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* John Calhoun Brown ( 1879 – 1964 ), merchant and mayor of Minden, Louisiana
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He announced his support of Democrat, and states rights proponent, John C. Calhoun.
* 1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
Under President James Monroe, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun devised the first plans for Indian removal.
President John Quincy Adams assumed the Calhoun – Monroe policy and was determined to remove the Indians by non-forceful means, but Georgia refused to submit to Adams ' request and forced Adams to make a treaty with Creeks and Cherokees granting Georgia what it wanted.
His opponents included John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Henry Clay, and the hero of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson.
The turning point came with the debate on the Missouri Compromise in 1820 when he broke with his friend John C. Calhoun, who became the most outspoken national leader in favor of slavery.
An angry public elected a “ war hawk ” Congress, led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.
Monroe made balanced Cabinet choices, naming a southerner, John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State.
Other candidates included James Buchanan, General Lewis Cass, Cave Johnson, John C. Calhoun, and Levi Woodbury.
In the House, antislavery Whigs led by John Quincy Adams voted against the war ; among Democrats, Senator John C. Calhoun was the most notable opponent of the declaration.
In the years leading up to the Nullification Crisis, the resolutions divided Jeffersonian democrats, with states ' rights proponents such as John C. Calhoun supporting the Principles of ' 98 and President Andrew Jackson opposing them.
He won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, with whom the wives of the cabinet officers led by Vice President Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun had refused to associate in the Petticoat Affair.
* 1782 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1850 )
When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Laboratory rats have also proved valuable in psychological studies of learning and other mental processes ( Barnett, 2002 ), as well as to understand group behavior and overcrowding ( with the work of John B. Calhoun on behavioral sink ).
Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.
In the less contested election for vice president, John C. Calhoun received 182 votes and was elected outright.
At one end of the room near the Old Supreme Court Chamber is a statue of John C. Calhoun.
As President of the Senate, John Adams cast twenty-nine tie-breaking votes, a record that no successor except for John C. Calhoun even threatened.
A Vice President could even serve under different administrations, as George Clinton and John C. Calhoun have done.
John C. Calhoun was the first Vice President to resign from office.
John and Brown
So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.
The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.
On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.
Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.
During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.
On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.
`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.
In contrast to `` E. B. '', most Rhode Islanders hardly thought of John Brown as being another Moses.
The Woonsocket Patriot admitted that John Brown might deserve punishment or imprisonment `` but he should no more be hung than Henry A. Wise or James Buchanan ''.
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
The only public demonstration in honor of John Brown was held at Pratt's Hall in Providence, on the day of his execution.
He spoke of his desire to promote the abolition of slavery by peaceable means and he compared John Brown of Harper's Ferry to the John Brown of Rhode Island's colonial period.
Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.
Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,
John and 1879
* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )
* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
#** Napoleon Eugene Louis John Joseph Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 )
The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.
In 1879, amid talks surrounding the closure of the university due to its dire financial situation, a wealthy New York publisher with Nova Scotia roots, George Munro, who was also the brother-in-law of Dalhousie's Board of Governors member John Forrest, began to donate to the university.
* 1939 – John Grieb, American gymnast and athlete ( b. 1879 )
* 1954 – John Raymond Hubbell, American writer ( b. 1879 )
* John Wesley Young ( 1879 – 1932 ), American mathematician
* 1962 – John Ireland, English composer ( b. 1879 )
* 1879 – John Symes, English cricket player ( d. 1942 )
* 1831 – John Bell Hood, American general ( d. 1879 )
* 1879 – John Bissinger, American gymnast ( d. 1941 )
Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.
Severn died on 3 August 1879 at the age of 85, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery alongside John Keats.
* John E. Brown ( 1879 – 1957 ), founder of John Brown University
* 1879 – John Grieb, American gymnast and athlete ( d. 1939 )
Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.
* 1942 – John Symes, English cricketer ( b. 1879 )
The murder of Agamemnon ( 1879 illustration from Alfred John Church | Alfred Church's Stories from the Greek Tragedians )
* June 12 – John Ireland, English composer ( b. 1879 )
* June 1 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general ( d. 1879 )
* March 16 – Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph, Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III ( d. 1879 )
When the Ohio off-year campaign of 1879 approached, Garfield turned his attention to securing the U. S. Senate seat for Ohio, vacated by John Sherman.
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