Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, but Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons.

Thomas Francis Bayard ( October 29, 1828 – September 28, 1898 ) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware.

Thomas Bayard was the fourth generation of the family to serve in the U. S. Senate.

As determined Peace Democrats, Thomas Bayard and his father were very much opposed to the Lincoln policy of coercion to prevent the secession of the Southern states, although they seemed equally in favor of remaining in the Union.

U. S. Senator Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. was his son.

There is a Thomas F. Bayard Elementary School in Wilmington and a statue on Kentmere Parkway in Brandywine Park, also in Wilmington.

Bayard was incorporated in 1893 and named in honor of Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., who later became a United States Senator from Delaware ( 1923 – 1929 ).

There, they also hosted receptions on Sunday evenings which drew notable figures including P. T. Barnum, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and his wife, Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard, Robert Dale Owen, Oliver Johnson, Mary E. Dodge, Mrs. Croly, Mrs. Victor, Edwin H. Chapin, Henry M. Field, Charles F. Deems, Samuel Bowles, Thomas B. Aldrich, Anna E. Dickinson, George Ripley, Madame Le Vert, Henry Wilson, Justin McCarthy ; in short, all the noted contemporary names in the different departments of literature and art might fairly be added to the list.

As such he received the strong backing of James A. Bayard, who managed to see that the elder McLane was able to keep his lucrative position in spite of the accession of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency in 1801.

This included McLane ’ s mentor, James A. Bayard and various members of the Clayton family, especially Thomas Clayton and his cousin, John M. Clayton.

In attendance were U. S. President Chester A. Arthur and Delaware senator Thomas F. Bayard.

With the vote tied in the Electoral College, it was a group of Federalists led by Bayard who broke the deadlock by agreeing to allow the election of Thomas Jefferson by the House of Representatives.

Bayard was the father of two U. S. Senators, Richard H. Bayard and James A. Bayard, Jr., grandfather of another, Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. and great grandfather of another, Thomas F. Bayard, Jr ..

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Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.

This system was dependent upon identical maps and Thomas supplied them from a mobile lithograph press.

Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The fifteenth name was ( Thomas ) Baldwin, admitted to Christ's 4 March 1625 under Alsop.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

The control sample was selected by taking the bottom name of each of the two columns of names on each page of the alphabetical listing of manufacturers in the Thomas Register.

The medieval was the most important to Chambers because he sought to place Thomas More, the author of Utopia, in some intelligible relation with St. Thomas More, the martyr.

The fourth and last speaker was Thomas Davis.

The First Christian Church of Pampa was the setting for the wedding last Sunday of Miss Marcile Marie Glison and Thomas Earl Loving Jr., who will live at 8861 Gaston after a wedding trip to New Orleans, La.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

Thomas was charged with four counts of assault and battery.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

In the 3rd century Acts of Thomas, Abaddon is the name of a demon, or the Devil himself.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

Monsieur Savary himself gave him a strong grounding in drawing and painting and suggested he draw from nature when he returned to St. Thomas, which he did when he was seventeen.

Although the Christadelphian movement originated through the activities of John Thomas, he never saw himself as setting up his own disciples.

For his part, Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the Founding Fathers with the most outspoken of Deist tendencies, though he is not known to have called himself a deist, generally referring to himself as a Unitarian.

Thomas refused to align himself with them and declined to sign their manifesto.

Ferris in his 1989 biography includes Thomas ' heavy drinking, but is more critical of those around him in his final days and does not draw the conclusion that he drank himself to death.

Although Thomas described himself as the " Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive ", he stated that the phrase " Swansea's Rimbaud " was coined by poet Roy Campbell.

Indeed, it was the thirty years of work done by Thomas Aquinas and himself ( 1245 – 1274 ) that allowed for the inclusion of Aristotelian study in the curriculum of Dominican schools.

Thomas also suggested Sanders make commercials that he appear in himself.

Thomas Fowler ( 1869 ) states the paradox as follows: " Epimenides the Cretan says, ' that all the Cretans are liars ,' but Epimenides is himself a Cretan ; therefore he is himself a liar.

However, Thomas Seymour continued scheming to control the royal family and tried to have himself appointed the governor of the King ’ s person.

Not all of those executed were leaders: Willie Pearse described himself as " a personal attaché to my brother, Patrick Pearse "; John MacBride had not even been aware of the Rising until it began, but had fought against the British in the Boer War fifteen years before ; Thomas Kent did not come out at all — he was executed for the killing of a police officer during the raid on his house the week after the Rising.

For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson ’ s contempt for Jane Austen's works often extended to the author herself, with Emerson describing her as “ without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world .” In turn, Emerson himself was called a “ hoary-headed toothless baboon ” by Thomas Carlyle.

Thomas Wintour begged to be hanged for himself and his brother, so that his brother might be spared.

Possibly written by Thomas Kyd or even William Shakespeare himself, the Ur-Hamlet would have been in performance by 1589 and the first version of the story known to incorporate a ghost.

Thomas was himself a gentleman of His Majesty's Chapel, and arranged for Henry to be admitted as a chorister.

Severn was one of seven children ; two of his brothers, Thomas ( 1801 – 1881 ) and Charles ( 1806 – 1894 ), became professional musicians, and Severn himself was an adroit pianist.

Thomas Netter highly esteemed John Kynyngham in that he " so bravely offered himself to the biting speech of the heretic and to words that stung as being without the religion of Christ ".

Thomas was a missionary who had served in the Congo since 1955, gathering much of the earliest evidence and reports, and claiming to have had two close-encounters himself.

The show was produced by Danny Thomas's company, and Thomas himself recommended her.