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  Thomas R. Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Riley Marshall (March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925) was an American politician who served as the twenty-eighth Vice President of the United States of America under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1921.
Marshall was born in North Manchester, Indiana, where he frequently spent time at the courthouse listening to lawyers; Marshall wrote later of listening to future President Benjamin Harrison present a case.
Marshall died on a visit to Washington, D.C. in 1925 and is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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 John Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marshall's father, Thomas, and George Washington, the "Father of His Country," as he was later called, had studied at the same academy in their youths.
This state militia unit was eventually reorganized, and Thomas Marshall was appointed colonel in the 3d Virginia infantry of the Continental line, and John's company was attached to the 11th regiment of Virginia troops, which was sent to join Washington's army in New Jersey.
Marshall was a very active Freemason during his adult life and during this time was elected the Worshipful Master of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, serving from 1793 to 1795.
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 Thomas R. Marshall -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Marshall was born in (additional info and facts about North Manchester, Indiana) North Manchester, Indiana, where he frequently spent time at the courthouse listening to lawyers; Marshall wrote later of listening to future President (23rd President of the United States (1833-1901)) Benjamin Harrison present a case.
Marshall returned to (The capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commerical center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race) Indianapolis after his term as Vice President and resumed his law practice.
Marshall died on a visit to (additional info and facts about Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C. in 1925 and is interred in (additional info and facts about Crown Hill Cemetery) Crown Hill Cemetery, (additional info and facts about Indianapolis, Indiana) Indianapolis, Indiana.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/Thomas_R._Marshall.htm   (921 words)

  
 John Marshall
Marshall's father was not formally educated, but was an ambitious man who was a successful surveyor and land agent for Lord Fairfax, who in shortly before the American Revolution owned almost one-fourth of Virginia.
Marshall participated in several battles of the Revolutionary War as an infantry officer, was at Valley Forge with Washington during the winter of 1777-78, and eventually was promoted to captain and given the title "general" in the Virginia militia.
Marshall's brilliant solution was to recast the case as one involving the Court's power to engage in judicial review, that is, to ascertain whether an Act of Congress meets the requirements of the Constitution.
www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/marshallj.htm   (1730 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: John Marshall
Thomas was a close friend of George Washington and worked with him as a surveyor.
Thomas Marshall was a trained fighter who had earned the rank of captain during the Indian Wars.
Thomas was a major at the out break of war in a regiment of minute men raised by the local counties of Culpeper, Orange, and Fauquier.
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 Thomas Marshall
Marshall has gradually increased the amount of his real estate possessions, until at present he owns about 520 acres of fine farming land in the iimmediate vicinity of Dayton.
Marshall has served as justice of the peace for two terms -- ten years - - from 1864 to 1874, and has held other offices of honor and trust, although he has never been in any sense a place-seeker, and has taken only the interest of a good citizen in politics.
Thomas H. Marshall was united in marriage, March 14, 1850, with Miss Rosetta P., daughter of Robert Neal, of Cowanshannock township, who was born September 26, 1827.
www.pa-roots.com /~armstrong/smithproject/bios/marshallt.html   (471 words)

  
 Indiana Governor Thomas Riley Marshall
THOMAS MARSHALL, best remembered for his eight years as Vice-President under Woodrow Wilson was born in North Manchester, Indiana.
Although he was a popluar public speaker and active in local Democratic politics, Marshall was still only a small town lawyer when he received the nomination for governor in 1908, a compromise dark horse candidate.
Marshall was elected and was a popular governor, although his attempts to have the state adopt a new constitution failed.
www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/govportraits/marshall.html   (245 words)

