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unusual facts about Alanson W. Beard


Alanson W. Beard

Alanson Wilder Beard (August 20, 1825 – August 27, 1900) was an American who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as Collector of Customs at the Port of Boston and as the Treasurer of Massachusetts.


Charles E. Beard

According to the University of West Georgia’s web page, Beard began as the last principal of the Fourth District Agricultural & Mechanical School, later becoming the first president of the same institution after it grew to become the West Georgia College.

Chuck McMains

Boneno, however, was defeated by Gary J. Beard, who ran on an anti-tax platform and also enjoyed the support of the Christian Coalition.

Criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The Not-So-Strange Career of Charles Beard," Diplomatic History, (Spring 2001) 25#2 Historian Charles Beard accused FDR of unnecessary provocation of Japan

Forrest McDonald

In his book We The People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution, McDonald argued that Charles A. Beard (in his book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States) had misinterpreted the economic interests involved in writing the Constitution.

Franklin Prophecy

Beard, Charles A. “Exposing the Anti-Semitic Forgery about Franklin.” Jewish Frontier. New York, March 1935, pp.

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Phillips' emphasis on race was overshadowed in the late 1920s and 1930s by the Beardian interpretation of Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard, who in their enormously successful The Rise of American Civilization (1927) emphasized class conflict and downplayed slavery and race relations as a cause of the American Civil War.


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