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  Thomas Watt Gregory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gregory entered the University of Texas at Austin in 1884 and graduated a year later with a degree in law.
Gregory Gymnasium was named in honor of his efforts to provide an adequate exercise facility for the students and faculty of the University.
Gregory was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis and State delegate at large to the Baltimore convention.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Thomas Watt Gregory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Born in Crawfordsville, Mississippi, he graduated from Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1883, and was a special student at the University of Virginia in 1884.
Gregory died in 1933 and is buried in Austin.
Thomas Watt Gregory, politician and United States attorney general, son of Francis Robert and Mary Cornelia (Watt) Gregory, was born at Crawfordsville, Mississippi, on November 6, 1861.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Watt-Gregory   (384 words)

  
 Gregory Gymnasium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gregory Gymnasium is the 4,400-seat current home of the University of Texas Longhorn Women's Volleyball team, and former home of the Longhorn Basketball and Swimming teams.
Gregory, an alumnus of the University, served on the University's Board of Regents and as United States Attorney General before the gym was built.
The gymnasium has undergone several renovations, and is now comprised of the original gym and a four-story annex that serves as a gymnasium with an indoor jogging track, basketball courts, racquetball and squash courts, an indoor rock-climbing wall, a spacious weight room, and a cardiovascular exercise facility.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregory_Gymnasium   (199 words)

  
 Gregory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gregory is a common masculine first name and family name.
The associations with a shepherd who diligently guides his flock is part of the reason that the name has been popular with monks, priests and popes.
Although the name was uncommon in the early 20th century, after the popularity of the actor Gregory Peck it became one of the ten most common male names in the 1950s and has remained popular since.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregory   (307 words)

  
 UT RecSports - Facilities and Hours - Locations - Gregory Gymnasium
The namesake of Gregory Gym was one of the first 13 graduates of The University of Texas, having received his LLB in 1885.
Politically, Gregory served as a delegate to the Democratic national conventions in 1904 and 1912, serving as vice president of Woodrow Wilson's Texas Campaign.
Gregory Gymnasium, built in 1930 at an approximate cost of $500,000, was at its onset one of the pioneering projects for the advancement of The University of Texas campus.
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 Chapter 3 text
Watt studied chemistry, and was assisted by the advice and instruction of Dr. Black, who was then making the researches which resulted in the discovery of "latent heat." His proposal to repair the model Newcomen engine in the college collections led to his study of Desagulier's treatise, and of the works of Switzer and others.
Watt made a new boiler for the experimental investigation on which he was al)out to enter, and arranged it in such a manner that he could measure the quantity of water evaporated and of steam condensed at every stroke of the engine.
Watt at once went to Dr. Black and related the remarkable fact which he had thus detected, and was, in turn, taught by Black the character of the phenomenon as it had been explained to his classes by the latter some little time previously.
www.history.rochester.edu /steam/thurston/1878/Chapter3.html   (14478 words)

  
 BookRags: Thomas Watt Gregory Biography
Gregory, a Texas attorney and politician, expanded the Department of Justice but is most remembered for his aggressive prosecution of radicals and pacifists during World War I. Gregory was born on November 6, 1861, in Crawfordsville, Mississippi.
Gregory's hopes for national office were realized in 1913, when U.S. attorney general James C. McReynolds named Gregory special assistant attorney general and charged him with prosecuting antitrust cases.
Gregory was unsuccessful in persuading Republicans to endorse the league, a situation that ultimately kept the U.S. out of the world organization.
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 peg-2006 - pegg28.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Edward H. Gregory was born in 1842 in Lowndes Co., Mississippi.
For the remainder of his life he championed UT. He served on the board of regents from 1899 to 1907, headed the Ex-Students' Association from 1926 to 1928, and organized a fund-raising campaign that resulted in the construction of four university buildings, including a men's gymnasium that was named in his honor.
Virginia Sykes Gregory was born on 20 Oct 1851 in Lowndes Co., Mississippi.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Gregory is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 181 and State highways 35 and 361, three miles northeast of Portland in southeastern San Patricio County.
Gregory, a company town in its early years, gradually turned into a trading center with a bank, shops, general stores, and three cotton gins.
Gregory was incorporated in 1951, and N. East was elected the town's first mayor.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/hgg5.html   (487 words)

  
 Canisius College - Watt Award
The department believes that Dr. Watt exemplified positive values in her career, family and community activities and demonstrated them through a strong commitment to understanding and sharing a sense of community through communication.
The first annual Marilyn Watt Award was presented to William T. Wittrock '86 (second from the left), public relations specialist for the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Thomas E. Greenwald, class of 1982, senior vice president at Morgan Stanley, who attended the event and accepted the award on Jamie's behalf.
www.canisius.edu /comm_stud/watt_award.asp   (807 words)

