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  William H. Crawford - Definition, explanation
Crawford was born in Amherst County, Virginia, but his family moved south to Appling County, Georgia when he was a boy.
In 1803, Crawford was elected to the Georgia state legislature as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.
Crawford was again a leading candidate for the Democratic-Republican presidential nomination in 1824, but a massive stroke in 1823 ended his chances.
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  William H. Crawford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crawford was born in Amherst County, Virginia, but his family moved south to Appling County, Georgia when he was a boy.
Crawford soon became a respected and influential senator, and was elected president pro tempore in 1811.
Crawford was again a leading candidate for the Democratic-Republican presidential nomination in 1824, but a massive stroke in 1823 ended his chances.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_H._Crawford   (416 words)

  
 CRAWFORD, WILLIAM HARRIS
In 1779 the Crawford family moved from Virginia to Edgefield District, S.C., and in 1783 to a farm in what is now Columbia County, Ga. Young William studied under Moses Waddel, taught for two years at the Richmond Academy in Augusta (1796—98), read law while teaching, and was admitted to the bar in 1799.
Crawford’s two years in Paris were frustrating, and were de­voted mainly to vain efforts to convince France that it should pay for the American ships and cargoes seized illegally under Napoleon’s decrees.
As 1824 approached, Crawford was almost universally believed to be the strongest candidate to succeed Monroe as president, and in February 1824 Crawford received the last nomination made by a congressional caucus of the Republican party.
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 Encyclopedia: William H. Crawford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
William Crawford (1732-1782) was an American soldier who fought Indians in the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolutionary War.
Crawford County is a county located in the state of Missouri, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1990.
William Gibbs McAdoo (October 31, 1863–February 1, 1941) was a U.S. Senator and United States Secretary of the Treasury.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-H.-Crawford   (2771 words)

  
 American President
Crawford accepted, only to leave that post in 1816 to become secretary of the treasury, serving in the cabinets of Presidents Madison and James Monroe until 1825.
Crawford returned to Georgia in 1825, and in 1827 accepted an appointment as judge of Georgia's Northern Circuit Court.
William Crawford was born in Amherst (Nelson) County, Virginia in 1772.
www.americanpresident.org /history/jamesmadison/cabinet/secretaryofwar/williamhcrawford/email.html   (161 words)

  
 American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by
William H. Crawford to James Madison, December 11, 1815.
William H. Crawford to James Madison, December 28, 1814.
William H. Crawford to James Madison, December 5, 1816.
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 William Wyatt Bibb
Bibb attended William and Mary College and the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining an M.D. degree in 1801.
William Wyatt Bibb's brother, Thomas, automatically became acting governor by virtue of his position as president of the Alabama Senate.
William Wyatt Bibb was married to Mary Freeman.
www.archives.state.al.us /govs_list/g_bibbwm.html   (361 words)

  
 William Harris (W. H.) Crawford
Crawford County, Missouri is named for George H. Crawford.
William Harris Crawford was one of the first national politicians from the state of Georgia.
During the campaign for President in 1824 Crawford was incapacitated by severe paralysis.
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 Military Families to Join Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
Crawford, Texas - More members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) are traveling to Texas to join the protest outside of President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he is vacationing for the month of August.
All of these families are coming to Crawford, Texas to share their stories about the personal costs of the war in Iraq and add their voices to the call for a meeting with President Bush.
The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause." Gold Star and military families coming to Crawford know that the cause was not noble; that their loved ones died, or are currently in harm's way, serving in a war based on lies.
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 Crawford, William H(arris)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Crawford backed U.S. preparations for and the declaration of war against Britain in 1812 and--unlike most Democratic Republicans--favoured a tariff and extension of the charter of the Bank of the United States.
Crawford won the vote of the party caucus, but by 1824 the caucus system had fallen into disrepute, and its choice proved meaningless.
Crawford refused Adams' invitation to stay on as secretary of the treasury and instead returned to Georgia, where he served as a judge until his death.
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 Pueblo Medal of Honor Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He first wore it as a lark to a day of target practice and was such a dead shot with it at 100 yards that his Vietnamese troops insisted that he carry it from then on.
Crawford's path to the Medal of Honor began in 1943 in Italy.
Crawford is buried at the Air Force Academy and Mr.
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 Secretary of the Treasury - William H. Crawford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Crawford took over a Department still in fiscal confusion resulting from the poorly financed War of 1812.
During his secretaryship, Crawford also oversaw extensive improvements to the nation's infrastructure, including the initiation of coastal fortifications and the construction of the great westward leading Cumberland Road.
In 1825 Crawford refused President John Quincy Adams's offer to continue as Secretary, citing important differences in their views, and resigned at the end of Monroe's term.
www.ustreas.gov /offices/management/curator/collection/secretary/crawford.htm   (240 words)

