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  Thomas R. Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Though Marshall was advised that the President had suffered an infirmity and despite the requests of many to do so, Marshall did not attempt to become the first Acting President of the United States.
Marshall died on a visit to Washington, D.C. in 1925 and is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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 Thomas Marshall
Thomas Marshall was appointed colonel in the 3d Virginia infantry of the Continental line, and John's company was reorganized and attached to the 11th regiment of Virginia troops, which was sent to join Washington's army in New Jersey.
Marshall, Thomas, brother of John Marshal, soldier, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, 27 October, 1761; died in Mason county, Kentucky, 19 March, 1817, served in the Revolution, and attained the rank of captain.
Marshall was the commercial agent of New York, Boston, and Charleston in France during the reign of terror, and was employed by Washington as the agent of the United States to negotiate for the release of Lafayette, who was then a prisoner in Austria.
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 Thomas R. Marshall -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marshall was born in (Click link for more 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 (Click link for more info and facts about Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C. in 1925 and is interred in (Click link for more info and facts about Crown Hill Cemetery) Crown Hill Cemetery, (Click link for more info and facts about Indianapolis, Indiana) Indianapolis, Indiana.
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 Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean.
Marshall, Sons and Co of Gainsborough, manufacturers of the Field Marshall tractors.
Marshall should not be confused with marshal, a military rank.
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 ipedia.com: Thomas R. Marshall Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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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 Dr. Thomas R. Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
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 US Vice - Presidents - Thomas Riley Marshal
Young Thomas had always wanted to be a lawyer and spent much of his free time visiting the courthouse to hear the lawyers present their cases.
Marshall thought of himself as a progressive governor pointing to the employer’s liability law, and child labor law passed during his administration as examples.
Marshall was well prepared for this position because the vice presidency had given him plenty of spare time, and he had been earning extra money as a public speaker.
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 Lounsbury, Thomas R. --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The innovative scholar Thomas R. Lounsbury was instrumental in shaping the study of English in colleges and universities in the United States.
Lounsbury, Thomas R. The innovative scholar Thomas R. Lounsbury was instrumental in shaping the study of English in colleges and universities in the United States.
Marshall, Thomas R. The first United States vice-president of the 20th century to serve consecutive terms in office was Thomas R. Marshall, who held the position from 1913 to 1921 in the Democratic administration of Woodrow Wilson.
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 Miss. - Thomas H. to Thomas R.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas was probably with father Thomas Banks in the 1830 census of Carroll Co., TN (2) WM 15-20 (p 152).
On 26 Dec 1853, Thomas R. of Marshall Co. was given a deed for land bought at auction in Twp 2, R 3 W for $2343.
On 9 Dec 1875, Thomas R. was a witness to the premarital agreement between Gertrude B. Banks and James K. Stanley of Red River Co. (Red River Co. TX Deed Bk V, p 391.
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 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.
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 Thomas R. Marshall
His mother, Martha A. (Patterson) Marshall, belonged to the same family as John Carroll, of Carrollton, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The early education of Thomas Riley Marshall was received in the public schools of his native town.
Marshall served for many years as a trustee of Wabash College and attained the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry.
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 USATODAY.com
Thomas was once a rising force in Republican politics, but GOP infighting has diminished his role.
In 2000, Thomas, a key player in the debate over Medicare prescription drug legislation, wrote a letter to constituents denying his relationship with a female lobbyist for health care companies was a conflict of interest.
Additionally, Thomas supported adding more protections to the nation's pension laws following Enron's collapse and an expansion of job benefits such as tax credit to the unemployed.Thomas is seeking a 14th term in a San Joaquin Valley and desert district that is solidly Republican.
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 Indiana Historical Society
On April 26, 1875, at the age of 21, Marshall was appointed as an attorney in Whitley County.
Marshall lost; it would be 28 years before he tried again for elective office.
At the end of his term in 1921, Marshall returned to private life and a steady stream of lecture appearances, delighting audiences across the country with his wit.
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 Thomas R. Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)

  
 Woodrow Wilson is Nominated for President; Gov. Marshall of Indiana for Vice President
ALTIMORE, Md., Wednesday, July 3 -- Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana was nominated for Vice president by the Democratic Convention at 1:56 o'clock this morning, and the convention adjourned.
Marshall of Indiana received 389 votes; Gov. Burke of North Dakota, 305 2/3; Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, 157; Elmore Hurst of Illinois, 77, and Mayor Preston of Baltimore, 58.
The result of the first ballot, announced at 1:20 in the morning, was: Marshall, 389, and Burke, 305 2/3, the rest scattering.
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 Thomas R. Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas Riley Marshall (March 14, 1854–June 1, 1925) was an United StatesAmerican politician who served as the twenty-eighth Vice President of the United States of America under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1921/.
Wilson, after deliberating, ultimately decided that it would demonstrate party unity if he kept Marshall on; thus in 1916 Wilson and Marshall became the first President and Vice President team to be re-elected since James MonroeMonroe and Daniel D TompkinsTompkins/ in the 1820s.
The process for declaring a President of the United StatesPresident/ incapacitated was unclear, and Marshall was fearful of the precedent that might be set in establishing one.
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 Indiana Governor Portrait Artist Wayman Adams
THE PORTRAIT of Thomas R. Marshall, the third by Wayman Adams, was painted in Washington, nearly seven years after the end of Marshall's governship and toward the close of his second term as Vice-President of the United States.
