The Secretaries of State: Portraits and Biographical Sketches

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Richard Sharpe Patterson
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 124 páginas
 

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Página 8 - ... Catholic Church and was condemned by it, but was widely popular. Read, George (1733-1798), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was before the war Attorney-General of Delaware and member of the Legislature. He wrote the noted address to George III., and was a leading member of Congress. He was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention of 1786, and to the Federal Constitutional Convention of the following year. From 1789 to 1793 he was US Senator from Delaware, and Chief Justice of the State...
Página 88 - Paige, who was admitted to the bar in 1882, a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis...
Página 90 - State, was chairman of the American delegation to the London Naval Conference in 1930, and formulated the "Stimson Doctrine...
Página 4 - July 17, 1745; was graduated from Harvard College in 1763; was admitted to the bar in 1768 and commenced practice in Salem; held various local public offices; entered the Revolutionary Army as a colonel in 1775...
Página 44 - May 16, 1801. He graduated at Union College in 1820; was admitted to the bar in 1822, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Auburn, in his native State, the following year. In 1830 he was elected to the New York Senate for four years.
Página 52 - He was chairman of the New York delegation to the Republican national convention of 1860, and placed William H.
Página 102 - Army 1917-1918, attaining the rank of major; resumed the practice of law; adviser to President Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference and a member of the Reparations Commission and Supreme Economic Council in 1919; delegate to the Berlin Debt Conferences in 1933, to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco in 1945, and to the United Nations General Assembly in 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1950...
Página 90 - York from 1883 to 1885 and in 1894 was a delegate at large to the New York State Constitutional Convention, acting as chairman of the judiciary committee.
Página 58 - DC, early in 1861; was Attorney General of New Jersey 1861-1866; was a Senator from New Jersey 18661869 and 1871-1877; was a member of the Electoral Commission of 1877 to decide the contested presidential election of 1876; resumed the practice of law; was commissioned Secretary of State in President Arthur's Cabinet December 12, 1881, entered upon his duties December 19, 1881, and served until March 6, 1885; as Secretary of State, fostered commercial relations with Latin America, sent delegates to...
Página 68 - ... the state legislature in 1832, 1840, 1845-46 and 1853, declined a nomination as representative in the 22d and 26th congresses, was a delegate to the Whig national convention of 1840, was a Whig representative in the 27th congress, 1841-43, and at the close of his term resumed the practice of law. He was a delegate to the Whig national conventions of 1848 and 1852, was elected a US senator as an anti.slavery Whig by a Democratic legislature in 1853, as successor to James Ware Bradbury, and was...

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