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	Yancey, William Lowndes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In response to the Wilmot Proviso, Yancey wrote (1848) the Alabama Platform, which demanded of Congress the positive protection of slavery in the territories.
		Yancey’s doctrine was adopted by several Southern states under his militant leadership and soon became the creed of the whole South.
		As extreme a fire-eater”; as William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist, he even advocated the reopening of the African slave trade.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ya/Yancey-W.html (282 words)

	William Lowndes Yancey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Lowndes Yancey (August 10, 1814 - July 27, 1863), American political leader, son of Benjamin Cudworth Yancey, an able lawyer of South Carolina, of Welsh descent, was born near the Falls of the Ogeechee, Warren County, Georgia.
		Yancey attended Williams College for one year, studied law at Greenville, South Carolina, and was admitted to the bar.
		Lowndes Yancey, of Alabama, on the annexation of Texas to the United States, delivered in the House of Representatives, Jan. 7, 1845.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lowndes_Yancey (740 words)

	William Lowndes Yancey
		Yancey, like Jefferson Davis, was a proponent of the extension of slavery to the new territories acquired by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (which ended the Mexican War in 1848 and set borders between the two nations).
		In 1859, Yancey urged the calling of a convention by the state of Alabama, in the event of the election of the Republican candidate for president in 1860.
		Yancey was appointed chairman of the commission sent to Europe in 1861 to present the Confederate cause to the Governments of England and France, a critical mission which was to be unsuccessful.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=336 (478 words)

	Withdrawl of William Lowndes Yancey Law Office, National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Yancey advocated populist causes such as reform of the banks and the penal system, establishment of a state penitentiary, legal rights for married women, a free public school system, and very significantly, state legislature representation apportioned on the basis of the white population only.
		It was Yancey's intent to shift his defense of southern rights from the halls of Congress to the public forum from which, he believed, future political leadership would spring.
		The William Lowndes Yancey Law Office was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973 for its association with Yancey and his significant role in sectional politics that led to the secession of the Southern states.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nhl/DOE_dedesignations/Yancey.htm (1063 words)

	William Lowndes Yancey
		Yancey rose rapidly in the profession and soon regarded as the leading advocate and most eloquent orator in the state.
		He was elected to the lower house of the state legislature in 1841, to the upper house in 1843, to the Congress in 1844 and was reelected, serving until his resignation on September 1 1846.
		The platform presented by Yancey stated that the Constitution is a compact between sovereign states, that citizens are entitled to enter into territories with their personal property intact, and without interference.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/William_Yancey (806 words)

	William Lowndes Yancey (
		Citation from: William Lowndes Yancey: From Unionist to Secessionist 1814-1852.
		William Yancey's father was Benjamin Cudworth Yancey, a South Carolina politician whose bright career was cut short by death in 1817.
		Yancey soon after her son came to Mount Zion and in 1821 when William was seven years old, she and the schoolmaster were married.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/7647/wly2.htm (3601 words)

	William Carpenter and Elizabeth Wilson of Burke, Yancey, Mitchell and Avery Co, NC
		William Carpenter was born ca 1804/05 in Burke County, NC in the Three Mile Creek area.
		William and family were still in Yancey for the 1860 census, listed next to his brother Levi and two houses from his widowed mother.
		William and Elizabeth were listed on the 1880 census in Mitchell County, in the household of their daughter Matilda and son-in-law David Franklin.
	www.martygrant.com /gen/carpenter/carpenter-william-yancey.htm (4799 words)

	Some Descendants of "Dr." John Woodson - pafg36.asp - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		(William Cannon Flournoy, Martha Cannon, William Cannon, Martha Woodson, Joseph Richard, Robert, John) was born on 9 Sep 1836.
		Louisa Yancey was born on 8 Dec 1866.
		Yancey had commenced his career in Tuolumne County as a partner of John C. Duchow in the Columbia Gazette, and was by profession a printer.
	www.juch.org /woodson/pafg36.asp (1413 words)

	WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY
		The role of William L. Yancey in the secession movement a summary of a thesis...
		The role of William L. Yancey in the secession movement...
		The life and times of William Lowndes Yancey; a history of political parties in the United States, from 1834 to 1864; especially as to the origin of the Confederate States.
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	William Lowndes Yancey Biography / Biography of William Lowndes Yancey Biography
		William Yancey was born in Warren County, Ga., on Aug. 10, 1814, the son of an attorney who died in 1817.
		In 1848 Yancey devised resolutions that were adopted by the Alabama Democratic Convention, announcing the extreme demand that slavery be permitted into the territories and be protected by Federal law.
		Yancey encouraged the formation of local Southern rights associations and agitated to reopen the African slave trade to spread slavery's blessings to poor white Southerners.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-lowndes-yancey (538 words)

