In 1831, land was granted to Umphries Branch by the Mexican government and settled by the Branch and John Newton Sowell Sr. families in 1833, in the western part of Green DeWitt's colony.

Sowell was a farmer, and in 1833 he and his brothers became the first American immigrants to raise corn in future Guadalupe County.

A separate establishment was accordingly assigned to him, with Lieutenant Sowell, R. E., as governor.

Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York.

Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina.

When Sowell was nine, his family moved from Charlotte, North Carolina to Harlem, New York City.

In his testimony, Sowell said that Bork was " the most highly qualified nominee of this generation " and that judicial activism, a concept that Bork opposed, " has not been beneficial to minorities.

Sowell has stated that he was a Marxist “ during the decade of my 20s "; one of his earliest professional publications was a sympathetic examination of Marxist thought vs. Marxist-Leninist practice.

In November 2011, a column fiercely critical of " Obama's America " and falsely attributed to Sowell was circulated on the Internet.

In 2002, Sowell was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science.

" Sowell described the role of uninformed citizens (" useful idiots ") in the rise of Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, arguing that the U. S. was on a " slippery slope to tyranny " because citizens weren't thinking about the issues.

Patricia Roberts Harris, who was an official in the Carter Administration, once said that Sowell and Walter E. Williams " don't know what poverty is.

" Sowell called her position " a pathetic sign of intellectual bankruptcy ," saying that he " was almost 9 years old before lived in a home with running water " and that she " was a campus social leader in an ' exclusive sorority ' - meaning that it was for middle-class ( light-skinned ) women " while he worked full time and went to same college at night.

In his book On Classical Economics, Thomas Sowell devotes a chapter to Sismondi, arguing that he was a neglected pioneer.

Thomas Sowell argued in The Vision of the Anointed ( 1995 ) that Nader was ignorant and dismissive of the trade-off between safety and affordability.

Sowell replied that Stockman " was not even among the first thousand people to make that claim " but that " not one of those who made the claim could provide a single quote from anybody who had advocated a ' trickle-down theory.

Ernie and Rose Cumberbatch were blue collar, working class Democrats, while their son Goodie was an assertive conservative activist in the vein of Armstrong Williams, Walter Williams, or Thomas Sowell.

Wayne Sowell was the Democratic candidate for Alabama in the United States Senate election of 2004.

Sowell was the first African American candidate from a major party in Alabama to be nominated for one of its United States Senate seats.

Mary Harper Sowell ( 1924-2005 ), was an Arkansas poet who deeply loved the Ozark Mountains and the people who lived there.

In 1987, Sowell testified in favor of federal appeals court judge Robert Bork during the hearings for Bork's nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court.

Already known as a critic of affirmative action or race-based hiring and promotion, Sowell, himself African-American, analyzes the specific effects of such policies on India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria, four countries with longer multiethnic histories and then compares them with the recent history of the United States in this regard.

Race and Economics is a book by Thomas Sowell that analyzes the relationship between race and wealth in the United States, specifically, that of blacks.

Sowell cites Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky and Edmund Wilson as paradigmatic examples of this phenomenon.

Some economists and legal scholars ( e. g. Henry Manne, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Daniel Fischel, Frank H. Easterbrook ) argue that laws making insider trading illegal should be revoked.

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American economist, social and political commentator, Dr. Thomas Sowell identified some negative results of race-based affirmative action in his book, Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study.

Sowell writes that affirmative action policies encourage non-preferred groups to designate themselves as members of preferred groups ( i. e., primary beneficiaries of affirmative action ) to take advantage of group preference policies ; that they tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group ( e. g., upper and middle class blacks ), often to the detriment of the least fortunate among the non-preferred groups ( e. g., poor whites or Asians ); that they reduce the incentives of both the preferred and non-preferred to perform at their best – the former because doing so is unnecessary and the latter because it can prove futile – thereby resulting in net losses for society as a whole ; and that they increase animosity toward preferred groups.

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Economist Thomas Sowell argues that the Great Society programs only contributed to the destruction of African American families, saying " the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.

While Rose is not considered in the doctoral institution rankings, Stanford University's Hoover Institute fellow, Thomas Sowell, mentioned Rose – Hulman as one of the best smaller universities to consider, noting that graduate engineering deans have ranked its graduates ahead of many top schools with PhD programs, such as Duke, Princeton, UCLA, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Among the distinguished faculty, present and past, are composers David Rakowski and Leonard Bernstein, social theorist Herbert Marcuse, psychologist Abraham Maslow, human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt, Anita Hill, historian David Hackett Fischer, economist Thomas Sowell, diplomat Dennis Ross, children's author Margret Rey, sociologist Morrie Schwartz, and poet Adrienne Rich.

Members of the Township Council are President John Sowell ( West Ward ; 2012 ), First Vice President Quinzell R. McKenzie ( East Ward ; 2012 ), Second Vice President D. Bilal Beasley ( At-Large ; 2014 ), Lebby C. Jones ( At-Large ; 2014 ), Sandra R. Jones ( South Ward ; 2012 ), David Lyons ( North Ward ; 2012 ) and Andrea C. McElroy ( At-Large ; 2014 ).

Coffman Middle School, Ingram Sowell Elementary School, David Crockett Elementary School, and Lawrenceburg Public Elementary School.

The honorable Mrs. Gayle Sowell served as Mayor of Anderson from 2004 until present.

In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

When he was drafted into the army in 1894, his gift for turning notions upside down defeated attempts to instill military discipline.

On April 26, Matt Ryan ( quarterback from Boston College ) was drafted third overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Falcons.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

A charter with extended privileges was drafted in 1657, but appears never to have been enrolled or to have come into effect.

He escaped being drafted into one of the armies by feigning madness, insisting that a fly was on his head.

The first attempt at legislation was drafted by the President of the Board of Control, Lord Ellenborough, who had previously served as Governor-General of India ( 1841 – 44 ).

As a reward, Federko was drafted 7th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft.

In his posthumously published 1981 book The Anglo-American Establishment, Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley explained that the Balfour Declaration was actually drafted by Lord Alfred Milner.

The Constitution of Medina (, Ṣaḥīfat al-Madīna ), also known as the Charter of Medina, was drafted by the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

The Universal Copyright Convention was drafted in 1952 as another less demanding alternative to the Berne Convention, and ratified by nations such as the Soviet Union and developing nations.

" With more than 2, 000 dead, the 44-day Costa Rican Civil War resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in twentieth-century Costa Rican history ", but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military.

One of its leaders, Joaquín Infante, drafted Cuba's first constitution, declaring the island a sovereign state, presuming the rule of the countries ' wealthy, maintaining slavery as long as it was necessary for agriculture, establishing a social classification based on skin colour and declaring Catholicism the official religion.

Carson Palmer, the future star quarterback, was drafted in 2003, but did not play a snap that whole season, as Jon Kitna had a comeback year ( voted NFL Comeback Player of the Year ).

The Advisory Committee that drafted the new Rule 23 in the mid-1960s was influenced by two major developments.

Although he was against the Vietnam War, Venter was drafted and enlisted in the United States Navy where he worked in the intensive-care ward of a field hospital.

During a Council of Australian Governments meeting of 2007, model legislation to rework double jeopardy laws was drafted, but there was no formal agreement for each state to introduce it.

Midway through his college studies at Oregon State University ( then called Oregon State College ), near the end of World War II, he was drafted into the US Navy, serving two years as a radar technician in the Philippines.

After graduating in 1942, Brubeck was drafted into the army and served overseas in George Patton's Third Army.

By the next Broadway season, he was the star of his own show about a young man who is drafted called Let's Face It !.