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1892 and Citizens
In 1892 Pinchback was part of the Comité des Citoyens ( Citizens ' Committee ) which set up the New Orleans civil-rights actions of Homer Plessy as a challenge of segregationist laws in public transportation.
Roswell B. Mason ( September 19, 1805January 1, 1892 ; buried in Rosehill Cemetery ) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois ( 1869 – 1871 ) for the Citizens Party.

1892 and Committee
According to the Hastings Gazette, ( April 6, 1878, page 4, column 5 ) and the Holy Rosary Parish Book Committee: Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm Kranz ( 1841 – 1925 ) along with his brothers Johann Kranz ( 1832 – 1916 ), Mathais Kranz ( 1830 – 1921 ), and Paul Ferdinand Kranz ( 1832 – 1892 ) came from Dakota County on March 1878 looking for a place to settle.
As a result of a conference of 30 leading secondary and college educators in Florida, the National Education Association appointed a Committee of Ten in 1892 which had authority to organize future meetings and appoint subject matter committees of the major subjects taught in U. S. secondary schools.
Harrison found himself in conflict with Congreve as to details, and eventually led the Positivists who split off and founded Newton Hall in 1881, and he was president of the English Positivist Committee from 1880 to 1905 ; he was also editor and part author of the Positivist New Calendar of great Men ( 1892 ), and wrote much on Comte and Positivism.
The Declaration of the Strike Committee, dated July 20, 1892 reads in part,
However, he was succeeded in the barony of Barnard, according to a decision by the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords in 1892, by his distant relative Henry de Vere Vane, who became the ninth Baron.
McLean first entered politics in 1892, serving as the chairman of the Robeson County Democratic Executive Committee.
His political positions included becoming Campaign Treasurer of the Democratic State Central Committee in 1885 In 1892, Brown was elected to his highest position as Governor of Maryland, serving four years.
* Ivar Smilga ( Ivar Tenisovich Smilga ) ( 1892 – 1937 ), chairman of the Regional Committee of the Soviets in Finland in 1917, chairman of Tsentrobalt, Central Committee of the Baltic Fleet, 1917 – 1918 ).
A Democrat, Brice was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1889 until 1892 and won elected to the Senate in 1890, serving a single term in office.
In 1889, Brice was chosen to replace the late William H. Barnum as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and served in that capacity until 1892.
He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1892 to 1894, and from 1893 to 1897 he was a clerk for the U. S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce.
The United States Senate Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia was formed as a select committee in 1892, and became a standing committee in 1896.
He was a member of the Republican State Central Committee from 1888 to 1892.
In 1892 he was made Assistant Treasurer of the United States Treasury at Chicago, and was elected chairman of the Illinois State Republican Central Committee in 1894, a committee on which he had previously served as a member ( 1874 – 84 ).
He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee of the Revised Version ( 1876-1884 ) and examining chaplain to the bishop of Southwell ( 1884-1904 ); received the honorary degrees of doctor of literature of Dublin ( 1892 ), doctor of divinity of Glasgow ( 1901 ), doctor of literature of Cambridge ( 1905 ); and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1902.
However, it was not until 1892 that the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords confirmed the latter in the title, as the Committee wished to be assured that a marriage contracted by the 8th Earl while he lived abroad had not produced a legitimate heir.
He was treasurer of the Republican National Committee from 1892 to 1904.
Other duties that he undertook during his time in India included special duty in connection with Burma-Manipur Boundary Commission as Medical Officer, 1882 ; Scientific Assistant Secretary, Government of India, 1881 ; in charge of the India Section of the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1884 ; Commissioner, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1885 – 86 ; Reporter to Government of India on Economic Products, 1887 – 1903 ; Governor of Imperial Institute, 1892 ; Editor, The Agricultural Ledger, 1892 – 1903 ; President, Pharmacological Section of the Indian Medical Congress, 1894 ; in charge of Calcutta Industrial Museum, 1894-03 ; Honorary Secretary, Indigenous Drug Committee of India, 1901 ; Director, Indian Art Exhibition, Delhi, 1903.
He was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee in 1892.
The first socialist party in Ireland, it was founded in 1892, affiliated to the British Labour Representation Committee in 1900 and remained attached to the UK Labour Party which subsequently evolved.