	William B. Patterson and Lucinda (Edwards) of Yancey Co, NC
		William B. Patterson was born ca 1813/14 in Buncombe Co, NC (now Yancey Co, NC).
		William was apparently with his parents for the 1820 census in Buncombe, as Robert Patterson had a son with him under age 10 (born ca 1810/20).
		William was still apparently with his parents for the 1830 census in Buncombe, in the age 15-19 category (born ca 1810/15).
	www.martygrant.com /gen/patterson/patterson-william-yancey.htm (791 words)

	Brig. Gen. William R. Yancey, Commander at Groom Lake, Roadrunners Internationale
		In the years before World War II, General Yancey served with the 90th Attack Squadron at Barksdale Field, La., and commanded a fighter squadron being activated at MacDill Field, Fla. He was with the 50th Fighter Group at Meridian Miss., on Pearl Harbor Day.
		General Yancey was assigned to Headquarters Second Air Force for a brief tour and then to Strategic Air Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., as chief, Reconnaissance Division, Directorate of Operations, a job which he performed until mid-summer 1952.
		General Yancey is much in demand as speaker for civic affairs and accepts every invitation that his schedule will permit.
	www.roadrunnersinternationale.com /yancey.html (1118 words)

	William Burbridge Yancey, Jr., Major General, United States Air Force
		General Yancey was transferred to Europe in August 1958 and became deputy director for operations, Headquarters 36th Tactical Fighter Wing, Bitburg Air Base, Germany, and later was operations officer, 32d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Soesterberg, The Netherlands.
		In July 1964 General Yancey was assigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., where he served as action officer, branch chief and assistant division chief in the Directorate of Plans, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations.
		General Yancey was assigned to the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as chief, Objective Plans and Military Assistance Division, in the Plans and Policy Directorate, in January 1973.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.com /wbyancey.htm (1763 words)

	William Lowndes Yancey, Fire Eater! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		As a young adult Yancey chose to return to his native South in 1833 to practice law, first to Georgia and then to South Carolina, where he married Sarah Caroline Earle of Greenville in 1835.
		As a Democrat, Yancey became a significant party leader on both the state and national level, as well as one of the most powerful men of the antebellum South.
		William Lowndes Yancey was inducted into the Alabama Men's Hall of Fame in 1995.
	www.fireeater.org /HTML/FIRE_EATERS/yancey.htm (1017 words)

	Encyclopedia: William Yancey
		Williams College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
		A confederacy can refer to: A form of government formed as a union of political organizations, though it differs from a republic in that the separate political units retain a greater degree of sovereignty over themselves.
		See JW Du Bose, Life and Times of W. Yancey (Birmingham, Ala., 1892); WG Brown, The Lower South in American History (New York, 1902); and Joseph Hodgson, The Cradle of the Confederacy (Mobile, Ala., 1876).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Yancey (1405 words)

	William L. Yancey
		William Lowndes Yancey was born in Warren County, Georgia, the son of a South Carolina lawyer.
		Yancey established a successful law practice and began his political career, serving in both the state assembly and senate.
		During the war, Jefferson Davis dispatched Yancey to Europe on a mission to secure diplomatic recognition for the Confederacy; his efforts were unsuccessful.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h424.html (461 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Yancey William Lowndes
		Yancey, William Lowndes (1814-63), American political leader, born in Ogeechee Shoals, Georgia, and educated at Williams College.
		Tell, William, legendary Swiss patriot of the 14th century.
		Faulkner, William (1897-1962), American novelist, known for his epic portrayal, in some 20 novels, of the tragic conflict between the old and the...
	encarta.msn.com /Yancey_William_Lowndes.html (136 words)

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		William Bevill was born in 1835 at Guilford Co., North Carolina, USA.
		She was the daughter of William Bowman and Sarah McNairy.
		William Bowman was the son of Richard Bowman Jr.
	www3.telus.net /public/byrt/test-p/p82.htm (1381 words)

	William Hoffman, Yancey’s War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Yancey’s upset of well-planned military maneuvers by overseeing a party that becomes an orgy and by spinning a laundry unit askew are some the novel’s funniest moments.
		Yancey’s War is an entirely fitting addition to the Voices of the South series and a feather in the cap of one of Virginia’s most accomplished and largely unappreciated authors.”—Virginian-Pilot
		William Hoffman is the author of thirteen novels, translated into five languages between them, and four story collections.
	www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/Spring2005/books/Hoffman_Yancys.html (429 words)