  
 EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
William H. Crawford was one of four candidates for President in 1824.
William Crawford was the candidate nominated by the Democratic-Republican caucus in 1824.
In a duel Crawford killed a partisan of John Clark, head of the opposite faction, and in another duel was wounded by Clark.
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 Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 707
Magdalene Violet Crawford was buried in 1999 at Onalaska, Lewis County, Washington.
William H. Crawford married Leah Conover, daughter of Cornelius R. Covenhoven and Mary Stoutenberg, on January 8, 1834.
William Henry Crawford married Louisa Holmes Van Dorn, daughter of Jacob Albert Van Doren and Eliza Jane Van Mater, on May 13, 1867 at Reformed Dutch C, Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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 William H. Crawford
The American statesman William Harris Crawford was born in Amherst county, Virginia, on the 24th of February 1772.
In 1816 in the congressional caucus which nominated James Monroe for the presidency Crawford was a strong opposing candidate, a majority being at first in his favor, but when the vote was finally cast 65 were for Monroe and 54 for Crawford.
Crawford was invited by Adams to continue as Secretary of the Treasury, but declined.
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 All Families and Individuals - pafg25 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William B. Wynkoop Dr. was born on 10 Mar 1895.
William B. Wynkoop Dr. on 10 Mar 1924 in Godfrey, IL.
William H. Crawford was born on 31 Aug 1908.
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 William H. Crawford Summary
William H. Crawford was born in western Virginia on Feb. 24, 1772.
William Harris Crawford (February 24, 1772–September 15, 1834) was an important American politician during the early 19th century.
Crawford soon became a respected and influential senator, and was elected president pro tempore in 1811.
www.bookrags.com /William_H._Crawford   (1005 words)

  
 NARA Exhibit: American Originals, Part 2: Tally of electoral votes, showing the number of votes received by the four ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This tally shows that Jackson received a plurality of 99 electoral votes, falling 32 votes shy of the majority required by the Constitution.
Although the Constitution does not require that the House select the lead candidate, when John Quincy Adams was chosen over Andrew Jackson, Jackson and his supporters charged that the House of Representatives had openly defied the will of the people.
National Archives, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, exhibited with the permission of the House of Representatives.
www.archives.gov /exhibits/american_originals/tally.html   (209 words)

  
 Gorgas, William Crawford --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Using lessons that he learned during the Spanish-American War, William Crawford Gorgas, an Army medical officer, managed to control the rates of the diseases in the Canal Zone.
Percy and Ruth Crawford and the Birth of Televangelism
William Harvey's studies were the beginnings of the science of physiology.
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 Common Ground
Named for William Harris Crawford, a long-time political figure in his native Georgia and a cabinet member under both Presidents Madison and Monroe, Crawford Hall became an active residence hall in 1963.
William H. Crawford was Secretary of the Treasury when Monroe signed the charter of GW’s ancestor institution, Columbian College, and may have sat on the platform with Monroe and the rest of his cabinet during the first commencement in 1824.
Senator J. William Fulbright was the GW alumnus and Arkansas Democrat whose congressional resolution in 1943 signaled that body's willingness to have the United States join the world peace organization, later known as the United Nations.
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 Biography of John Quincy Adams
Within the one and only party--the Republican--sectionalism and factionalism were developing, and each section put up its own candidate for the Presidency.
Adams, the candidate of the North, fell behind Gen. Andrew Jackson in both popular and electoral votes, but received more than William H. Crawford and Henry Clay.
Since no candidate had a majority of electoral votes, the election was decided among the top three by the House of Representatives.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/ja6.html   (648 words)

