 to 1592, MP for the county of Norfolk in 1592 and 1625, and chief justice of the common pleas and King's Bench in the seventeenth century.
		Didlington Estate [Coke, holder of a fee and a half in the time of Henry III].
	apling.freeservers.com /Names/Coke.htm (362 words)

	thePeerage.com - Captain Thomas Richard Edwards-Moss and others
		Richard Coke and Elizabeth Vera Catherine Alice de Beaumont.
		Richard Coke and Elizabeth Vera Catherine Alice de Beaumont, on 8 June 1966.
		Richard Coke and Elizabeth Vera Catherine Alice de Beaumont, on 30 September 1966.
	thepeerage.com /p1798.htm (483 words)

	Wilderness Safaris
		With such wide-ranging experience, Richard is able to seamlessly lead guests from one habitat to the next, sharing his absolute passion along the way.
		Richard's earliest guiding experience came when he led walks through the mountains of the Drakensburg to view Bushman Paintings.
		Richard is a keen photographer and enjoys birding.
	www.wilderness-safaris.com /ourpeople/ourpeople.jsp?guide_id=7761 (538 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Governors' Stake: The Parallel Lives of Two Texas Governors: Richard Coke and Lawrence Sullivan Ross: ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Coke was born to an aristocratic Virginia family and was educated in law at William and Mary College.
		Sul Ross was a small, wiry man. Richard Coke was the opposite, six-foot three and at least 240 pounds.
		While Coke also distinguished himself during the war, it was the bravery he displayed after winning the race for governor in 1873 that demonstated his mettle.
	www.amazon.ca /Governors-Stake-Parallel-Lawrence-Sullivan/dp/1571687734 (720 words)

	thePeerage.com - Bridget Doreen Coke and others
		She married, firstly, Captain Thomas Richard Edwards-Moss, son of John Edwards-Moss, on 18 December 1943.
		He married Mabel Coke, daughter of Sir Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Hon.
		He is the son of Major Richard Lovel Coke and Molly Fletcher.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1797.htm (671 words)

	Texas Monthly: Texana Ranger
		On the evening of Monday, January 12, 1874, when the new and overwhelmingly Democratic-controlled Texas legislature moved into the Capitol to inaugurate Richard Coke as governor, there was just one problem: Governor Edmund Jackson Davis was still in the building.
		So no one was surprised when Confederate hero, Richard Coke, stomped Davis by a margin of 2 to 1 in the 1873 election.
		While hundreds of fls gathered on the Capitol grounds to show their support for Davis, the mayor of Austin, a Coke man, was arrested in an attempt to take over a state ammunition storehouse.
	www.texasmonthly.com /ranch/texana/texana.eoct.97.php (602 words)

	Coke County, Texas TX, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Coke County is one of 254 counties in Texas.
		This was a decrease of -3.86% from the 2000 census.
		Coke County supported George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22616 (401 words)

	Fort Tours \| Coke County Historical Markers
		When laws were passed in Gov. John Ireland's administration to stop the war, Texas had suffered much damage to its property and reputation.
		Intermittent drilling had gone on in Coke County for 30 years, but this discovery began a county-wide oil boom.
		Coke County recently ranked among the top quarter of oil-producing counties in Texas, with its 18 fields exceeding 6.4 million barrels annually.
	www.forttours.com /pages/hmcoke.asp (1597 words)

	Texas Politics - Governors: Richard Coke
		Richard Coke (1829-1897), Texas governor and United States senator, son of John and Eliza (Hankins) Coke, was born near Williamsburg, Virginia, on March 13, 1829.
		The next year he raised a company that became part of Joseph W. Speight's Fifteenth Texas Infantry and, as captain, served throughout the Civil War, except for a sixty-day leave in 1864.
		Under the Constitution of 1876, adopted during his term, Coke served on a three-member board that supervised a new, decentralized system of public education.
	texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu /html/exec/governors/01.html (874 words)

	National Governors Association
		RICHARD BENNETT HUBBARD was born in Walton County, Georgia.
		He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1873, and succeeded to the position of governor when Richard Coke resigned after being elected to the U.S. Senate.
		He served as temporary chairman of the Democratic National Convention in 1884 and was U.S. minister to Japan from 1885 to 1889.
	www.nga.org /portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=f573c2bbf6576010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD (239 words)

	Coke — FactMonster.com
		Thomas Coke - Coke, Thomas Coke, Thomas, 1747–1814, English clergyman and early bishop of the Methodist...
		Sir Edward Coke - Coke, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Edward, 1552–1634, English jurist, one of the most eminent in the...
		coke - coke coke, substance obtained by the destructive distillation of bituminous coal.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/coke.html (133 words)

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