Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

John was away at school most of the time.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

The third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

John was quietly insistent.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

For an instant John was stunned.

He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream.

This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.

To fulfill promises made during the impeachment trial, Johnson nominated John M. Schofield as War Secretary, who was confirmed.

In April 1866 he nominated Henry Stanbery to fill the vacancy left with the death of John Catron, but the Republican Congress eliminated the seat to prevent the appointment.

The book was nominated for the 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

( Incumbent Whig President John Tyler — a former Democrat — had become estranged from the Whigs and was not nominated for a second term.

In the autumn of 397, John was appointed Archbishop of Constantinople, after having been nominated without his knowledge by the eunuch Eutropius.

Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit.

The game was nominated at 2002 Game Developers Choice Awards in the " Excellence in Programming " category ( Sherman Archibald, John Carmack, and Ryan Feltrin ).

Sometimes vacancies arise in quick succession, as in the early 1970s when Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William Rehnquist were nominated to replace Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan II, who retired within a week of each other.

Most Chief Justices, including John Roberts, have been nominated to the highest position on the Court without any previous experience on the Supreme Court ; indeed some, such as Earl Warren, received confirmation despite having no prior judicial experience.

Adams then nominated John Marshall, whom the Senate confirmed shortly afterward.

The Democratic-Republicans nominated New York's Governor Clinton to replace Federalist John Adams as vice president, but Adams won.

* John Feeney, documentary filmmaker, nominated for two Academy Awards

* July 13 – The U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President of the United States at

Historians had nominated one person per century, and for the 12th century John Hudson chose Becket for being " greedy ", " hypocritical ", " founder of gesture politics " and " master of the soundbite ".

) For example, if the Democrats had nominated both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for U. S. President in 2008, it would have allowed the Republican candidate ( John McCain ) to easily win ; the voters who preferred both Clinton and Obama over McCain could not have been relied on to solve the strategy coordination problem on their own.

The newly formed Natural Law Party nominated scientist and researcher John Hagelin for President and Mike Tompkins for Vice President.

Seeking a New Englander for a running mate, the caucus initially chose New Hampshire governor John Langdon to balance the ticket, but after Langdon declined due to his age, a second caucus nominated Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts for the Vice Presidency, which had been vacant since George Clinton's death a month earlier.

The Republican Party nominated John C. Frémont of California as its first presidential candidate ; Senator William H. Seward sought, but failed to receive the Republican nomination.

A group of Republican dissidents nominated John C. Frémont who later withdrew and endorsed Lincoln.

John Cochrane was nominated for vice-president.

Former Senator Allen G. Thurman of Ohio was nominated for vice-president over Isaac P. Gray, his nearest rival, and John C. Black, who trailed behind.

Thus, with the support of convention chairman Elihu Root, Taft's supporters outvoted Roosevelt's men, and the convention renominated incumbents William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman, making Sherman the first sitting vice-president to be nominated for re-election since John C. Calhoun in 1828.

The Republican Party nominated Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's Vice-President, while the Democrats nominated John F. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts.

It ran for 1, 181 performances and was nominated for seven Tony Awards ( best actor for both McKellen and Curry, best director for Peter Hall, best play, best costume design, lighting, and set design for John Bury ), of which it won five ( including a best actor Tony for McKellen ).< ref >