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In 1844, Owsley was elected governor on the Whig ticket, defeating Democrat William O. Butler by a vote of 59, 792 to 55, 089.
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The county is named for William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ), the judge of the KY Court of Appeals and Governor of Kentucky ( 1844 – 48 ).
The Owsley Court House Post Office opened in 1844 and was renamed Booneville in 1846.
The town, consisting at the time of little more than a temporary log courthouse, became the county seat when Owsley County was formed on May 20, 1844.
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At any rate, Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington.
Palfrey was also concerned about the question of what wage to pay for their labor throughout 1844.
Meanwhile, with the independence of Brazil in 1822, the slave trade was abolished in 1836, and in 1844 Angola's ports were opened to foreign shipping.
The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.
The tunnel opened for use on December 3, 1844, but was not completely finished until late Spring 1845.
Abdur Rahman Khan () ( between 1830 to 1844 – October 1, 1901 ) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.
Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.
Arthur William à Beckett ( 25 October 1844 Fulham-14 January 1909 London ) was an English journalist and intellectual.
‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran, Iran on 23 May 1844 ( 5th of Jamadiyu ' l-Avval, 1260 AH ), the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh and Navváb.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá asked Aqa Mirza Aqa to coordinate the work so that the house of the Báb would be restored to the state that it was at the time of the Báb's declaration to Mulla Husayn in 1844 ; he also entrusted the work on the House of Worship to Vakil-u'd-Dawlih.
The encoding of text by bits was also used in Morse code ( 1844 ) and early digital communications machines such as teletypes and stock ticker machines ( 1870 ).
Although he was a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained.
In 1844 on Bodmin Moor the body of 18 year old Charlotte Dymond was discovered.
Local labourer Matthew Weeks was accused of the murder and at noon on 12 August 1844 he was led from Bodmin Gaol and hanged.
Bamberg was first connected to the German rail system in 1844, which has been an important part of its infrastructure ever since.
# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.
One of the most significant was the Conspiración de La Escalera ( Ladder Conspiracy ), which started in March 1843 and continued until 1844.
In 1844, he paid his first visit to the convent of Saint Catherine's Monastery, on Mount Sinai, where he found, in a trash basket, forty-four pages of what was the then oldest known copy of the Septuagint.
An introduction to Jamaica was made in 1844 in an attempt to reduce the rat population.
The first ever international cricket match was played between Canada and the United States, on the 24 and 25 September 1844.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ) uses the 1846 edition that was published in Nauvoo, Illinois ; this version is virtually identical to the 1844 edition.
Hyrum himself was killed in 1844 along with Joseph, resulting in a Succession crisis that broke the Latter Day Saint movement into several smaller denominations.
This was proved by Gabriel Lamé in 1844, and marks the beginning of computational complexity theory.
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Democrat James K. Polk was elected President in 1844 over Whig Party ( United States ) Henry Clay, a high tariff advocate.
Dallas was elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket in 1844 with James K. Polk and served from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1849.
However, other sources indicate it was organized on April 2, 1838, and that Sydney Smith was elected the first Supervisor and that Robinson was the second, elected in 1841 and again in 1844.
On March 15, 1844, the first White Township municipal election was held, in which James Hood and William Ewing were elected supervisors, in addition to other township offices.
Upon his return to Mississippi, he was elected to the state senate representing his native county and served from 1839 to 1844.
He was Ireland and Hertford scholar in 1844 ; in March 1846 he was elected to a scholarship at University College, and in December of the same year he obtained a first class in classics ; in February 1848 he became a fellow of University.
From 1841 to 1844, he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives.
In 1844 he was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
He was elected Governor in 1844 as a Democrat, having secured the backing of the Conway-Sevier faction that had ruled Arkansas since territorial days.
Though Drew was the third person to be elected governor, he was the fourth in office because his predecessor, Samuel Adams, had served as acting governor during much of 1844, having gained the office through the previous position as president of the Arkansas State Senate.
On 12 February 1848, referring to his own motion ( Motion Bassermann ) in 1844 and a comparable one by Carl Theodor Welcker in 1831, he called for a representation, elected by the people, at the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1844, and reelected in 1848, 1851, and 1854.
James K. Polk, a Democrat and a strong supporter of territorial expansion, was elected president in November 1844 with a mandate to acquire both the Republic of Texas and Oregon Country.
Adams was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1841, served in the state senate 1844 – 1845, founded and edited the journal Boston Whig in 1846, and was the unsuccessful nominee of the Free Soil Party for Vice President of the United States in 1848.
He was elected to replace James Buchanan in the United States Senate in 1844, serving until 1849.
In 1844, he was elected to the new Parliament of the Province of Canada.
In 1840, he was elected representative to the legislature from Marshall County, and was senator from that county from 1844 to 1848.
In September 1844, Jones was elected president of the Republic of Texas, despite running a virtually silent campaign.
A scholar of University College, Oxford, he graduated with a double-first class degree in 1844 and was elected Fellow of Brasenose College.
* Robert St John Fitzwalter Butler, 16th / 26th Baron Dunboyne ( 1844 – 1913 ) ( elected a Representative Peer in 1901 )
He was elected speaker, but in 1844 was appointed to the Legislative Council.
He was a member of the State house of representatives in 1844 and 1845 and was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Felix G. McConnell.
Rafael Carrera was elected president in 1844.
Parsons became an attorney, and in 1840 was elected Register of Deeds, and reelected in 1842 and 1844.
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