Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

Boston's Logan Airport lies across Boston Harbor in East Boston, and before the Big Dig the only access from downtown was through the paired Callahan and Sumner tunnels.

However, in 1926, James B. Sumner showed that the enzyme urease was a pure protein and crystallized it ; Sumner did likewise for the enzyme catalase in 1937.

The term ethnocentrism was coined by William G. Sumner, upon observing the tendency for people to differentiate between the in-group and others.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was appealing to some economists, sociologists and political scientists ( most notably Walter Bagehot and William Graham Sumner ) who adapted and rationalized the invisible hand by incorporating the popular idea of the survival of the fittest.

He was soon transferred to the newly formed 1st Cavalry Regiment ( 1855 ) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, where he became regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col. Edwin V. Sumner.

The year 1997 was a busy time for Voight in which he appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner.

On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest.

Sumner ultimately took the role, as the guitar was an easier instrument to play while singing.

Composed primarily by Sumner and Morris, " Prime 5 8 6 "/" Video 5 8 6 " was an early version of " 5 8 6 " that contained rhythm elements that would later surface on " Blue Monday " and " Ultraviolence ".

According to Sumner, " Get Ready was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we'd left that instrument alone for a long time.

In June 2009, Bernard Sumner formed a new band called Bad Lieutenant with Phil Cunningham ( guitar ) and Jake Evans ( guitar and vocals ), that completed an album, Never Cry Another Tear, which was released on 5 October 2009.

" The central role of proteins as enzymes in living organisms was not fully appreciated until 1926, when James B. Sumner showed that the enzyme urease was in fact a protein.

Edison's patent specified that the audio recording be embossed, and it was not until 1886 that vertically modulated engraved recordings using wax coated cylinders was patented by Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter.

According to Sumner Tainter, it was through Gardiner Green Hubbard that Bell took up the phonograph challenge.

The annexation treaty was defeated by the Senate in 1871 and led to unending political enmity between Sumner and Grant.

Perhaps the most well-remembered teacher was William Graham Sumner, professor from 1872 to 1909.

In 1937 catalase from beef liver was crystallised by James B. Sumner and Alexander Dounce and the molecular weight was worked out in 1938.

The doctrine was also invoked by U. S. Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles in a declaration of July 23, 1940, that announced non-recognition of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of the three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — and remained the official U. S. position until the Baltic states gained formal international recognition as independent states in 1991.

On June 30, 1888, Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, sister of William Graham Sumner.

A bachelor for most of his life, Sumner began courting Alice Mason Hooper, the daughter of Massachusetts Representative Samuel Hooper, in 1866 and the two were married that October.

Interestingly in 1836 Sumner married Greenough ’ s widow, Maria Foster Doane.

In 1926 he married Ethel Marian Sumner ( Maie ) Ryan, with whom he had two children.

A cousin of Sumner Welles married James " Rosy " Roosevelt, Jr., half brother of future President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ).

Sumner Welles married Esther " Hope " Slater of Boston, the sister of a Harvard roommate on April 14, 1915, in Webster, Massachusetts.

Sumner married Cid Ricketts ( born Bertha Louise Ricketts in Brookhaven, Mississippi ) when she attended medical school at Cornell.

She later married Greg Sumner ( for political reasons ) but the marriage lasted only a few months before Abby moved to Japan.

On November 23, 1824, Cushing married Caroline Elizabeth Wilde, daughter of Judge Samuel Sumner Wilde, of the Supreme Judicial Court.

In 1904 he married Margaret F. Sumner and they had a son, Louis Sumner, and a daughter, Mary.

On 4 January 1902 he married Katherine Carter ( née Sumner ), a Tangane woman.

Sumner married on 30 September 1779 to Elizabeth Hyslop, daughter of William Hyslop.

( Chisum's sister Nancy was married to Loving's cousin, B. F. Bourland and had known Chisum for many years ) They spent the winter of 1866-67 there and supplied cattle from the ranch to Fort Sumner and Santa Fe.

During the novel, she gets married ; thus, her name is changed to Lucy Sumner.

His eldest daughter, Louisanna ( 1817 – 1899 ), married the Reverend William Gibson in 1837 and of their eleven children, Arthur Sumner Gibson became a rugby union international for England, playing in the first international in 1871 ; Herbert William Sumner Gibson became a Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy ; Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson became Bishop of Gloucester ; Walter Sumner Gibson became an academic reader at the Oxford University Press from 1914 and his nephew through his wife's youngest brother was the actor Laurence Olivier ; and Alan George Sumner Gibson became the Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town.

He is married to Anne-Marie Cole, a BBC Radio 4 producer, who works for Above the Title Productions and Testbed Productions, and they have three sons named Dominic Sumner, Daniel and Richard.

Chickering married Elizabeth Sumner Harraden November 20, 1823.

Pingree is divorced from Sumner Pingree III, whom she married in 1978.

* Sting ( musician ) ( born 1951 ), professional name of British rock musician Gordon Sumner

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE ( born 2 October 1951 ), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist.

Sting was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the eldest of four children born to Audrey ( née Cowell ), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and engineer.

* Bernard Sumner ( born 1956 ), musician

Blake was born at 319 Forrest Street in Baltimore, Maryland to former slaves John Sumner Blake ( 1838 – 1917 ) and Emily " Emma " Johnstone ( 1861 – 1917 ).

Senator J. William Fulbright was born in Sumner on April 9, 1905.

* Bernard Sumner ( born 1956 ), British musician

* Brian Sumner ( born 1979 ), British skateboarder

* Charlie Sumner ( born 1930 ), American football player and coach

* Gordon Sumner ( born 1951 ), British musician better known as Sting ( musician )

* Jake Sumner ( born 1985 ), British model

* Joe Sumner ( born 1976 ), British musician

* John Sumner ( actor born 1951 ), British actor

* Robert Sumner ( born 1922 ), American evangelist & writer

* Sumner Redstone ( or Sumner Murray Rothstein, born 1923 ), Chairman of Viacom

He was born Lester Franklin Melrose in Sumner, Illinois, United States, the second of six children of Frank and Mollie Melrose who owned a small farm.

When he was the age of 3, in 1959, his parents divorced and he and his brothers were brought up by his maternal grandmother Alicia Acton ( born Chapman ; 1896 – 1968 ) until 1962, when his mother re-married Ernest W. Hook .. Like his band-mate Bernard Sumner, he took his step-father's surname, although in contrast of his friend he kept it, even more, he created his nickname, Hooky, from it.

Bernard Edward Sumner ( born 4 January 1956 ), also known as Bernard Dickin, Bernard Dicken and Bernard Albrecht is an English musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and producer.

Sumner was born on Irving Street in Boston on January 6, 1811.

Notable sports personalities born in Blackburn include: rock climber John Sumner in 1936 ; and England rugby union players Will Greenwood in 1972 and Iain Balshaw in 1979.

Percy Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama as the first child of six born to James Sumner Julian and Elizabeth Lena ( Adams ) Julian.