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  Richard Mentor Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnson was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Tenth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1819).
Johnson was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J. Crittenden, and was reelected and served from December 10, 1819 to March 3, 1829.
Johnson is interred in the Frankfort Cemetery, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Mentor_Johnson   (535 words)

  
 Robert Ward Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Ward Johnson was born in Scott County, Kentucky.
Robert Ward Johnson was the nephew of Vice President of the United States Richard Mentor Johnson and his brothers James Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson who were both US Representatives from Kentucky.
Robert Ward Johnson was the brother-in-law of Senator Ambrose Hundley Sevier.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Ward_Johnson   (300 words)

  
 Johnsons in the United States Senate, Part 2
obert Ward Johnson was born 22 Jul 1814 in Scott County, Kentucky, son of Benjamin Johnson and Matilda Williams.
Robert was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives of the 30th US Congress and two additional terms, serving from 1847 to 1853.
Robert married Sarah Frances Smith in 1836 and Laura Smith in 1863.
www.geocities.com /~rewoodham/johnsen2.html   (2305 words)

  
 Richard Mentor Johnson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Johnson was commissioned a Colonel of Kentucky Volunteers and commanded a regiment in engagements against the (The people of Great Britain) British in (additional info and facts about Lower Canada) Lower Canada in 1813.
Johnson was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, but he died in (additional info and facts about Frankfort, Kentucky) Frankfort, Kentucky soon after taking his seat.
His brothers James and John Telemachus and his nephew (additional info and facts about Robert Ward Johnson) Robert Ward Johnson were all members of the House of Representatives, and, in the case of Robert Ward, a Senator as well.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_mentor_johnson.htm   (430 words)

  
 Poplar Bluff, Daily American Republic: News Index
Ward is suspected of the Jan. 3 shooting death of Robert "Bobby" Sawyer on County Road 309 in Butler County.
Johnson testified that he was completing paperwork at the Sheriff's Department on the evening of Jan. 3 when a 911 call, reportedly made by Ward at 6:32 p.m., came in.
Ward then reportedly gave a statement as to what happened, saying he was in bed when Sawyer came to the back door and started yelling and kicking the door to make entry into the house.
www.darnews.com /articles/2005/02/01/news/news3.txt   (992 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Obituary: Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson, who has died aged 98, was for half a century the doyen of architectural opportunists.
Johnson came from a rich Wasp family from Cleveland, where his father was an attorney.
Instead of Roosevelt, the supposed lackey of Jewish finance, Johnson and a friend, Alan Blackburn, fixed on Huey P Long, and then, when that odious Lousiana governor was assassinated, a demagogic priest from Michigan, Father Coughlin, as allies.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1401260,00.html   (1296 words)

  
 Richard Mentor Johnson - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Richard Mentor Johnson (October 17, 1780 – November 19, 1850) was a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and the ninth Vice President of the United States.
He was credited by some with personally killing the Shawnee leader Tecumseh during a battle; despite the doubtful accuracy of this claim, Johnson would later use it to good effect in his political career.
He was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J. Crittenden, and was reelected and served from December 10, 1819 to March 3, 1829.
open-encyclopedia.com /Richard_Mentor_Johnson   (407 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Augusta leader's record defies image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
All agree Johnson, who has a record of access and inclusion, is one of the most unlikely people to have gotten caught up in the firestorm over Augusta membership.
Robert McNair, former governor of South Carolina (1965-71) and longtime Johnson friend, says he had lunch with the Augusta chairman shortly after Johnson received that initial letter from Burk.
Johnson has remained active in university affairs since he graduated and went on to become a prominent banker.
www.usatoday.com /sports/golf/masters/2002-10-09-cover-johnson_x.htm   (1619 words)

  
 VH1.com : Robert Ward : Biography
Ward's chance encounter with guitar-shop owner Dave Hussong in Dayton, OH, set off a rapid chain of events that culminated in Ward's 1990 debut album for Black Top, Fear No Evil, and a second chance at the brass ring.
Ward's first taste of stardom came as leader of the Ohio Untouchables (who later mutated into the Ohio Players long after Ward's departure) during the early '60s.
During the early '70s, Ward worked as a session guitarist at Motown, playing behind the Temptations and the Undisputed Truth (he was an old pal of Joe Harris, lead singer of the latter group).
www.vh1.com /artists/az/ward_robert/bio.jhtml   (538 words)

  
 Ohio Untouchables - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ward's brother moved to Dayton and filled in on drums at times, but he and Ward had a tumultuous relationship, and baby brother flew the coop.
Ward used plenty of vibrato and tremolo when he played his axe through a Magnatone amplifier; he stuck coins all over his guitar which may have contributed to his trembling guitar notes.
Ward left in 1965, and Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner took his place, the lineup now was Sugarfoot (guitar), Pee Wee (trumpet), Rock (bass), Satch (sax), Gary Webster (drums), Joe Harris (vocals), Bobby Lee Fears (vocals), and Dutch Robinson (vocals).
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,475004,00.html   (528 words)

