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unusual facts about James G. Blaine


Albert Hobbs

In 1884, he ran for presidential elector on the Republican ticket (pledged to James G. Blaine), but New York was carried by Democrat Grover Cleveland.


1884 in the United States

November 4 – United States presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.

Batterson

James G. Batterson (1823–1901), American designer and builder, owner of New England Granite Works, founder of Travelers Insurance Company

Belshazzar

During the 1884 United States presidential campaign, Republican candidate James G. Blaine dined at a New York City restaurant with some wealthy business executives including "Commodore" Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, etc.

David Brower

After Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980, FOE led the opposition to Interior secretary James G. Watt's efforts to sell and lease public lands in the West and develop land adjacent to the National Parks.

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

In 1965, when Mathematics was still a department within the Faculty of Arts, four third-year mathematics students (Richard Shirley, Angus German, James G. Mitchell, and Bob Zarnke) wrote the WATFOR compiler for the FORTRAN programming language, under the direction of lecturer Peter Shantz.

Dinu Patriciu

Patriciu served as a co-chair for the 2011 Atlantic Council Annual Awards Dinner which included notable speakers such as Joe Biden, Muhtar Kent, Plácido Domingo, Charlie Rose, Colin Powell, and James G. Stavridis among others.

Franklin Simmons

Among his portrait busts are those of David D. Porter, James G. Blaine, Francis Wayland, and Ulysses S. Grant (1886).

Grace Rohrer

When a Republican next won the governorship of North Carolina, it was James G. Martin who appointed Rohrer as his Secretary of Administration (another state cabinet-level post).

Grover Cleveland Presidential campaign, 1888

The Republican Party nominated former U.S. Senator Benjamin Harrison (from the swing state of Indiana) to run against Cleveland in 1888 after 1884 Republican Presidential nominee James G. Blaine (who lost to Cleveland by a razor-thin margin) refused to run again and after several other candidates failed to win enough support.

James Carter

James G. Carter (1795–1849), American state legislator and education reformer

James Clinton

His second wife was Mrs. Mary Gray, and his children with her included James G. Clinton, who served in Congress.

James Donovan

James G. Donovan (1898–1987), Democratic politician, former New York State Senator and United State congressman

James Fulton

James G. Fulton (1903–1971), member of the U.S. House of Representatives

James G. Batterson

He joined forces with Elizabeth Colt to make the Wadsworth Atheneum a free public institution; on 16 October 1880, he was honored at the Atheneum by ex-President Ulysses S. Grant for his contributions to historic preservation.

James G. Birney

In 1840, he had married Elizabeth Potts Fitzhugh (sister of Henry Fitzhugh and of Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, wife of Gerrit Smith).

James G. Blunt

James Blunt figures briefly in Rifles for Watie, a novel by Harold Keith about a young Union soldier from Kansas fighting the Civil War in Indian Territory and the surrounding states.

James G. Cockshutt

In 1877 he founded the original Cockshutt factory, the Brantford Plow Works at Brantford, Ontario.

James G. Douglas

He was the eldest of nine children of John Douglas (1861–1931), originally of Grange, County Tyrone, and his wife, Emily (1864–1933), daughter of John and Mary Mitton of Gortin, Coalisland, County Tyrone.

James G. Ellis

Ellis is an expert on global commerce, a successful business executive and prominent civic leader in the Los Angeles area.

Ellis was named USC Marshall dean and holder of the Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair in Business Administration on April 4, 2007, succeeding interim Dean Thomas W. Gilligan, who returned to his position as a USC Marshall professor of finance and business economics.

James G. Fulton

In 1944, while still in the service, Fulton was elected as a Republican to the 79th United States Congress, and reelected to the thirteen succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1945, until his death in Washington, D.C..

James G. Kiernan

Kiernan went on to write of a variety of topics, e.g. Mary MacLane's disciple Viola Larsen, who stole a horse and wrote romantic letters to other girls, as an example of child precocity and possible genius.

James G. King

His great-great-granddaughter Ellin Travers Mackay married Irving Berlin.

James G. Martin

In 1966, he was elected to the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners.

James G. Mitchell

He was head of research and development for Acorn Computers (U.K.), where he managed the development of the first ARM RISC chip and was President of the Acorn Research Centre in Palo Alto, California.

James G. Rowe, Jr.

After Whitney died, James Rowe, Jr. went to work for Helen Hay Whitney's Greentree Stable in the latter part of 1930, replacing Thomas W. Murphy.

James G. Scrugham

He became a special adviser to the Secretary of the Interior on Colorado River development projects in 1927.

James G. Smyth

Smyth was a member of the famous San Francisco political machine run by Democratic party boss William M. Malone.

James G. Sterchi

Working as an agent for Vocalion Records, Sterchi Brothers paid to send early country musicians such as Uncle Dave Macon, Sid Harkreader, and Sam McGee to New York to make their first recordings.

James G. Strong

Strong was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933).

He served as chairman of the Committee on War Claims (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses).

James Hampton

James G. Hampton (1814–1861), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 1st district

James Strong

James G. Strong (1870–1938), United States Representative from Kansas

James Woodward

James G. Woodward (1840 – 1923), American newspaperman and politician, serving as a four-term mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

Jim Mitchell

James G. Mitchell, commonly known as Jim Mitchell, (born 1943), Canadian computer scientist

Liston B. Ramsey

In January 1989, Ramsey was ousted as Speaker of the House when Republican Governor James G. Martin secretly joined his party's forces with 20 Democratic state representatives led by Joe Mavretic.

Mandate for Leadership

In particular, the Reagan administration hired key Mandate contributors Bill Bennett as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (and later as Secretary of Education) and James G. Watt as Secretary of the Interior.

Nathaniel Thayer

For a number of years, Thayer was involved in a dispute with James G. Carter, then-Deacon of Thayer's congregation and later a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, over the latter's refusal to return funds donated toward the establishment of an instructional academy that failed to materialise.

New Waddell Dam

On November 6, 1981, the Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt recommended Plan 6.

Peter Bernus

Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology (GERAM) is developed in the 1990s by an IFAC/IFIP Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration with Peter Bernus, James G. Nell and others.

Twenty Grand

Trained at age three by James G. Rowe, Jr. and ridden by jockey Charley Kurtsinger, Twenty Grand raced against very strong opponents in 1930 and 1931 when he was part of what the Chicago Tribune newspaper called the "big four" in racing, which included Jamestown, Mate, and Equipoise.

Walthall Robertson Joyner

He defeated Thomas Goodwin (incumbent mayor James G. Woodward didn't run) in 1907 and under his leadership a memorial was made of the Wren's Nest after Joel Chandler Harris's death.

William Foster Cockshutt

He worked for a produce firm and in a tea warehouse in England before returning to Ontario and entering the family business in partnership with his brother James.

William Sheldrick Conover

Conover was elected as a Republican to the Ninety-second Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative James G. Fulton.


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