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Adams George Archibald

This allowed Archibald to run for the riding in a by-election, in which he defeated Liberal Frederick Pearson, 1585 votes to 1230.

Adolph Schuman

A liberal Democrat, Schuman frequently held campaign fund-raising dinners and parties at his Nob Hill home, and was one of the four wealthy San Francisco Jewish political contributors - the others were Cyril Magnin, Benjamin Swig and Walter Shorenstein - who formed what local Democratic politicians appreciatively called "The Green Machine" of the 1960s.

Beddoe Rees

He was unable to support Asquith’s position of allowing Labour to take office, although he told his electors in Bristol that there was no Liberal principle involved it was merely a matter of being true to the position on which he had fought the last election.

Benito Arias Montano

León de Castro, professor of Oriental languages at Salamanca, to whose translation of the Vulgate Arias had opposed the original Hebrew text, denounced Arias to the Roman, and later to the Spanish Inquisition for having altered the Biblical text, making too liberal use of the rabbinical writings, in disregard of the decree of the Council of Trent concerning the authenticity of the Vulgate, and confirming the Jews in their beliefs by his Chaldaic paraphrases.

Bertha Wellin

In 1921, she became one of the first five women to be elected to the Swedish Parliament after women suffrage alongside Nelly Thüring (Social Democrat), Agda Östlund (Social Democrat) and Elisabeth Tamm (liberal) in the Lower chamber, and Kerstin Hesselgren in the Upper chamber.

Billie Orr

It is an alternative to Council of Chief State School Officers, a more liberal oriented organization with close ties to the teacher unions such as National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Bloy

Harry Bloy (born 1946), BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in the province of British Columbia, Canada

Boudewijn Bouckaert

After the dismissal of Jean-Marie Dedecker from the VLD, Hugo Coveliers, Dedecker and Boudewijn Bouckaert (and other Nova Civitas members) started negotiations to form a new right wing liberal party.

Cockermouth by-election, 1879

The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Isaac Fletcher.

Constitution of the Year VIII

This was no longer Robespierre's Republic, which was more radical, or the oligarchic liberal Republic of the Directory, but the autocratic Roman Republic of Caesar Augustus, a Conservative Republic, which reminded the French of stability, order, and peace.

Currans Hill, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Russell Matheson (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Dorothy Norman

During the 1930s and 1940s Norman was active in various liberal causes, particularly civil rights, education, and independence for India and for Israel.

Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, 2006

The by-election took place in the middle of a leadership election in the Liberal Democrats and the party was perceived in the media to be declining in the polls as a result of negative publicity surrounding the resignation of former leader Charles Kennedy and revelations about the private lives of Mark Oaten and Simon Hughes.

Edward Tyas Cook

Launched with the help of Liberal publisher George Newnes and employing the core of the old political staff from the Pall Mall Gazette, the paper quickly established itself in the front rank of Liberal publications, earning the respect and admiration of the Liberal prime minister Lord Rosebery.

First Carlist War

At Arcos de la Frontera, the Liberal Diego de Leon managed to detain a Carlist column by his squadron of 70 cavalry until Liberal reinforcements arrived.

George Eliot

Through this society Evans was introduced to more liberal theologies and to writers such as David Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach who cast doubt on the literal veracity of Biblical stories.

George McGovern in popular culture

Charlie Daniels, in his 1973 country music song narrative, "Uneasy Rider", makes mention of George McGovern as an example of anti-establishment and leftist liberal groups of that era.

Giga Bokeria

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.

Guttman Community College

Guttman offers 2-year associate degree programs with majors in Business Administration, Human Services, Information Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Urban Studies.

James M. Hanley

During his Congressional career, Hanley was known as a liberal, and supported the Great Society program of Lyndon B. Johnson, expansion of Medicare and Head Start, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Jerry Fontaine

Fontaine rejoined the Manitoba Liberal Party after the FPP's dissolution, and became a candidate for the party's leadership in 1998 following the resignation of Ginny Hasselfield.

