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.

Sowell was drafted in 1951, during the Korean War, and was assigned to the United States Marine Corps.

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.

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

Sowell et al., reported that the first 6 decades of an individual's life were correlated with the most rapid decreases in grey matter density, and this occurred over dorsal, frontal, and parietal lobes on both interhemispheric and lateral brain surfaces.

But Pennington led the Jets back, completing 8 of 9 passes for 51 yards on an 81-yard drive that took 7 minutes off the clock and ended with his 1-yard touchdown pass to Jerald Sowell, tying the game with 22 seconds left in the first half.

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.

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.

Thomas Sowell ( born June 30, 1930 ) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author.

In Affirmative Action Around the World Sowell holds that affirmative action covers most of the American population, particularly women, and has long since ceased to be directed towards blacks.

Sarah Palin recommended it to her Twitter followers, prompting the President of People for the American Way, Michael B. Keegan, to ask whether Palin " agree with Sowell that President Obama's work to hold BP accountable for the worst oil spill in American history can be compared to the actions of Hitler?

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* Thomas Sowell, American economist, political commentator, and author

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Michael Sowell Copon ( born November 13, 1982 ) is an American actor, model, producer, and singer.

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

In another departure from economics, Sowell wrote The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late, a follow-up to his Late-Talking Children.

Themes of Sowell ’ s writing range from social policy on race, ethnic groups, education and decision-making, to classical and Marxist economics, to the problems of children perceived as having disabilities.

According to Sowell, Nader also did not pay much attention to the fact that motor vehicle death rates per million passenger miles fell over the years from 17. 9 in 1925 to 5. 5 in 1965.

Sowell repeatedly dismisses the necessity that order comes from design, and notes that fallacious animistic arguments tend to provide explanations that require comparatively little time to implement.