	Who Owns The West? Mining Claims in America's West
		Heirs of William Yancey Fisher is one of 92,125 beneficiaries of a 132-year-old federal mining law that gives away precious metals, minerals, and even the title to the land itself for less than $10 an acre.
		Heirs of William Yancey Fisher is one of 63,768 beneficiaries of a long-standing federal subsidy called "patenting" that allows mining interests to purchase public land for no more than $5 an acre.
		Since acquiring title to the land, Heirs of William Yancey Fisher may have mined it, sold it, leased it, or passed it on to heirs or other corporate interests.
	www.ewg.org /mining/owners/overview.php?cust_id=1412363 (414 words)

	YANCEY, William Lowndes (1814-1863) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		“William Loundes Yancey: From Unionist to Secessionist 1814-1852.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968.
		“The Role of William L. Yancey in the Secession Movement.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1937.
		William L. Yancey, of Alabama, delivered in the National Democratic convention, Charleston, April 28th, 1860.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=Y000003 (284 words)

	Biographies : MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM B. YANCEY JR. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		General Yancey was born in Berwyn, Md., in 1924.
		General Yancey returned to the United States in June 1950 for duty with the 334th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, New Castle, Del. He moved with the group to the Republic of Korea in November 1950 and flew 59 combat missions in F-86s during the Korean War.
		In July 1951 General Yancey was transferred to the 56th Fighter-Interceptor Group, Oscoda Air Force Base, Mich., and later moved to the parent organization, the 4708th Defense Wing at Selfridge Air Force Base, Mich., as assistant deputy commander for operations.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=7676 (516 words)

	WILLIAM LAYTON YANCEY
		That is to say, I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife FANNY YANCEY during her natural life the interest of five hundred pounds annually also my gig and harness and a good Gig horse.
		It is my desire that my son LAYTON YANCEY remain with my wife and family until he attains the age of [____?] and [_____?] my [_____?] that my executor hereinafter appointed allow him such compensation for his services as they may think reasonable.
		It is my desire that all the rest of my western lands be sold provided my Executors think advisable and the money arising from the sale thereof be equally divided amongst all my children as they respectively arrive at the age of twenty one years or marry.
	www.lest-we-forget.com /Yancey/probate/will_046.htm (574 words)

	William Yancey Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 1848 Yancey wrote the “Alabama Platform,” a widely influential manifesto calling on Congress to legalize and protect slavery in the territories newly acquired from Mexico.
		Through his writings and eloquent speeches, Yancey strongly influenced the secession movement; in 1861 he wrote the Alabama ordinance of secession.
		Yancey returned to Alabama in 1862 and served in the Confederate Senate until his death.
	www.ebiog.com /biography/736769956/bayard-rustin/bio.htm (180 words)

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		William Suel Morris dies May 2, 1905; Elizabeth is a widow when she marries Isaac Finks Lawson on 17 August 1909.
		Shifflett was born Aug. 1, 1941, in Winchester, the son of Anfield and Lena Jane Williams Shifflett.
		William Hyde's children by his first family were the first Anglo children to play in the streets of Murphy (Cherokee County) NC.
	www.shifletfamily.org /2003_aemail.txt (14218 words)

	Will Yancey's Home Page
		Yancey consults on audit sampling and litigation support.
		Will Yancey, a Texas Ph.D. and CPA, is Mr.
		His site is great for small business owners, offering help not just with numerous tax links but also with things like credit references and links to state laws and agencies.
	www.willyancey.com (381 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Lowndes Yancey (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		William Lowndes Yancey 1814–63, American leader of secession, b.
		As extreme a "fire-eater" as William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist, he even advocated the reopening of the African slave trade.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Y/Yancey-W.html (352 words)

	William Lowndes Yancey
		YANCEY, William Lowndes, statesman, born in Ogeechee Shoals, Georgia, 10 August, 1814; died near Montgomery, Alabama, 28 July, 1863.
		He was the son of Benjamin C. Yancey, a lawyer of Abbeville, South Carolina, was educated at Williams college, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Abbeville.
		In 1836 he removed to Alabama, and was admitted to the bar.
	www.famousamericans.net /williamlowndesyancey (512 words)

	WILLIAM E. YANCEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		WILLIAM E. William Eugene Yancey, 58, of the 1300 block of Tallwood St., died Oct. 28, 1996, in a local hospital.
		Yancey was a logistics manager for COMNAVAIRLANT and retired after 27 years in the U.S. Navy.
		He was a veteran of the Vietnam War and was born in Kansas City, Mo. He was a member of Ocean View Baptist Church and president of the Wards Corner Optimists Club.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp961030/10300382.htm (163 words)

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