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In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".
Fox wrote a letter to the governor and assembly of the island in which he refuted charges that Quakers were stirring up the slaves to revolt and tried to affirm the orthodoxy of Quaker beliefs.
Isaac I. Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory, wrote about Mount Baker in 1853:
In addition, in 1758 the governor of South Carolina James Glen wrote: it has always been the policy of this government to create an aversion in them Indians to Negroes.
When he wrote to the people of Ancona in 1376, inciting them, in the name of their freedom, to revolt against the governor imposed by the pope, he called to mind the evils Italy had suffered on behalf of the French.
Dick Lamm, former three-term Democratic governor of the US state of Colorado, wrote in his essay " I have a plan to destroy America ":
The governor, Sir Philip Game, wrote to Lang, warning him that ministers were breaking the law, and warning that if they continued, he would have to obtain ministers who could carry on government within legal bounds.
From his sick bed Brand Whitlock, the U. S. minister to Belgium, wrote a personal note on Cavell's behalf to Moritz von Bissing, the governor general of Belgium.
Cortland County is a county located in the U. S. state of New York, named after Pierre Van Cortlandt, president of the convention at Kingston that wrote the first New York State Constitution in 1777, and first lieutenant governor of the state.
" As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the man he appointed as governor of Mississippi, recommending, " If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at at least two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary in Congress, and set an example the other states will follow.
Justice Hamilton R. Gamble, a future governor of the state, sharply disagreed with the majority decision and wrote a dissenting opinion.
Bexley has been the home of many prominent citizens, including the former governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, U. S. Senator George Voinovich, Bob Greene -- the former Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Your School, children's author R. L. Stine, cartoonist Paul Palnik, and Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner.
The governor of Ohio wrote to the new Republican President Abraham Lincoln urging him to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law.
Al-Baladhuri wrote that Yazdegerd III in his way to Marv from Isfahan Province to Kerman to Sistan arrived in Khorasan Province city of Gonabad and the envoy of the governor of Merv came to Gonabd to welcome the king.
As the biographer wrote, " Verus obeyed Marcus ... as a lieutenant obeys a proconsul or a governor obeys the emperor.
The earliest use of the Maypole in America occurred in 1628, where William Bradford, governor of New Plymouth, wrote of an incident where a number of servants, together with the aid of an agent, broke free from their indentured service to create their own colony, setting up a maypole in the center of the settlement, and behaving in such a way as to receive the scorn and disapproval of the nearby colonies, as well as an official officer of the king, bearing patent for the state of Massachusetts.
An extraordinary commission was appointed: Vergniaud wrote and read its recommendations that a National Convention be formed, the king be provisionally suspended from office, a governor appointed for his son, and the royal family be consigned to the Palais Luxembourg.
In 1569 the graduate Sancho Busto de Villegas, a member of the Supreme Council of the Inquisition and governor of the Archbishopric of Toledo ( afterwards Bishop of Avila ) wrote, based on the trial documents, which were stored in the Valladolid court archives, Relación autorizada del martirio del Santo Inocente ( Authorized Account of the Martyrdom of Saint Innocent ), which was deposited in the municipal archives of La Guardia town hall.
" On the same day, without the knowledge of this letter, Hopkins wrote to Ward inviting him to accept the position of deputy governor, which had just been vacated by the death of John Gardner.
P. C. Alexander, a former governor of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, once wrote:
" At the time Seneca wrote his Letters ( c. 65 AD ), Lucilius was the procurator ( and possibly governor ) of Sicily.
According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.
With this in mind, Kentucky historian Thomas D. Clark wrote in 2004 that extensive executive powers had been granted through the creation of a large number of commissions that reported to the governor:
Modell wrote a letter to Cleveland's mayor Michael R. White and Ohio's governor George Voinovich saying that the passing of the referendum may not be enough to keep the Browns.

