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Stanley Forman Reed
Stanley Forman Reed 1884-1980, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938-57), b. Macon co., Ky. After receiving the B.A. degree from both Kentucky Wesleyan (1902) and Yale (1906), he studied law at the Univ. of Virginia and Columbia Univ. and then studied in France. A lawyer of Maysville,... Read more |
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Conservative party
Conservative party British political party, formally the Conservative and Unionist party and a continuation of the historic Tory party. The Rise of the Conservative Party The name "conservative" was used by George Canning as early as 1824 and was first popularized by John Wilson Croker in... Read more |
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Baptists
Baptists denomination of Protestant Christians holding a distinctive belief with regard to the ordinance of baptism . Since 1644 the name has been applied to those who maintain that baptism should be administered to none but believers and that immersion is the only mode of administering baptism... Read more |
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Peter Jasper Akinola
Peter Jasper Akinola 1944-, Nigerian Anglican prelate. He was ordained a deacon in 1978 and a priest in 1979. From 1978 on he built the Anglican church in Abuja, Nigeria, from practically nothing into a flourishing institution. Created a bishop (1989) and an archbishop (1997), he has been primate... Read more |
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Lewis Franklin Powell Jr
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. 1907-98, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971-87), b. Suffolk, Va. He studied law at Washington and Lee Univ. and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1931. He had a successful law practice in Richmond and held several local offices. Powell... Read more |
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Va. Baptists to Vote on Funding by Conscience
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