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	Dawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Division of Dawson, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland.
		Dawson College is a large English CEGEP in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
		Dawson Community College is a college in the city of Glendive, Montana, USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dawson (315 words)

	William Dawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Dawson (mayor), mayor of Dunedin], New Zealand
		William Dawson (William and Mary), President of College of William and Mary
		William Levi Dawson (politician) (1886–1970), U.S. Representative from Illinois
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Dawson (143 words)

	Political Culture
		The leading politician of the “booster” era was John Wentworth (known as “Long John” because of his height), who edited the Chicago Democrat, represented Chicago in Congress for six terms between 1843 and 1867, and served as mayor (for one-year terms) in 1857 and 1860.
		Trade union leaders and labor-oriented politicians first turned their attention to the police force after it was used to break the 1867 general strike for the eight-hour day.
		The most powerful fl politician in Chicago from 1942 until his death in 1970 was William L. Dawson, a ward committeeman and congressman who built a “submachine” in five South Side wards that delivered dependable Democratic majorities.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/987.html (3225 words)

	Descendants of John Randoll, 1470 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Randolph-[13028] was born in 10-1650 in Moreton Morrell Parish, Warwickshire, England, died on 4-21-1711 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia at age 60, and was buried in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia.
		William Randolph Jr.-[15915] was born on 11-1-1681 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia, died on 10-19-1742 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia at age 60, and was buried in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia.
		William Randolph-[15979] was born in 1713 in Tuckahoe Plantation, Goochland County, Virginia and died in 9-1745 in Virginia at age 32.
	www.livelyroots.com /randoll/d1.htm (10451 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		When their reports were tabled in the assembly in 1859, it seemed clear that Dawson had adopted a much more sanguine view of the economic potential of the region than either Hind or John Palliser*, head of the British exploring expedition that had traversed the same ground in 1857.
		Dawson proposed a route to the west different from that advocated by Hind and the expenditure of considerable amounts of public money to build wagon roads over various portages and to construct locks at Fort Frances (Ont.).
		The Narrative roused Dawson’s ire because of its anti-Catholic “strictures.”
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40790&query= (1482 words)

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		She met Dawson as if he were an old family friend, heaped hospitality upon him, and chaffed him blandly as if to entertain a police officer with a warrant and handcuffs in his pocket were the best joke in the world.
		Dawson is perfectly cynically outspoken to me over the business which, I confess, appals me. In his female agents--of which he has many--he favours what he calls a 'judicious frailty'; in his male agents he favours a subtle skill in the verbal technique of anarchism.
		Dawson says that he was called up at eight-o'clock by the news that her gun-wires have been cut exactly like those of the _Antinous_ and in the same incomprehensible way.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/10474/10474-8.txt (24462 words)

	Kings, Queens, Presidents and First Ladies
		William Henry Smith-[18437] was born on 10-29-1708 and died on 10-2-1776 at age 67.
		Lawrence married Anne (Nancy) Fairfax, daughter of Colonel William Fairfax, a cousin and agent of Lord Fairfax and one of the chief proprietors of the region.
		Although the province contained many experienced officers and Colonel William Byrd of Westover had succeeded Washington as commander in chief, the unanimity with which the Virginia troops turned to Washington was a tribute to his reputation and personality; it was understood that Virginia expected him to be its general.
	www.livelyroots.com /kings/d26.htm (15630 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		Lawyer, military officer, and politician William Crosby Dawson was born in Green County, Ga. After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1816, Dawson read law in Lexington before attending law school in Connecticut.
		In 1822, Dawson was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, where he served 12 years.
		Dawson was reelected to Congress on two occasions, but in 1841 resigned to run for governor of Georgia.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/tdgh-jan/jan04.htm (1580 words)

	Ralph Metcalfe: Champion Sprinter and Free-Thinking Politician
		After excelling as a student and a sprinter at Chicago's Tilden Technical High School and Marquette University (in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Ralph H. Metcalfe competed in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, held in Los Angeles and Berlin, respectively.
		In 1970, Metcalfe won a seat in the Ninety-second U.S. Congress, succeeding his mentor, the late William Dawson.
		Metcalfe began his career as a Daley loyalist but later broke with the mayor, becoming a strong and independent voice for his mostly African American constituency who felt ignored by the workings of the Daley machine.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2199.html (253 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Mark Anthony Cooper (1800-1885)
		Mark Anthony Cooper—a soldier, lawyer, politician, farmer, and entrepreneur—is best remembered as an industrialist whose ironworks was one of the leading businesses in antebellum northwest Georgia.
		In 1836 he entered the Seminole War as commander of a battalion of Georgia volunteers, distinguishing himself in an episode involving 3,000 pounds of bacon sent by Governor William Schley for Georgia troops (Major Cooper refused to surrender the bacon to federal authorities, reiterating his states' rights views).
		In 1840 he lost his bid for reelection but was chosen to fill the unexpired term of William C. Dawson, who had resigned.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-624 (759 words)

