`` John Clayton will see to that ''.

And their arrival caught John Clayton and Charles Ansley off guard.

But Dandy had had little experience with girls on his master's plantation in Bayou St. John.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.

As first Chief Justice, his strong nationalist opinions anticipated John Marshall.

John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

This sense of moderation and fairness is superbly exemplified in an exchange of letters between John Jay and a Tory refugee, Peter Van Schaack.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

John was away at school most of the time.

* General John A. Logan by Augustus Saint Gaudens

He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles .” A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world, including the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and Klaatu.

* 1961 – John Logan, American screenwriter

* May 30 – Memorial Day is observed in the United States for the first time ( it was proclaimed on May 5 by General John A. Logan ).

General Sherman with Generals Oliver O. Howard | Howard, John A. Logan | Logan, William Babcock Hazen | Hazen, Jefferson C. Davis | Davis, Henry Warner Slocum | Slocum, and Joseph A. Mower | Mower, photographed by Mathew Brady, May 1865

In this general connection, it is also noteworthy that Sherman and his subordinates ( particularly John A. Logan ) took steps to protect Raleigh, North Carolina, from acts of revenge after the assassination of President Lincoln.

Sarah is mortified when she learns Logan has been using the bodies of the dead soldiers in his research, and devises a plan to escape the complex with John and Miguel.

Rhodes, who kills Logan ; locks Sarah and McDermott inside the zombie corral ; murders Dr. Fisher, a fellow scientist ; and attempts to force John, their helicopter pilot, to fly them away from the complex, which John refuses.

When " Ginga " was nine years old, her mother remarried, to John Logan Rogers.

The county was named on August 5, 1890 for U. S. Senator, John A. Logan, of Illinois.

Logan County was created by the 1872-1873 territorial legislature and named for John A. Logan ( 1826-1886 ), a Civil War general and United States Senator from Illinois.

It was named after the Union General John A. Logan.

Kentucky Governor Greenup granted the first Kentucky grants to William Croghan, David Logan, Edward Shanklin Jr. and John Wilson, among others.

Shortly after the American Civil War, General John A. Logan led a parade of veterans from Murphysboro to Carbondale, Illinois.

The first five member board included Mack Logan, Ruel Reece, Garvin Davis Jr., John Penland, and Charles Aaron.

The county was named for General John A. Logan.

Also formed in 1866, it was led by Republican activist John Alexander Logan.

Carterville is home to John A. Logan College, named for the local American Civil War hero and politician John A. Logan.

A college of approximately 8, 000 students, John A. Logan College has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine as the nation's fifth best community college and in 2004 was recognized as one of the fastest growing community colleges in the nation.