  
 OFFICIAL MINUTES
Watt stated that she hopes the road is designated in its entirely.
Kathy Megahee, Thomas County Family Connection, commended the County for opening an emergency shelter Friday 01/24/03 during the flout in Northern Thomas County after a transformer caught a fire.
Reichert, Thomas County Zoning Administrator stated that a variance is not needed because this rezoning request is not considered spot zoning.
www.thomascountyboc.org /minutes/012703.htm   (1292 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: GREGORY, THOMAS WATT
The important contributions of the Texas delegation to Wilson's victory at the 1912 Democratic national convention and House's growing influence upon Wilson led to appointments for Gregory in the new Democratic administration.
He was named a special assistant to the United States attorney general to conduct antitrust litigation against the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1913, and in 1914 he became attorney general.
During a trip to New York to confer with Roosevelt, Gregory contracted pneumonia and died, on February 26, 1933.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/GG/fgr53_print.html   (762 words)

  
 Gregory Belcher to Nina Shaw
Gregory Belcher (1606-1674) Gregory Belcher was a carpenter.
Gregory Belcher was the ancestor of the Farmington family, and must have been a man of some prominence in Boston, as he was one of the founders of the Old South Church.
Gregory Belcher, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1606.
www.dunfeeinfo.com /gregory_belcher.htm   (11491 words)

  
 docmooney.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Thomas Watt Gregory (1861-1933) served as attorney general of the United States from 1914 to 1919.
Thomas Mooney, Warren Billings, Mooney's wife Rena, Edward Nolan, and Israel Weinberg were arrested and charged with the crime.
After meeting with Gregory on May 9, SG asked Mooney's lawyer for photographic copies of Oxman's letters to Rigall, and SG turned these over to Secretary of State Robert Lansing on May 10.
www.history.umd.edu /Gompers/docmooneyfn.html   (290 words)

  
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Born in Henderson, Texas on May 10, 1879, William Thomas Gaston worked as a store clerk and Pullman car conductor prior to launching his career in the state auditor's office in Austin for six years, three of them as budget director of the State Board of Controls.
Gregory was the U.S. Attorney General under the Woodrow Wilson administration.
Gregory, born in 1861 at Crawfordsville, Missouri, received his law degree at the University of Texas and practiced law in Austin before entering national politics.
www.swco.ttu.edu /Guide/g.htm   (6502 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Watson-chang to Wattles
Watt, Clyde — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Prohibition candidate for
Watt, Flint C. — of Ionia, Ionia County, Mich. Republican.
Watt, William — of Leonard, Cass County, N.Dak. Republican.
www.politicalgraveyard.com /bio/watt-wattles.html   (432 words)

  
 Wattspage
According to Chad Watts, Watts is a patronymic form of the English and Scottish name Watt, which came from the extremely popular Middle English given name Wat or Watt.
Watts is part of Clan Forbes in Scotland; Watts is also listed as part of the Buchanan clan.
One such early and prominent Tennessee Watts, possibly related to Thomas Watts, was Chief John Watts, a half-blooded Cherokee (Chickamauga) Indian who was born in Cumberland, Stewart Co. TN Dec.1741 and married Mary Johnson of VA. in 1768.
www.blannwattsgenealogy.com /Wattspage.htm   (1150 words)

  
 Thomas J. Dodd Papers Series I: Outgoing Correspondence
The Thomas J. Dodd Papers illuminate the diverse public life of a self-styled crusader.
Series I: Outgoing Correspondence (1959-1970) houses responses from Thomas Dodd and his staff to constituents, individuals from outside Connecticut with particular policy agendas, state political leaders, members of Congress, and representatives of the executive branch.
In letters to Marjorie Brown, Thomas Gaines, and Robert Simmons in 1959, Dodd discusses the Senate filibuster rule and the seniority system.
www.lib.uconn.edu /online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/Dodd_Thomas/MSS19940065S1.html   (426 words)

  
 TxTell: John Anderson McCurdy and the Texas Alumni Association
When U.S. Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory completed his political career with the Woodrow Wilson administration and returned home to Texas in 1924, he resumed his efforts to expand the physical plant at his alma mater, The University of Texas.
Gregory was joined by UT alumnus Will C. Hogg, an oil man, financier, and son of Governor Jim Hogg.
Gregory, McCurdy, and ESA persisted with their idea to fund a student union, two gyms, and an auditorium.
txtell.lib.utexas.edu /stories/m0006-full.html   (1329 words)

  
 -- UT On Campus --   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Thomas Watt Gregory, the first ex-student appointed to the UT System Board of Regents, proposes a modern gymnasium be constructed.
Since the opening of Gregory Gym in 1930, enrollment increases from 3,000 to 22,000 requiring the addition of Gregory Annex.
A student/faculty committee recommends that Gregory Gymnasium be renovated to better serve the recreational and academic needs of students, faculty and staff at UT. In March 1993, students vote in favor of funding the renovation.
www.utexas.edu /opa/pubs/oncampus/97oc_issues/oc971111/oc-tradition.html   (215 words)

