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Numerous other antelopes can be found, including Thomson's and Grant's gazelles, impalas, elands, duikers and Coke's hartebeests.
The primary instigator and contributor to these and other scandals was Grant's personal secretary, Orville E. Babcock, who indirectly controlled many cabinet departments and was able to delay investigations by reformers.
Grant's opponents supported a number of other candidates, including James G. Blaine of Maine and Ohio's John Sherman.
Grant's headquarters, which President Lincoln visited, were located at Appomattox Manor, one of the three plantations of Richard Eppes, who cultivated wheat and other grains and held 130 slaves at the beginning of the war.
Grant's Farm, now home to free-roaming buffalo, zebras, and deer among other animals, is located on property formerly owned by president Ulysses S. Grant in the period between the Mexican War and the Civil War.
In 1871, President Grant's appointed Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, worked out an agreement with British representative Sir John Rose in Washington to create a commission consisting of six members from the British Empire and six members from the United States to resolve the Alabama claims, refinancing, and other international disputes between Canada and the United States by treaty. On March 8, 1871 the Treaty of Washington was signed at the State Department and the United States Senate ratified the treaty on May 24, 1871. According to the treaty, an international arbitration tribunal met in Geneva.
Like many other reformers, he decried the corruption in Grant's administration.
Horace Grant's other nephews through Harvey include Jerian, a sophomore for the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team, and Jerami, who has committed to play for the Syracuse University Orange men's basketball team in 2012 – 13.
The Whiskey Ring scandal, along with other alleged abuses of power by the Republican party, contributed to national weariness of Reconstruction, which ended after Grant's presidency with the Compromise of 1877.
Unlike most other managers at the time who rarely set foot in a music venue, Grant's approach was hands-on.
Distillers and revenue officers in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and other cities were implicated, and the illicit gains, which in St. Louis alone probably amounted to more than $ 2, 500, 000 in the six years ( 1870 – 1876 ) were divided between the distillers and the revenue officers, who levied assessments on distillers ostensibly for a Republican campaign fund to be used in furthering Ulysses S. Grant's re-election.
Andrew Duggan continued to portray an amazing number of character roles in films and television, including two other stints as series lead, taking over Cary Grant's movie role in the short-lived television version of Room for One More ( 1962 ), and as the sullen patriarch in Lancer ( 1968-70 ), a western in the vein of Bonanza, albeit darker and more complex.
On November 7, Cuba headed the agenda of President Ulysses S. Grant's Cabinet meeting as news came in of the deaths of Ryan and three other mercenaries.
As governor, Brough strongly supported the Lincoln Administration's war efforts and was key to persuading other Midwestern governors to raise 100-day regiments in early 1864 to release more seasoned troops for duty in Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's spring campaign.
In Grant's mind, natural resources needed to be conserved for the Nordic Race, to the exclusion of other races.
Grant's works of " scientific racism " have been cited to demonstrate that many of the genocidal and eugenic ideas associated with the Third Reich did not arise specifically in Germany, and in fact that many of them had origins in other countries including the United States.
Grant's store-branded electronic and other goods were named " Bradford " after Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where William Thomas Grant was born.
Grant's Pass was also obstructed by a set of piles and other impediments, which had the effect of diverting the tidal flow to Heron Pass.
At the same time other black artists also made inroads into AOR radio — Prince's " Little Red Corvette ", Eddy Grant's " Electric Avenue " and " Beat It " all debuted on Billboards Top Tracks chart the same week in April 1983.
They are attracted to each other, despite Grant's aversion to wartime relationships.
As Grant's time in Hawaii grew, in addition to studying the cultures and geography of Hawaii and its inhabitants, he began to grow interested in the myths and legends both already present and brought in by other cultures.
In the year of Grant's diagnosis, John Jacob Astor III, Elizabeth H. Cullum, John E. Parsons, Thomas A. Emmet, Joseph W. Drexel and other prominent New Yorkers laid the cornerstone for the New York Cancer Hospital, the country's first to devote itself exclusively to the care of cancer patients.
She is Sheila Kelly and she and the other three women under General Grant's roof are not sisters.
Although this had no lasting impact on Grant's standing in or relations with other members of the part, it did hurt public perceptions of the SDP's unity.