  
 Friends of the Hollow
At the age of 35, Thomas Marshall, a native of Westmoreland County, Virginia, moved his young, growing family (John, 1755; Elizabeth, 1756; Mary, 1757; Thomas, 1761; James, 1764) to his newly constructed one and a half story frame house on a beautiful rise just north of the present-day Markham, Virginia.
Five more children were born to Thomas and Mary Marshall while living at The Hollow (Judith, 1766; William and Charles, 1767; Lucy, 1768; Alexander, 1770) bringing the total number of children living in the house to ten before moving to Oak Hill near Delaplane, Virginia.
Thomas Marshall, born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, April 2, 1730, was, at age 29, made a justice of Fauquier.
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 The History of Marshall Hall
Thomas Marshall was not a first son or the first of his line in the colony of Maryland.
Thomas Marshall married the widow Stoddert when he was 31 years old, and may have owned a home before their marriage.
Thomas was a justice of the peace of Prince George’s Co. from 1737 to 1748, when the boundary between Charles and Prince George’s moved and he became a legal resident of Charles Co. Records indicate that in large, the Marshalls were only involved in politics at the county level.
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 Elizabeth Marshall Thomas: Reindeer Moon; The Animal Wife
Thomas has produced a superb depiction of a hunter-gatherer community, drawing not just on her background as an anthropologist but on first-hand fieldwork experience.
A trapped mammoth left with her front legs smashed for later dispatch, the unhappy fate of an orphan without close kin, the lack of ceremony surrounding pregnancy and childbirth, the extremities of hunger — such things are shocking at first, though one is skillfully drawn into accepting them as ordinary.
Thomas has transcended the confines of genre, leaving her competitors in the "Paleolithic novel" stakes — even writers as good as Golding and Kurtén — looking weak.
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 ipedia.com: Thomas R. Marshall Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Marshall was born in North Manchester, Indiana and studied law at Wabash College.
Marshall, fearful of the precedent he would be setting by doing so, would continue to perform minor ceremonial functions for the remainder of Wilson's term.
Marshall died in Washington, D.C and is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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 Salon.com people | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Much of Thomas' work is connected to a transformative experience, a series of unusual African sojourns her family undertook in the early 1950s.
Thomas' father, Laurence Marshall, was a co-founder of Raytheon, started in 1922 as a refrigerator company and now one of the largest industrial corporations in the United States.
Her mother, Lorna Marshall, born in 1898 in the Arizona Territory, was teaching English literature at Mount Holyoke when she married Laurence Marshall.
www.salon.com /people/bc/2000/06/27/thomas   (770 words)

  
 Dr. Thomas R. Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Marshall is survived by his beloved wife of 55 years, Estelle Ricigliano; his three children, Nancy A. Penoyer, Thomas R. Marshall, Jr., and Rebecca A. (Douglas) Petty; his three grandchildren Eric, Samuel, and Owen; and his sister, Annie Schneider.
Marshall was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1919.
Marshall was an active member of the Buffalo Turnverein in his youth, and was the recipient of three gold, three silver, and three bronze medals in various gymnastics competitions.
www.cs.fredonia.edu /~peno4753   (491 words)

  
 Elizabeth Marshall Thomas on The Paula Gordon Show
Thomas describes about us and other animals is rooted in biology, based on her observation of what scientists are learning.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas explains the workings of the vomeronasal organ, a sense organ which most mammals have, including humans (in whom it was long thought to be vestigial, though no longer.) She gives examples from a variety of species.
Thomas tells a dog story from her household to illustrate the kinds of emotional mysteries scientists have been unable to approach or measure.
paulagordon.com /shows/ethomas   (1186 words)

  
 Salon.com people | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Thomas also spent many hours studying Misha (a friend's dog), who was in the habit of leaping the fence and roaming the streets of Boston.
Thomas praises Pearl's "excellence in the woods." Not the kind of dog who just wants to race around or chase sticks, Pearl is, like Thomas, an observer, a student of other animals and their traces.
Thomas compares the behavior of her own beloved dogs with the dogs in African villages, and comes up with some interesting thoughts about canine domestication, a process she suggests was initiated by the dogs, not by the humans, as is usually suggested.
archive.salon.com /people/bc/2000/06/27/thomas/print.html   (3022 words)

  
 Thomas C. Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Leheny, R.F., Chen, Y.G., and Marshall, T.C.: "Microwave Scattering from Fluctuations in a Magnetoplasma," IEEE Conv.
Yee, F.G., Marshall, T.C. and Schlesinger, S.P.: "Sideband Observations of a Raman FEL with a Tapered Undulator," Nucl.
Dodd, J.W. and Marshall, T.C.: "Spiking Radiation in the Columbia FEL," IEEE Trans.
www.cvn.columbia.edu /Courses/marshall.html   (4020 words)

  
 Thomas Marshall (circa 1613-1689) - possibly Yorkshire, England & Lynn, Essex co., MA
Thomas Marshall is as difficult a man to decipher, business-wise, as Isaac Allerton.
Keine and Thomas Matson; and on the East with the highway." This allotment was a strip of land fifty-six rods wide, extending along the northerly side of a stone wall on the top of Shurtleff Hill, and reaching from the road to Everett, with thte exception of twenty-eight acres.
Thomas Marshall, "Captain of the Military Company" with the consent of "Rebecka his now wife", sold for a valuable sum of money paid by Andrew Mansfield, six acres of salt marsh, in the lower division of Rumney Marsh, bounded by Robert Burges, John Lewis, John Witt, Allen Breed, Sr., and a creek.
xenia.media.mit.edu /~kristin/fambly/Marshall/ThomasMarshall.html   (7194 words)

