Blanche Kelso Bruce ( March 1, 1841March 17, 1898 ) was a U. S. politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the U. S. Senate from 1875 to 1881 and was the first elected non-white senator to serve a full term.

In 1886 he was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, the highest federal position filled by black men at the time ; two other prominent men of color of that era, Fredrick Douglass ( 1881 – 1886 ) and Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce ( 1891 – 1893 ), served before and after Trotter.

* Blanche Kelso Bruce: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1891 – 93

President Garfield appointed several African-Americans to prominent positions: Frederick Douglas, recorder of deeds in Washington ; Robert Elliot, special agent to the U. S. Treasury ; John M. Langston, Haitian minister ; and Blanche K. Bruce, register to the U. S. Treasury.

The convention is noteworthy as it was the first at which delegates cast votes for an African-American, Blanche Bruce.

Or it may have been named after Blanche K. Bruce, a well-known Negro statesman and friend of Roscoe Conkling, U. S. Senator from New York at the time.

* Blanche Bruce, politician

When Blanche Bruce was young, he played with his half-brother.

As Blanche Bruce was born enslaved, because of his mother's status, his father legally freed him and arranged for an apprenticeship so he could learn a trade.

Blanche K. Bruce House | Bruce's house at 909 M Street NW in Washington, D. C. was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Blanche Bruce on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

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The story involves a fake psychic, Blanche Tyler ( Barbara Harris ), and her con artist taxi driver boyfriend, George Lumley ( Bruce Dern ), who attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guiltridden old woman, Julia Rainbird ( Cathleen Nesbitt ).

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Blanche couldn't remember when she had first arrived at this conclusion.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

After his first publication in La Revue Blanche in 1891, he became increasingly a writer and adopted the pseudonym Tristan.

He seemed at first inclined to press a quarrel with the Kingdom of France over the Burgundian frontier, but the refusal of Pope Boniface VIII to recognize his election led him to change his policy, and, in 1299, he made a treaty with King Philip IV, by which his son Rudolph was to marry Blanche, a daughter of the French king.

Henry's mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates, thus he became the first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets, one of the two family branches that were belligerents in the War of the Roses.

His other legitimate descendants included, by his first wife, Blanche, his daughters Queen Philippa of Portugal and Elizabeth, Duchess of Exeter ; and by his second wife, Constance, his daughter Queen Catherine of Castile.

His first wife, Blanche, was also his third cousin, both being great great grandchildren of King Henry III.

John of Gaunt was buried beside his first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, in the choir of St Paul's Cathedral.

The women dislike each other on first sight, and their feud only escalates from there: shrill Blanche has nothing but disdain for Bonnie, Clyde and C. W., while gun-moll Bonnie sees Blanche's flighty presence as a constant danger to the gang's well-being.

Charles married his first wife, Blanche of Burgundy, the daughter of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy in 1308, but Blanche was caught up in the Tour de Nesle scandals of 1314 and imprisoned.

John had married Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster, daughter of the 1st Duke of the first creation.

What is believed to be the first flag of Oregon produced was made that year by Meier & Frank, sewn by Marjorie Kennedy and Blanche Cox, employees of the department store.

* Blanche Noyes ( 1900 – 1981 ), pioneering female aviator who was among the first ten women to receive a pilot's license.

John was first married to Blanche I of Navarre of the house of Évreux.

From his first marriage to Blanche of Navarre, John had the following children:

The marriage was only consummated after a few years, and Blanche bore her first child in 1205.

* 1973: Opening of the first section of the Autoroute Blanche.

Had one daughter, Blanche by his first marriage.

In 1949 she had her first major success in the theatre playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams and staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre.

* Tristan Bernard has his first work published in La Revue Blanche.