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.

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.

In 1981 a stage musical based on the strip had a short run at London's Aldwych Theatre, with songs by Alan Price and Trevor Peacock, starring Tom Courtenay as Andy and Val McLane as Florrie.

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.

Much of his income came from the seizure of contraband and Louis McLane inherited much of this wealth, along with legal issues that lasted well beyond the death of his father.

First of all, Attorney General Roger B. Taney sought to convince Jackson that McLane ’ s plan was really a new packaging of the old Federalist program and in contradiction with Jackson ’ s own past positions.

However, when McLane refused to remove the governments deposits from the Second Bank of the United States, Jackson had to replace him with someone that would, and offered McLane the prestigious U. S. Secretary of State instead.

Jackson was impatient to resolve the issue and worked with McLane to develop a hard line policy, confronting the French.

Although he had some inherited wealth from his father, with 13 children McLane always needed to provide additional earned income in his own right.

The profits were not substantial, however, and McLane was consumed with financing rearrangements and negotiations with Pennsylvania and Virginia over possible routes west.

Further, with his adherence to the party of Andrew Jackson and resignation from the United States Senate in 1829, McLane effectively admitted his political career in Delaware was over.

He was born in Lennoxtown, in Scotland, the son of Alexander McLane and his wife Mary, née Hay, and was brought to America with his family in 1853, when he was one year old.

Fresno State was founded as the Fresno State Normal School in 1911 with Charles Lourie McLane as its first president.

Susan McLane ranked second with 25 %, Bass ranked third with 22 %, Robert Sweet ranked fourth with 7 %, and three other candidates obtained 3 % each.

* Band members Chris McLane and David Sease are longtime vegetarians, have shown support for PETA, and the band went on a " Hardcore Against Fur " tour starting in December 2004 with H2O and With Honor.

Other intelligence officers who served with distinction during the War of Independence included Captain Eli Leavenworth, Major Alexander Clough, Colonel Elias Dayton, Major John Clark, Major Allan McLane, Captain Charles Craig and General Thomas Mifflin.

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.

McLane was deployed with his regiment to Florida during the Seminole War in 1837 under the command of General Thomas S. Jesup, and in 1838 was re-deployed to the west under General Winfield Scott.

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 was remembered fondly from his previous service, and renewed his old friendships.

Bass ran for his old seat and narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Ann McLane Kuster, Libertarian nominee Howard Wilson, and Independent candidate Tim vanBlommesteyn.

He is an old friend of Commander McLane who usually helps him to explain to Ingrid why he can't retire after all.

McLane chose to have one of the artifacts dated via charcoal sampling and found that it was 5, 385 years old.