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  Framers - Conservapedia
William Pierce, a delegate from Georgia, wrote sketches of each of the Framers and these were published in the Savannah Georgian in 1828.
William Pierce My own character I shall not attempt to draw, but leave those who may chose to speculate on it, to consider it in any light that their fancy or imagination may depict.
William Samuel Johnson Dr. Johnson is a character much celebrated for his legal knowledge; he is said to be one of the first classics in America, and certainly possesses a very strong and enlightened understanding.
www.conservapedia.com /Framers   (4174 words)

  
 Franklin Pierce
In the advance of Pierce's brigade his horse was unable to cross a ditch or ravine, and he was compelled to dismount and pro-teed on foot.
In 1850 General Pierce was elected to represent the city of Concord in a constitutional convention, and when that body met he was chosen its president by a nearly unanimous vote.
Pierce were with him at the time, and the boy, a bright lad of thirteen years, had been amusing them with his conversation just before the accident.
george-washington.org /presidentpierce.com   (6499 words)

  
 Constitutional Convention - Notes of W. Pierce
William Pierce of Georgia rarely addressed the Constitutional Convention but his contributions to what we know of others who attended are invaluable thanks to his short character-sketches of each delegate.
Pierce made his record in order of state but it is reproduced here in alphabetical order of surname.
Pierce also made notes of some of the earlier debates (before he left the convention).
www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/pierce.html   (4443 words)

  
 William Pierce (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Pierce, who simply signed himself "William Pierce, Jr.", identified himself as a Virginian, although some historians contend that he was born in Georgia.
Having received brevet promotion to Major, Pierce retired from the Continental Army in 1782 and sought to establish himself as a merchant in the Caribbean.
Additionally, he was an original member and vice president of the Society of the Cincinnati in Georgia and served as a trustee of the Chatham County Academy until his untimely death in 1789.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Pierce_(politician)   (371 words)

  
 Sobaka :: Dossier: Dr. William L. Pierce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pierce's first foray into the world of radical politics (aside from kicking a few fls out of whitey's segregated urinals back home) was in that great incubator of dangerous loners, the John Birch Society.
Pierce was diagnosed with cancer in the Summer of 2002 and died after refusing treatment on July 23rd.
Pierce, buried in the soil of his honkey elysium, must be turning in his grave - if he weren't laughing that there are any suckers left that still believe in him.
www.diacritica.com /sobaka/dossier/pierce.html   (4229 words)

  
 William Pierce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Pierce (politician) (1740–1789), Continental Congressman from Georgia
William Luther Pierce (1933–2002), white nationalist, founder of the National Alliance.
William G. Pierce (born 1952), engineer, Republican candidate for Senate from Ohio in 2006
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Pierce   (106 words)

  
 The murder of Peggy Cuttino, daughter of Sumner County politician - The Crime library
Pierce, it is alleged, told authorities that he listened to the conversation "about as long as I could take it," before he decided to intervene.
Though Pierce is said to have claimed that he saw a woman watching the events unfold from inside the restaurant, neither that woman, nor any witness has been able to corroborate Pierce's alleged statement.
In his statement, Pierce is alleged to have said he drove with the girl to a landfill at the edge of town.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/classics/peggy_cuttino/4.html   (1430 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Notes of Major William Pierce (Georgia) in the Federal Convention of 1787
If Madison's report is right, it would appear that Pierce has here fused two speeches made by Madison on that day, one on the election of the first branch by the legislatures, the other on the association of the judiciary in the revisal of the laws, a question postponed from June 4.
Franklin is well known to be the greatest phylosopher of the present age; -all the operations of nature he seems to understand,-the very heavens obey him, and the Clouds yield up their Lightning to be imprisoned in his rod.
Wythe is the famous Professor of Law at the University of William and Mary.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/const/pierce.htm   (7202 words)

  
 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for William P. Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Former US Attorney General under President Eisenhower, William P. Rogers later served as Secretary of State for four years during the turbulence of the Vietnam War in the cabinet of Richard M. Nixon.
William Rogers returned to private practice and went back to public service one last time in 1986 when he was called upon by President Ronald Reagan to head the investigation into the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
William P. Rogers was a 1973 recipient of the Medal of Freedom Award, the nation's highest civilian honor, as well as 8 honorary doctorate degrees from universities that included his Alma Mater, Colgate.
obits.com /rogerswilliamp.html   (1330 words)