  
 Johnson "North/South"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Robert Ward's singing has the urgency and immediacy of the great southern soul singers, and his guitar playing is legendary in the history of blues and soul.
Robert did session work at Motown and is on the Temptations' All Directions album (which included "Papa Was A Rolling Stone").
Robert was off the scene until he was re-discovered in 1991.
www.delmark.com /delmark.741.htm   (261 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Johnson, O to R
Johnson, Ole — of Langdon, Cavalier County, N.Dak. Democrat.
Johnson, Rick — of LeRoy, Osceola County, Mich. Republican.
Johnson, Ruth — of Holly, Oakland County, Mich. Republican.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/johnson7.html   (1091 words)

  
 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Councilmember Natalie Johnson Lee (5th Ward), a smoking ban supporter, said the Health and Human Services Committee she chairs would hold a public hearing on the ordinance Monday, June 7 and the full Council could vote as early as June 18.
Johnson Lee represents the burgeoning North Washington Avenue and East Bank commercial districts, as well as the Warehouse District.
The woman in the adjoining bed was dying, and she had to "struggle and fight to breathe every breath," Johnson Lee said.
www.skywaynews.net /articles/2004/05/17/news/news03.txt   (1746 words)

  
 Ward Hall, Georgetown, Kentucky
The Ward Hall Preservation Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Kentucky's premier antebellum Greek Revival mansion and grounds as an educational center for Kentucky and Southern agriculture, culture, history, manufacturing, and products.
Ward Hall Preservation Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit corporation organized under the Internal Revenue Code.
The Foundation wants to appeal to the broadest spectrum of the Kentucky community and beyond, and in addition to showcasing the magnificence of the antebellum Greek revival architecture of the house, which is on of the finest examples of it's kind in the United States.
www.wardhall.net /wardhallmission.htm   (876 words)

  
 Converse College Petrie School of Music
Johnson also served for nearly a decade as founder and director of the critically-acclaimed and very popular “Sarah Johnson and Friends” chamber music series at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC.
Johnson is an active proponent of music by women as well as a performer who regularly premieres new works, having given premieres of concerti in Atlanta, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, DC, Iowa, California and Minnesota.
Johnson is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo and members of the Guarneri Quartet.
www.converse.edu /Petrie/petriefaculty/JohnsonSarah.html   (603 words)

  
 Ward-Lyon-Nash-Stone-Kellogg-Payne-Ransier Family Narrative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Naomi was born in Ashfield, MA of parents Marry WARD and Asahel AMSDEN (1741-?), who was the 11th child of John (1686-1742) and Mary COWLES (1696-1757) AMSDEN of Deerfield, MA, the latter of whom was the daughter of Samuel COWLES and Sarah HUBBARD.
WARD died in Boonville in 1884, apparently of diphtheria (see Rome Citizen 1884) Edward WARD married Frances SMITH in Little Falls, NY in 1888 (see Marriages performed by Rev. Samuel Call, 1888-1889).
Charles WARD became a mason/contractor and buildings which are the result of his craftsmanship such as the Masonic Temple and the Erin Library still stand today in the town of Boonville.
members.aol.com /sbmerk/family/wardlyonnarrative.html   (2014 words)

  
 Education
Robert M. Mecklin afterwards established the Ozark Institute on the grounds.
Robert Ward Johnson, William Quesenbury and others attended this Roman Catholic school, although only Benjamin T. DuVal of Fort Smith is known to have been a Catholic.
Robert Graham's Arkansas College was founded in 1852 in Fayetteville.
www.pccua.edu /keough/education2.htm   (1561 words)

  
 Robert Ward
Ward R D, Lindley P A, Sewell D F, Rostron A B and Cubie R (1985).
Ward R D, Marsden P H, Cahill B and Johnson C A (2001).
Ward R D, Cahill B, Marsden P H and Johnson C A (2002).
scom.hud.ac.uk /scomrdw   (721 words)

  
 MPR's The Composer's Voice
Robert Ward's artistic communication is on a different level, in the language of music: "I try to communicate something, very clear,to get an emotional response.
Robert Ward's music has rhythm, life and color, a brilliant reflection of our own musical heritage.
Hear Robert Ward discuss his work, along with a sampling of his music.
music.minnesota.publicradio.org /programs/composersvoice/composers/ward.shtml   (314 words)

  
 Poet Ronald Johnson memorial plaque   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1993, Johnson returned to Topeka and is remembered by many here for his part-time work as a cookie baker at Ward-Meade Park.
As a "poet's poet", Ronald Johnson is admired by many of the new generation of American poets.
Ronald Johnson acted as a mentor for Peter's poetry and asked him to serve as his literary executor.
www.washburn.edu /cas/art/cyoho/archive/Events/RonaldJohnson   (644 words)

