It was named for William A. Graham, United States Senator from North Carolina ( 1840 – 1843 ) and Governor of North Carolina ( 1845 – 1849 ).

Graham served as a commissioner for the survey of the northeast segment of the boundary between the United States and Canada from 1840 until 1843.

It was named for William Alexander Graham, United States Senator from North Carolina ( 1840 – 1843 ) and Governor of North Carolina ( 1845 – 1849 ).

" He was a student of philosopher Noah Porter ( 1811 – 1892 ) and economist / sociologist William Graham Sumner ( 1840 – 1910 ).

* William Graham Sumner ( 1840 – 1910 ), American sociologist

** William A. Graham ( W ), from November 25, 1840

In 1840, Graham allegedly began agitating for a Texas-style revolution in California, in March issuing a notice for a planned horse race that was loosely construed into being a plot for revolt.

William Alexander Graham ( September 5, 1804August 11, 1875 ) was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, a Senator in the Confederate Senate from 1864 to 1865, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852.

From 1833 to 1840 Graham was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons from Orange County, serving twice as speaker.

William Graham Sumner ( October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910 ) was an American academic and " held the first professorship in sociology " at Yale College.

Denver's most illustrious native son was William Alexander Graham ( September 5, 1804 – August 11, 1875 ) who was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852.

Modern conservatives often point to William Graham Sumner ( 1840 – 1910 ), a leading public intellectual of the era, as one of their own, citing his articulate support for free markets, anti-imperialism, and the gold standard, and his opposition to what he saw as threats to the middle class from the rich plutocrats above or the agrarians and ignorant masses below.

* William Graham Sumner ( 1840 – 1910 )

In April 1840 a report of a planned revolt against Alvarado by a group of foreigners, led by former ally Isaac Graham, caused the governor to order their arrest and deportation to Mexico City for trial.

* The Diary and Copybook of William E. P. Hartnell, Visitador General of the Missions of Alta California in 1839 and 1840, translated by Starr Pait Gurke, edited with annotations, introduction, and prologue by Glenn J. Farris, 153 pages with Index, limited edition of 150 hardcovers and 100 paperbacks published in 2004 by the California Mission Studies Association and the Arthur H. Clark Company, Santa Clara, California and Spokane, Washington, including black and white Frontispiece reproducing another painting of William Edward Petty Hartnell by Ellwood Graham, circa 1943.

The light beam from the lamp was filtered through a half-standard thickness Corning 1840 filter.

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

In 1840 Johnson was appointed as a presidential elector for his state, giving him more statewide exposure.

François-Auguste-René Rodin ( 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 ), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; ), was a French sculptor.

Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk.

A declaration of independence was officially issued by Chile on February 12, 1818 and formally recognized by Spain in 1840, when full diplomatic relations were established.

The defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War ( 1840 ) led to the Treaty of Nanjing ( 1842 ), under which Hong Kong was ceded and opium import was legitimized.

From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.

The Detroit Curling Club was started in 1840 when Michigan only had a population of 212, 000 and had only been in the Union for three years.

The phrase caste system was first recorded in 1840.

However, Mrs. Gaugain, in her 1840 The Lady's Assistant for Executing Useful and Fancy Designs in Knitting, Netting, and Crotchet Work, refers to " Tambour, or Crotchet ," then proceeds to call it " tambour " in all the instructions, indicating a strong connection believed in at the time of crochet's beginning, and that it was, perhaps, the older name.

The first cable-operated railway, employing a moving rope and iron claws on the cars, was the London and Blackwall Railway, which opened in east London, England, in 1840.

In France, the first Christmas tree was introduced in 1840 by the duchesse d ' Orléans.

The first official attempt was the 1840 census which used a single category, " idiocy / insanity ".

This continued down to 1840 when the Barony of Dublin City was separated from the Barony of Dublin.

Because the margin of victory was so close a third election in the summer of 1840 was held.

The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.

The Maronite-Druze conflict in 1840 – 60 was an outgrowth of the Maronite Christian independence movement, directed against the Druze, Druze feudalism, and the Ottoman-Turks.

He was the second son of five children born to David Longfield Beatty ( 1840 − 1904 ) and Katherine ( or Katrine ) Edith Sadleir ( 1840 − 1896 ), both from Ireland.

He first joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1840 then had in the interim joined a Masonic Lodge and become extremely active in the affairs of the organization, being elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859.

He was elected governor at age 23 as a member of the Democratic Party in 1835 and served until 1840.

They remained there until 1840 when they accepted an invitation from the King of Prussia to move to Berlin, where they both received professorships and were elected members of the Academy of Sciences.

In March 1840, Harrison pledged to serve only one term as President if elected, a pledge which reflected popular support for a Constitutional limit to Presidential terms among many in the Whig Party.

The first elected county judges were Edward V. Warren, Larkin Newton, and Samuel V. Warren, and Samuel M. Cooley, with Milton Sexton as clerk in 1840.

The village was incorporated in 1840, with Otway Curry elected as the first mayor.

* Barry was elected Associate of the Royal Academy on 2 November 1840

Having taken his degree at the University of Oxford ( from Trinity College ) in 1838, he was elected to a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1840, of which from 1842 to 1846 he was fellow and tutor.

Roseville was incorporated in 1840, with Dr. James Little elected as the first mayor.

In 1840 he was elected, in preference to Victor Hugo, to succeed Jean François Michaud at the French Academy ; and in 1845 he was created a commander of the légion d ' honneur, and in the next year a peer of France.

The departmental reform of 1840 created seven departments or ministries headed by a minister, and in 1866 the four Estates were abolished and the new two-chamber Riksdag was elected.

Sir James was elected as a member of Glasgow Town Council in 1831 and stood as a Conservative candidate for the Glasgow constituency in the 1837 and 1841 general elections, before being appointed to serve as the Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1840 to 1843.

In 1836 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1840, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

* George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, 3rd Baron Lucan, 9th Baronet ( 1800 – 1888 ) ( elected a Representative Peer in 1840 )

Tecumseh's curse was reputed to cause the deaths in office of Presidents of the United States elected in years divisible by 20, beginning in 1840.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1840, and in 1892 was awarded one of the royal medals for his work on photometry and stellar parallax.

He won the Ireland ( 1838 ) and Hertford ( 1839 ) scholarships ; and after taking a first-class in Literae Humaniores ( 1840 ), Was elected a fellow of Balliol ( 1841 ).

Biddle was twice elected to Congress, as an Anti-Masonic, serving from September 4, 1837, until his resignation in 1840.

The modern Dublin Corporation was restructured by late 19th century and 20th century legislation, particularly, the Municipal Corporations ( Ireland ) Act 1840, with the elected body reduced to a single chamber Dublin City Council, presided over by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, an office first instituted but not filled by King Charles I and reconstituted following the Restoration of the Crown by King Charles II.

Adams was a Democratic, and was elected to the Arkansas Senate in 1840.

In 1840, Yell was elected governor of Arkansas.

He was elected as the prosecuting attorney for Little Rock and served from 1840 to 1842.

John Tyler was elected on the Whig ticket in 1840 with William Henry Harrison but was expelled by his own party.

In April, 1840 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

As a result of the Act of March 3, 1839, the position of Iowa Territory's Delegate to the U. S. House would become vacant on October 27, 1840, and Dodge was elected to fill it.