As a House freshman, Reed was appointed to the Potter Commission, which was to investigate voting irregularities in the presidential election of 1876, where his skill at cross examination forced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden to personally appear to defend his reputation.

Stanley's graffiti at Persepolis, IranIn 1867, Stanley was recruited by Colonel Samuel Forster Tappan ( a one-time journalist ) of the Indian Peace Commission, to serve as a correspondent to cover the work of the Commission for several newspapers.

Increasing social unrest led to investigations into corruption within his administration, and he was eventually forced to testify before the investigative committee of Judge Samuel Seabury, the Seabury Commission.

With income failing to match expenditure, the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission could not be repaid, so they took over the navigation in 1842, and sold it to the railway contractor Sir Samuel Morton Peto.

Bradley is best remembered as being the 15th and final member of the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.

Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.

In August 2008, before a Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) in Monrovia, former Justice Minister under Samuel Doe, Cllr.

Sumner was a friend of Samuel Gridley Howe and a guiding force for the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, started in 1863.

The Commission consisted of Alfred B. Meacham, the former superintendent for Oregon as chairman ; Jesse Applegate, and Samuel Case.

* 1966-1967 Samuel H. Howard ; Senior Vice President, Financial Executives Institute ; Chairman, Federation of American Hospitals ; Member of Bipartisan Commission on Medicare under President Bill Clinton ; Member of Commission on Social Security under President Ronald Reagan ; former National Chairman, Easter Seals

" In the aftermath of the presidential election of 1876, he refused to sit on the Electoral Commission that decided the electoral votes of Florida because of his close friendship of GOP presidential nominee Rutherford B. Hayes and his classmateship with the Democratic presidential nominee Samuel J. Tilden with whom Waite studied at Yale College.

High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel established an investigative commission headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Palestine, Sir Thomas Haycraft ( see Haycraft Commission of Inquiry ).

Dr. Samuel H. Nafzger, who is also Executive Director of the LCMS ' Commission on Theology and Church Relations.

James Samuel Younger CBE is the Chief Executive of the Charity Commission for England and Wales ( since September 2010 ) and was formerly the founding chairman of the United Kingdom Electoral Commission.

Payne served on the 1876 Electoral Commission on the disputed presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden.

Bradley is best remembered as being the 15th and final member of the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.

Samuel Kivuitu Samuel Kivuitu ( born 1939 ) was head of the now defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya.

Hamilton, General Secretary, The Church of Scotland ; Samuel Mathai, former Secretary, University Grants Commission and Professor G. M.

On May 31, 2001, agents from the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS, US Postal Inspectors, and Pennsylvania State Police executed search warrants at the homes of D ' Elia, his mistress Jeanie Stanton, Thomas Joseph, and former Pennsylvania Crime Commission informant Samuel " Cooch " Marranca, seizing records in an ongoing investigation.

Samuel " Cooch " Marranca also aided the Crime Commission in its investigation of Bufalino family member Joseph " Detroit " Sciandra and his involvement in the distribution of counterfiet designer clothing and sports wagering.

* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

The readings of the Vatican manuscript were given with more exactness and certainty than had been possible in the earlier editions, and the editor had also the advantage of using the published labours of his colleague and friend Samuel Prideaux Tregelles.

The idea of non-biological self-replicating systems was introduced in Samuel Butler's article " Darwin Among the Machines " published only a few years after The Origin of Species.

While the transcription of the Chinese words used by Ricci was not very consistent, he systematically used Latin p and t for unaspirated Chinese sounds that Pinyin renders as b and d. Accordingly, Ricci called the adherents of Laozi, Tausu (, Pinyin: Daoshi ), which was rendered as Tausa in an early English translation published by Samuel Purchas ( 1625 ).

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872.

For example, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, included the word.

An English translation by Samuel Laing was finally published in 1844, with a second edition in 1889.

Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour ; on the other hand, Noah Webster's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spellings like center and the Latinate color.

In 1938 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg ) a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in " Stalin's secret service.

Kubla Khan () is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816.

In the 1930s, in addition to further major works by Faulkner, Samuel Beckett's published his first major work, the novel Murphy ( 1938 ).

In June 1957, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons by Samuel Glasstone was published containing a section entitled " Nuclear Bombs and the Weather " ( pages 69 – 71 ), which states: " The dust raised in severe volcanic eruptions, such as that at Krakatoa in 1883, is known to cause a noticeable reduction in the sunlight reaching the earth ...

Conversely, in 1774, Samuel Johnson published The Patriot, a critique of what he viewed as false patriotism.

Adorno's posthumously published Aesthetic Theory, which he planned on dedicating to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to modern art which attempts to revoke the " fatal separation " of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and explode the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

A derivative, Daoshi (, " Daoist priest "), was used already by the Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault in their De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, rendered as Tausu in the original Latin edition ( 1615 ), and Tausa in an early English translation published by Samuel Purchas ( 1625 ).

In a study published in 1988, John S. Michael reported that Samuel G. Morton ’ s original 19th-century data were more accurate than Gould had described ; that " contrary to Gould's interpretation.

It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.

In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis published " The Right to Privacy ", considered the most influential of all law review articles, as a critical response to sensational forms of journalism, which they saw as an unprecedented threat to individual privacy.

* April 15 – A Dictionary of the English Language is published by Samuel Johnson ( he had begun the work 9 years earlier, in 1746 ).

* September 18 – Lyrical Ballads is published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, inaugurating the English Romantic movement in literature.

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Kubla Khan ( published 1816 )

When the edition of the acts of the colloquy, as prepared by Jakob Andrea, was published, Samuel Huber, of Burg near Bern, who belonged to the Lutheranizing faction of the Swiss clergy, took so great offense at the supralapsarian doctrine of predestination propounded at Mömpelgard by Beza and Musculus that he felt it to be his duty to denounce Musculus to the magistrates of Bern as an innovator in doctrine.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797 – 98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.