  
 Ward Family in the American Revolutionary War
This site is sponsored by the Ward Family Association, a national family club devoted to gathering and preserving the history of all Ward families.
Asa was b 17 feb 1747/48 in Worcester, Ma., a son of Daniel Ward and Mary Stone.
Daniel Ward was born 8 Sep 1758 in Essex Co., NJ, a son of Joseph Ward and Phebe Parkhurst.
www.geocities.com /~rewoodham/wardrwar.html   (2612 words)

  
 February 2004 NCCBI News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ward, an independent contractor based out of her home in Mooresville, will serve clients and generate new business in the area west of the Triangle, including Charlotte, the Triad and the mountains.
Ward began her sales career in 1985 as advertising director of Douglas Publications Inc., which publishes a host of trade publications for the medical, construction, real estate, environmental and robotics industries.
Carolyn Ward graduated from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte with degrees in biology and Spanish and later taught in Vietnam.
www.nccbi.org /NCMagazine/2004/mag-02-04nccbi.htm   (781 words)

  
 WARD, Robert Johnson / WOOD, Nettie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Robert Johnson WARD married Nettie (or Nellie?) WOOD (no further data on her), and according to the family "had some family" and lived in Los Angeles County, California in 1912.
The remainder of the New Brunswick WARD family has heard nothing from Robert or his descendants for many years (I don't know what the last contact was or with whom).
Any information on the whereabouts of Robert Johnson WARD, his wife Nettie WOOD, and their descendants would be greatly appreciated.
genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/print.cgi?ma::9653.html   (159 words)

  
 Blues Pioneers - Biography and Recommendations
Johnson recorded all of his known sides in 1936 and 1937 - they include the well known blues standards 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Crossroad Blues' and 'Love In Vain'.
If there is a link between Johnson and today's blues, then Elmore James is probably the lynchpin, taking the spirit and many of the songs from Johnson's performances.
Muddy Waters (born Mckinley Morganfield on 04/04/1915 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi) had the chance to be influenced by some of the early exponents of the blues form through first hand exposure to the likes of Son House and Robert Johnson.
www.rhythmandtheblues.org.uk /artists/greats.shtml   (1056 words)

  
 J Table   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A David G. Johnson was noted as a portrait painter and engraver in New York City from 1831 to 1835, and 1843 to 1845.
Johnson, H.G. Advertised daguerreotypes and ambrotypes in Chesterville, Ohio, 1859-1860.
Johnson, Isaac N. Advertised from May through June, 1855 as a daguerreian in Shelbyville, Ind. His gallery was on the third story of Burn's Brick Building on Washington Street, just east of the public square.
www.daguerreotype.com /j_table.htm   (10964 words)

  
 The Wards & Bakers of the Deep South   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Billy Ray Ward of Molino related to me that the obituary of Thomas Jackson WARD found in newsletter #6 was that of his father and that he had written it for the newspaper himself.
Ward was a native of McDavid, a former resident of Orange Park, FL and had resided in Bratt for the past 17 years.
Ward was preceded in death by his parents Jack and Clara Ward, a brother, Grady Leon Ward, a sister, Eleanor Marie Ward and a step-sister, Diane Rigby Brake.
home.comcast.net /~gronj/news012.htm   (6351 words)

  
 Jackson Thoreau: Texas Republican Calls for "Nuking Syria"
Now, Johnson wants to kill everyone in Syria in one nuclear swoop, just because he has some unproven notion that weapons of mass destruction are being hidden there.
Johnson's remarks were captured on tape, which was played over the phone for [Heard on the Hill].
Johnson's chief of staff, Cody Lusk, told HOH to keep in mind that the Congressman was a fighter pilot in Korea and Vietnam.
www.counterpunch.org /thoreau03022005.html   (2125 words)

  
 Haile, Robert Gaines - Hunton Family Papers: Civil War Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A photocopy of a typed transcript of a diary, 1–23 June 1862, kept by Robert Gaines Haile (1832–1862) of Company F of the 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment.
A letter, 23 May 1862, from Robert Hopkins Hatton to Gustavus Woodson Smith reporting on the position and deployment of Hatton's brigade and on Union troop movements on the eve of the battle of Seven Pines.
Included in several of the letters, 1864–1865, are messages to Anna from John Booton's wife, Virginia Byrd (Hudgins) Hill (1842–1925), concerning her travels with her husband to his posts in the Carolinas and at Petersburg.
www.vahistorical.org /cwg/h.htm   (3720 words)

  
 M Johnson - Banking RU
… and uncle of Robert Ward Johnson), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and … The National Political Career of Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky.
Eric M. Johnson, a writer in Washington DC, participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a Marine Corps reservist.
The Eleanor M. Johnson Award recognizes a current outstanding elementary classroom teacher of reading/language arts.
banking.ru.com /m-johnson.html   (564 words)

  
 ROBERT WARD
Ward's first taste of stardom came as leader of the
Ward was the talk of the crowd at the September 1999 WRFG Blues BBQ in Atlanta.
Robert has had chronic coronary and respiratory problems over the years.
www.oafb.net /once142.html   (821 words)

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