Other jazz guitarists, like Grant Green and Wes Montgomery, turned to applying their skills to pop-oriented styles that fused jazz with soul and R & B, such as soul jazz-styled organ trios.

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.

Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included: B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Hall ( sic ), Grant C. Stebbins, Rev.

** Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States, succeeding Ulysses S. Grant as a result of the Compromise of 1877

* B. Donald Grant 1980-1987.

* Grant B. Stillman ( 2006 ), NGO Law and Governance: a resource book, ADB Institute, Tokyo, ISBN 4-89974-013-1.

* Brockett, L. P., Our Great Captains: Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, and Farragut, C. B.

Also in 1911, Grant Morton made the first parachute jump from an airplane, a Wright Model B, at Venice Beach, California.

In 1872, Grant was the first American President to legally recognize an African American, P. B. S. Pinchback, governor of Louisiana.

He then played a demented submarine commander in Devil and the Deep with Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant, and followed this with his best-remembered film role of that year as Nero in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross.

The first three championship teams included the likes of Bill Cartwright, Horace Grant, John Paxson and B. J.

He received help from Horace Grant and B. J.

* Major-General James Grant, C. B.

Past seasons have featured acts such as the Russian National Orchestra ; Dave Koz ; Robert Cray ; Michael McDonald ; The Doobie Brothers ; Los Lonely Boys ; Earth, Wind & Fire ; Gretchen Wilson ; John Michael Montgomery ; Lynyrd Skynyrd ; UB40 ; Vince Gill ; Amy Grant ; Carrie Underwood ; Randy Travis ; Bryan Adams ; George Thorogood ; Peter Frampton ; B.

Several U. S. Presidents visited Bowen's summer home on Woodstock Hill: Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and Rutherford B. Hayes, as his guests and speakers for 4 July celebrations.

Hood, C. W. Grant, G. B.

Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt have all made short addresses in Macomb.

Grant stayed at Waverly, the plantation of John B. Peyton, and Union soldiers used St. Mark's Episcopal Church as a hospital.

It was visited by presidents Chester A. Arthur, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, and Woodrow Wilson.

The first homestead staked in Grant County ( what was then Wasco County ), in 1862 by B. C. Trowbridge, was within the limits of the present city of John Day.

The movie was released on October 3, 1986 and starred Daniel Jordano, Matthew Penn, Leon W. Grant, Mary B.

* Fyffe, L. R., Grant, R. H., and McHone, J. G., 2011, Bedrock geology of Grand Manan Island ( parts of NTS 21 B / 1O and B / 15 ): New Brunswick, Department of Natural Resources: Lands, Minerals, and Petroleum Division, Plate 2011-14 ( map scale 1: 50, 000 ).

B. Danquah, A. G. Grant, R. A. Awoonor-Williams, Edward Akufo-Addo ( all lawyers except for Grant, who was a wealthy businessman ), and others, the leadership of the organization called for the replacement of chiefs on the Legislative Council with educated persons.

But General Grant may have been self-victimized.

Grant called it prompt, skillful and brilliant.

Dr. Wilson C. Grant, of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, set out to discover if avocados, because of their high content of unsaturated fatty acids, would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients.

The Outing Club also owns a chain of fourteen cabins and several shelters, extending from the Vermont hills, just across the river from the college, through Hanover to the College Grant -- 27,000 acres of wilderness 140 miles north up in the logging country.

The governor's move into the so-called `` blue law '' controversy came in the form of a letter to Miss Mary R. Grant, deputy city clerk of Central Falls.

Mr. Notte was responding to a resolution adopted by the Central Falls City Council on July 10 and sent to the state house by Miss Grant.

The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.

Miss Eileen Grant is spending several weeks visiting in Florida.

Last two to be added before the book went to press were the marriages of Meredith Jane Cooper, daughter of the Grant B. Coopers, to Robert Knox Worrell, and of Mary Alice Ghormley to Willard Pen Tudor.

Grant all this -- still, when modern Unitarianism and the Harvard Divinity School recall with humorous affection the insults Parker lavished upon them, or else argue that after all Parker received the treatment he invited, they betray an uneasy conscience.

Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.

Each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another until finally Grant succeeded in 1865.

At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army.

Responding to criticism of Grant after Shiloh, Lincoln had said, " I can't spare this man.

" With Grant in command, Lincoln felt the Union Army could relentlessly pursue a series of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters, and have a top commander who agreed on the use of black troops.

Nevertheless, Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a candidacy for President in 1864, as McClellan was.

He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.

Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign in 1864.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

The Confederacy lacked reinforcements, so Lee's army shrank with every battle, forcing it back to trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, where Grant began a siege.

This allowed the president to confer in person with Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman about the hostilities, as Sherman coincidentally managed a hasty visit to Grant from his position in North Carolina.