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George and Lincoln
George William Brown, the Mayor of Baltimore, and other suspect Maryland politicians were arrested and imprisoned, without a warrant, as Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.
In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.
In a review of the book, Time Magazine wrote, " General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years.
He painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life to relax, mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.
* George Lincoln Bailey-CBA editor
* 1865 – George Atzerodt, German-American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ( b. 1833 )
This emphasis is, in part, a reflection of the Methodist movement's earliest roots in The Oxford Holy Club, founded by John Wesley, his brother Charles, George Whitefield and others as a response to what they saw as the pervasive permissiveness and debauchery of Oxford University, and specifically Lincoln College when they attended.
* 1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
The ranking of established professions in the United States based on the above milestones shows surveying first ( George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln were all land surveyors before entering politics ), followed by medicine, actuarial science, law, dentistry, civil engineering, logistics, architecture and accounting.
* 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
Former U. S. presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton appeared in another videotaped segment and recited some of the speeches by Abraham Lincoln.
Roosevelt was included with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln at the Mount Rushmore Memorial, designed in 1927 with the approval of Republican President Calvin Coolidge.
During the administration of George W. Bush, first lady Laura Bush refurbished the Lincoln Bedroom in a style contemporary to the Lincoln era ; the Green Room, Cabinet Room, and theater were also refurbished.
In 1961 and 1962 George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, was invited to speak by Elijah Muhammad at a Nation of Islam rally.
* Lincoln Rockwell, George.
** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader ( d. 1967 )
* November 1 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
* August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.
** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader ( b. 1918 )
* September 2 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
** American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army.
* November 8 – U. S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George B. McClellan.

George and Burr
An attentive student, he spent his leisure time drawing, staging puppet shows, and reading Il corriere dei piccoli, the popular children ’ s magazine that reproduced traditional American cartoons by Winsor McCay, George McManus and Frederick Burr Opper.
On June 30, 2008, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in its " Canadians in Hollywood " series to honour Norma Shearer, along with others for Raymond Burr, Marie Dressler, and Chief Dan George.
In fact, in July 1778, Lord Stirling asked Aaron Burr, in a letter written on behalf of General George Washington, to employ several persons to " go to Bergen Heights, Weehawk, Hoebuck, or any other heights thereabout to observe the motions of the enemy's shipping " and to gather any other possible intelligence.
George Clinton succeeded Burr as the second-term Vice President for Thomas Jefferson in 1805 ( and also served as James Madison's Vice President, making Clinton the first Vice President to serve under two presidents and the first Vice President to die in office ).
It portrays its eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honourable gentleman, and skewers most of his contemporaries, e. g. George Washington, an incompetent general who lost most of his battles ; Thomas Jefferson, with whom Burr tied for the presidency in the election of 1800, as a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and bribed witnesses in support of a false charge of treason against Burr after almost losing the election to him ; and Alexander Hamilton, the bastard opportunist who rose with Washington, before Burr killed him in their famous duel.
* George Elbert Burr ( 1859 – 1939 ), American painter and printmaker
* George Lincoln Burr ( 1857 – 1938 ), American historian
He formed an uneasy alliance with his previous rival George Clinton, along with Aaron Burr, then a political newcomer.
" In January 1802, the Executive Council of Upper Canada learned of this plot, led by Aaron Burr and George Clinton, to overthrow British rule and to create a republican state to join the United States.
Floyd was again a presidential elector in 1800, voting for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr ; and in 1804, voting for Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton.
Speakers at the opening dedication in 1925 included Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell University, who worked to complete the manuscript of Lea's Materials for a Study of Witchcraft ; Professor Dana C. Munro of Princeton University, vice president of the American Historical Association, who had used Lea's collections as a young scholar ; and Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia historian and former attorney general of Pennsylvania.
* Wilkinson is the " hero " of Keith Thompson's Scoundrel !-- a satirical novel in the tradition of Gore Vidal's Burr and George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, which purports to be Wilkinson's " secret " memoirs ( which Thompson claims to have just discovered ).
In 1808 she married George Hay, a prominent Virginia attorney who had served as prosecutor in the trial of Aaron Burr.
After two years at Amherst College, Merrill spent time at the University of Michigan Law School from 1906 to 1907 ; worked at Patchogue-Plymouth Mills from 1907 – 09 ; at George H. Burr & Co., New York City, from 1909 – 13 ; then established Charles E. Merrill & Co. in 1914, later changing the name to Merrill Lynch & Company.
He served as governor of New York from 1804 to 1807, defeating Vice President Aaron Burr in the race to succeed future Vice President George Clinton as Governor.
It has had many owners after 1953, including Kling Studios, which housed production for the Superman TV series with George Reeves ; Red Skelton, who used the sound stages for his CBS TV variety show ; and CBS, who filmed the TV series Perry Mason with Raymond Burr there.
* George Washington and Aaron Burr ( three times removed )
With text by Hartley Burr Alexander, Ralph Adams Cram, George Ellery Hale, Lee Lawrie, and C. Howard Walker.
As Senator, Burr has had a non-controversial tenure so far, espousing most of the positions held by the vast majority of his fellow Republicans, from general support for President George W. Bush's actions in Iraq to abortion opposition.
In 1991, he took over from George Dzundza on the popular series Law & Order, and in 1993 he subbed for the late Raymond Burr in a Perry Mason TV movie.

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