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Wilmot Wood Brookings ( October 23, 1830 – 1905 ) was an American pioneer, frontier judge, and early South Dakota politician.
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The county was founded July 3, 1871, and was named after Wilmot Wood Brookings ( 1830-1905 ), a politician and pioneer of southeastern South Dakota.
Both county and the city were named after one of South Dakota's pioneer promoters, Wilmot Wood Brookings ( 1830-1905 ).
The Wilmot family name still appears in the names of local businesses, including the Wilmot Arms Public House at the junction of Morley Road, Chaddesden Lane and Wood Road.
Wilmot and Brookings
Wilmot W. Brookings made settlement of this area a real possibility for many people.
* Wilmot Brookings an American pioneer, frontier judge, and early South Dakota politician
Judge Wilmot W. Brookings
He was the first provisional governor of Dakota Territory, and both the cities of Wilmot and Brookings as well as the county of Brookings South Dakota are named for him.
Wilmot and October
Wilmot N. Hess ( October 16, 1926 – April 16, 2004 ) was an American physicist.
Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. ( born October 8, 1960 ) is an entrepreneur and education philanthropist.
In 1903 Jensen was elected as the member for George Town in the Tasmanian House of Assembly as an independent and was re-elected as a Labor candidate for George Town in 1906 and Wilmot 1909 and was Chief Secretary in a Labor government for eight days in October 1909.
Robert Duncan Wilmot, ( 16 October 1809 – 13 February 1891 ) was a Canadian politician and a Father of Confederation.
Lieutenant-General Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester ( 26 October 1612 – 19 February 1658 ), known as The Lord Wilmot between 1643 and 1644 and as The Viscount Wilmot between 1644 and 1652, was an English Cavalier who fought for the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms .< ref >
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* 2004 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer ( b. 1943 )
* 1943 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer ( d. 2004 )
* 1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
* 1954 – Chester Wilmot, American war correspondent ( b. 1911 )
* June 1 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer ( d. 2004 )
* July 26 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet ( b. 1647 )
* July 13 – First English Civil War – Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
* April 1 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet ( d. 1680 )
Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the Proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846 as a rider on a $ 2, 000, 000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican – American War.
An animation showing the free / slave status of U. S. states and territories, 1789 – 1861, including the proposed Wilmot Proviso.
A motion to insert into the treaty the Wilmot Proviso banning slavery failed 15 – 38 on sectional lines.
* Rufus Wilmot Griswold ( 1815 – 1857 ), literary critic
There reportedly was one child, Olivia Wilmot ( 1772 – 1834 ) from this relationship, though the duke's paternity was never proven, and Olivia Wilmot was accused of forging the evidence.
A landscape painter and novelist, Olivia Wilmot married John Thomas Serres, 1759 – 1825, and later, controversially, assumed the style of Princess Olivia of Cumberland.
Dr. Wilmot Whitfield ( 1899 – 1901 )∗
In the 17th century, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ( 1647 – 80 ) was notorious for obscene verses, many of which were published posthumously in compendiums of poetry by him and other Restoration rakes such as Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and George Etherege.
* Edward Wilmot Blyden – ambassador, an Igbo in Diaspora, is credited in some history books as having laid the foundation of West African nationalism and Pan-Africanism
* Wilmot Vaughan, 4th Viscount Lisburne ( 1730 – 1800 ) ( created Earl of Lisburne in 1776 )
* Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne ( 1730 – 1800 )
* Wilmot Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Lisburne ( 1755 – 1820 )
** John Wilmot Courtenay Vaughan ( 1799 – 1818 )
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" " Ludwig " was soon identified as Rufus Wilmot Griswold, an editor, critic and anthologist who had borne a grudge against Poe since 1842.
Another master of 17th-century English satirical poetry was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.
However many Whig voters in the North thought that slavery was incompatible with a free-labor, free-market economy and supported the Wilmot Proviso that did not pass Congress but would have stopped the expansion of slavery.
The Wilmot Proviso was seen as a stumbling block for Presidential candidates, such as Zachary Taylor | Taylor
Wilmot had a strong record of supporting the Polk administration and was close to many Southerners.
With the likelihood that Wilmot would have no trouble gaining the floor in the House debate, he was chosen to present the amendment to the appropriations bill that would carry his name.
Preston King reintroduced the Wilmot Proviso, but this time the exclusion of slavery was expanded beyond merely the Mexican territory to include " any territory on the continent of America which shall hereafter be acquired ".
Douglas, now in the Senate, was among those who joined with the South to defeat an effort to attach the Wilmot Proviso to the treaty.
While the original southern response to the Wilmot Proviso was measured, it soon became clear to the South that this long postponed attack on slavery had finally occurred.
Rather than simply the politics of the issue, historian William Freehling noted, " Most Southerners raged primarily because David Wilmot ’ s holier-than-thou stance was so insulting.
Following a financial crisis in 1980, new management was brought into ICL ( Christopher Laidlaw as chairman, and Robb Wilmot as managing director ).
The land comprising Bridgewater was originally part of a town known as New Chester, which was separated into Bridgewater, Bristol, Hill, Danbury, and Wilmot.
In 1807, the northern half of New London was annexed, merged with an area called " Kearsarge Gore ", and then incorporated as the town of Wilmot, New Hampshire.
Dr. Wilmot was rector at Barton-on-Heath in Warwickshire, England.
Chester Wilmot agreed with this, claiming that the salient was of immense tactical value for the purpose of driving the Germans from the area south of the Maas and removing the threat of an immediate counterattack against Antwerp.
A frequently repeated anecdote holds that the 17-year-old Barry at first performed so unskillfully that she was fired from the company several times, but was transformed into a brilliant actress by the coaching of her lover, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.
The military historian Chester Wilmot wrote soon after the war: " The truth was that Rundstedt had lost his grip.
" There has been some doubt raised as to whether Rundstedt actually said this, but Wilmot says the incident was recounted to him and Liddell-Hart by Blumentritt, who was present.
The alleyway beside the pub was the scene of an attack on John Dryden in 1679 by thugs hired by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, with whom he had a long-standing conflict.
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