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unusual facts about United States House of Representatives elections, 1866


Radical Republican

Johnson proved a poor politician and his allies lost heavily in the 1866 elections in the North.


Adelaide Ristori

In 1857 she visited Madrid, playing in Spanish to enthusiastic audiences, and in 1866 she paid the first of four visits to the United States, where she won much applause, particularly in Paolo Giacometti's Elisabeth, an Italian study of the English sovereign.

Adolphus William Ward

In 1866 he was appointed professor of history and English literature in Owens College, Manchester, and was principal from 1890 to 1897, when he retired.

Barrie Leslie Konicov

Konicov's Libertarian political leanings eventually led him to a 1994 bid for Michigan district 3 seat in the United States House of Representatives.

Benjamin H. Bunn

He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Benjamin Wood

Wood was elected as a Democrat to the 37th and 38th United States Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1865.) He was a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) in 1866 and 1867 and elected to the 47th United States Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883)

Bentley with Arksey

The civil parish was formed in 1866 by the grouping of the two townships of Arksey and Bentley.

Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway

In 1866 a start was actually made on a line to run to Appledore with a branch to Westward Ho!, however soon after a full 'first sod cutting ceremony' by the Earl of Iddesleigh, the contractors went bankrupt and the project was abandoned.

Charles Frederick Hartt

In his last voyage he collected more than 500,000 specimens, which were donated to the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as the founder and director of the section of geology from 1866 to 1867.

Charles O'Malley

Charles J. O'Malley (1866–after 1939), Irish financier and newspaper reporter in the United States

District of Columbia's at-large congressional district

The seat was re-created almost a century later, shortly before the 1970 elections; Walter E. Fauntroy (D) won the 1971 special election the following March.

Ekostrovsky

Ekostrovskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Frey Svenson

Frey Svenson (1866–1927) was a Swedish doctor and professor of psychology, born in Vetlanda, Sweden.

George Hugh Bourne

Bourne was the son of the Revd R. B. Bourne and was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1863, BCL 1866, DCL 1871).

Georgia during Reconstruction

During the tenure of Amos T. Akerman (1821–1880) as Attorney General of the United States from 1870 to 1871, thousands of indictments were brought against Klansmen in an effort to enforce the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871.

Grobian

The German writer Melchior Meyr was the author of a work entitled Gespräche mit einem Grobian (1866).

Heinrich von Ferstel

In 1866 Ferstel was appointed professor at the Polytechnic School, in 1871 chief government inspector of public works and in 1879 was raised to the rank of Freiherr.

Henry Frederick Stephenson

On 30 March 1866 Stephenson was the lieutenant-in-command of HMS Heron, serving in North America and the West Indies, and becoming the commanding officer of a gun-boat on the Canadian lakes during the Fenian raids of 1866.

Huntington family

Huntington Avenue, after Ralph Huntington (1784–1866), in Boston, Massachusetts

Jean-Louis Jaley

Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (born in Paris in 1802, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1866) was a French sculptor.

Johannes Enschedé

Johannes Enschedé III (1785–1866), Haarlem newspaper editor and printer

John Gott

John William Gott (1866–1922), last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy

Joseph Kehrein

After studying philology at the University of Giessen from 1831 to 1834, he taught at the gymnasium of Darmstadt, 1835–1837, at that of Mainz, 1837–1845, was prorector at the newly founded gymnasium of Hadamar in Nassau, 1845–1846, professor at the same place, 1846–1855, director of the Catholic teachers' seminary at Montabaur, 1855–1876, and at the same time director of the Realschule at the same place, 1855–1866.

Königsberger Paukenhund

The tradition dates from the 1866 Battle of Königgrätz, where troops of the Prussian 43rd Infantry Regiment ("Duke Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz") overran the drum wagon of the Austrian 77th Infantry Regiment ("Karl Salvator of Tuscany"), whose dog, a Saint Bernard named "Sultan", had been shot.

Louis-Bonaventure Caron

In 1866, he married Angélique-Élisabeth-Hermine Pacaud, the daughter of Édouard-Louis Pacaud.

Menachem Mendel

Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789 – 1866), the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, also known as the "New Tzemach Tzedek", or the "Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch"

Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato

Princess and Countess Elena Pavlovna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 10 June 1884 - Sesto Fiorentino, 4 April 1959), married firstly in Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1903 (divorced in 1907) Count Alexander Pavlovich Shuvalov (Vartemiagui, 7 September 1881 - London, 13 August 1935) and married secondly in Dresden in June 1907 Nikolai Alexeievich Pavlov (Tambov, 9 May 1866 - Vanves, 31 January 1934))

Pechengsky

Pechengskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866-1952), daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia

Ricciotti Garibaldi

In 1866, alongside his father, he took part in the Battle of Bezzecca (1866) and the Battle of Mentana (1867); in 1870, during his father's expedition in support to France during the Franco-Prussian War, he fought in the Vosges, where he occupied Châtillon and, at Pouilly, captured the sole Prussian flag lost during the war.

Rice production in the United States

Between 1866 and 1880, the annual production of the three States averaged just under 41 million pounds, of which South Carolina produced more than 50 percent.

Royal Dart Yacht Club

The Royal Dart Yacht Club was founded in 1866 located in Kingswear, Devon, England.

Saga Domain

By 1866, the incorporation of British Armstrong Whitworth cannon made the ships at Nagasaki into the first Japanese Western-style ("modern") navy.

Sean Eldridge

In early 2013, he filed paperwork to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014, challenging incumbent Chris Gibson in New York's 19th congressional district.

Sheffield Coal Company

and continued this until 1866 when they leased a large tract in the area of Woodhouse, Hackenthorpe and Beighton, at that time outside the Sheffield boundary, from the Earl Manvers.

St. Mary's School, Pune

From 1866 to 1977, the school was run by the Sisters of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, an Anglican order based in Wantage, England.

Stephen Winchester Dana

He was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Belvidere, New Jersey, from November, 1866, till July, 1868, when he was called to the Walnut street church in West Philadelphia, which grew steadily under his pastoral care and earnest preaching.

The Airs of Palestine

The poem titled The Airs of Palestine was first published by John Pierpont (1785–1866) in 1816 (Baltimore: B. Edes; various reprints).

Tom A. Yon

Yon was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1926 election, and was twice reelected, serving from March 4, 1927 to March 3, 1933, in the 70th, 71st, and 72nd Congresses.

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Whitney Warren

Whitney Warren (January 29, 1864 – April 23 1943) was an architect with Charles Delevan Wetmore (1866–1941) at Warren and Wetmore in New York City.

Whitridge

John Whitridge Williams (1866–1931), American obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital

William Jackson of Masham

William Jackson (born 9 January 1815 in Masham, Yorkshire, England; died 15 April 1866 in Bradford, England) was an English organist and composer.


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