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28 May 2021, 11:20 am
The war itself was inconclusive for while the British demanded much in initial negotiations at Ghent, the United States negotiators, who included Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, supported the principle of status quo ante bellum (the state existing before war). [read post]
9 Jul 2021, 1:01 am
A few days before President Taylor’s death, he intimated that if there should be a tie vote on Henry Clay’s bill, he would vote in favor of it. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 2:30 am
Another factor was the influence of the War Hawks, a group of young Democratic-Republican congressmen led by 33-year-old Henry Clay, who pushed for war with Britain. [read post]
24 Jan 2021, 9:35 am
Henry Abel Holtz Douglas Jemal James E. [read post]
24 Dec 2017, 1:45 am
Another factor was the influence of the War Hawks, a group of young Democratic-Republican congressmen led by 33-year-old Henry Clay, who pushed for war with Britain. [read post]
2 Nov 2017, 1:45 am
While Polk easily defeated the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, in 1844, Harding’s margin of victory over James Cox was the largest ever at the time, since the two-party system began. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 2:30 am
The efforts of political power broker Henry Clay were thwarted and the Union’s future was uncertain, with secession talk already in the air. [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 6:52 am
That designation belongs to Henry Clay Payne, who chaired the RNC for a brief time in 1904. [read post]
11 Aug 2011, 11:33 am
Mark ran a fascinating piece this week about President Obama, President Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the virtues and limitations of "compromise" as a leadership style. [read post]
1 Mar 2020, 4:11 am
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850 struck by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas to settle the dispute between Northern and Southern states over the settlement and admissions of new states and territories following the Mexican-American War. [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 1:03 pm
This article says the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association is one of the largest donors to candidates for the General Assembly in the upcoming elections.According to VPAP, here is how the VTLARepublican: $147,000 (49%)Democrat: $149,250 (50%)Other: $2,500 144 donations totaling $298,750Candidate/Committee ContributionsAlbo, David B (R-H042), $5,000 Alexander, Kenneth C (D-H089), $500 Amundson, Kristen (D-H044), $500 Armstrong, Ward L (D-H010), $6,000 Athey, Clifford… [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 12:49 pm
The most notorious case would be Henry Clay Frick, his co-venturer ("partner" seems to strong a word). [read post]
2 Oct 2023, 11:18 pm
In 1806, Henry Clay of Kentucky was elected to the Senate by his state legislature. [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 2:00 am
In the second Jackson administration, Van Buren was involved in the president’s battles with Henry Clay and Nicholas Biddle over banking policy, which led to the formation of an opposition party called the Whigs. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 2:00 am
Party leader Henry Clay tried his best to get Tyler to quit office; ultimately, the Whigs simply kicked the president out of the party. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
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13 Nov 2014, 4:29 am
” Clay concluded his remarks by saying, “Indeed, I do not see any ground of just objection, either in the constitution or in sound policy, to the passage of a law tendering to all foreign nations reciprocal security for literary property. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 4:42 am
" Some of those people, when they were young, had known the circle around Alexander Berkman, who had tried to murder the industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 6:30 am
Lash’s constitutional origin story also asks us to ignore the views of George Washington, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris, and indeed the dominant majority of the 1787 Convention; the ratification debates over federal power, the Federalist party, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and the national Republicans -- in short, one entire side of the debate over national powers that began with the founding and has been, in Marshall’s words, “perpetually arising. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 11:12 am
Maybe legislators in reforming patent law and judges in handling patent cases should heed the words of Henry Ford : "I invented nothing new. [read post]
