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  Robert Goodloe Harper - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Robert Goodloe Harper was a Representative from South Carolina and a Senator from Maryland.
Harper was a member of the South Carolina house of representatives from 1790 until 1795, when he was elected from South Carolina to the Third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Gillon.
Harper was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1798 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against William Blount.
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 H-Net Review: James C. Foley on The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral ...
Robert Harper believed passionately in the value of education yet remained firmly committed to slavery as one of the underpinnings of southern society.
Harper therefore feared that the revolt in Santo Domingo, inspired by events in France, was the foreshadowing of slave uprisings in America.
Harper's passing in 1825 in many ways is emblematic of the passing of the Jeffersonian generation and the rise of the next generation that would aggressively defend slavery.
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 ERIC KADES | History and Interpretation of the Great Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh | Law and History Review, 19.1 | The ...
Robert Morris was one of the first purchasers, in 1789, and others bought all but three of the thirty company-owned shares over the next year.
Robert Morris came out of debtors' prison in 1801 as "lean, low-spirited and as poor as a commission of bankruptcy can make a man whose effects will, it is said, not pay a shilling on the pound" and died penniless in 1806.
Harper apparently determined that Johnson's estate owned shares and decided to go to court in a final stab at a happy ending to the long and sad story of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.
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 Biography for: Robert Goodloe Harper Pennington
Robert Goodloe Harper Pennington was an artist who came from a prominent Maryland family, his mother being a descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Whilst in Venice, Pennington painted a portrait of Robert Browning for the prominent American expatriate Katherine de Kay Bronson.
In 1886/1887 JW drew Pennington's portrait, Harper Pennington (M.1100).
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Penn_H.htm   (507 words)

  
 Maryland Historical Society Library: Harper-Pennington Papers, 1701-1899, MS. 431 - Finding Aid
Harper's speech on the navy: in opposition to the motion of Mr.
Harper's speech to the citizens of Baltimore on the expediency of promoting a connexion between the Ohio, at Pittsburgh, and the waters of the Chesapeake at Baltimore, by a canal through the district of Columbia; with his reply to some of the objections of Mr.
Robert Goodloe Harper's papers begin in 1784 in a series of letters written to Harper from various members of his family while he was attending the College of New Jersey at Princeton.
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 Descriptions of Maryland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gurney (101), a prominent English Quaker went from Baltimore to Harper’s Ferry, in 1841, and speaks of the religious conditions of the city, of Chief Justice Taney, of the jail, and the slaves.
Bayard Taylor’s article on the Eastern Shore in Harper’s Magazine is the source of the well-known quotation in reference to the excellence of the Ocean City beach (209).
Robert Wilson (216) also travelled on the Eastern Shore about the same time and wrote of the Peninsula, of the Bay, with its products: ducks and fish, oysters, crabs, and terrapin, of the town of Crisfield and of the industries of the Eastern Shore and of Queen Anne’s and Kent Counties.
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 Robert Goodloe Harper
HARPER, Robert Goodloe, senator, born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1765; died in Baltimore, Maryland, 15 January, 1825.
He was the son of poor parents, who, during his childhood, removed to Granville, N.C. At the age of fifteen he served, under General Greene, in a troop of horse, composed of the youth of the neighborhood, during the closing scenes of the southern campaign of the Revolution.
Harper was elected to the United States senate from Maryland to serve from 29 January, 1816, till 3 March, 1821, but resigned in the former year to become one of the Federalist candidates for vice president.
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 Harper --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harper's party won 99 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons.
Harpers Ferry is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains on a strip of land at the junction of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers where West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland meet.
Elijah Harper, an Ojibwa-Cree Indian, was instrumental in the defeat of the ratification of the Meech Lake accord, a proposed amendment to the Canadian Constitution that would have granted provincial governments more power, but failed to adequately address native concerns.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039317?tocId=9039317   (733 words)

