Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States: During Its First Century. From Original and Official SourcesJ. Anglim, 1876 - 682 páginas |
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Página 359 - In 1842 he was appointed by the governor to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Hon.
Página 245 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.
Página 325 - there was a time for all things ; a time to preach, and a time to pray, but those times had passed away...
Página 353 - In 1840 he was one of the Presidential Electors for Massachusetts, and in 1848 and 1849 was the Free-soil candidate for Governor. He held various State and private trusts, in the discharge of which, by his ability, sagacity, experience, and integrity, he rendered signal service. He was for many years member of the State Board of Education, and a Trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester.
Página 369 - Sherman was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States ; and he was chosen a representative from this State to the first Congress under this constitution.
Página 211 - Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of James G.
Página 261 - Democratic party on the question growing out of the removal of the Government deposits from the Bank of the United States.
Página 312 - In 1787, he was a member of the convention, which framed the constitution of the United States, and his name is affixed to that instrument. In October, 1788, he succeeded Franklin as president of the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, in which station he continued till October.
Página 2 - Quincy, occupying himself with agriculture, and obtaining amusement from the literature and politics of the day. He died on the fourth of July, 1826, with the same words on his lips which, fifty years before, on that day, he had uttered on the floor of Congress: — "Independence forever!
Página 158 - August, 1844, he was planning a third expedition, while writing the history of the second, and before its publication, in 1845, was again on his way to the Pacific, collecting his mountain comrades, to examine in detail the Asiatic slope of the continent, which resulted in giving a new volume of science to •the world, and California to the United States.