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McLane was President for one year, implemented many improvements, and produced one of the few profitable years the company had.
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By the mid-1990s, McLane ( like McMullen before him ) wanted his team out of the Astrodome and was asking the city to build the Astros a new stadium.
However, Collins was having difficulty finding a site for a stadium himself, so Major League owners stepped in and forced McLane to give Houston another chance to grant his stadium wish.
McLane stated that because the Astros was one of the few franchises in Major League Baseball with only one family as the owners, he was trying to move forward with estate planning.
The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to Britain, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was the work of Calhoun, the vice-president.
Benjamin McLane Spock ( May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998 ) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.
Benjamin McLane Spock was born May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut ; his parents were Benjamin Ives Spock, a Yale graduate and long-time general counsel of the New Haven Railroad, and Mildred Louise Stoughton Spock.
The international jurist John Bassett Moore was born in Smyrna, as were politicians Louis McLane and James Williams.
By 1914, the community needed a large central school to house all of the area's students, so the Brandon Grade School ( now McLane Middle School ) was built on Knights Avenue to house grades 1 through 12.
* Drayton McLane, Jr., former owner of the Houston Astros, was born in Cameron.
Island chronicler Charles McLane asserts that after Crie's death, the " vigor of the community was gradually drained by natural disasters and changing times.
He served until 1845, when after a change of administrations he was replaced by Democrat Louis McLane.
Immediately after the fire, Mayor Robert McLane was quoted in the Baltimore News as saying, " To suppose that the spirit of our people will not rise to the occasion is to suppose that our people are not genuine Americans.
Louis McLane ( May 28, 1786 – October 7, 1857 ) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland.
Named for the King of France, McLane was born in Smyrna, Delaware, son of Allen and Rebecca Wells McLane.
Allen McLane was a veteran of the American Revolution and long time tax collector for the port of Wilmington.
As such he received the strong backing of James A. Bayard, who managed to see that the elder McLane was able to keep his lucrative position in spite of the accession of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency in 1801.
Louis McLane attended private schools and served as a midshipman on the USS Philadelphia for one year before he was 18.
McLane was first elected to the U. S. House of Representatives by defeating Thomas Clayton for the Federalist nomination, as Clayton was politically damaged by having voted for a Congressional pay raise in the previous session.
Nevertheless, McLane was elected six times as a Federalist to the U. S. House of Representatives, from 1816 through 1826.
These friendships were based more on personality than policy agreement, and were so important that McLane was one of Crawford ’ s strongest proponents in the Presidential election of 1824.
McLane was instructed to inform the English that his appointment signaled a break from the John Quincy Adams administration, and that issues of dispute under the Adams Administration would no longer be issues in a Jackson administration.
When U. S. President Andrew Jackson decided he needed to purge his Cabinet of supporters of U. S. Senator John C. Calhoun, the always helpful Martin Van Buren was able to convince the president to appoint McLane to be the Secretary of the Treasury.
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The same year, McLane was appointed as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point by President Andrew Jackson, and graduated in July 1837 with a commission as second lieutenant of Artillery in the United States Army.
In 1845, McLane was elected as a representative of Baltimore City to the Maryland House of Delegates after successfully campaigning for President James K. Polk a year previous.
In 1853, during the Taiping Rebellion, President Pierce appointed McLane as commissioner to China, with the powers of a Minister Plenipotentiary, and at the same time accredited to Japan, Siam, Korea, and Cochin China.
McLane only served as governor for slightly over a year, from January 8, 1884 until his resignation on March 27, 1885, having been appointed by President Grover Cleveland as United States Minister Plenipotentiary to France.
In 1831, President Andrew Jackson and his Secretary of Treasury, Louis McLane appointed Duncan Stewart as the first keeper of Bombay Hook Lighthouse.
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In November 2010, Drayton McLane announced that the Astros were being put up for sale.
McLane and Crane had a previous handshake agreement for the franchise in 2008, but Crane abruptly changed his mind and broke off discussions.
Due to the efforts of Governor McLane, the State of New Hampshire along with Portsmouth and its citizens became the unlikely host for the first international treaty to be signed in the United States.
" McLane asserts the name " Ragged Arse Island " might have been an attempt to render " Racketash ," Abnaki for " island rocks.
Additionally, DynCorp formed a joint venture with Oshkosh Defense, Force Protection Industries, and McLane Advanced Technologies to pursue a $ 3 billion five-year contract issued by the Army for support and maintenance of mine resistant ambush protected vehicles.
The secretary of the treasury, Louis McLane, professed moderate support for the Bank.
In 1832, Secretary of the Treasury Louis McLane issued written orders for revenue cutters to conduct winter cruises to assist mariners in need, and Congress made the practice an official part of regulations in 1837.
During the War of 1812 McLane joined the Wilmington Artillery Company, formed for the purpose of defending Wilmington.
Two years later, McLane finally received the appointment he had so longed for.
Acclaimed for its Hamiltonian creativity, McLane had taken the initiative on the administration ’ s agenda, and was acting very much in the role of a Prime Minister.
The appointment was a great embarrassment to Jackson, and many blamed McLane for urging it.
While all this was going on, McLane negotiated what seemed to be a satisfactory tariff bill, but when South Carolina continued to object and triggered the Nullification Crisis, McLane prepared the important Force Bill of 1833 to provide for the tariff ’ s enforcement.
McLane was furious with his old mentor for this intervention, and resigned his position, recognizing his apparent lack of authority in a direct area of responsibility.
In spite of his political setbacks McLane never lost his ambition for high political office.
While he dreamed of something much greater, McLane took a leave of absence from the railroad in 1845 and 1846 to return to England as Minister Plenipotentiary, primarily for the purpose of coordinating negotiations over the Oregon boundary.
The son of a Scots-Irish adventurer and politician from Delaware, McLane had married into the Eastern shore gentry of Maryland and ever longed for the idyllic plantation life seemingly promised.
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