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Leverett enumerated multiple factors establishing Jones County residents ' overwhelming loyalty to the Confederacy, including ( 1 ) the proportion of eligible men in the county who served the Confederacy ; ( 2 ) the militant response of area residents to a Union raid at Rocky Creek balanced against their cordial reception of expeditions by Confederate officers Maury and Lowry ; ( 3 ) the repeated written requests of area residents to Confederate authorities for assistance defending against deserters ; ( 4 ) the community's shunning after the war of Newt Knight ; and ( 5 ) the renaming of the county by popular request " after the war to honor the two greatest heroes of the Confederacy, and this at a time when genuine Union supporters could be expected to be at the zenith of their influence ".
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Leverett and Jones
The notion that Jones County seceded from the confederacy was put to rest by Rudy H. Leverett in 1984.
Leverett concludes that while " few of these people had any real stake in the great economic and political issues that precipitated the war and that most of them opposed the political policy of secession the South from the Union ", " the threat of coercion of the South by the North galvanized the loyalties of Jones Countians to their region and their way of life.
" It should be noted that Rudy H. Leverett was the Great-grandson of Major Amos McLemore, whom Newton Knight and his band killed while McLemore was engaged in the duty of capturing and returning the Jones County deserters to Confederate military duty.
In spite of pre-War opposition to secession and the number of " transient deserters " in the county, Leverett asserts that the activities of such formerly anti-secessionist individuals as McLemore along with the facts " that virtually every able-bodied man in the county was on active duty in organizations such as those commanded by McLemore ... and that the Union raiding party entering the county in June of 1863 was captured by civilians, and the Union prisoners had to be protected from the local citizens " -- among other facts — present undeniable evidence that the citizens of Jones County were loyal to the Confederacy.
* Leverett, Rudy H., Legend of the Free State of Jones, University Press of Mississippi, 1984, 2nd printing 2009.
Leverett and County
Leverett is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
Leverett is located along the southern border of Franklin County, north of Hampshire County.
Leverett is an unincorporated community located in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
In 1652, when Leverett was captain of a Suffolk County company of horse, he was also elected as a captain of one of the Boston infantry companies.
Endecott sent Leverett as one of several commissioners to negotiate the inclusion of these settlements into the colonial government, which resulted in the eventual formation of York County, Massachusetts.
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Leverett and loyalty
Leverett was a leader of the liberal movement in the Congregational Church and he opposed the powerful clergymen Increase and Cotton Mather, who had attempted to impose upon the College a new charter containing a loyalty oath that would have refused appointment to the faculty of anyone not willing to acknowledge the primacy of Biblical scripture.
Leverett and including
At his inauguration he accepted the charter and seal presented to John Leverett the Younger in 1707, but dropped a number of other customs, including the singing of Gloria Patri and the Latin Oration.
; Olmsted Park: from Route 9 at the Riverway south to Perkins Street, including Leverett Pond, Willow Pond, and Ward's Pond
Lev Gleason Publications, founded by Leverett Gleason, was the publisher of a number of popular comic books during the 1940s and early 1950s, including Daredevil, Crime Does Not Pay, and Boy Comics.
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Leverett A. Saltonstall ( September 1, 1892June 17, 1979 ) was an American Republican politician who served as the 55th Governor of Massachusetts ( 1939 – 1945 ) and as a United States Senator ( 1945 – 1967 ).
Leverett and men
Fortunately, several strong men intervened and took him to the Leverett Street Jail.
Leverett and county
Most of the settlers entered the county over what was called Charley's Trace, an Indian trail that came across from the Mississippi river and entered the hills about where Leverett is now located.
From Leverett Center, Leverett is south-southeast of the county seat of Greenfield, north of Springfield, and west of Boston.
Leverett and who
A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.
Kazan initially refused to provide names, but eventually named eight former Group Theater members who he said had been Communists: Clifford Odets, J. Edward Bromberg, Lewis Leverett, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Tony Kraber, Ted Wellman, and Paula Miller, who later married Lee Strasberg.
The New Haven Colony petitioned the Commonwealth government of Oliver Cromwell for assistance against the Dutch threat, a position supported by Leverett, who went to England with Sedgwick in 1653 to press the colonial case for war.
Although Leverett favored religious tolerance, there were still many in the colony who did not.
Dudley also angered the powerful Mather family when he awarded the presidency of Harvard to John Leverett instead of Cotton Mather, and consistently vetoed the election of councilors and speakers of the general court who had acted against him in 1689, further increasing his unpopularity in Massachusetts.
He had three sons, Luther Halsey Gulick ( 1892 – 1993 ) who developed theories of government policy, Leeds Gulick ( 1894 – 1975 ), and Sidney Lewis Gulick Jr. ( 1902 – 1988 ), and two daughters, Mrs. Leverett Davis and Mrs. John Barrow.
He was also the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, and a United States Senator from Massachusetts from February 1944, when he was appointed by Governor Leverett Saltonstall following the resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who went to serve in World War II, until December 1944, when a new senator was elected.
During this, a dispute broke out between Wesley Bailey and Leverett Coon, who had established a lodge, Excelsior, in Syracuse.
The Leverett House CrestLeverett House is the largest ( by number of students ) of twelve residence houses for upperclass undergraduates ( who have already completed their first year ) at Harvard University.
Leverett House was named after John Leverett ( whose grandfather, John Leverett had been the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ), who was President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724.
Leverett George DeVeber ( sometimes spelled De Veber ) ( February 10, 1849 – July 9, 1925 ) was a Canadian politician who served as Member of the Legislative Assemblies of Alberta and the Northwest Territories, minister in the government of Alberta, and member of the Senate of Canada.
The pair would have two children: Marion Frances DeVeber, who married shipbuilder Francis Dunn and moved to England, and Leverett Sandys DeVeber, who worked in Toronto for the Bank of Montreal.
Leverett and served
His father, Thomas Leverett, was a close associate of John Cotton, the church's Puritan pastor, and served as one of the church's elders.
Leverett served as deputy governor under governor Richard Bellingham in 1671 – 1672, and succeeded to his position after the governor's death.
In 1709, Leverett served as an emissary from Massachusetts Governor Joseph Dudley to New York's Governor John Lovelace in negotiations for the establishment of military cooperation between Massachusetts and New York on the frontier and for an aborted invasion of Canada.
He married his wife Jill in Leverett House in the early 60s, and later they were at Smith College where she served as President.
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Leverett was one of the commissioners sent in 1653 ; he took careful note of the colony's defenses while he was there.
Cotton Mather wrote of Leverett that he was " one to whom the affections of the freemen were signalised his quick advances through the lesser stages of honor and office, unto the highest in the country ; and one whose courage had been as much recommended by martial actions abroad in his younger years, as his wisdom and justice were now at home in his elder.
Some, but not all, of these remnants have been demolished as part of the Big Dig ; in particular, the Leverett Connector uses the northern pair of ramps in Somerville and had to be built around the southern pair of ramps.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, both currently cabinet officials in the Obama Administration, also resided in Leverett during their times at Harvard ; in fact, the two were roommates.
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