President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Other authors who used the name were Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of its revived form.

After the Globes closure, it was reestablished as a society news column in the Daily Express from 1917 onwards, initially written by social correspondent Major John Arbuthnot who invented the name " Beachcomber ".

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In fact, in 1992, John Major, writing to John Hume stated:

Although British Prime Minister John Major rejected John Hume's requests for a public inquiry into the killings, his successor, Tony Blair, decided to start one.

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

Major John Hall-Edwards, a keen photographer and pioneer of medical X-ray treatments in Britain, was a particularly vigorous critic:

Examples include Geena Davis, Morley Safer, Ashley Judd, Gordon Elliott, former Major League pitcher Bill Lee, and astronaut John Grunsfeld calling from the Space Shuttle.

* History of Greater Britain, Historia majoris Britanniae, tam Angliae quam Scotiae, John Major

* 1993 – History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

On September 8, Schuyler sent Allen and Massachusetts Major John Brown, who had also been involved in the capture of Ticonderoga, into the countryside between St. John and Montreal to spread the word of their arrival to the habitants and the Indians.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

During the 1980s and 1990s, in which Gen Xers would have been teenagers or young adults, the United Kingdom was politically marked by conservative Thatcher-era government followed by the more centrist tenures of John Major ( 1990 – 1997 ) and Tony Blair ( 1997 – 2007 ).

The English Major General John Shrimpton was left as governor ( appointed by the Archduke Charles on the recommendation of Queen Anne ).

Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia.

* 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

On May 28, 1885, Major General Thomas Bland Strange brought an NWMP detachment from Calgary, Alberta, but they were unable to defeat a Cree force under Big Bear who carried the day at Frenchman's Butte at the end of May.

Major touchstones for English-speaking Canadians include Canadian beer, promoted through advertising by brands such as Molson and Labatt, and comedies that poke fun at Canadian's love for beer, such as the 1980s " hoser " television comedy skit The Great White North ( from SCTV ) and the spin-off film Strange Brew.

Eventually, General Strange ordered Major Sam Steele to lead the NWMP north and outflank the Cree.

Our force is eight scouts ; sixty Mounted Police under Captain Neale ; “ B ” Battery, eighty men under Major Short ; “ C ” School, forty-five men under Lieutenant Wadmore, No. 1Company, Queen ’ s Own Rifles, under Captain Brown, fifty-five men ; Battleford Rifles, under Captain Nash, forty men ; twenty men of the Guards under Lieutenant Gray and Queen ’ s Own Rifles Ambulance Corps ; Surgeon Lesslie ; Sergeant Fere and eight men ; Colonel Otter in command ; and Colonel Herchmer, Surgeon Strange, Captain Mutton and Lieutenant Sears on the Staff.

Known for his distinctively deep and commanding voice, he also did extensive voice work with the animated film Heavy Metal and on animated series such as The Marvel Super Heroes show in the 1960s, where he played Iron Man, the Sub-Mariner, and Major Glenn Talbot of The Incredible Hulk, to Batman: The Animated Series, where he played Rupert Thorne, and as General Thunderbolt Ross in UPN's The Incredible Hulk, Wildfire where he played a horse, as well as Doctor Strange in an episode of the Fox Network's Spider-Man animated series in the 1990s.

On his visit to Terra Obscura, Tom meets his counterpart Tom " Doc " Strange, and the team of science-heroes known as the Society of Major American Science Heroes ( SMASH ).

It had been decided that the Royal Air Force and the Army would cooperate in forming the airborne establishment, and as such Squadron Leader Louis Strange and Major J. F.

On his visit to Terra Obscura, Tom meets his counterpart Tom " Doc " Strange, and the team of science-heroes known as the Society of Major American Science Heroes ( SMASH ).

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

* Jack Russell, professional baseball player and first relief pitcher selected to a Major League Baseball All-Star Game

British Major Jack Churchill ( far right ) leads Commandos off a LCPL | Eureka Boat during a training exercise, sword in hand, in World War II.

* Major League Baseball games recommence kicked off by Jack Buck's riveting poem " For America " and speech where he said " I don't know about you, but as for me, the question has already been answered: Should we be here?

** Jack Fisher, former American Major League baseball pitcher

* John Farrow ( baseball ) ( 1853 – 1914 ), also known as Jack, American Major League Baseball player

John Francis " Jack " Buck ( August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002 ) was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Rascals began play in 1999 in the Western Division of the Frontier League under manager Jack Clark, pitching coach Greg Mathews, and first-base coach Dick Schofield Jr., all previous Major League Baseball players.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Under the date of November 26, 1833, John Quincy Adams records in his diary an encounter with Crockett, whom he quotes as saying that he ( Crockett ) " had taken for lodgings two rooms on the first floor of a boarding-house, where he expected to pass the winter and to have for a fellow-lodger Major Jack Downing, the only person in whom he had any confidence for information of what the Government was doing.

Major points of interest include the Rivoli Ballroom, the Brockley Jack Theatre and the Arts and Crafts Gothic church of St Hilda.

Major figurative Boston Expressionists included: Karl Zerbe, Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, David Aronson.

* Jack Aker ( born 1940 ), former Major League Baseball pitcher.

* Jack Armstrong ( born 1965 ), Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Florida Marlins and Texas Rangers.

* Jack Martin ( 1887 – 1980 ), Major League Baseball infielder who played for the 1912 New York Yankees ( Highlanders ), 1914 Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Braves, who lived out his twilight years in Brick Township and is the namesake of Jack Martin Boulevard.

* Jack Clark, former Major League Baseball player

* Jack Morris, Major League Baseball Player with Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, 1991 World Series champ

* Jack Jewsbury, captain of the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer

On September 19, 2001, Sergeant Major of the Army Jack L. Tilley presented Mauldin with a personal letter from Army Chief of Staff General Eric K. Shinseki, a hardbound book with notes from other senior Army leaders and several celebrities to include Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Tom Hanks.

* Jack Sanford ( first baseman ) ( 1917-2005 ), Major League Baseball first baseman

* Jack Sanford ( 1929-2000 ), Major League Baseball pitcher

13 on Billboard in 1938, staying on the charts for 2 weeks, " Parade of the Milk Bottle Caps ", " Dusk in Upper Sandusky " with Larry Clinton, " Shoot the Meatballs to Me Dominick Boy " with Toots Camarata, " A Man and his Drums ", " Mutiny in the Brass Section ", " Praying the Blues ", " Contrasts ", his theme song, " Major and Minor Stomp ", " Hep-Tee Hootie ( Juke Box Jive )" with Fud Livingston and Jack Palmer, " I Bought A Wooden Whistle ", " Tailspin " with Frankie Trumbauer, the classic jazz standard " I'm Glad There Is You ( In This World of Ordinary People )", " Clarinet Polka ", " I Love You in Technicolor ", " All The Things You Ain't " with Babe Russin, " JD's Boogie Woogie ", " Jumpin ' Jehosaphat ", " I'll Do Anything For You ", " Dorsey Stomp ", " Grand Central Getaway " with Dizzy Gillespie, " Sunset Strip " and " The Champ " with Sonny Burke, " Town Hall Tonight ", " Outer Drive " with Herb Ellis, the jazz standard " It's the Dreamer in Me " with Jimmy Van Heusen, recorded by Duke Ellington and others.

* 18 Jack Buck, Major League Baseball announcer.