  
 History News Network
By the end of World War I, Attorney General Gregory and his Director of the War Emergency Division, John Lord O'Brian were concerned about growing APL involvement in the lives of Americans.
When Gregory and John Lord O'Brian stood firm, disgruntled volunteers found local support for their continued activities and reappeared under a variety of new names.
Gregory had attempted to collect all the case files opened by the APL during the war, but instead local units held many of them for future use, often by local police or regional military intelligence offices.
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 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY Series One: The Boulton & Watt Archive and the Matthew Boulton Papers from ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This project focuses on the correspondence and papers in the Boulton and Watt Archive, covering the years 1728-1848, recently re-catalogued by the Archives of Soho Project, a major initiative funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The collection allows the scholar to understand the growth of the steam engine business; how the employees at the Boulton and Watt Soho Manufactory and Foundry worked and how they were dealt with by their employers.
The Principals’ and Partners’ Correspondence focuses on Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Matthew Robinson Boulton, James Watt Junior and Gregory Watt.
www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /collect/p667.htm   (321 words)

  
 Civil Liberties: What's Wrong with the TIPS Program? A WW I Horror Story Ripped from the History Books
Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory, meanwhile, who was concerned about legal authority to act against suspected agents, claimed jurisdiction for his Bureau of Investigation (BI, which later evolved into the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI), and worked to obtain legal authority from Congress to expand counterespionage work and his Bureau.
Locked in competition with a Secretary of Treasury, who was urging his agents to expose "German intrigues," and apparently intent on exploiting publicity for these stunning revelations, Attorney General Gregory accepted the offer of a Chicago advertising executive to organize a volunteer group of businessmen to assist in investigating German suspects.
This volunteer group, known as the American Protective League (APL), headquartered in Washington with branches throughout the county became a quasi-official investigating arm of the Justice Department, with the official task of investigating war-related internal security cases.
www.hnn.us /articles/960.html   (1982 words)

  
 Thomas J. Dodd Papers Series VIII: Personal Papers
Many of these individuals were Connecticut businessmen, community leaders, and other citizens with whom Dodd enjoyed more than passing contact during his political career.
Martin helped the senator deal with charges of ethics violations in 1967 and his public battle with Senator J. Fulbright over Vietnam in 1969.
This series includes several boxes of support letters written during and shortly after the 1967 Senate censure proceedings against Thomas Dodd.
www.lib.uconn.edu /online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/Dodd_Thomas/MSS19940065S8.html   (502 words)

  
 The Federated Colored Catholics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gregory of the Diocese of Belleville, Illinois became the first African-American elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, receiving seventy-five percent of the vote.
The documents on this website are intended to illuminate the FCC evolution, the role of the particular actors in that transformation, and finally to raise questions about African Americans, race, and the history of the Catholic Church in the United States.
Thomas W. Turner became president of a newly established Federated Colored Catholics and advanced the idea of racial solidarity within the Catholic Church into the early 1950s.
libraries.cua.edu /achrcua/FCC/introduction.htm   (3939 words)

  
 Biographies of the Attorneys General
A staunch supporter of Thomas Jefferson, he became his Attorney General on January 20, 1807, and continued in that post in Madison's administration.
Olney was admitted to the bar in 1859 and entered the office of Honorable Benjamin F. Thomas of Boston.
Thomas Gregory was born in Crawfordsville, Mississippi, on November 6, 1861.
www.usdoj.gov /jmd/ls/agbiographies.htm   (12842 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Grego to Grenval
Gregory, J. — of Union, Union County, S.C. Mayor of Union, S.C. Still living as of 1953.
Gregory, Mary — of Waianae, Island of Oahu,
Gregory, William Voris (1877-1936) — also known as W.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/gregor-grennell.html   (1080 words)

  
 Fed-Soc.org - Free Speech News 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The dissent, filed by Justice Thomas and joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, and in part by Chief Justice Rehnquist, determined that the coordinated expenditure limit unconstitutionally burdened political parties without justification.
Affirmed - Amendments to Article VIII of the Missouri Constitution are unconstitutional; found at http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-929.ZS.html, Opinion by Stevens, J., Concurring opinions by Thomas J., Rehnquist, C.J, O’Connor, J. In response to U.S. Term Limits v.
Justice Thomas, who dissented in U.S. Term Limits concurred with the majority only because the State of Missouri, Petitioner, conceded the validity of that case.
www.fed-soc.org /Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/freespeech&electionlaw/news2001.htm   (2863 words)

  
 the Martyrdom of Rose Pastor Stokes
The Sedition Act of 1918 ultimately became as unpopular as the Sedition Act of 1798 that Thomas Jefferson opposed.
During Wilson’s second term, the primary focus of the Bureau of Investigation was the investigation of alleged communists and anarchists.
Gregory previously investigated Seested and did not find enough evidence against him to justify an indictment.
www.geocities.com /mike_donnelly_umkc/042801stokes.html   (5754 words)

  
 Seymour Stedman (1871-1948)
The youthful J. Edgar Hoover rose to prominence as special assistant to both of Wilson’s attorney generals, Thomas Watt Gregory and Alexander Mitchell Palmer.
Part of the evidence federal prosecutors used against her was that she underlined certain words.
Gregory apparently was not as concerned about it as Francis M. Wilson and Elmer Silvers had been.
www.geocities.com /mike_donnelly_umkc/SeymourStedman.html   (1873 words)

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