  
 The Nationalist Coalition
But of course, the Republican politicians jumped at the chance to denounce Ventura and to express their pious outrage at his honesty.
You didn't see Janet Reno or Bill Clinton or any other politician or bureaucrat talking about it and calling for new hatchet-control laws or citing the murder as an example of "hate crime." And of course, you understand why that is so.
The politicians won't stand up and ask why America is overrun with Asian gangs and murderous Tongans because they really don't care.
www.ncoal.com /pierce/100999_Hypocrisy_and_Democracy.htm   (2622 words)

  
 constitution
He is an able politician, and extremely artful in accomplishing any particular object ;‑it is remarked that he seldom fails.
Franklin is well known to be the greatest phylosopher of the present age;‑all the operations of nature he seems to understand,‑the very heavens obey him, and the Clouds yield up their Lightning to be imprisoned in his rod.
Pierce] My own character I shall not attempt to draw, but leave those who may choose to speculate on it, to consider it in any light that their fancy or imagination may depict.
fas-history.rutgers.edu /clemens/constitution.html   (4206 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William Pierce Frye (September 2, 1830 – August 8, 1911) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine.
Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years and died in office.
Class 1: Holmes • Parris • Holmes • Shepley • Dana • Williams • Fairfield • Moor • Hamlin • Nourse • Hamlin • Morrill • Hamlin • E.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=William_P._Frye   (558 words)

  
 William Pierce (politician) information - Search.com
William Pierce (* 1740; December 10, 1789) was an army officer during the American Revolutionary War and a politician from Georgia.
Pierce was chosen as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787, and as a delegate from Georgia to the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787.
Pierce was an original member and vice president of the Society of the Cincinnati.
www.search.com /reference/William_Pierce_(politician)   (172 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: Fightin' Words
Written under a pseudonym by William Pierce, late founder of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, the bloody race-war novel has been dubbed the "bible of the racist right" by the FBI.
Despite Pierce's stilted prose — a holdover, maybe, from his career as a physics professor — the violence is unforgettably vivid.
Pierce later told biographer Robert S. Griffin why he believed novels could be so effective: "If the protagonist learns something or comes to believe in something, if he changes his ideas, the reader tends to do the same thing, he changes too.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=490   (1089 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
SLOBOGIN: William Pierce, leader of the white-supremacist group the National Alliance, used radio broadcasts, tapes, writings, anything he could to promote his message to an angry white constituency.
SLOBOGIN: Pierce is most notorious for his 1978 book "The Turner Diaries," a racist fantasy where a small band of revolutionaries committed to a white America overthrow the U.S. government.
PIERCE: Probably the most important idea expressed in "The Turner Diaries" is that each of us has a responsibility for what's happening in the world around him, that each person has to stop being a spectator and start being a participant.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0207/23/asb.00.html   (6658 words)

  
 Who was William Pierce? Some of his ideas... - VivaMalta.org
WILLIAM Luther Pierce may no longer be actively instructing us, but the lessons he taught us are everlasting.
The masculine altruists, on the other hand, should be capable of imposing a necessary discipline in order to preserve the health of a beleaguered planet and permit its most valuable life forms to continue developing, instead of being dragged down by the least valuable.
WILLIAM Luther Pierce taught us -- and showed us by his own example -- that, nominal though our efforts to advance the cause of our people may seem at times, the magnitude of the results is ever-increasing.
www.vivamalta.org /forum/showthread.php?t=3072   (10013 words)

  
 William Blount, Signer of Constitution, Expelled From U.S. Senate
Delegates had been instructed by their states and many thought the convention out of bounds in considering a new approach, but all 13 states ratified the resulting document thereby establishing the legitimacy of the process.
North Carolina sent five delegates: William Blount, William R. Davie, Alexander Martin, Richard D. Spaight, and Hugh Williamson, [each state had one vote and therefore could send any number of delegates.] Davie and Martin left before the meeting ended and therefore did not sign the final document.
At the convention, delegate William Pierce of Georgia made notes on his opinion of most of the other delegates.
www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/history/blount.html   (848 words)

  
 700 WLW Interview of Ohio GOP Candidate for US Senate Bill Pierce (Challenger to RINO DeWine)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
PIERCE: I stand solidly behind the second amendment and the reason and purpose for it as it was originally invisioned by our founding fathers when they wrote the Constitution.
PIERCE: Well, when we talk long-term entitlement programs, which is the one he signed with Ted Kennedy on November 2nd, you've got to believe that that is how all of our entitlement programs end up.
PIERCE: After he got out of the United States Senate, he fulfilled a lifelong dream he had and that was to be a small business owner.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1616518/posts   (3197 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
One of the best known today is the one that dazzled Pierce: Franklin the scientist-sage, flying his kite, inventing his stove, and writing his almanacs.
But in order to make a profit from their huge property, they had to attract purchasers of land, which they did by ceding rights to the assembly, and by guaranteeing that their tracts were clear of Indian claims.
William Penn, the founder of the colony, bought out the Indians in the open market.
newcriterion.com /archive/15/feb97/franklin.htm   (1588 words)

  
 pierce Coat of Arms, Family Crest
The name pierce is tied to the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of England.
They named their children after saints in the hope that the child would be blessed or protected by the saint.
First found in Somerset where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
www.houseofnames.com /coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=pierce   (1505 words)

