On May 1, 1839, a group of eighteen men from Peoria, Illinois set out with the intention of colonizing the Oregon country on behalf of the United States of America and drive out the Hudson's Bay Company operating there.

In 1890, the two men from Peoria, Illinois, acquired four sections of land from the government through the Desert Lands Act.

In February 1872, Peoria police raided the brothel, arresting four women and three men: Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, and George Randall.

The following men began their service as priests in Peoria before being appointed bishops elsewhere:

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

As second in command of the SS and then Reichsführer-SS, Himmler was in regular contact with Hitler to arrange for SS men as bodyguards ; Himmler was not involved with Nazi Party policy-making decisions in the years leading up to the seizure of power.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

According to Nicolaevsky, Bukharin spoke of " the mass annihilation of completely defenseless men, with women and children " under forced collectivization and liquidation of kulaks as a class that dehumanized the Party members with " the profound psychological change in those communists who took part in the campaign.

The Akmana Gold Prospecting Field Party made contact with many peoples they called: grass country people, head hunters, pygmies, wig – men, Kanakas, Poomani.

One of his best men was former Prime Minister and leader of the Italian Socialist Party Bettino Craxi.

Many men and women with background in prostitution and activists for sex workers ' rights, such as Norma Jean Almodovar and Starchild, have run for office on the Libertarian Party ticket or are active members of the party.

The Whig Party's 1852 convention in New York City saw the historic meeting between Alvan E. Bovay and The New York Tribune's Horace Greeley, a meeting which led to correspondence between the men as the early Republican Party meetings in 1854 began to take place.

Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazi Party and were ultimately among Holocaust victims.

" He organized the founding committee of the Free Officers, which eventually comprised fourteen men from different social and political backgrounds, with some being members of Young Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Communist Party, as well as the aristocracy.

In 1922, the Nazi Party created a youth section, the Jugendbund, for young men between the ages of 14 and 18 years.

The Democratic Party, proclaiming itself the party of white men, north and south, supported Johnson.

Clark Sr. went to the college and became its second black graduate five years later, despite being 58 years old, saying that he wanted to serve “ as an example to young men of his own race .” Clark rose to prominence in the Republican Party, serving as a delegate to state and national conventions.

In 1893, the annual Temple Stag Party began, growing out of a private Thanksgiving celebration attended by the town's leading men.

After signing a petition for Progressive Party presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace, Hay spoke with other gay men at a party about forming a gay support organization for him called " Bachelors for Wallace ".

After 1888, there was a strong dislike between the two men, and the separation split the Ohio Republican Party into two factions, a rupture that did not heal until after Hanna's death in 1904.

He began his political career in the Conservative Party, but was among a group of young men who founded their own party in 1938: the Falange Nacional.

The society contained a remarkable group of men who afterwards became eminent in different ways: for example, developer of classical electromagnetic theory James Clerk Maxwell and Liberal Party leader Sir William Harcourt.

Uday Hussein formed the Fedayeen Saddam in 1995 with ten to fifteen thousand recruits, typically young Sunni men living in central Iraq, the regions most loyal to the Ba ' ath Party.

Following the split of a faction opposed to the growing ( some would say ruthless ) ambitions of Republican leader Bautista Saavedra, the ascetic, professorial Salamanca founded, with a number of other men including Juan Maria Escalier, the so-called Genuine Republican Party ( Partido Republicano Genuino ).

The preparations were nearly complete, with several thousand men prepared to go, when in May 1854 the administration reversed course and undertook steps to stop what it had almost put into motion, presumably because it felt that in the wake of the furor over the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that action to add slaveholding territory such as Cuba would cause irreparable damage to the Democratic Party in the North.

Many who sought the election of working men and their advocates to the Parliament of the United Kingdom saw the Liberal Party as the main vehicle for achieving this aim.

In 1966, three men ran for the U. S. House using the Peace and Freedom Party label.

After World War I many Prussian agriculturists gathered in the national conservative German National People's Party ( DNVP ), the term was also applied to Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, lord at Neudeck in West Prussia, and to the " camarilla " around him urging the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor, personified by men like Hindenburg's son Oskar and his West Prussian " neighbour " Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, who played a vital role in the Eastern Aid ( Osthilfe ) scandal of 1932 / 33.

The men in Pettigrew's were tired from a night's drinking, their faces red and baggy.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

Two men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

They were all good men.

All through Albany and Laramie counties, other men were doing the same.

The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

The men behind them were Bill Doolin and five of his gang -- every man a killer.

Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.

Strong men with strong opinions, frank to the point of being refreshingly indiscreet, the Founding Seven were essentially congenial minds, and their agreements with each other were more consequential than their differences.

others were of men doffing their hats to each other, carrying umbrellas with pomp, reading newspapers, or simply showing loaves of bread spread out.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;