Kostinbrod

The economy of Kostinbrod was largely based on poultry farming and stock breeding during the Communist period, but a number of factories, including a 120,000 m² Coca-Cola one, have emerged in democratic times due to the town's favourable position and the liberal zoning policy of the municipality.

Leadership Institute

While the Institute does not provide instruction in philosophical conservatism, it does encourage its graduates to read classic conservative authors like Edmund Burke and "classical liberal" authors like Frederic Bastiat, as well as more modern conservative thinkers including William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater, and libertarian thinkers such as economists Milton Friedman and F. A. Hayek.

Leonard Behrens

Back in Britain, he became President of the Manchester Liberal Federation, and was an official of a large number of local bodies, including the Manchester Statistical Society, the Design and Industries Association, the Royal Manchester College of Music, the Hallé Concert Society and the University of Manchester.

Liberal Party of New York

In 1969, Lindsay, the incumbent Republican Mayor of New York City, lost his own party's primary but was reelected on the Liberal Party line alone, bringing along 'on his coat-tails' enough Liberal candidates for City Council to replace the Republicans as the Minority Party in City government.

Livsey

Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth CBE (1935–2010), British politician and Liberal MP

Liz Constable

She left the Liberal Party when it became clear that the favoured candidate of power-broker Noel Crichton-Browne would be given preselection for the safe seat of Floreat in 1991 at her expense.

Love Me, I'm a Liberal

Originally released on his 1966 live album, Phil Ochs in Concert, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" was soon one of Ochs's most popular concert staples.

Mark Marissen

Dion appointed Marissen, Nancy Girard and Senator David Smith as national campaign co-chairs for the Liberal campaign in the federal election which took place October 14, 2008.

Marshall Formby

The other contestants were sitting Governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., who sought an unprecedented fourth two-year term; Don Yarborough, a liberal lawyer and supporter of organized labor from Houston; former Attorney General Will Wilson, later a Republican convert, and retired Army General Edwin A. Walker, known for his staunch anti-communism.

Metz family

This second generation included Auguste Metz, Charles Metz, and Norbert Metz, who were all leading liberal politicians during the early stages of Luxembourg's independence, in the mid-nineteenth century.

New Zealand Liberal Party

William Pember Reeves, a Liberal Party politician and theorist, said that while the party supported an active role for the state, particularly in social matters, it did not in any way seek to discourage or inhibit private enterprise.

Newington West by-election, 1916

Norton had already indicated his intention to stand down from the Commons at the next general election, and the City of London merchant J. D. Gilbert had already been selected as the Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate.

Oldberrow

It is included in the West Midlands electoral region of the European Parliament and the 6 Members are; Mike Nattrass (UK Independence), Liz Lynne (Liberal Democrat), Malcolm Harbour (Conservative), Michael Cashman (Labour), Philip Bradbourn OBE (Conservative) and Nicole Sinclaire (UK Independence).

Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church

Paul Baumann of Washington Monthly states: "has earned a reputation for balanced, informed reporting. He does not simply reflect the leanings of the liberal weekly paper that is his primary outlet. Here, that reputation gives credence to much of what Opus Dei members tell him in defending the group's philosophy and practices. In that sense, Allen may be too liberal for his own good."

Oran Park, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Ottaviano Fregoso

Contemporary historians and intellectuals remembered Ottaviano as a liberal and magnanimous prince, holding him up as a quintessential Renaissance gentleman and a pattern for rulers, as did Baldassare Castiglione who made him one of the interlocutors in The Book of the Courtier (1528).

Peter M. Liba

He stepped down as lieutenant-governor just before the federal election of 2004, and was replaced by outgoing Liberal MP John Harvard.

Ralph Goodale

He was named Opposition House Leader by interim Liberal leader Bill Graham in 2006, and continued to serve in this role under the leadership of Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff until September 2010 when he was promoted to Deputy Leader.

Roger Everest

He defended Robert Ashman on charges of murder of Andrew Pennington and attempted murder of the Liberal Democrat MP, Nigel Jones MP.

