Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

He was selected as one of six presidential electors for the 1844 presidential election and campaigned effectively throughout Mississippi for the Democratic candidate, James K. Polk

The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, Wilberforce also campaigned for abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which he lived to see in the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

They also campaigned vigorously for Britain to use its influence to eradicate slavery throughout the world.

In Wales, Swansea campaigned for city status throughout the 1960s.

As Epaminondas campaigned to secure freedom for the Boeotians and others throughout Greece, he brought closer the day when all of Greece would be subjugated by an invader.

St. Augustine of Hippo campaigned against this unorthodox belief throughout his tenure as Bishop of Hippo, and through his efforts the orthodox Catholic Church gained the upper hand.

Gambetta then campaigned to rouse the republican party throughout France, which culminated in a speech at Romans ( 18 September 1878 ) formulating its programme.

He campaigned for lower rates throughout the Empire, and when met by resistance decided to go it alone, announcing that at the end of 1897 Canada would unilaterally lower the letter rate to Britain from five to three cents.

A large turnout of African-American voters was vital to his election and he campaigned throughout the city.

Hoffa campaigned in major states for Obama throughout the primary and general election.

Members of the Council campaigned throughout the United States.

Cummins campaigned throughout the district, but was unable to drum up enough support to pose a serious challenge to the veteran Democratic incumbent.

As a delegate to the Labour Party Conference in 1976, Home-Robertson moved the resolution which committed the Party to devolution for Scotland, and throughout his career at Westminster he campaigned for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament.

Watson campaigned for Republican candidates throughout the 1880s and moved to Rushville, Indiana in 1893.

During the 1928 presidential election, Jones campaigned throughout the South for Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Al Smith.

Brown paid a visit to Brownlow, with whom he had campaigned throughout the 1850s, and appealed for clemency on Harris's behalf.

Klem was also an innovative umpire ; he was the first major league umpire to use arm signals while working behind home plate, and was one of the first to wear a modern, somewhat pliable chest protector inside his shirt, a move which he successfully campaigned to have adopted throughout the NL.

He later campaigned in 1942 to expand the U. S. military commitment to a second front in Europe, a special interest of the USSR, which had ordered Communists throughout the world to promote the idea.

The Republican Senator campaigned with the Democratic Congressman throughout the district.

Under Macaulay and its subsequent editors, The Anti-Slavery Reporter campaigned vigorously for the abolition of slavery throughout the world.

When opponents voiced their interest in constructing a canal through Nicaragua, which was a less politically volatile nation, Bunau-Varilla actively campaigned throughout the Northeast, carrying pictures and postage stamps of Nicaragua's Mt.

Assisted by Rick Bartolucci, the Liberal MPP for Sudbury, the CRASH 69 ( Community Rallying Against Substandard Highway 69 ) committee of Sudbury residents campaigned throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s to have the project reinstated.

Under the leadership of Kook, with its center in the yeshiva founded by his father, Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav, thousands of religious Jews campaigned actively against territorial compromise, and established numerous settlements throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

A staunch defender of Cleveland and his sound money policy, Smith campaigned throughout the country in 1896 for Cleveland candidates.

People who were not allowed to leave the country and campaigned for their right to leave in 1970s were known as " refuseniks ".

On April 27, by a declaration, this Provisional Government separated Austria from Germany and campaigned for the country to be acknowledged as an independent republic.

With the country in chaos, Prince Noi Hno Muang Keo Koumane was always recognised as the rightful King by the people of Laos who campaigned for his return for many years.

During the presidential election of 1920 he campaigned for Arturo Alessandri, being responsible for the southern part of the country.

He entered the race for president in the spring of 2005, and campaigned by helicopter to cover the sparsely populated country, where even permanent settlements are often spaced miles away from one another.

In the federal election following the arrival of the Tampa, the Liberal Party campaigned vigorously on the issue, with John Howard's statement " we decide who comes into this country and the circumstances in which they come.

Hoff was the first Democratic Governor in the nation to split with President Lyndon Johnson over the Vietnam War and later campaigned across the country to promote Robert Kennedy's effort to obtain the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.

The Home Rule League, sometimes called the Home Rule Party, was a political party which campaigned for home rule for the country of Ireland from 1873 to 1882, when it was replaced by the Irish Parliamentary Party.

AZAPO campaigned for the isolation of South Africa during its apartheid years by waging a so-called " cultural boycott " in the country ; black people increasingly regained their resolve to fight for their rights and formed trade unions and civic organisations that drew the blue print for the conduct of struggles by civil society.

Crass also organised gigs around the country for themselves and other bands, and campaigned politically for the anti-nuclear movement other causes.

In the first phase of the First World War, Hambro had campaigned restlessly against Knudsen's Cabinet which he perceived as too weak to lead the country through a war.

Emmanuel campaigned against the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Canada in 2005, organizing several rallies across the country, including one outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa and another at Queen's Park outside the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Between them Pomare and Buck campaigned successfully to improve sanitation in the small Māori communities around the country.

Olympio campaigned across the country for the UFC in the October 2007 parliamentary election ; his campaigning including a visit to Kara, Eyadéma's native area, on 9 October, which was considered unprecedented.

beer, it proved more successful than Heineken and Tuborg and was consumed at premier bars in Cairo and other loactions in Egypt, even as conservative religious Muslim leaders campaigned to ban the sale of alcoholic drinks in the country.

His most burning enthusiasm, however, was postal reform, and from 1825 he campaigned the authorities to speed up the mail between Edinburgh and London by convincing them that this could be done without extra cost.