	Congressman Bobby Rush (IL01) :: Press Release :: Rep. Rush Mourns the Loss of Alderman William Barnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chicago, IL ---- U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-1st) was deeply saddened by the recent passing of Alderman William Barnett, former alderman of Chicago's Second Ward.
		He was a Dawson era politician who understood organizational politics and did not hesitate to fight for what he believed in.
		He, along with men like Congressman William Dawson, made Chicago the political capital of the world and Chicago's Second Ward became the mother of Black politics in America.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/il01_rush/pr_030306_williambarnett.html (246 words)

	"D" Famous People
		Dawson, Charles (1864-1916) Solicitor and antiquarian, born at Fulkeith Hall, Lancashire...
		Drees, Willem, Jr (1922-) Dutch politician and economist, born in The Hague, W Netherlands...
		Duisenberg, Willem (Frederik) (1935-) Banker and politician, born in Heerenveen, The Netherlands.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Dfam (13540 words)

	Bronzeville History
		Inspite of a ruling by the Supreme Court in 1948 that "racial restrictive covenants" were unenforceable, continuation, and indeed the furthering of social segregation now became the official response to the problem of fl slums.
		Two powerful Chicago politicians who had the power to raise some consensus against segregation instead chose not to do so to further their own ends of maintaining control and remaining in power.
		These were: Congressman William Dawson, the leading fl politician of Chicago, and Mayor Richard Daley, who became Chicago's mayor in 1956.
	www.iit.edu /~bronzeville-stories/history.html (2259 words)

	William Dean Howells: CHAPTER THREE
		William, a self-described “life-long slavery abolitionist,” supposedly gossiped with John Brown Jr.’s pursuers as the outlaw crouched in the Sentinel’s loft.
		In 1858, not yet a politician or a major general in the Union army, Hayes paid a visit to the Meads’ large and eccentric family and wrote a vivid account in his letters home.
		Support for his application came from William Dennison, the governor of Ohio; Salmon P. Chase, now serving as secretary of the treasury; James A. Garﬁeld, still a member of the Ohio Senate; and Charles Sumner, secretary of state.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/10071/10071.ch03.html (11620 words)

	"CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE" Abstracts A-F
		William McDougall’s Introduction to Social Psychology, the leading exposition of instinct psychology, had reached its 22nd edition by 1931.
		Dawson suggested that they had been formed when the hollow fossil tree stumps they were encased in had trapped unwary animals, which then died and were preserved inside them.
		It first examines the government domain, identifying precise circuits of manuscript mapping on either side of the Atlantic, connected by the flow of some manuscripts from the colonies to the metropolis, and by a shared consumption through the marketplace (such as it was in colonial North America) of printed maps.
	www.unh.edu /history/golinski/Halifax2.htm (12441 words)

	History & Genealogy - Military - Regimental Histories of TN Units During War of 1812
		Part of Major General William Carroll's division at the battles for New Orleans, this regiment suffered casualties during the skirmish of 28th December 1814 and had two of the handful of fatalities on the famous 8 January 1815 battle.
		Williams, along with approximately 250 volunteers, marched to East Florida to join with the combined forces of U.S. troops and Georgia "patriots" to "liberate" this region from Spanish control.
		Colonel Wynn was a planter and politician from Wilson County who was serving as state senator at the time of the outbreak of the Creek War.
	www.tennessee.gov /tsla/history/military/1812reg.htm (5808 words)

	Famous Graduates
		Taught world history and world culture at William Chrisman High School before being elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1980.
		Elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1976.
		WILLIAM J. Served as U.S. Congressman from the 4th District from 1959 to 1977 (served as Harry Truman's Congressman).
	www.umkc.edu /aboutumkc/famousgraduates.asp (1916 words)

	P.O.V. - Brother Outsider . Rustin's Work \| PBS
		Eighty sheriffs, eighty tax assessors, and eighty school board members might ease the tension for a while in their communities, but alone they could not create jobs and build low-cost housing; alone they could not supply quality integrated education.
		The relevant question, moreover, is not whether a politician is fl or white, but what forces he represents.
		Southern Negroes, despite the exhortations from SNCC to organize themselves into a Black Panther party, are going to stay in the Democratic Party — to them it is the party of progress, the New Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society — and they are right to stay.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2002/brotheroutsider/power.html (992 words)

	CHAPTER 12
		Dawson, wrote Forrestal that he would be glad to talk to him about the seven members.
		Dawson asked Forrestal if he had any preferences for Reginald E. Gillmor, president of Sperry Gyroscope, or Julius Ochs Adler, noted publisher and former military aide to Secretary Stimson, as possibilities for chairman.
		Dawson said he would wait on this appointment until Forrestal had time to consider it, but two days later he was back, telling the secretary that the President had instructed him to release the names.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/integration/IAF-12.htm (10703 words)

	CPL African Americans and National Party Convention History: A Chronology
		Researched by Mary A. Williams, Assistant Curator, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Woodson Regional Library.
		William L. Dawson - A lawyer, and U. Congressman since 1943, Dawson was the first African American to serve as Chairman of the House Committee on Executive Expenditures.
		In 1944, Dawson became Assistant Chairman and was later elected Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the first African American to hold such a position with either the Democratic or Republican parties.
	www.chipublib.org /002branches/woodson/wnconvention.html (3115 words)