One gets the impression that he was a sagacious gentleman, with considerable will power and inner force; and it is easy to understand, through the portrait, how his personality and industry brought him national prominence.
Adams has recorded Marshall's likeness with so suave a technique and with such restraint of color that an air of distinction permeates the canvas.
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 Marshall, Fortuna Ledge and the Mining of Willow Creek - Part 1
Marshall is eight miles downriver from Marshall Landing, sometimes just called The Landing.
At the time a majority of the citizens at Marshall were either gold miners or workers at the gold mines.
In the back of their minds possibly they were also thinking of a pioneer named James Wilson Marshall who had caused the great excitement of the January 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter´s Mill, California.
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 .: United States Information :. .: All American Patriots :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marshall's biographer, Charles M. Thomas, summarized the contradictions of his subject's personality: He was prior to 1898, a most pronounced drinker and at the same time a leader in the church and a temperance lecturer.
Marshall himself was always a regular party man. In 1876 he became secretary of the Democratic County Convention and spoke for many Democratic candidates.
Marshall became the first vice president since John C. Calhoun, almost a century earlier, to be reelected to a second term.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Hoosier -- Sep. 14, 1925
Marshall awaits only a leader to collect the funds from the multitudes of his friends.
Marshall had a horror of being buried in the ground.
Marshall was a modest man, and it would not be in keeping with his desire nor with his life to erect an ornate structure as his last resting place.
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 Thomas Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marshall Democrat-News: Story: State contract to bring $173,000 to health dept.
Keith Wade, 57, a retired milk deliveryman, was taken into custody at the time of his release from North Kansas City Hospital, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound.
Despite undergoing a barrage of heart and stomach tests over the past three months, Alvin Marshall still does not know if he'll be resuming his UNLV football career when fall camp opens on Aug. 8.
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 Thomas R. Marshall's Grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I somehow missed Thomas Marshall's row in the big table on the main page.
It wasn't until I was waiting for the pictures from Fairbanks and Hendricks to be loaded onto the laptop that I noticed on the map that there was a third Vice President.
After sufficient button pressing, key jangling and general consternation, I succeeded in restoring peace and quiet to the scene.
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 Woodrow Wilson - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Sunday, December 28, 1856–Sunday, February 3, 1924) was the 45th state Governor of New Jersey (1911-1913) and later the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921).
Although the extent of his disabilities was kept from the public until after his death, Wilson was purposely kept out of the presence of Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, his cabinet or Congressional visitors to the White House for the remainder of his presidential term.
Sigmund Freud and William Bullitt's Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study is devastatingly unsympathetic, and was unpublished for 30 years after Freud's death.
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 OSCN Found Document:Hillard v. Marshall
Marshall subdivided the land and sold a tract to Thomas and Barbara Dennison (the Dennisons).
Marshall had a survey of the property done which revealed that Hillard's fence line did not match the property line.
The first is a 14.19-acre tract (the fourteen-acre tract) belonging to Marshall which was enclosed by Hillard's fence.
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 Thomas Taggart and the French Lick Springs Hotel
Thomas R. Marshall as governor of Indiana owed much of his success to Tom Taggart.
On one ballot he swung four hundred votes to Marshall, and Marshall was subsequently elected governor of the state.
Now in Baltimore at the national convention, Taggart and the Indiana delegation were solidly behind Marshall as a favorite son candidate for the presidency.
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 Thomas, R S --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Livingston, Robert R. early American leader who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, first secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs (1781–83), and minister to France (1801–04).
Thomas Wilson Dorr was born on Nov. 5, 1805, in Providence, R.I. He was elected to the state legislature in 1834, where he fought for the liberalization of the state's suffrage laws.
Autobiographies of Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech of the U.S. Features a presentation speech on the occasion of their jointly winning this prize.
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 THOMAS TAGGART SCRAPBOOK, 1929   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas Taggart (1856-1929) was born in County Monyhan, Ireland, and emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of six, settling in Xenia, Ohio.
Instead he moved to the party's national level, serving on the Democratic National Committee from 1900 to 1916, and as national chairman during the 1904 presidential campaign between Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Alton B. Parker.
He was given credit for getting Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall second place on the 1912 national Democratic ticket with Woodrow Wilson.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
He served as Democratic governor of Indiana from 1909 to 1913, and his record as a reformer led to his nomination as Woodrow Wilson's running mate.
A popular and witty official, Marshall is best known for saying "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar." His recollections appeared in 1925.
Thomas, Charles M., Thomas Riley Marshall, Hoosier Statesman (1939).
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 Directory - Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: Vice Presidents: Marshall, Thomas Riley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas Riley Marshall was born in North Manchester, Indiana, on March 14, 1854.
In 1912 he was chosen as the vice president with Woodrow Wilson.
Thomas R. Marshall  · Encyclopedia Americana - He was born in North Manchester, Indiana, on March 14, 1854.
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 Historical Society Whitley County Indiana Genealogical Nellie Riley Raber Notebook 5 Will Records Will
Jennie R. Hartsock of Troy Township, Whitley Co., Ind. To my sister, Hannah Hartsock one-half of the former homestead of my father, Samuel Hartsock, dec. She is owner of the one undivided half of the same tract.
Thomas B. Long of Etna Township, Whitley Co., Ind. To: Mary E. Long, gr-dau.; John W. Long, son; Martha Jane Hunt, dau.
Thomas R. Marshall, Daniel Kirkpatrick, John E. Martin.
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