  
 Amazon.com: John Marshall : Definer of a Nation: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Marshall's time as a diplomat, spent in France during the years of the Directorate, also reveal him to be a canny negotiator who was more than equal to the task of dealing Talleyrand, the ultimate conniver of his time.
Although Marshall and Thomas Jefferson were well-known as cousins who had a very strong mutual dislike of each other, Smith does not beat the reader over the head with this fact.
Marshall as much as anyone was responsible for defining the notion that the federal government ultimately has authority over the respective states in national matters, a notion that would be put to the test a quarter century after Marshall's death.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/080505510X?v=glance   (2923 words)

  
 Thomas R. Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Thomas Riley Marshall (1854-1925) served as vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921, under President Woodrow Wilson.
Marshall was born in North Manchester, Ind., and graduated from Wabash College.
Marshall sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912.
www.worldbook.com /features/presidents/html/marshall.htm   (174 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Thomas R. Marshall
Order: 28th President Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall Term of office: March 4, 1913 –; March 3, 1921 Preceded by: William Howard Taft Succeeded by: Warren G. Harding Date of birth: December 28, 1856 Place of birth: Staunton, Virginia Date of death: February 3, 1924 Place of death: Washington, D.C...
Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C., Washington, the Nations Capital, or the District, and historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America, and as such, the word Washington is often used as a...
Thomas Andrews Hendricks (September 7, 1819–November 25, 1885) was a Representative and a Senator from Indiana and the twenty-first Vice President of the United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-R.-Marshall   (3710 words)

  
 Anita Hill Assignment
Justice Marshall was the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court and a renowned advocate for Civil Rights.
When Senate confirmation hearings began in September, the Thomas nomination took an unexpected turn when Anita Hill, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, came forward with accusations that Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her.
Hill charged that Thomas harassed her with inappropriate discussion of sexual acts and pornographic films after she rebuffed his invitations to date him.
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 Thomas Marshall Organ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas on The Paula Gordon Show - This is the truth, according to Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas explains the workings of the vomeronasal organ, a sense organ which...
Bachfest - Michael Daniels, cello; Thomas Marshall, organ.
www.pianothings.com /thomas-marshall-organ.html   (700 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Victims of Lutheran abuse win $37M award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
MARSHALL, Texas (AP) — Victims of a former Lutheran minister who sexually molested boys won a jury award of nearly $37 million Thursday, bringing the total payout in the case to about $69 million.
Thomas, minister of Marshall's Good Shepherd Lutheran Church from 1997 until his arrest in 2001, was sentenced last year to 397 years in state prison for molesting boys.
Thomas, 41, was charged in 2001 after a teenager found nude images of friends on the pastor's computer and tried to flmail him.
www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2004-04-22-lutherans-abuse_x.htm   (563 words)

  
 Messenger Memorial - Thomas Meredith
When I found it difficult to find work Thomas helped me get a job at his messenger company, Pronto, which I found really generous because business was slow at the time and the addition of me working there meant Thomas would be making less, and it wasn't much to begin with.
Thomas was a great thinker in this way and he won't be replaced.
Thomas could be intense at the microcosmic level as well as the macrocosmic.
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 Thomas Marshall I Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
There is still a good deal of speculation about which Thomas Marshall is cited in the records but Russ Williams has surmised that Thomas Marshall "the carpenter" is not the son of the Captain John Marshall who came from Ireland.
It does appear that Thomas Marshall II could have been born in the colonies due to parish baptismal records of the right region and time.
This Thomas Marshall was probably in the colonies too early be very involved with the Covenanter Risings that brought so many Scots to the colonies.
www.next1000.com /family/EC/marshll.thom1.html   (326 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Hidden Life Of Dogs: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Thomas hides much of her affection for her dogs, in the attempt to remain objective, but when you tell the life-stories of over a dozen dogs, from beginning to end, you cannot anticipate a happy ending.
Thomas was fascinated at the interactions between the dogs in the group and decided to conduct a formal study of their behaviors.
Thomas spent some time on Baffin Island observing a family of wolves to get an idea about what kinds of wild instincts the ancestors of her own dogs might have had at some time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671517007?v=glance   (2453 words)

  
 Descendants of Thomas MARSHALL
Thomas MARSHALL m: on 8 Nov 1771 in Morpeth, Northumberland to Elizabeth ROBSON.
Thomas MARSHALL b: 12 AUG 1806 in Morpeth, Northumberland; d: Unk.
Herbert Cecil MARSHALL [later PAGET] b: 16 Aug 1870 in London, Middlesex; d: 4 Mar 1955 in Angmering, Sussex.
www.samanthamarshall.co.uk /marshall-ancestry.htm   (630 words)

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