Edward Coles recounted that Jefferson told him in a conversation in August 1825 that he feared the popular enthusiasm for Jackson: " It has caused me to doubt more than anything that has occurred since our Revolution.

It was named after Edward Coles, the second governor of Illinois from 1822 to 1826.

* Premier of Colony of Prince Edward Island: George Coles

* August 21-George Coles, Premier of Prince Edward Island ( b. 1810 )

He was also much given to conflict in the assembly, frequently arguing with both George Coles and Edward Whelan.

George Coles ( September 20, 1810 – August 21, 1875 ) was a Canadian politician, being the first Premier of Prince Edward Island, and a Father of Canadian Confederation.

Coles was born in Queens Royalty, Prince Edward Island, the son of James Coles, a farmer, and Sarah Tally.

Coles, with Edward Whelan, the editor of the Examiner, was the leader in the struggle for responsible government.

* September 20-George Coles, Premier of Prince Edward Island ( d. 1875 )

His second wife, Sarah ( Sally ) Coles, was a cousin of Dolley Madison and sister of Edward Coles, a governor of Illinois.

Vizard's one man play Coles Funny Picture Man, based on the life of the eccentric Victorian bookseller Edward William Cole, was performed by AFI award winning actor Norman Kaye.

Edward Coles was born ( December 15, 1786 ) at Enniscorthy, a plantation in Albemarle County ( central Virginia ).

( Dolley Madison was Coles ’ first cousin and Edward ’ s brother, Isaac Coles, had been secretary to both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison during their administrations.

Edward Coles ran for governor in the election of 1822.

Governor Edward Coles led the opposition to the convention, recognizing it as a dishonest attempt to more clearly legalize slavery in the state.

Edward Coles married Sally Logan Roberts ( 1809 to 1883 ) on November 28, 1833.

Sally Coles bore three children, Mary Coles, Edward Coles, Jr., and Roberts Coles ( who died during the Civil War at the Battle of Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862 ).

Edward Coles was among the very few slaveholders who manumitted his slaves entirely as a testament to the republican ethos that was at the heart of the American enlightenment.

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 ) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

Harold Edward Holt, CH ( 5 August 190817 December 1967 ) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.

During the abdication crisis of December 1936, Ribbentrop reported to Berlin that the reason the crisis had occurred was an anti-German Jewish-Masonic-reactionary conspiracy to depose Edward ( whom Ribbentrop represented as a staunch friend of Germany ), and that civil war would soon break out in Britain between the King's supporters and those of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's.

In December 1937, during the battle of Teruel, a Republican shell hit just in front of the car in which Philby was travelling with the correspondents Edward J. Neil of the Associated Press, Bradish Johnson of Newsweek, and Ernest Sheepshanks of Reuters.

Carson, Edward Beale, and a Native American left on the night of December 8 for San Diego, away.

A stage adaptation of the book, written by Edward Einhorn, ran from November to December 2010 at the 3LD theater in New York.

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The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.

On 12 December, the Stationers submitted yet another petition asking for legislation on the issue, and the House of Commons gave three MPs – Spencer Compton, Craven Peyton and Edward Wortley – permission to form a drafting committee.

In February 1937, the South African Parliament formally gave its " assent " by passing the Abdication Act, which declared that Edward had abdicated on 10 December 1936 ; that he and his descendants, if any, would have no right of succession to the throne ; and that the Royal Marriages Act would not apply to him or his descendants, if any.

The standardized version that was voted upon by these five musicians premiered at Carnegie Hall on December 5, 1917 in a program that included Edward Elgar's Carillon and Gabriel Pierné's The Children's Crusade.

* Edward VII survived in December 1871.

The foundation of Peterhouse dates to 1280, when letters patent from Edward I dated Burgh, Suffolk, 24 December 1280 allowed Hugo de Balsham to keep a number of scholars in the Hospital of St John, where they were to live according to the rules of the scholars of Merton.

Edward Arnold " Eddie " Chapman ( 16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997 ) was an English pre-war criminal and wartime spy.

* December 17 – Edward Short, British politician ( d. 2012 )

* December 3 – Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic " Orchestrated Hell " broadcast over CBS Radio, describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.

* December 13 – Edward Blishen, English author ( b. 1920 )

* December 2 – Edward Gough Whitlam becomes the first Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.

* December 15 – Edward Earle, Canadian actor ( b. 1882 )

* December 10 – December 11 – King Edward VIII signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere in the presence of his three brothers, The Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent.

* December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician ( b. 1854 )

* December 15 – Edward B Dudley, North Carolina governor

* December 26 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate