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Douglas and Atchison
Douglas was agreeable to the proposal, but the Atchison group was not.
Douglas was accompanied at the meeting by Atchison, Hunter, Phillips and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.
Douglas and Atchison first met alone with Pierce before the whole group convened.
* Sheriff: Douglas Atchison

Douglas and had
On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).
Senior Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois had incorporated popular sovereignty into the Act.
Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.
Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas for the Senate in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.
Another French inventor by the name of Douglas Grasso had a failed prototype of Pierre Lallement's bicycle several years earlier.
When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.
Historians such as Douglas Johnson and Arthur Marwick had roots here.
Chapman's memoir, A Liar's Autobiography, was published in 1980 and, unusually for a work of this type, had five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop and Douglas Adams.
By this time Mayhew had become reasonably secure financially, had settled his debts and married Jane Jerrold, the daughter of his friend Douglas Jerrold.
His son James II ( reigned 1437 – 1460 ), when he came of age in 1449, continued his father's policy of weakening the great noble families, most notably taking on the powerful Black Douglas family that had come to prominence at the time of the Bruce.
Douglas Baker wrote in one of his books that he had an astral journey to the inner earth where he observed a subterranean civilization.
The internal telegraph system was extended within a year to Castletown and Peel, however by then the previous lack of modern communications in Castletown had already started the Isle of Man Government on its move to Douglas.
This release, however, was missing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun because the licenses from Douglas Adams ' and James Clavell's estates had expired.
In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.
Douglas then decided he wanted to work with Burt Lancaster, with whom he had just costarred in another film.
Joe soon had a younger brother, Douglas, and two younger sisters, Marilyn and Leonie.
In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.
Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.
Douglas, hoping to achieve the support of the Southerners, publicly announced that the same principle that had been established in the Compromise of 1850 should apply in Nebraska.
In the Compromise of 1850, Utah and New Mexico Territory had been organized without any restrictions on slavery, and many supporters of Douglas argued that this compromise had already superseded the Missouri Compromise.
The bill had been significantly modified by Douglas, who had also authored the New Mexico and Utah territorial acts, to mirror the language from the Compromise of 1850.

Douglas and assumed
Following the brief governorship of Richard Blanshard, James Douglas, Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay post, assumed the role in 1851.
Almost everyone assumed that Douglas ' fight versus Mike Tyson was going to be another quick knockout for the champion.
When Albany came from France and assumed the regency, these documents and the " purchase " of the bishopric from Rome contrary to statute were made the basis of an attack on Douglas, who was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, thereafter in St Andrews Castle ( under the charge of his old opponent, Prior Hepburn ), and later in Dunbar Castle, and again in Edinburgh.
In 1831 he assumed by Royal licence the additional and principal surname of Douglas.
Lord Northampton assumed in 1851 by Royal licence the additional surname of Maclean and in 1878 upon succeeding to the titles that of Douglas.
When General Ridgway replaced General of the Army Douglas MacArthur as the overall U. N. commander, Lieutenant General James Van Fleet assumed command of Eighth Army.
After Cass ' defeat in 1848, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas assumed a leading role in the party and became closely associated with popular sovereignty with his proposal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
A campaign to retake the country began in October 1944, when General Douglas McArthur landed in Leyte along with Sergio Osmena who had assumed the Philippine presidency after Quezon's death.
Their son Colonel Douglas Hamilton inherited parts of the Proby estates, including Elton Hall in Huntingdonshire, and assumed by Royal license the surname of Proby in lieu of Hamilton in 1904.
In the twentieth century, John Bracken, Stuart Garson, Douglas L. Campbell, Dufferin Roblin and Edward Schreyer all assumed this responsibility at one time or another ( indeed, Roblin was his own Treasurer for the entire extent of his term in office ).
Upon his death in October 1994, she assumed the spiritual leadership of the group and soon after married her long-time partner, Steven Douglas Kelly ( legally changed his name to Christopher Smith, and is known in the group as Peter Amsterdam or King Peter ).
In the separate South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur assumed command.
Finally, Theory Z workers, it is assumed, can be trusted to do their jobs to their utmost ability, so long as management can be trusted to support them and look out for their well being ( Massie & Douglas, 1992 ).

Douglas and Nebraska
* Strong, Douglas H. Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists ( 1971 ; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988 ) ISBN 0-8032-9156-6
Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement over the KansasNebraska Act in three public speeches during September and October 1854.
Trails throughout the area are included in comprehensive plans for the city of Omaha, the Omaha metropolitan area, Douglas County, and long-distance coordinated plans between the municipalities of southeast Nebraska.
Douglas Brian " Pete " Peterson ( born June 26, 1935, Omaha, Nebraska ) was a U. S. Air Force pilot who spent over six years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese Army after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War.
Douglas County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nebraska.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Douglas County was represented by the prefix " 1 " ( as it had the largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).
Bennington is a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Boys Town is a village in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Ralston is a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Valley is a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Waterloo is a village in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Douglas is a village in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.
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