Salem Ramaswami Mudaliar

Ramaswami halted at Edinburgh on way to Aberdeen to listen to the speech of the liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone while he regarded the speech given by John Bright at Birmingham as the best he had ever listened to in life.

Sambourne

It is included in the West Midlands electoral region of the European Parliament and the six members are; Mike Nattrass (UK Independence), Liz Lynne,(Liberal Democrat), Malcolm Harbour (Conservative), Michael Cashman (Labour), Philip Bradbourn OBE (Conservative) and Nicole Sinclaire (UK Independence).

Southern West Riding of Yorkshire by-election, 1872

The byelection was fought due to the Resignation of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, Viscount Milton.

SR1

Many general interest paperbacks and the like are printed in SR1; under Gough Whitlam's Labor Government the Australian Ministry of Helth was officially so spelled (though, when Whitlam was replaced by a liberal administration, it reintroduced orthographic conservatism).

Title and style of the Canadian monarch

Liberal Member of Parliament Eugène Marquis in 1945 tabled a motion in the House of Commons proposing that a change to the King's title be a subject of discussion at the next Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference; Marquis suggested that the title include each of the King's dominions, giving him the designation King of Canada.

Victorian state election, 1955

The party was formed by a group of disaffected former Liberal and Country Party members who followed Thomas Hollway when he was expelled from the L&CP.

Viscount Buckmaster

It was created in 1933 for the lawyer and Liberal politician and former Lord Chancellor, Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Baron Buckmaster.

William Holms

William Holms (born 5 February 1827) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1884.

Wong Foon Sien

He supported the Liberal Party of Canada throughout his life, but supported Progressive Conservative candidate Douglas Jung in the Canadian federal elections of 1957 and 1958.

YLC

The Young Liberals of Canada, the national youth wing of the Liberal Party of Canada


see also

Albright

Albright College, a liberal arts college located in Reading, Pennsylvania

Alice Lloyd

Alice Lloyd College, a liberal arts college in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, a small Appalachian community

Asbury College

DePauw University, a liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana, formerly known as Indiana Asbury College or just Asbury College

Association of Reformed Institutions of Higher Education

Providence Christian College (Ontario, CA) is an independent confessionally Presbyterian and Reformed liberal arts college in southern California, founded in 2005.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

A professor at Goddard College, a private, liberal arts college in Plainfield, Vermont, she serves as the coordinator for the Transformative Language Arts track, which she initiated.

David Crouse

Having helped to establish a creative writing program at Chester College of New England, a renowned liberal arts college located in Chester, New Hampshire, Crouse returned to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which awarded him his MFA in Creative Writing in 1996.

Downtown San Antonio

Trinity University is a private, primarily undergraduate, liberal arts college in midtown San Antonio, approximately 5 miles due north of the downtown area.

Due West, South Carolina

Due West is the home of Erskine College, a private Christian liberal arts college affiliated with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and Dixie High School, serving grades 8-12.

Eckerd

Eckerd College, private liberal arts college in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

Furman University

In the South during recent years, Furman University graduates have earned more Ph.D. degrees than those from any other southern private liberal arts college, according to a survey conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.

Grantham, Pennsylvania

Grantham is an unincorporated community in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, best known today for the Christian liberal arts college, Messiah College, whose students make up most of its population.

Laura Skandera Trombley

In 1997, Skandera Trombley assumed the post of vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Coe College, a private liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Maulana Azad College

Maulana Azad College is an government administered liberal arts college, located in central Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Pomona University

Pomona College, a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California (originally founded in Pomona) and part of the Claremont Colleges consortium

Rhodes Colleges

Rhodes College, a private, four-year liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Richard Dorman

Richard Dorman is the 14th President of Westminster College, a liberal arts college in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania,.

Richard G. Jewell

Richard G. Jewell is the eighth president of Grove City College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

Rick Levin

Levin spearheaded the creation of the first liberal arts college in Asia, Yale-NUS, a joint venture between Yale University and the National University of Singapore.

Shorter College

Shorter University, a liberal arts college in Rome, Georgia formerly known as Shorter College