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Edwin McMasters Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton 1814-69, American statesman, b. Steubenville, Ohio. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1836 and began to practice law in Cadiz. As his reputation grew, he moved first to Steubenville (1839), then to Pittsburgh (1847), and finally to Washington, D.C. (1856), becoming ever... Read more |
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Tenure of Office Act
Tenure of Office Act in U.S. history, measure passed on Mar. 2, 1867, by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson ; it forbade the President to remove any federal officeholder appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate without the further approval of the Senate. It also... Read more |
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Steubenville
Steubenville , city (1990 pop. 22,125), seat of Jefferson co., E central Ohio, on the Ohio River; laid out c.1797, inc. as a city 1851. Its once significant steel and coking industries have declined; manufactures include tin, metals, chemicals, and paper goods. Bituminous coal is also mined. Of... Read more |
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Edwin Stanton Porter
Edwin Stratton Porter Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941) was a prominent innovator in the early years of cinema. He worked collaboratively, producing, directing, and editing a variety of films, including the first blockbuster motion picture, The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Edwin Stratton Porter... Read more |
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Stanton Macdonald-Wright 1890-1973, American artist, b. Charlottsville, Va. Macdonald-Wright was among the first Americans to paint in a totally abstract mode. Together with Morgan Russell , he founded synchromism in 1912. In paintings such as Oriental Synchromy in Blue-Green (1918; Whitney... Read more |
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Stanton
Stanton city (1990 pop. 30,491), Orange co., SW Calif., SW of Anaheim; inc. 1956. The city's population grew rapidly in the late 20th century. Manufactures include electrical and electronic goods, signs, computer equipment, building materials, and plastics. There are also tool-and-die and... Read more |
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Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Jeremiah Sullivan Black 1810-83, American cabinet officer, b. Somerset co., Pa. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1830, Black became a successful lawyer. As U.S. Attorney General (1857-60) under President Buchanan he hired Edwin M. Stanton, later his successor, to clear up the involved land-title... Read more |
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Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg (1817–73) Union army officer, born in Piatt's Landing, Kentucky. He fought in the Seminole War (1840–42), the Mexican War (1846–48), and the Mormon rebellion (1847–48). In the Civil War, Canby commanded Union forces in New Mexico, turning... Read more |
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Ethical Culture movement
Ethical Culture movement originating in the Society for Ethical Culture, founded in New York City in 1876, by Felix Adler . Its aim is "to assert the supreme importance of the ethical factor in all relations of life, personal, social, national, and international, apart from any theological or... Read more |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902, American reformer, a leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Johnstown, N.Y. She was educated at the Troy Female Seminary (now Emma Willard School) in Troy, N.Y. In 1840 she married Henry Brewster Stanton, a journalist and abolitionist, and attended with him the... Read more |
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Stanton a murder target? Possible assassin was at secretary's...
...was Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton. ... Almost all accounts...attempt on Stanton's life. Yet the man was such...A band was serenading Stanton and Grant, who was visiting...a possible attempt on Edwin Stanton's life comes... |
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Safire's massive novel of Lincoln and emancipation
...mother used to say, "There is life north of Maryland, but does anyone...Anna Ella Carroll," "Edwin McMasters Stanton," "Ulysses Simpson Grant...but perhaps less ruthless than Edwin Stanton, a man whose ultimate political... |
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Shocking ad leads to arrest; Southern lawyer offered to kill Lincoln.(PLUGGED...
...of $ 1,000,000, I will cause the lives of Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward...take seriously, but Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton and Federal authorities weren't quite...County. CAPTION(S): Secretary of War Edwin McMasters |