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.

Labour, now sporting a continental social democratic style emblem of a rose, appeared to be able to run the governing Conservatives close, but Margaret Thatcher did not let Labour's makeover go unchallenged.

This last manuscript, saved from the confiscation decreed by Henry VIII, passed by the will of his daughter Margaret to Spanish hands and through Fray Pedro de Soto, confessor of Emperor Charles V, went to Valencia, home of Luis Vives, a close friend of More.

This was demonstrated with the close friendship between Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan.

His story, sold to the Daily Mirror, boasted of a close relationship with Margaret and, while it was debatable, the publicity that followed further damaged her reputation.

Margaret remained close friends with them both.

Joseph's close friend and ally Margaret Thatcher, who believed an adherent to CPS philosophy should stand, joined the leadership contest in his place alongside the outsider Hugh Fraser.

In 1472, sixteen years after his death, Margaret specified in her will that she wanted to be buried alongside Edmund, even though she had enjoyed a long, stable and close relationship with her third husband, who had died in 1471.

Because of this, Charles sent his close advisor, Guillaume de Clugny, to London weeks after Isabella's death, to propose to Edward IV a marriage between Charles and Margaret.

Norman Tebbit, former MP for Chingford and close ally of Margaret Thatcher, was also born in Southgate.

As Hannah grew older, he formed the same close attachment to Hannah's daughter Margaret, whom he called " Baba ".

His love affairs did not go happily, his " Margaret " eloped to New York with his younger brother, Charles and he made no close friends at his own college and few in the university.

Because of her nearness to the English crown, Lady Margaret Douglas was brought up chiefly at the English court in close association with her first cousin, the future Queen Mary, who remained her lifelong friend.

At the time of the 1990 leadership contest he supported Margaret Ewing in her bid to become SNP leader, but this did not stop him becoming politically close to the man who went on to win that contest, Alex Salmond.

On August 10, 2010, Dayton defeated the DFL endorsed Margaret Anderson Kelliher in a close primary election, winning 41. 33 % compared to Kelliher's 39. 75 %;) Dayton was later endorsed by the Minnesota DFL to earn his party's nomination for governor.

Howe was a close personal friend of Ian Gow, the former MP, parliamentary private secretary, and personal confidant of Margaret Thatcher.

Governor Long became close to Margaret Dixon, the first woman managing editor of the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate.

Charles was a close advisor to the new count ( who was several years younger ), who around 1118 arranged Charles ' marriage to the heiress of the count of Amiens, Margaret of Clermont.

He was close to Margaret Thatcher, served as her Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, and it is expected that he would have become her Secretary of State for Scotland if he had held his seat at the 1979 election.

In the 1980s some coal mines were unprofitable and the Conservative government headed by Margaret Thatcher sought to close them and privatise the rest.

Deedes was close to Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis.

Capturing the end of a period when such schools felt genuinely afraid that the Labour government might push through legislation to close them down ( there is a memorable scene of the headmaster expressing his delight in Margaret Thatcher's first election victory ), the programme nevertheless now seems like a period piece, if only because it shows certain teaching methods and values that would never be allowed today.

A close friend of the noted Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence, she participated in several public forums with Laurence and presided at Laurence's 1986 funeral.

On 5 May 1981, Margaret Reid was elected by a joint sitting of the Australian Parliament to fill a casual vacancy in the representation of the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate, following the sudden death of her close friend, Senator John Knight.

According to an authorized 1993 biography of the author and playwright by Margaret Forster, Lawrence and du Maurier became close friends during the London production of September Tide.