Herbert Spencer in Britain and William Graham Sumner were the leading neo-classical liberal theorists of the 19th century.

Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Horace Greeley, Harriet Stowe, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Cassius Clay used the term caste, rather than race or class, in their writings and speeches to discuss and inspire America to abolish slavery.

The term ethnocentrism was coined by William G. Sumner, upon observing the tendency for people to differentiate between the in-group and others.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was appealing to some economists, sociologists and political scientists ( most notably Walter Bagehot and William Graham Sumner ) who adapted and rationalized the invisible hand by incorporating the popular idea of the survival of the fittest.

Douglas remained the main advocate for the bill while Chase, William Seward of New York and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts led the opposition.

* Sumner, William Hyslop, An Inquiry Into the Importance of the Militia to a Free Commonwealth: In a Letter from William H. Sumner ... to John Adams, Late President of the United States ; with His Answer, Cummings and Hilliard, Boston, 1823

Perhaps the most well-remembered teacher was William Graham Sumner, professor from 1872 to 1909.

William Graham Sumner, an early U. S. sociologist, recognized that some norms are more important to our lives than others.

Both " mores " and " folkways " are terms coined by William Graham Sumner in 1906.

* Folkways ( sociology )— theory by the sociologist William Graham Sumner.

Although Herder focused on the positive value of cultural variety, the sociologist William Graham Sumner called attention to the fact that one's culture can limit one's perceptions.

Senator J. William Fulbright was born in Sumner on April 9, 1905.

* Sumner, William Leslie ( 1973 ).

" He was a student of philosopher Noah Porter ( 1811 – 1892 ) and economist / sociologist William Graham Sumner ( 1840 – 1910 ).

* William Graham Sumner ( 1840 – 1910 ), American sociologist

* William H. Sumner ( 1780 -?

* The Sumner method, a way of finding a ship's location at sea ; William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ) calculated a set of tables for its ready application

The Anglican evangelical leader William Orange was vicar of Sumner from 1930 – 1945.

Both " Left Grand Division " commander Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, who vowed that he would not serve under Hooker, and II Corps commander Maj. Gen. Edwin Vose Sumner were relieved of command, on Burnside's recommendation, in the same order appointing Hooker to command.

On June 30, 1888, Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, sister of William Graham Sumner.

It was invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter on February 19, 1880, at Bell's laboratory at 1325 L Street in Washington, D. C.

A settlement named " Sumnerville " laid out by L. C. Sumner in 1873 and located approximately one half mile ( 1 km ) east of Six Lakes was the first village platted in the township.

* Galeazzo Ciano, Diary 1937 – 1943, Preface by Renzo De Felice ( Professor of History University of Rome ) and original introduction by Sumner Welles ( U. S. Under Secretary of State 1937 – 1943 ), translated by Robert L. Miller ( Enigma Books, 2002 ), ISBN 1-929631-02-2

Business leaders counted among its graduates include the current Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein ; current Chairman of the Board and majority owner of National Amusements, billionaire Sumner Redstone ; current President and CEO of TIAA-CREF, Roger W. Ferguson, Jr .; current CEO and Chairman of Toys " R " Us, Gerald L. Storch ; and former CEO of Delta Air Lines, Gerald Grinstein, among many others.

* L. W. Sumner, Canadian philosopher

* Pierce, Edward L. Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner 4 vols., 1877-93. online edition

* Robert L. Sumner, Man Sent from God: A Biography of Dr. John R. Rice ( Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1959 ).

* L. W. Sumner

Authors such as Edward L. Youmans, William Graham Sumner, John Fiske, John W. Burgess, Lester Frank Ward, Lewis H. Morgan and other thinkers of the gilded age all developed theories of social evolutionism as a result of their exposure to Spencer as well as Darwin.

Authors such as Edward L. Youmans, William Graham Sumner, John Fiske, John W. Burgess, Lester Frank Ward, Lewis H. Morgan and other thinkers of the gilded age all developed theories of social evolutionism as a result of their exposure to Spencer as well as Darwin.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Parker, along with Garrison and Charles Sumner, showed a magnificent moral bravery when facing mobs mobilized in defense of the Mexican War and slavery.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

Violence on behalf of Southern honor reached the floor of the Senate when a Southern Congressmen nearly beat to death Republican Charles Sumner when he ridiculed prominent slaveholders as pimps for slavery.

Democratic conservatives approved, while the Radical Republicans, lead by Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner and Ben Wade, were appalled by Johnson's anti-negro policies.

" But ," as Sumner shrewdly said, " the President himself is his own worst counsellor, as he is his own worst defender.

Major bodies of water of Southeast Alaska include Glacier Bay, Lynn Canal, Icy Strait, Chatham Strait, Stephens Passage, Frederick Sound, Sumner Strait, and Clarence Strait.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

Boston's Logan Airport lies across Boston Harbor in East Boston, and before the Big Dig the only access from downtown was through the paired Callahan and Sumner tunnels.

Traffic between Storrow Drive and the Callahan and Sumner Tunnels uses a short portion of I-93, but additional lanes and direct connections are provided for this traffic.

* Maine, Henry Sumner.

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However, in 1926, James B. Sumner showed that the enzyme urease was a pure protein and crystallized it ; Sumner did likewise for the enzyme catalase in 1937.