Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

A close friend of hers in the Roman days described it this way:

Obviously Sloan's early years were influenced by his close friend Robert Henri.

it is when I meet someone who was a close friend of the family, and therefore of mine, and they nod to me so coolly and walk away, that it hurts.

Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

Abu Bakr served as a trusted advisor and close friend to Muhammad.

He was the son of Marcius ( whose father, also named Marcius, had been a close friend of Numa Pompilius ) and Pompilia ( daughter of Numa Pompilius ).

A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to Lyon Playfair at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of Edward Frankland.

A close friend of Massoud, Jaan Mohammad, had been assassinated by Hekmatyar shortly before this incidence.

Although the press reported that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rose Rolanda in 1924, Hopwood's close friend Carl Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was all a publicity stunt.

Following his close friend Milton Caniff's lead ( with Steve Canyon ), Capp had recently fought a successful battle with the syndicate to gain complete ownership of his feature when the Shmoos debuted.

Many of these works have been translated into English by his close personal friend, now deceased, Yehuda Hanegbi.

Whorf published several articles on that topic in this period, some of them with G. L. Trager, who had become his close friend.

Fuller lectured at NC State University in Raleigh in 1949, where he met James Fitzgibbon, who would become a close friend and colleague.

Olson, who had also worked under Thomas at the EEOC and was a close friend of Thomas, spoke out on his behalf during his contentious Senate confirmation hearings.

Martha, Bill's widow, who was with him in these troubling times, denies he had a brain tumor as does his old, very close friend, Hugh McCallum.

Lancaster also often asked his close friend Nick Cravat to appear in his films.

In 1985, Lancaster, a longtime supporter of gay rights, joined the fight against AIDS after his close friend, Rock Hudson, contracted the disease.

Rose, along with his close friend and former teammate Mike Schmidt ( who is a strong supporter of Rose's reinstatement into baseball ), met with Selig in 2002, where Rose privately admitted to Selig ( two years before going public with his admission ) about betting on baseball.

Bud Selig was a close friend of the late Bart Giamatti, who was the commissioner when Rose was first banned from the sport in 1989.

Still unwilling to conform, Pasternak remained a close friend of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam.

Martov, until then a close friend of Lenin, agreed with him that the core of the party should consist of professional revolutionaries, but argued that party membership should be open to sympathizers, revolutionary workers and other fellow travelers.

Two individuals gave eulogies at his funeral: Gauss's son-in-law Heinrich Ewald and Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, who was Gauss's close friend and biographer.

Anne retained close ties to Elizabeth and Mary Robinson, exchanging letters even after Branwell's disgrace.

Charlotte's friendship with fellow writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.

Risk of death came dangerously close in 1564 when Elizabeth caught smallpox ; when she was most at risk, she named Robert Dudley as Lord Protector in the event of her death.

Byrd's small output of church anthems ranges in style from relatively sober early examples ( O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our queen ( a6 ) and How long shall mine enemies ( a5 ) ) to other, evidently late works such as Sing joyfully ( a6 ) which is close in style to the English motets of Byrd's 1611 set, discussed below.

On 31 January 1952, despite advice from those close to him, he went to London Airport to see off Princess Elizabeth, who was going on her tour of Australia via Kenya.

Catherine enjoyed a close relationship with Henry's three children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and Edward, both of whom became English monarchs.

In April 2011, Queen Elizabeth II visited St John's College in order to inaugurate a new pathway in First Court, which passes close to the ruins of the Old Chapel.

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG ( 24 June 1532 or 1533 – 4 September 1588 ) was an English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Elizabeth I from her first year on the throne until his death.

Elizabeth remained close with Dudley and he, with her blessing and on her prompting, pursued his suit for her hand in an atmosphere of diplomatic intrigue.

Alan Haynes describes him as " one of the most strangely underrated of Elizabeth's circle of close advisers ", while Simon Adams, who since the early 1970s has researched many aspects of Leicester's life and career, concludes: " Leicester was as central a figure to the ' first reign ' Elizabeth as Burghley.

" Twenty-seven-year-old Elizabeth W. M ' Clintock then delivered a speech, and the first day's business was called to a close.

To close the meeting, a committee was appointed to edit and publish the convention proceedings, with Amy Post, Eunice Newton Foote, Mary Ann M ' Clintock, Jr., Elizabeth W. M ' Clintock and Stanton serving.

Although Elizabeth's governess at one time averred that the Queen had found Elizabeth in Seymour's arms ( implying a sexual encounter or close to it ), she later withdrew the story.

Constructed to the south side of the cathedral close to the site of the original chapter house of the abbey, the new ' Chapter House ' cost around £ 1 million and was officially opened on 8 June 1982 by Queen Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate | Elizabeth Charlotte, Philippe's mother to whom he would always be close, by Rigaud ( 1722 )

In the weeks that follow, Anne and Henry live separate lives at court, although Anne is shown as being close to his children, especially little Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Taylor was also a close friend of Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was asked by Elizabeth Taylor's widower to write a biography following Elizabeth Taylor's death.

Elizabeth is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Monongahela River, where Pennsylvania Route 51 crosses, upstream ( south ) of Pittsburgh and close to the county line.

The graves of Isaac and Elizabeth Hale and of an infant son born to Joseph and Emma are close to Route 171, in a public cemetery located east of the Church property.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom stayed in Big Horn in October 1984 during a visit with her close friends, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, ( née Jeanne Wallop ) at Senator and Mrs. Wallop's Canyon Ranch.

Only a few foreign dignitaries, such as Queen Elizabeth II, have been permitted to walk through the pits to observe the army at close quarters.