	BCPL History and Genealogy InfoCenter Baltimore County History - Arbutus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The land and house were owned by William Dawson, the first English Consul to Maryland.
		One legend claims that Dawson had a brother who was transported from England to America in disgrace.
		Williams gave me a great love for books and she was a great librarian.
	www.bcplonline.org /info/history/hist_ar_hist.html (4258 words)

	History of our Area
		A widely respected politician as "High Sheriff" and "Keeper of the Public Gaol" in Annapolis in 1753, Captain Gassaway was elected to the Lower House of the General Assembly of Maryland to represent "Ann Arrundl Covnty." The fine Captain had his son's, William, Thomas and Henry Gassaway inheritance land surveyed in 1750.
		Williams and Branham purchased the large tract of our community from Central Avenue (Mayo Road) up to Selby Bay and began platting the Selby on the Bay community into building lots and using a sales concept that was relatively successful.
		William Cotter lived only four years after his pledge of good behavior, for he died the latter part of March 1702 and was buried on March 28.
	www.selbyonthebay.org /history.html (13242 words)

	Cobden on Freedom, Peace and Trade: Garvey Essay
		A philosophy that had viewed economic affairs as characterized by inherent conflict was increasingly giving way to one that emphasized mutual gain and the large-scale social cooperation of the international division of labor.
		Politicians, Cobden feared, had an interest in keeping the misfortunes of foreigners always before the eyes of their constituents, perhaps to distract attention from their own shortcomings as governors.
		Cobden warned that “our aristocratic politicians make political capital out of the Italians, Poles, Circassians, etc., for purposes of their own, and not with any intention of promoting liberty anywhere.
	www.independent.org /students/garvey/essay.asp?id=1381 (5355 words)

	Truman Library - Oscar L. Chapman Oral History Interview, August 2, 1972
		You had some of that where the politician was scared to get too close to Truman, afraid it wasn't going too well.
		I worked with William Dawson and I'll never forget his speech up there on the back of the car or automobile out at the community there, in the fl community.
		I know, Dawson had set up (Daley had done this for me), he had set up a meeting for Truman to stop there in an automobile and make a speech at 5 o'clock in the afternoon as they got off from work, most of them.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/chapman6.htm (14265 words)

	Activities:
		In this and similar disputes we have given the game away--yet again--although no one seems particularly disturbed by its central fact, which is this: what we call the record often tends to be the precise opposite of a record.
		We have all become judges of the performance of politicians, a nation of political movie critics talking endlessly about how this one did well or that one managed to look some way or other so that he must have wowed some particular group.
		WILLIAM DAWSON, 41, who owned a marketing company and who lived in Sicklerville, N.J., was the next victim.
	www.coe.ohio-state.edu /beverlygordon/834/mcclain.html (6673 words)

	Canadian Cities of Romance
		William H. Drummond has for ever left his impress upon the literature of Canada in the habitant verse which has immortalized the French-Canadian farmer, the voyageur and the coureur de bois.
		William Wilfred Campbell, ardent lover of Ottawa, relates history of Bytown, where, he says, the entry to the waterside, through the stone arches of these old warehouses, suggests the comings and goings of generations of commerce and the long journeys by water-ways ere the necessities and luxuries of daily life could reach their destination.
		The Rebellion of William Lyon Mackenzie and his supporters, who objected to the administration of public affairs by the Family Compact, was quickly subdued, and a few rebels hanged in the jail-yard.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/hale-katherine/romance/romance.html (20840 words)

	Balfour, Sir James on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jaguar founder stands proud for millennium; STATUE OF SIR WILLIAM LYONS IS UNVEILED IN FRONT OF HIS...
		Captured (1547) at St. Andrews after the murder of Cardinal Beaton, he served a sentence in the French galleys and on his release (1549) abjured Protestantism.
		Sir William Dawson (1820-1899): a very modern paleobotanist.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BalfourJ1.asp (433 words)

	Historical Studies 521 University of Calgary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rarely were women the subject of these biographies because it was thought that women’s lives were confined to the private sphere with little impact on public life.
		This biographical tradition in Canadian historiography reached its pinnacle in the 1950s with Donald Creighton’s two volume biography of John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician and The Old Chieftain, and J.M.S. Careless’s, Brown of the Globe, a two volume biography of Macdonald’s major political adversary.
		Students selecting this option should write a concluding section in which they outline how they think the biography of the figure under study should be written.
	hist.ucalgary.ca /courses/F1999/521L01.htm (1569 words)

	STARTREK.COM : Article
		The actor behind the lobes of the most famous Ferengi just flew in that morning, but was very much in character when he declared Vegas to be "My kind of town." He reminded people to frequent Quark's Bar there in the Hilton Hotel.
		Mostly she discussed her latest aired episode, "Bounty," which has proven to be controversial among the fans for its T'Pol/pon farr "B"-story.
		Dawson said she would be returning to Paramount the following week to begin pre-production on another Enterprise episode.
	www.startrek.com /startrek/view/series/VOY/news/article/1966.html (1634 words)

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