See also:JOHN See also:ALBION See also:ANDREW (1818-1867)
, See also:American See also:political See also:leader, " See also:war See also:governor " of See also:Massachusetts, was See also:born at See also:Wind-See also:ham, See also:Maine, on the 31st of May 1818
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He graduated at See also:Bowdoin See also:College in 1837, studied See also:law in See also:Boston, was admitted to the See also:Suffolk See also:bar in 184o, and practised his profession in Boston
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He also took a deep See also:interest in religious matters, was a prominent member of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of the Disciples (Unitarian; founded in Boston by the Rev
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See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Freeman See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke), and was assistant editor for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of The See also:Christian See also:World, a weekly religious See also:paper
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With ardent See also:anti-See also:slavery principles, he entered political See also:life as a " See also:Young Whig " opposed to the Mexican War; he became an active See also:Free-Soiler in 1848, and in 1854 took See also:part in the organization in Massachusetts of the new Republican party
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He served one See also:term, in 1858, in the See also:state See also:House of Representatives, and in 1859 declined an See also:appointment to a seat on the See also:bench of the state supreme See also:court
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In this See also:year he took such an active part in raising funds to defend See also:John See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, then on trial in See also:Virginia, that he aroused the suspicions of a senatorial See also:committee investigating Brown's See also:raid, and was summoned to See also:Washington to tell what he knew of the affair
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In 186o he was chairman of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican See also:national See also:convention at See also:Chicago, which nominated See also:Lincoln for the See also:presidency; and from 1861 to See also:January 1866, throughout the trying See also:period of the See also:Civil War, he was governor of Massachusetts, becoming known as one of the ablest, most patriotic and most energetic of the remarkable See also:group of "war See also:governors" in the See also:North
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Immediately after his inauguration he began filling the See also:militia regiments with young men ready for active service, saw that they were well drilled and supplied them with See also:good See also:modern rifles
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As a result, Massachusetts was the only See also:northern state in any way prepared for war when the Confederates fired on Fort See also:Sumter; and her troops began to See also:muster in Boston on the 16th of See also:April, the very See also:day after See also:President Lincoln's See also:call for See also:volunteers
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On the next day the See also:Sixth Massachusetts Volunfeer See also:Infantry started See also:south for the See also:defence of Washington, and was the first fully armed and equipped volunteer See also:regiment to reach the See also:capital
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Within six days after the call, nearly four thousand Massachusetts volunteers had departed for Washington
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In 1863, at Governor See also:Andrew's own See also:request, the secretary of war authorized him to raise several regiments of See also:negro troops, with See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white commissioned See also:officers, and the Fifty-See also:fourth Massachusetts Infantry was the first regiment of free negroes raised in the North
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Governor Andrew's example was quickly followed in
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other states, and before the end of the year 36,000 negroes had been enrolled in the See also:Union armies
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When the war See also:department ruled that thenegro troops were entitled to pay only as "labourers " and not as soldiers, Governor Andrew used all his See also:influence with the president and the secretary of war to secure for them the same pay as white troops, and was finally successful
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Notwithstanding his loyal support of the See also:administration during the struggle, he did not fully approve of its conduct of the war, which he deemed shifting and timid; and it was with See also:great reluctance that he sup-ported Lincoln in 1864 for a second term
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In 1865 he rejected the more See also:radical views of his party as to the treatment to be accorded to the See also:late Confederate states, opposed the immediate and unconditional enfranchisement of freedmen, and, though not accepting President See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson's views in their entirety, he urged the See also:people of Massachusetts to give the new president their support
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On retiring from the governor's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he declined the presidency of See also:Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, See also:Ohio, and various positions in the service of the Federal See also:government, and resumed the practice of law, at once achieving great success
.
In 1865 he presided at the first national convention of ths' Unitarian Church
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He died suddenly of See also:apoplexy, at Boston, on the 3oth of See also:October 1867
.
See See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry G
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See also:Pearson's Life of John A
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Andrew (2 vols., Boston and New See also:York, 1904)
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