UNDER THE See also:UNITED
STATES 1846–18473
See also:Governors by Military See also:Appointment
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See also:Charles See also:Bent
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Donaciano See also:Vigil
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1847–1848
See also:John See also:Marshall See also:Washington 1848–1849'
John Munroe 1849–18514
Governors by Presidential Appointment
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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 S
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See also:Calhoun
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.
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. 1851-1852
E
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V
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See also:Sumner (Military See also:Commander, acting) 1852
John Greiner (Secretary, acting) 1852
See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Carr See also:Lane 1852–1853
See also:David Merriwether 1853–1857
See also:Abraham Rencher 1857–1861
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 Connelly
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1861-1865
W
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E
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M
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Arny (Secretary, acting) 1865–1866
See also:Robert B
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See also:Mitchell 1866-1869
William A
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See also:Pile
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1869-1871
See also:Marsh Gidding 1871-1875
William G
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Ritch (Secretary, acting) 1875
See also:Samuel B
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Axtell
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1875-1878
See also:Lewis See also:Wallace 1878–1881
Lionel A
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See also:Sheldon
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1881–1885
See also:Edmund G
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See also:Ross
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. 1885-1889
L
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See also:Bradford See also:Prince
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1889–1893
William T
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See also:Thornton
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1893–1897
See also:Miguel A
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Otero
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1897–1906
See also:Herbert J
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Hagerman
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1906–1907
J
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W
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Raynolds (Secretary, acting as See also:governor) 1907
See also:George See also:Curry
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. 1907-1909
William J
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See also:Mills
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. 1909-
W
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Cozzens, The See also:Ancient Cibola . or, Three Years in See also:Arizona and New See also:Mexico (See also:Boston, 1891) ; W
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H
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H
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See also:Davis, El Gringo, or, New Mexico and her See also:People (New See also:York, 1857) ; M
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See also:- FROST (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch, vorst, Ger. Frost, from the common Teutonic verb meaning " to freeze," Dutch, vriezcn, Ger. frieren; the Indo-European root is seen in Lat. pruina, hoar-frost, cf. prurire, to itch, burn, pruna, burning coal, Sans
- FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD (1810–1877)
Frost and A
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F
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See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker The See also:Land of See also:Sunshine (See also:Santa Fe, 1904) ; V
.
L
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See also:Sullivan, " See also:Irrigation in New Mexico " (Washington, 1909), Experiment Stations Bulletin 215; and F
.
A
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See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones, New Mexico Mines and Minerals (Santa Fe,
1904)
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See also:History: H
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H
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See also:Bancroft, Arizona and New Mexico (See also:San
2 Under the See also:republic until 1837 the governor was officially designated as jefe politico; after that date as gobernador
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3 Assassinated during the Mexican revolt on the 19th of See also:January
184 Governor as Commander of the See also:Department
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Francisco, 1889): A
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F
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See also:Bandelier, Contributions to the History of and See also:Algiers, or See also:West New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, a See also:part of the See also:city, are in-the See also:South-western Portion of the See also:United States, being vol. v., See also:American dustrial suburbs on the west See also:bank of the See also:Mississippi, connected with the See also:east bank by a See also:steam See also:ferry and with one another by electric railway
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At Algiers are railway terminals and repair shops of the See also:Southern Pacific and the See also:Texas & Pacific; and the United States See also:Naval Station here, which was built in 1844 (though land was bought for it in 1849), and has a large See also:steel floating dry See also:dock, is the only fresh-See also:water station south of Ports-mouth, See also:Virginia, and is equipped to make all See also:repairs
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The city site is almost perfectly level; there is an exceedingly slight slope from the See also:river toward the tidal morasses that border See also:Lake Pontchartrain
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The See also:elevation of the city See also:plain is only to ft. above the See also:sea, and its See also:lower parts are as much as 10-12 ft. below the Mississippi at high See also:flood water
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About 6 m. of heavy " levees " or dykes—in some parts rising clear above the city plain, but backed by filled-in areas graded down from the shores where the See also:traffic of the water-front is concentrated—protect it from the See also:waters
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The See also:speed of the current reaches, in times of high water, a See also:rate of 5 M. an See also:hour
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Along the immediate front of the See also:principal commercial See also:quarter, this current, losing some of its force by See also:change of direction, deposits its See also:alluvium in such quantities as to produce a See also:constant encroachment of the See also:shore upon the See also:harbour
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At its widest part this new land or batture, with wharves, streets and warehouses following eagerly after it, has advanced some 1500 ft. beyond the water-See also:line of the See also:middle of the 18th See also:century
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The See also:climate is not marked by extremes of See also:absolute See also:heat or See also:cold
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Only once in See also:thirty-seven years (1871–1907) did the thermometer See also:register as high as 1020 F., and on only a few days did it register above 96°; in See also:February 1899 the temperature was 7°, but it rarely falls below 22°
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The See also:average See also:annual rainfall is about 58 in
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See also:Canal See also:Street, the centre of See also:retail See also:trade and street See also:life, See also:bounds on the south-west near the river the Vieux Card—the old rectangle within the walls of the See also:original city, bounded by the river, Canal, Rampart and Esplanade streets—and separates the picturesque, peaceful See also:French (or Latin) Quarter of the See also:north-east from the bustling business and dignified See also:residence districts of the American Quarter, or New City, on the south-west
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In the latter St Charles See also:Avenue and Prytania Street have the finest residences, and in the former Esplanade Avenue
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Just below Canal Street, in the See also:oldest part of the American Quarter, are many of the most important or imposing buildings of the city, and some of the places most intimately associated with its history
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Here are the St Charles Hotel (1894), the third of that name on the See also:present site, all famous hostelries, and the first (1838–1851) one of the earliest of the See also:great hotels of the See also:country; and See also:Lafayette Square, surrounded by the City See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (built in 185o in the See also:style of an Ionic See also:temple), the new See also:Post 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, two handsome churches, St See also:Patrick's and the First Presbyterian, See also:Odd See also:Fellows' Hall and other buildings
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In the square are statues of Henry See also:Clay (by See also:Joel T
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See also:Hart) and See also:Franklin (by Hiram See also:Powers), and a See also:monument to John McDonogh (1898); and in the vicinity are the See also:Howard Memorial Library (1887; a memorial to Charles T
.
Howard), which was the last See also:work of H
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H
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See also:Richardson, a native of See also:Louisiana, and the Confederate Memorial Hall (presented to the city by F
.
T
.
Howard) with Confederate See also:relics
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Twc blocks away in See also:Marguerite See also:Place is a statue erected (1884) by the See also:women of the city to See also:Margaret Haughery (d
.
1882), the "See also:Orphan's Friend," a See also:noble woman of humble See also:birth and circumstances, who devoted a toilful but successful life to charities
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In See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee Circle is a monument to Robert E
.
Lee, and facing it is the New Orleans Public Library See also:building (1908)
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Just off Canal Street, at Carondelet 1 and Gravier Street, is the See also:Cotton See also:Exchange (1882–1883), and in See also:Magazine Street the Produce Exchange
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The large office buildings are on Canal, Carondelet, See also:Common and Gravier streets; among them may be mentioned the Maison See also:Blanche, the Hennen Building, the Tulane See also:Newcomb Building and the Canal Louisiana Bank and See also:Trust See also:Company Building
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