governor and Miss
The Turkey Trot festival also includes a Miss Turkey Trot Pageant, a Miss Drumsticks Competition ( best legs ), dinners, musical entertainment, a 5 kilometer run, a parade ( which has included former Arkansas governor and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ), and a nationally recognized turkey calling contest sponsored by the National Wild Turkey Federation.
She was Montana's first female governor. She is a member of the Republican Party, former Olympic skater ( the 1964 speed skating team ), former Miss Rodeo Montana, and owner and operator, with her husband, Harry, of a garbage disposal service in her hometown of Butte, Montana.
A surgeon at 22, he set up in practice in Regent Street, and married ( 1820 ) Miss Goodchild, whose father was a merchant and a governor of St Thomas ' Hospital.
Ultimately, Perez withdrew his backing for " Miss Grace " and threw his primary support to James M. McLemore, the Alexandria auction-barn owner who ran for governor on a strictly segregationist platform.

governor and Grant
In 1872, Grant was the first American President to legally recognize an African American, P. B. S. Pinchback, governor of Louisiana.
The next significant event was the Mexican Land Grant through which on September 28, 1835 Governor Albino Pérez, the governor of the New Mexico Territory, gave land title for over 800, 000 acres ( 3, 200 km² ) to some 25 families.
President Grant appointed Alexander Robey Shepherd to the position of governor in 1873.
With reservations, he places the call and asks the governor to do so as Grant is being prepared for execution.
Despite this, when the two rival companies merged in 1821 under the name the Hudson's Bay Company, the new governor, Sir George Simpson, requested Grant to head a Métis settlement of some 2, 000 people situated some 16 miles west of the Red River Colony on the Assiniboine River.
Grant Duff, the governor of Madras who developed the beach promenade, recalls in his memoirs:
The apportionment of lands in the new colonies fell to the same group of English and Scottish entrepreneurs and merchant interests, led chiefly by the Englishman Richard Oswald, later a diplomat, and the British General James Grant, who would later become governor of East Florida.
Wise was also the first governor to propose full funding for the Higher Education Grant Program.
During this time, he was an adviser to the Grant Maintained Schools Foundation ( 1993 – 96 ), as well as governor of St Marylebone School ( 1992 – 94 ) and Pimlico School ( 1994 – 96 ).
* James Benton Grant ( 1848 – 1911 ), U. S. governor of Colorado
In the wake of a contested election for governor of Louisiana and local offices, an armed group of whites, armed with rifles and a small cannon, overpowered freedmen and state militia ( also black ) trying to control the Grant Parish courthouse in Colfax.
Grant's forebears through Treat's line include Robert Treat a colonial governor of New Jersey, Robert Treat Paine ( a signer of the Declaration of Independence ), Charles Grant ( Madison Grant's grandfather who served as an officer in the War of 1812 ) and Gabriel Grant ( father of Madison ), a prominent physician and the health commissioner of Newark.
President Grant and Williams legally recognized P. B. S. Pinchback as the first African American state governor.
On December 14, Attorney General Williams informed Warmoth that President Grant recognized Kellogg as the rightful elected governor of Louisiana.
Commentators have reflected on Sawyer's career as follows: Grant Sawyer served two turbulent terms as Nevada's governor from 1959 to 1966.
The following buildings are named for the former governor: The Grant Sawyer Building, a state office building, located at 555 East Washington Avenue, Las Vegas ; Grant Sawyer Middle School, located at 5450 Redwood Street, Las Vegas.
* Alexander Grant Dallas ( 1816 – 1882 ), British governor of Rupert's Land and Hudson's Bay Company administrator
Just as he thinks the governor is calling, the switch is thrown and Grant drops.
On March 4, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Salomon governor of Washington Territory.
In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed the board's most influential member, Alexander Robey Shepherd, to the new post of governor.
They turned Republican governor William Pitt Kellogg out of office, and retreated only in the face of the arrival of Federal troops sent by President Ulysses S. Grant.
In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed the board's most influential member, Alexander Robey Shepherd, to the new post of governor.

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