Grant's and Cabinet
He was President Grant's longest-serving Cabinet officer.
In June 1876, due to friction over Bristow's zealous prosecution of the Whiskey Ring and rumor that Bristow was interested in running for the U. S. Presidency, Bristow resigned from President Grant's Cabinet.
On November 11, President Grant's Cabinet decided that war with Spain was not desirable, though Cuban intervention was possible.
On November 14, President Grant's Cabinet agreed that if U. S. demands for reparations were not met, the Spanish legation would be closed.
In 1874, a vacancy was created in President Grant's Cabinet when John A. J.
Hoar's position on Grant's Cabinet was tenuous, since two Cabinet members, Secretary of the Treasury, George S. Boutwell and Hoar, were from Massachusetts, during an era when regionally-balanced cabinets were an expected norm by members of the U. S. Senate.
Gen. Hoar's continuance on Grant's Cabinet tenuous, since both Boutwell and Hoar were from Massachusetts.

Grant's and appointments
Although Sumner stated he was an " Administration man ", in addition to having stopped Grant's Dominican Republic treaty attempt, Sumner had defeated Grant's full repeal of the Tenure of Office Act, blocked Grant's nomination of Alexander Stewart to U. S. Secretary of Treasury, stalled diplomatic appointments, and conducted his own foreign policy from the Senate.
Reform Republicans accomplished the nomination and then election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, who brought Reconstruction to an end and removed some of the more offensive of Grant's appointments.
All of Grant's appointments, including Hoar's, were initially a shock to the Senate, since Grant chose his cabinet independently from leaders of the Republican Party.
The Senate immediately approved all of Grant's appointments, including Hoar's, and the press reaction was generally optimistic, having viewed Grant's cabinet free from " trickery and corruption ".
Although the Senate approved all of Grant's appointments, Alexander T. Stewart, a prosperous New York retailer appointed Secretary of the Treasury, was considered ineligible to hold office, due to an 1789 law that stated no person could head the Treasury Department who was " concerned or interested in carrying on the business of trade or commerce ".

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Modern buildings based upon the Mausoleum of Mausolus include the National Newark Building in Newark, New Jersey, Grant's Tomb and 26 Broadway in New York City, Los Angeles City Hall, the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia, the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury in London, the Indiana War Memorial ( and in turn Chase Tower ) in Indianapolis, the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction's headquarters, the House of the Temple in Washington D. C., the Civil Courts Building in St. Louis, and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Pittsburgh.
They had been playing country music and Western swing for several years when they were hired as the house band on the daily live television show Milt Grant's House Party, a local Washington, D. C. version of American Bandstand.
In 1958, at a live gig of the D. C .- based Milt Grant's House Party, attempting — at the urging of the local crowd — to work up a cover sound-alike for The Diamonds ' hit, " The Stroll ", they came up with an eleven and one half bar blues titled " Rumble " which they first called " Oddball ".
" When news of Grant's victory — one of the Union's first in the Civil War — was received in Washington, D. C., newspapers remarked ( and President Abraham Lincoln endorsed ) that Ulysses S. Grant's first two initials, " U. S .," stood for " Unconditional Surrender ," which would later become his nickname.
With the AWB's guns and some direct military aid from the racist South Africans, the Army of Northern Virginia drives Ulysses Grant's forces out of Virginia and in a surprise night attack captures Washington, D. C., thus ending the Civil War.
With the threat to Washington, D. C., seemingly over, Wright withdrew the VI Corps and XIX Corp from the valley to return to the aid of Ulysses S. Grant's siege of Petersburg, Virginia, on July 20, leaving only the three-division strong Army of West Virginia in the Valley.
Borie, Grant's first appointment, had let the Navy Department be run by Rear Admiral David D. Porter.
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1873 to March 4, 1875, during the fifth and sixth years of Ulysses Grant's presidency.
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1875 to March 4, 1877, during the seventh and eighth years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency.
In Boston Guastavino tiles are to be found in the Boston Public Library ; in New York, in Grand Central Terminal, Grant's Tomb, Carnegie Hall, the American Museum of Natural History, Congregation Emanu-El of New York, and St. Bartolomew's Episcopal Church on Park Avenue ; and in Washington, D. C. in the U. S. Supreme Court building and the National Museum of Natural History on the National Mall.
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1871, during the first two years of Ulysses Grant's presidency.
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873, during the third and fourth years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency.

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