The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

In the late 6th century, the city re-emerged as the seat of a county and an archdiocese within the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks, but royal Frankish power was never strong.

Boone is the county seat of Watauga County and the home of Appalachian State University.

This quake destroyed the county seat of Alameda County then located in San Leandro and it subsequently moved to Oakland.

John C. Hammond and Henry P. Field, both Amherst graduates, introduced Coolidge to the law practice in the county seat of Hampshire County.

It is also the county seat of Merrimack County.

In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.

Cadillac () is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County.

Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called " Battle of Manton ," in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.

Cadillac partisans, however, won the county seat by county-wide vote in April 1882.

The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the location of the University of Missouri.

Columbus () is a city in and the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

** Cortez, Colorado, a city and county seat of Montezuma County

Prior to 1969, Carson City was also the county seat of Ormsby County.

Dayton () is the 6th largest city in the U. S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Montgomery County.

Dedham () is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

It became the county seat of Norfolk County.

Above the tree are the scales of justice, representing Dedham as the county seat and home to Norfolk County's courts.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.

The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.

A baby was burned to death and two other children were seriously injured last night in a fire which damaged their one-room Anne Arundel county home.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

He was among the richest men in the county.

The highest temperature ever recorded was 109 ° F ( 43 ° C ) in Talladega county in 1902.

Johnson was critical of the Tennessee common school system and suggested funding be increased via taxes, either statewide or county by county – a mixture of the two was passed.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

The county of Toulouse, since them, was joined to the Alphonse's appanage.

He was then taken to Europe and his brother Bertrand gave him the county of Rouergue.

In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

Bornholm was one of the three last Danish municipalities not belonging to a county — the others being Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

Administrative borders have been altered to allocate various towns ( e. g. Bray ) exclusively into one county having been originally split between two counties.

The text of the Constitution of Ireland, as originally enacted in 1937, made reference in its controversial Articles 2 and 3 to two geopolitical entities: a thirty-two county ' national territory ' ( i. e., the island of Ireland ), and a twenty-six county ' state ' formerly known as the Irish Free State.

The name of the county comes from the city of Derry, which originally in Irish was known as Doire meaning oak.

Donegal music has also influenced people not originally from the county including folk and pop singer Paul Brady.

Much of the county was originally part of Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory before Nevada became a state.

Southwark was also the location of several prisons, including those of the Crown or ' Prerogative Courts ', the Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons, that of the local manors courts e. g. Borough Compter, The Clink, and the Surrey county gaol originally housed at the ' White Lion Inn ' ( also called informally the ' Borough Gaol ') and eventually at Horsemonger Lane Gaol.

Gelderland is geographically divided into three regions: the Veluwe in the north, the Betuwe in the southwest and the Achterhoek ( literally meaning the " back corner ") or Graafschap ( which originally means earldom or county ) in the east.

Though originally a poor county, later heirs to the throne were diplomatically skilled, and gained control over strategic mountain passes in the Alps.

It was originally intended to be named Everglades County, but then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to be named after Broward.

The county was originally named for Dr. E. L. Pease of Uinta County.

Hingham and Hull were originally part of the Norfolk County legislation but petitioned to remain in Suffolk county and in June 1793 their removal to Norfolk county was repealed.

It was originally named for John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts and famous signer of the American Declaration of Independence, with its county seat at Houston.

The county seat was originally known as the Town of Marengo, but in 1823 the name was changed to Linden.

The title of Earl of Pembroke has been held successively by several English families, the jurisdiction and dignity being originally attached to the county palatine of Pembrokeshire.

The county seat has changed several times: Girard ( 1833 – 1839 ), Crawford originally Crockettsville ( 1839 – 1868 ), Seale ( 1868 – 1935 ) and Phenix City ( 1935 – present ).

It was originally created as an administrative county council on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe.

A county prison was originally built in 1737.

The county territory was originally defined as being west of latitude 113 ° 20 ' and north of the Bill Williams River.

Kent county was originally apportioned into six Hundreds: Duck Creek, Little Creek, Dover, Murderkill, Milford and Mispillion.

America's oldest intact county court records can be found at Eastville, Virginia, in Northampton ( originally Accomac ) County, dating to 1632.

The county originally extended all the way north to the shores of Lake Erie and became the " mother county " for most of what is now northwestern Pennsylvania.