1892 and asked
In 1892, Dr. Augustus Stinchfield was asked to join the practice by W. W. Mayo, who considered him to be the best doctor in the small towns surrounding Rochester.
In 1892 President Sadi Carnot, who was his personal friend, asked him to form a cabinet.
He was asked to join the two Mayo brothers ' private medical practice in 1892.
In 1892 Carlisle was again proposed as a candidate for president at the Democratic convention, but this time Carlisle asked that he not be considered.
Sharp had made many friends and an address with over 300 signatures asked him to continue his work at Adelaide, but he decided to return to England and arrived there in January 1892.
In 1833 the cemetery had to move to what was then called Victoria Cemetery ( today the " Plaza 1 ° de Mayo ") until November, 1892, when they were asked by the Municipality to move.
He was asked to serve as temporary chair of the 1892 State Republican Convention.
In 1892, while writing up the census results, he was asked to serve as a translator for the US State Department in connection with the Bering Sea Arbitration.
On June 7, 1892, Plessy bought a first-class ticket for the commuter train that ran from New Orleans to Covington, sat down in the car for white riders only and the conductor asked whether he was a colored man, Medley said.
On 21 May 1892, Ancona was asked to create the part of Silvio in the first performance of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, which took place at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme with Arturo Toscanini conducting.
In 1892, William Worrall Mayo asked Dr. Augustus Stinchfield to join his practice as a full partner.
Pope Leo XIII granted pontifical status to the Josephinum with this hand-written, Latin letter in 1892. To make sure that the fledgling institution would continue after his death, Father Jessing asked that it be placed under the protection of the Holy See.
Dr. Augustus Stinchfield was also asked to join the medical practice in 1892 by William Worrall Mayo.
In 1892, Saint-Gaudens was asked to design the official medal of the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago ; it would be presented to prizewinning exhibitors.
When Charles Spurgeon's illness with Bright's disease kept him from preaching, he asked Pierson to substitute for him while he recovered ; but when Spurgeon unexpectedly died on January 31, 1892, the people of the Metropolitan Tabernacle invited Pierson to stay on, which he did for the next two years.
In 1892, he was asked by the Swiss government to draft the Swiss civil code ( Zivilgesetzbuch ), which he completed in 1904.

1892 and Plessy
* 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the " whites-only " car of a train ; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
Marker placed at Press and Royal Streets on February 12, 2009 commemorating the arrest of Homer Plessy on June 7, 1892 for violating the Louisiana 1890 Separate Car Act.
On June 7, 1892, Plessy bought a first class ticket at the Press Street Depot and boarded a " whites only " car of the East Louisiana Railroad in New Orleans, Louisiana, bound for Covington, Louisiana.
In 1892, Homer Plessy, who was of mixed ancestry and appeared to be white, boarded an all white railroad car between New Orleans and Covington, Louisiana.
On any other day in 1892, Plessy with his pale skin color could have ridden in the train car restricted to white passengers without notice.
On June 7, 1892, Plessy, then thirty years old and resembling in skin color and physical features a white male, bought a first-class ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad running between New Orleans and Covington, the seat of now suburban St. Tammany Parish.
On February 12, 2009, the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation of New Orleans honored the successes of the civil rights movement by taking part in the placing of a historical marker at the corner of Press and Royal streets, the site of Homer Plessy ’ s arrest in New Orleans in 1892.
File: Plessy marker. jpg | Front of the marker placed Feb. 12, 2009 commemorating the planned arrest of Homer Plessy June 17, 1892 for violating the Louisiana 1890 Separate Car Act.
Historical marker placed at Press and Royal Streets commemorating the planned arrest of Homer Plessy on June 7, 1892.

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