  
 The Reverent James Stillinger
James was apprenticed to Robert "Goodloe" Harper from 1816 until he went into the Seminary.
Goodloe had released him from the last 6 months of his apprentice.
Goodloe Harper was the proprietor of the Gettysburg Sentinel (Centinel) newspaper.
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 U.S. presidential election, 1820 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was the first election in which Alabama, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, and Mississippi (all admitted to the union in the previous four years) cast votes.
Daniel D. Tompkins ran for Vice President, defeating Richard Stockton, Daniel Rodney, Robert Goodloe Harper, and Richard Rush.
In all, 235 electors were appointed, but three deceased electors (one each from Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Tennessee) were not replaced prior to votes being cast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1820   (333 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Correspondence respecting Russia, between Robert Goodloe Harper, and Robert Walsh, Jun. together ...
Find in a Library: Correspondence respecting Russia, between Robert Goodloe Harper, and Robert Walsh, Jun. together with the speech of Mr.
Harper, commemorative of the Russian victories : delivered at Georgetown, Columbia, June 5th, 1813 : and an essay on the future state of Europe.
Correspondence respecting Russia, between Robert Goodloe Harper, and Robert Walsh, Jun. together with the speech of Mr.
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 GOODLOE HARPER YANCEY,
Goodloe Harper Yancey, of the firm of Yancey Bros.
To Goodloe H. and Lucy G. (Dupree) Yancey were born four sons and two daughters: Goodloe Harper: B. Earl, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; L. D., connected with the firm of Yancey Brothers; W. L., of Jacksonville, Florida; Mrs.
Goodloe Harper Yancey, Jr., was born in Athens, Georgia, May 14, 1884, receiving his early education in the public schools of that city, later attending the Peacock School for Boys at Atlanta and concluded his educational training at the Georgia School of Technology, attending the latter institution during the years 1902-03.
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 Notes for Robert Goodloe Harper
Robert Goodloe Harper, congressman and Baltimore lawyer, was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in January, 1765, the only son of cabinetmaker Jesse Harper and his wife Diana Goodloe.
Harper's career in Congress, and the controversy over his party affiliation, has been fully treated by Joseph William Cox in Robert Goodloe Harper: The Evolution of A Southern Federalist Congressman.
Harper moved to Baltimore in 1800, and sought the hand of Catharine Carroll.
www.ronulrich.com /rfuged/nti31823.htm   (704 words)

  
 Harpers Choice Community Association: About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harpers Choice Community Association: About Us There are three neighborhoods in the Village of Harper's Choice.
The entire village was part of Jericho, a farm once owned by the late Robert Harper Goodloe Carroll.
Harper's Choice also manages two small Neighborhood Centers; Swansfield Neighborhood Center at 5601 Cedar Lane and Longfellow at 5267 Eliot's Oak Road.
www.columbiavillages.org /harperschoice/html/about_us.html   (266 words)

  
 HARPER, Robert Goodloe (1765-1825) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cox, Joseph W. Champion of Southern Federalism: Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina.
Harper, Robert G. The Case of the Georgia Sales on the Mississippi Considered.
The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery.
bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=H000225   (61 words)

  
 Robert Goodloe Harper Papers, 1791   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
wo manuscripts, 1791, of Rob[ert] G[oodloe] Harper (1765-1825) document the sketchily-documented land speculation phase of this noted Federalist's life.
Harper was secretary of the ill-fated South Carolina Yazoo Company, one of the original three companies formed to develop Georgia's western lands.
Writing on 15 January 1791, Harper apprised Gen. Mordecai Gist that the board had voted to admit him as a member.
www.sc.edu /library/socar/uscs/1998/harper98.html   (234 words)

  
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Congressman Robert Goodloe Harper was also there to observe the application of section 2 of the Sedition Act, which he had drafted.
As Robert Y. Hayne remarked in a speech to the Senate in 1830, the South Carolina doctrine was not an innovation but "the good old Republican doctrine of '98" (Hayne 1830, 28).
As William Quirk and Robert Wilcox (1998) have explained, Article 5 of the Constitution as originally drafted by Madison eschewed the dangers of a constitutional convention and forced Congress to submit amendments "on the application of two thirds of the Legislatures of the several States" (18).
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 MSN Encarta - William Henry Harrison
The marriage produced ten children, one of whom, John Scott Harrison, was the father of Benjamin Harrison, who became the 23rd president in 1889.
Harrison resigned from the army in 1798, and his father's friend, Congressman Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina, helped him secure the post of secretary of the Northwest Territory.
As territorial secretary, Harrison had charge of the territorial records and the governor's transactions, which he presented to the Congress of the United States.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As to the second question, whether the prior commitment by the circuit court barred issuance of the writ, Harper appealed strongly to this latter precedent and urged that the whole purpose of habeas corpus was to re-examine the legality of commitments, even where they had been ordered by courts of competent jurisdiction.
Marshall accepted Harper's assertion that clause [1] of Section 14 is independent of the remainder of the first sentence, but he did so in a way from which the field has yet to fully recover.
Harper's rationale was based on the sound observation that there might be numerous cases, e.g., a service member arrested for debt in defiance of a federal statute or a foreign seaman held by state authorities contrary to the terms of a treaty,
www.law.ua.edu /lawreview/freedman512.htm   (14597 words)

