He had also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times ( 1853 – 1855, 1859 – 1866, 1873 – 1874, and 1880 – 1882 ).

In 1854, he was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's thirteenth district where he was the Republican candidate for Speaker in the long contest of 1859 – 60 and served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1860 to 1861.

They subsequently served in the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, the Mexican Intervention ( 1864 – 66 ) and the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 ).

Houston served from February 21, 1846, until March 4, 1859.

He later served in a military capacity as general of a division in the Crimean War, as Governor of Algeria, and as a corps commander in the French Army of Italy in 1859.

Thaddeus Stevens, the noted Radical Republican, served Lancaster County in the United States House of Representatives from 1849 – 1853 and from 1859 until his death in 1868.

He was reelected as a Republican in 1859, 1865 and 1871, and served from 31 January 1855 to 4 March 1873, when he resigned to become Vice President.

Following his tenure in Congress, Hendricks was appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office by President Franklin Pierce and served there from 1855 until 1859.

It is named after John Burke ( 1859 – 1937 ), a politician who served as governor of North Dakota and Treasurer of the United States.

He practiced law in Danville from 1841 to 1859 with Ward Hill Lamon, who later served as his bodyguard.

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

In 1859, he was sent to the state legislature where he served eight terms.

The name was chosen for the Kentucky State Governor at the time, Beriah Magoffin, who served from 1859 to 1862.

Farmer as pastor who served until 1859.

and later served as Vice-President of the Institute, in 1859 he turned down the Presidency of the R. I. B. A.

In 1857 he was President of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, and served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Bradford from 1859 until he retired through ill health on 1 February 1861.

Her home, the Meteor Ridge Farm, formerly called The Plantation was built in 1859 or 1860 and also served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, even receiving a personal visit from President Lincoln.

In its heyday, between 1709 and 1859 Swineford had an active brass and copper industry around the Swineford Lock which were served by the river which also provided water power for the cloth industry, as did the River Boyd, a tributary which flows into the Avon near Bitton.

He was a volunteer in the campaign of 1859 and served with Garibaldi in 1866 and 1867.

From 1855 to 1859 Niel was employed at headquarters and also served in the French Senate.

This served as a pretext for a short war with Morocco in 1859.

During the 1859 campaign he won promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and as a colonel he served in the French intervention in Mexico.

Lamar served in Managua for twenty months before returning to Texas in October 1859 because of poor health.

Christopher Andersen Hornsrud ( 15 November 1859 – 12 December 1960 ) served as Prime Minister of Norway from January to February 1928.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

According to Charles Darwin's 1859 theory of natural selection, features such as camouflage evolved by providing individual animals with a reproductive advantage, enabling them to leave more offspring, on average, than other members of the same species.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

In 1859, while attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, Pissarro became friends with a number of younger artists who likewise chose to paint in the more realistic style.

They were built for the China tea trade and began with the Falcon in 1859, and finished with the last ships built in 1870.

The movement culminated with the 1859 – 60 massacre and defeat of the Christians by the Druzes.

She made her debut as a guitar player and singer in Peoria, Illinois in 1859, with George on the violin, and was teaching guitar by age thirteen.

The possibility of linking humans with earlier apes by descent only became clear after 1859 with the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Cleveland later took a clerkship with the firm, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.

By the 1830s mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology had emerged with world class science, led by Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ) in natural science and Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 1777 – 1855 ) in mathematics.

The history of Manx telecommunications starts in 1859, when the Isle of Man Electric Telegraph Company was formed on the island with the intention of connecting across the island by telegraph, and allowing messages to be sent onwards to the UK.

He also started a business partnership with John Ellsler, manager of the Cleveland Academy of Music, and another friend, Thomas Mears, to develop oil wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, where an oil boom had started in August 1859, following Edwin Drake's discovery of oil there.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

Brahms never married, despite strong feelings for several women and despite entering into an engagement, soon broken off, with Agathe von Siebold in Göttingen in 1859.

* 1859 – The city of Lansing officially incorporated with about 3, 000 citizens inside of.

From Muhammad IV ( 1859 – 1873 ) and Hassan I ( 1873 – 1894 ) the Alaouites tried to foster trading links, above all with European countries and the United States.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

The term was introduced by Darwin in his groundbreaking 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described by analogy to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

The current limits of the Spanish territory around the fortress were fixed by treaties with Morocco in 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1894.

In the 1946 with decree Liutenant one ( Umberto II of Savoia ) the new Municipality of Apuania was melted and the province ( for error and / or historical ignorance ) resumptions the denomination does not date from 1859 when it was " Massa and Carrara " but Massa ( name with which it came designated to the city of Massa or Massa of Carrara from 1700 until Kingdom of Italy ( 1860 ), denomination that, in order to distinguish it from the other homonymous cities, the chief town continued till the institution of the unified Municipality of Apuania ) and with same the decree liutenant were placed to Massa.