  
 Chapter 3: Review Test 6
Crawford was direct and friendly and a marvelous storyteller, and one of the few persons in Washington who could teach the new senator Martin Van Buren anything about politics.
Crawford was one of the first politicians to try to build a national political machine.
"Crawford's Act" of 1820, limiting the term of minor federal employees to four years, was passed.
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 Keep Oklahoma Beautiful selects Crawford for environmental honor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Crawford has been a member of the Oklahoma Wildlife Commission since 1991 and current serves as its chairman.
Local university and community leaders note that Crawford's efforts to establish a partnership among businessmen, educators and conservationists played a key role in the success of the Hackberry Flat project to date.
Crawford, a Cameron alumnus, is chairman and chief executive officer of the First Southwest Corporation and its subsidiaries, First Southwest Bank in Frederick, Chattanooga and Hobart.
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 Pioneers
She was married to William Jackson Summerfield on 10 Jun 1934 in Roane Co, WV.
She was married to William E Simmons on 21 Aug 1895 in Roane Co, WV.
William H Crihfield was born in Jan 1870 in Doddridge Co, VA.
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 William H. Crawford
A public official, born in Neson County, Virginia, William Harris Crawford was privately educated and admitted to the bar in 1799.
In the coming elections in 1924, William H. Crawford now secretary of the treasury, was the politician’s candidate.
In 1822 Crawford had seemed to be far in the lead, but two factors combined to wreck his candidacy before electors were chosen: the first a stroke of paralysis in September 1823 and the second the blundering of one of Crawford’s friends, Gallatin, holding the caucus.
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 Willis G. Crawford (c1793-1850) and Sarah Bethea of Marion County, South Carolina
This record proves that Gadi Crawford, James G. Crawford, Willis Crawford and Rhoda Crawford, wife of Hugh Godbold, were all children of Hardy Crawford who died "in 1807 or 8".
On 20 Nov 1821, Willis Crawford, by himself, and also in conjunction with his brother James G. Crawford, was named among the notes in the estate of John Henry, deceased, meaning they owned money to John Henry.
William H. Crawford died on 3 Mar 1872 and is buried at the Dothan Methodist Church Cemetery in present Dillon County (then still part of Marion County.)
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 Crawford County, Georgia Genealogical Records Information
Crawford County was one of four counties created on Dec. 9, 1822, by an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws 1822, p.
Georgia's 57th county was named for William H. Crawford (1772-1834), former U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, as well as Georgia's first candidate for U.S. President (1824).
In an act of Dec. 23, 1822, the legislature authorized Crawford County's inferior court to select a site for the county seat, with a provision that such site "be as near the centre of the county as convenience will admit" (Ga. Laws 1822, p.
www.mygeorgiagenealogy.com /ga_county/cra.htm   (877 words)

  
 Crawford
CRAWFORD was born between 1780-1790 in North Carolina, and died October 1832 in Anson Co., North Carolina.
She was born 1795 in North Carolina, and died after 1859 in NC.
He was born 1828 in Anson Co., NC, and died May 31, 1864 in Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, VA. She married (2) WILLIAM PINK BRANTLEY after 1880.
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 Jackson, Andrew -> President on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The vote was split with Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and William H. Crawford, and when the election was decided in the House of Representatives, Clay threw his influence to Adams, and Adams became President.
Personal relationships were of utmost importance, and the social slights suffered by the wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton (see O'Neill, Margaret) helped to break up the cabinet.
Calhoun and the South generally felt threatened by the protective tariff that favored the industrial East, and Calhoun evolved the doctrine of nullification and resigned from the vice presidency.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/JacksoA_President.asp   (961 words)

  
 Young Guns Movie Quotes - Atlyrics.com
William H. Bonney: If we're caught, we're gonna hang...
William H. Bonney: You know, Sir, I do admire you, and I sure would like to touch the gun that's gonna kill Billy the Kid.
William H. Bonney: We're gonna show these guys they've finally met their match!
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