  
 Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France, addressed...to his Constitutents in May 1797. - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
HARPER, ROBERT GOODLOE, CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOUTH CAROLINA, Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France, addressed...to his Constitutents in May 1797.
Harper may be best known for his toast "Millions for Defense, but not a Cent for Tribute" made following the return of John Marshall from attempting to negotiate and discuss France's demands with Tallyrand in 1798.
He was also the one who selected the name "Liberia," was council for Judge Samuel Chase in his impeachment trial and one of the only Federalist candidates for vice president.
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 SAMUEL CHASE - LoveToKnow Article on SAMUEL CHASE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The trial, with frequent interruptions and delays, lasted from the 2nd of January to the 1st of March I8o5.
Judge Chase was defended by the ablest lawyers in the country, including Luther Martin, Robert Goodloe Harper (1 7651825), Philip Barton Key (1757-1815), Charles Lee (1758-1815), and Joseph Hopkinson.
The indictment, in eight articles, dealt with his conduct in the Fries and Callender trials, with his treatment of a Delaware grand jury, and (in article viii.) with his making highly indecent, extra-judicial reflections upon the national administration, probably the greatest offence in Republican eyes.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHASE_SAMUEL.htm   (525 words)

  
 Papers of Individuals on Microform in University of Missouri Special Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Robert Goodloe Harper Papers, is in the Special Collections Office provide a description of the contents for each reel, a biographical sketch, a bibliography of Harper's published works, and information in the provenance of the collection.
Robert Goodloe Harper was a congressman and Baltimore lawyer.
However, a significant amount deals with Harper's role in efforts to establish colonies for fls in Ohio and Africa.
mulibraries.missouri.edu /specialcollections/papermf3.htm   (2488 words)

  
 Impeachment: A NewsHour Special -- Rep. Canady wraps up the constitutional case -- January 16, 1999
And it is a question which arose 200 years ago in the course of the first impeachment trial conducted by the Senate.
Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina, one of the House managers, refuted that claim by asking a simple question:
Two hundred years to the month after Robert Goodloe Harper posed that question to the Senate, a very similar question is before the Senate today.
www.pbs.org /newshour/impeachment/trial/canaday_1-16.html   (7971 words)

  
 Committee on Ways and Means, Robert Goodloe Harper (F-SC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Federalist Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina advanced to the chair of Ways and Means in 1797 on the endorsement of Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott.
Though considered by many colleagues to be a pompous dandy, Harper was strong debater and successful lawyer.
The change overturned the panel's precedent of seating one representative from every state and introduced the modern notion of balanced sectional representation.
waysandmeans.house.gov /Legacy/portraits/1789-1898/harper.htm   (90 words)

  
 Harper, Stephen --  Encyclopædia Britannica
More results on "Harper, Stephen" when you join.
In the 1950s she was an airline reservation clerk before leaving to devote her time to writing.
Features the magazine's famous Harper's Index, a list of interesting and irreverent statistics, along with a place to submit entries to the Index.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9399302   (834 words)

  
 Tompkins County, NYGenWeb - Landmarks of Tompkins County - Part III - Family Sketches.
Joseph SPEED, the grandfather of Robert, had ten children, of whom James Richard, our subject's father, was the seventh, being born in Caroline March 20, 1815, educated in Cortland Academy and studied law in Ithaca, practicing, however, but a short time and returning to the farm.
He was educated at Cortland Academy at Homer, and Cornell University, graduating in the classical course at the academy in 1867, and with the class of '71 at Cornell University with the degree of Ph.
The oldest son, Robert L., is now a sophomore in Cornell, Bessie F. is a graduate of Ithaca High School, where Mary H. is now a student, and Lorenzo and Emma are at home.
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 Master_of_the_Senate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One of Chase’s attorneys, Robert Goodloe Harper, appealed for sympathy for the “aged patriot” who after years of service to his country “is arraigned as an offender.
Placed at the bar of the court, after having sat with honor for sixteen years on the bench, he is doomed to hear the most opprobrious epithets applied to his name, by those whose predecessors were accustomed to look up at him with admiration and respect.
His footsteps are hunted from place to place, to find indiscretions, which may be exaggerated into crimes.” But Harper also appealed to principle, telling the senators that impeachment should not be employed against a judge, or any official, just because he held opinions contrary to those of the party in power.
www.kcrw.com /dialabook/Master_of_the_Senate.htm   (7225 words)

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