A note making the request was handed to U.S. Ambassador Winthrop G. Brown.

The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.

The first president ( Henry Dunster ), the first benefactor ( John Harvard ), and the first schoolmaster ( Nathaniel Eaton ) of Harvard were all Cambridge University alumni, as was the then ruling ( and first ) governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop.

In 1629, Winthrop had led the signing of the founding document of the city of Boston, which was known as the Cambridge Agreement, after the university.

Shortly thereafter, Bachiler was excommunicated by the Hampton church on unfounded charges of " scandal ", but protested to Governor Winthrop and was later reinstated.

It is named after the first two children to whom it was taught: Winthrop " Tad " Chapman and Oma Simpson.

The statue of Roger Williams at Roger Williams UniversityMoore ( 1963 ) traces the ' negative ' approach of the orthodox Puritan writers ( Bradford, Winthrop, Morton, Cotton Mather, Hutchinson, Winsor, and Dexter ), the ' romantic ' approach ( George Bancroft, Vernon Parrington, Ernst, and Brockunier ) and the ' realistic ' approach ( Backus, H. Richard Niebuhr, Roland Bainton, and Hudson ), and regards the work of Mauro Calamandrei, who was followed by Perry Miller and Ola Winslow, as crucial.

In April 1947, when Crouch was a senior at Winthrop College, Thurmond was a judge in a beauty contest in which she was selected as Miss South Carolina.

In 1966, Pilkinton was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, having narrowly been defeated by the Republican Maurice L. Britt, the running-mate of Winthrop Rockefeller, who won the first of his two two-year terms as governor that year.

Revere was set off from Chelsea and incorporated in 1846 and Winthrop was set off from Revere and incorporated in 1852.

Winthrop was the first in a long line of critics who suggested that advocates of Manifest Destiny were citing " Divine Providence " for justification of actions that were motivated by chauvinism and self-interest.

Conway was long the home of the late Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice James D. Johnson ( d. 2010 ), who ran unsuccessful races for governor in 1956 against then fellow Democrat Orval Eugene Faubus and in 1966 against the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller.

Gambling was finally closed down permanently in 1967 by two Republican officeholders, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and Circuit Judge Henry M. Britt.

* Marion H. Crank, a former state representative who was the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in 1968, having been narrowly defeated by incumbent Republican Winthrop Rockefeller.

The city was also home of Winthrop Rockefeller's election campaigns.

The village of Winthrop was said to have been settled by Baptists as early as 1729.

John Winthrop, the Younger, son of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was designated Governor by the group that claimed possession of the land via a deed of conveyance from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

Winthrop was aided by Colonel George Fenwick and Captain Lion Gardiner.

John Winthrop the Younger, the son of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was among those to receive a huge amount of property, which would have been equivalent to what is now called southeastern Connecticut.

Thomas Miner, who had immigrated to Massachusetts with John Winthrop, was granted many land plots, the main one lying on Quiambaug Cove, just east of the Mystic River.

On November 8, 2011, Susan Goetz was elected to fill the Committee seat vacated by Winthrop Cody.

Ipswich was founded by John Winthrop the Younger, son of John Winthrop, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and its first governor, elected in England in 1629.

The industrial panel was originally created by Democratic Governor Orval Eugene Faubus and first directed by Winthrop Rockefeller, who in 1966 used his experience in the AIDC to get elected as Arkansas ' first Republican governor in modern times.

Baxter declined to accept the 1874 nomination for governor and was the last Republican governor to be elected in Arkansas until Winthrop Rockefeller in 1967.

Upon the death of Fitz-John Winthrop, Gurdon Saltonstall, Winthrop's minister in New London, was elected governor.

Later that year, the group who remained in England elected John Winthrop to be Governor of the Fleet and the Colony.

In October 1629 John Winthrop was elected governor, and John Humphrey was chosen as his deputy.

As a man of some means, ( Winthrop referred to him as a " man of great estate ") in 1634, Haynes was admitted as a freeman and elected to the colony's council of assistants.

On March 8, 1787, Parsons, Putnam, and Cutler were chosen as directors, and Winthrop Sargent was elected secretary.

Coddington was elected as a Massachusetts Bay Assistant on 18 March 1629 / 30, while still in England, and sailed to New England the following month with the Winthrop Fleet.

John Winthrop became leader of the emigrating group as a result of the negotiations ; he was elected the company and colonial governor in October 1629.

In 2002, Lewis, by then a US Congressman from Georgia, returned to Rock Hill, where he had been invited as a speaker at Winthrop University and was given the key to the city.

General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport is located in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, US ( and partly in the town of Winthrop, Massachusetts ).

In 1973, Newark State College was renamed Kean College of New Jersey for the Kean family whose members include Congressman Robert Winthrop Kean ; U. S. Congressman and U. S. Senator John Kean of New Jersey ; former New Jersey Governor and 9 / 11 Commission ( Kean Commission ) Chairman Thomas Kean, Sr .; U. S. Senator Hamilton Fish Kean ; Julia Kean, the wife of US Secretary of State and New York Governor Hamilton Fish ; First Lady of the United States Anna Symmes Harrison ; New Jersey State Senator and United States Senate nominee Thomas Kean, Jr .; and John Kean of South Carolina, delegate to the Continental Congress.

Winthrop Paul Rockefeller ( September 17, 1948 – July 16, 2006 ) was a Republican politician who served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of the US state of Arkansas from 1996 until his death.

A member of the Kean family of politicians, his great-grandfather, John Kean, had been a delegate to the Continental Congress for South Carolina, his brother was US Senator Hamilton Fish Kean, his nephew was US Representative Robert Winthrop Kean and his great-nephew was Governor Thomas Kean.

A US Food and Drug Administration investigation was highly critical of Winthrop, and the scandal led to the introduction of Good Manufacturing Practices for drugs.

On January 3, 1846, Representative Robert Winthrop ridiculed the concept in Congress, saying " I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread will not be admitted to exist in any nation except the universal Yankee nation ".

In 1920, Winthrop was the second town in the Commonwealth to apply for and receive a Charter for a Representative Town Meeting, which continued to 2006.

On July 26, 2007, the Winthrop Sun Transcript reported that a movement was beginning to abolish the Town Council and return to a Representative Town Meeting.

He was actually a resident of Stan dish Hall, which is now part of Winthrop House ); Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke ; CEO of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein ; UCLA professor and national security expert Amy Zegart ; Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin ; United States Representative Barney Frank ( D-Mass.