Reformers included William Jennings Bryan, while opponents counted respected figures such as Elihu Root and George Frisbie Hoar amongst their number ; Root cared so strongly about the issue that, after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, he refused to stand for re-election to the Senate.

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

It is suggested that had Elihu appeared in the original source, his spirited and virtuous defence of the divine right to punish would have been rewarded by God in the conclusion, or at the very least mentioned.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

God, according to Elihu, did not single out Job for punishment, but rather abandoned him and let him be dealt with by natural, unfriendly forces.

A major contributor was Elihu Palmer ( 1764 – 1806 ), who wrote the " Bible " of American deism in his Principles of Nature ( 1801 ) and attempted to organize deism by forming the " Deistical Society of New York ".

One of the first electronic oscillators was an oscillating arc built by Elihu Thomson in 1892.

On February 2, 1688, Elihu Yale, with the support of a majority of factors, decreed that henceforth, slaves should be examined by the judges of the choultry before being transported.

In 1999, American Heritage magazine rated Elihu Yale the " most overrated philanthropist " in American history, arguing that the college that would later bear his name ( Yale University ) was successful largely because of the generosity of a man named Jeremiah Dummer, but that the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name " Dummer College ".

With the aid of his advocate in Washington, DC, Elihu B. Washburne, Grant was promoted to Colonel by Governor Richard Yates on June 14, 1861, and put in charge of the unruly Twenty-first Illinois volunteer regiment.

After Levi P. Morton backed out of the nomination to avoid a dispute, Chester A. Arthur ( a close friend to U. S. Senator Roscoe Conkling ) was subsequently chosen as Garfield's running mate by a large margin over Elihu B. Washburne.

Dalton's early life was highly influenced by a prominent Eaglesfield Quaker named Elihu Robinson, a competent meteorologist and instrument maker, who got him interested in problems of mathematics and meteorology.

Detail from Corrupt Legislation ( 1896 ) by Elihu Vedder.

Lynn Shoe manufacturers, led by Charles A. Coffin and Silas Abbott Barton, invested in the early electric industry, specifically in 1883 with Elihu Thomson and his Thomson-Houston Electric Company.

The sandstone slab bearing large, mysterious footprints was later purchased by Elihu Dwight, who gave the prints the name of " Noah's Raven.

This collection of books clearly pre-dates a comparable collection bequeathed to this school by Elihu Yale.

In 1922, President Warren G. Harding appointed Lodge as a delegate to the Washington Naval Conference ( International Conference on the Limitation of Armaments ), led by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, and included Elihu Root and Oscar Underwood.

The land south of Pasig River down to Alabang was declared a U. S. military reservation by Secretary of War Elihu Root.

When the news was received by the then Naval Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, he ordered Kolchak to leave immediately for America ( Admiral James H. Glennon, member of American mission, headed by Senator Elihu Root invited Kolchak to go to America in order to give the American Navy Department information on Bosphorus ).

In 1862, Elihu Burritt, the American Consul in Birmingham, described the region as " black by day and red by night ", because of the smoke and grime generated by the intense manufacturing activity and the glow from furnaces at night.

The lead article in the first issue of Foreign Affairs was written by former Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt's Administration Elihu Root.

A minority, led by Republican Senator Elihu Root, held that the British objection was based on solid grounds.

Elihu says he spoke last because he is much younger than the other three friends, but says that age makes no difference when it comes to insights and wisdom.

In 1652, when Elihu was three years old, the Yale family moved back to England and never returned to North America.

Elihu Root, one of only three figures noted to have considered the impact of the Seventeenth Amendment on federalism during the debates over its adoption.

They had three children: Edith ( married Ulysses S. Grant III ), Elihu, Jr. ( who became a lawyer ), and Edward Wales ( who became Professor of Art at Hamilton College ).

Consideration for membership in Elihu is given to those juniors in the College who are nominated by current undergraduate and graduate members, and selection is based on three pillars: excellence, diversity, and leadership.

* Sam, born Elihu Nivens, is the classic Heinlein hero, multi-talented, independent, fiercely loyal to friends and an implacable enemy to foes.

The New York group included a number of young male professionals who called themselves the Friendly Club ( including Dr. Elihu Hubbard Smith, Brown's closest friend during this period, and William Dunlap ), along with female friends and relatives who were interested in companionship and cultural-political conversation.

The characters in the Book of Job consist of Job, his wife, his friends, a man named Elihu, God, and Satan.

He was a major inspiration to the artists known as the Macchiaioli, and also had many English and American friends and followers, notably Elihu Vedder, Matthew Ridley Corbet ( 1850 – 1902 ) and his wife Edith Corbet, and Lord Carlisle, and was closely associated with Corot and the Barbizon school.

In his speech, Elihu argues for God's power, redemptive salvation, and absolute rightness in all his conduct.

Job 3: 1-42: 6 is poetry that consists of a cycle of speeches between Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar and later Elihu, and then the dialogue between Yahweh and Job.

Job does not disagree with this and God does not rebuke Elihu as he does Bildad, Zophar, and Eliphaz.

According to Maimonides, the correct view of providence lies with Elihu, who teaches Job that one must examine his religion ().

* Elihu ( Job )

Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

( A fourth, Elihu the Buzite ( Heb: Alieua ben Barakal the Buzite ), begins talking in Chapter 32 and plays a significant role in the dialogue, but his arrival is not described ).

The first marriage registered at the historic St. Mary's church, Chennai ( formerly Madras ), India, is that of Elihu Yale.

Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads: " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.

In her article for Atlantic Monthly about Skull and Bones, Alexandra Robbins alleges that the gravestone of Elihu Yale was stolen years ago from its proper setting in Wrexham, and is displayed in a glass case, in a room with purple walls, which belongs to a building called the Tomb of the Skull and Bones at Yale University.

* Yale College, a college in Wrexham, is also named after Elihu Yale.

* Elihu Yale is the name given to a JD Wetherspoons Public House in the town of Wrexham.

Elihu states that God is perfectly just and good.

Prof. Elihu Thomson is quoted as having said that had he stopped when he had the tube exhausted he would have had the honor of being the inventor of the incandescent light as used for commercial purposes ... the principle of the incandescent lamp dates several decades before the Woodward experiments, and that King, Chanzy, Farmer and others in the twenty years preceding 1860 made and used incandescent lamps much superior to the very imperfect one upon which Woodward's claims are based.

The name is from Elihu and Edward Weed, merchants who helped found the village.

* General Porfirio Díaz orders a mariachi band to wear upper-class clothing ( a charro suit ) when they played for the visiting United States Secretary of State Elihu Root ; this is the beginning of modern mariachi, as well as the traditional dress of future mariachi stars.

Paul Lazarsfeld and Elihu Katz are considered to be the founders of functional theory and their book Personal Influence ( 1955 ) is considered to be the handbook to the theory.

Rogers also based some details on the 16th-century tower of St Giles church in Wrexham, Wales, where Elihu Yale is buried.

In the graveyard is the tomb of Elihu Yale who was the benefactor of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States and after whom Yale College Wrexham is named.

It is named after Elihu Yale, best known for being the prime benefactor of Yale University.

Opinion leadership is a concept that arises out of the theory of two-step flow of communication propounded by Paul Lazarsfeld and Elihu Katz Significant developers of the theory have been Robert K. Merton, C. Wright Mills and Bernard Berelson.