  
 The Framers of the Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
William Pierce, of Georgia, spoke very little at the Constitutional Convention, but his contributions to what we know of the other delegates to the Convention are invaluable.
Pierce wrote his sketches in order of state; they are reproduced here in alphabetical order.
In addition to Pierce's sketches, the reader may wish to refer to the brief biographies (most with accompanying reproductions of portraits painted of the biographee) that can be found on the
www.usconstitution.net /constframe.html   (4316 words)

  
 Pierce Family Crest
Although Medieval scribes and church officials recorded names as they sounded, so it is common to find one person referred to by several different spellings of his surname, even the most literate people varied the spelling of their own names.
In the Pierce coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
The Pierce Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/pierce-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224   (900 words)

  
 Anti-Semitism and Terrorism on the Internet: New Threats - Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Pierce was a guest speaker of the extremist far right NDP party in Germany in 1998.
He was allowed to speak inside a hall to their political convention, but when he wanted to address an outdoor rally in Frankfurt, he was expelled from Germany.
"Pierce was also one of the scheduled speakers at the first Holocaust denial conference planned in Beirut in March 2002.
www.jcpa.org /phas/phas-9.htm   (3953 words)

  
 Franklin Pierce Bicentennial
While Franklin Pierce’s memory is far from forgotten, his life is often overlooked or misunderstood.
Pierce was a compelling and often contradictory man. He has been described a powerful orator, a faithful friend and a master politician.
The 2004 bicentennial of Pierce's birth is an opportunity to reopen the book on this enigma of a President, whose love of history and of New Hampshire is well documented.
www.franklinpierce.ws   (240 words)

  
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William Pierce: Character Sketches of Delegates to the Federal Convention.
Franklin is well known to be the greatest phylosopher of the present age;--all the operations of nature he seems to understand,--the very heavens obey him, and the Clouds yield up their Lightning to be imprisoned in his rod.
Rutledge is one of those characters who was highly mounted at the commencement of the late revolution; -- his reputation in the first Congress gave him a distinguished rank among the American Worthies.
gunshowonthenet.com /2ALEGAL/CharacterSketches.html   (4190 words)

  
 Gunning Bedford, Jr.
He was a cousin of Colonel Gunning Bedford, a Revolutionary War hero and Delaware politician with whom he is often confused.
Bedford was a delegate to Delaware's ratification convention.
Widely respected for his knowledge of the law, Bedford was asked by Delaware's senators and fellow signers George Read and William Bassett to review a bill, then under consideration, on the organization of the federal judiciary system.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/bedford.htm   (691 words)

  
 White supremacist program prompts radio host to leave
On this week's program, for example, Pierce, a former physics professor at Oregon State University, theorized that the Clinton administration and other politicians are waging war in Yugoslavia because they are "scrambling" to help the Jews get Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic "out of their way."
Most of the air time on KFNX, including the time devoted to Pierce's program, is paid for by the hosts, who then are free to obtain sponsors to cover their costs.
Station owner Francis Battaglia said Pierce has a First Amendment right to say what he likes on his program, so long as he is expressing opinions.
www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/990528/host.shtml   (779 words)

  
 Social Sciences Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Williams' memoir tells the fascinating story of a young man who is born into the lower-middle class white world of suburban Virginia only to learn when he is about six years old that his father is the son of a mixed-race couple from Muncie, Indiana.
William's account of his childhood truly woke me up to how fortunate I am to have the life I have, despite losing my mother at age 20.
One that stood out for me was when William's white maternal grandmother refuses to pass along her daughter's messages to her children after she has left the family.
www.e-book-store.com /Social_Sciences/Social_Sciences_161.html   (3534 words)

  
 Political History Resources: General Records
Included are individual scrapbooks on Speaker of the House Thomas Brackett Reed (Bowdoin 1860), Maine Governor Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Bowdoin 1852), Congressman Jonathan Cilley of Maine (Bowdoin 1825), and Senator William Pierce Frye of Maine (Bowdoin 1850).
He was interested in Republican politics and served as press secretary for Richard Nixon's 1952 vice-presidential campaign, as public relations director for the Republican National Committee in 1954, as campaign director for Nixon's 1956 vice-presidential campaign, and as planning director of Nixon's 1960 presidential bid.
William E. Lunt (1882-1956, Bowdoin 1904) spent most of his academic career as Walter D. and Edith M.L. Scull Professor of English and Constitutional History at Haverford College (1917-1952).
library.bowdoin.edu /arch/subject/politgen.shtml   (1294 words)

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