Dictionary of the United States Congress: Containing Biographical Sketches of Its Members from the Foundation of the Government ; with an Appendix |
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... serving till 1817 . ALEXANDER , MARK . He was born in Mechlenburg County , Virginia , and elected a Re- presentative in Congress , from that State , from 1819 to 1833 , and served on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions , Ways and ...
... serving till 1817 . ALEXANDER , MARK . He was born in Mechlenburg County , Virginia , and elected a Re- presentative in Congress , from that State , from 1819 to 1833 , and served on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions , Ways and ...
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... served as a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia . He is at the present time Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia . ALLEN , JOHN W. Born in Litchfield , Connecticut , in 1802 ; settled in Cleveland , Ohio , in ...
... served as a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia . He is at the present time Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia . ALLEN , JOHN W. Born in Litchfield , Connecticut , in 1802 ; settled in Cleveland , Ohio , in ...
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... served five years in the Senate of Virginia , and was a Re- presentative in Congress , from that State , from 1827 to 1833 , serving on the Committee for the District of Columbia . Since that time he has devoted himself chiefly to the ...
... served five years in the Senate of Virginia , and was a Re- presentative in Congress , from that State , from 1827 to 1833 , serving on the Committee for the District of Columbia . Since that time he has devoted himself chiefly to the ...
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... served in Con- gress for eight years , he was elected President of Harvard University , but declined the honor . He was an industrious writer as well as a great orator ; and his collected writings , with a memoir , were published in ...
... served in Con- gress for eight years , he was elected President of Harvard University , but declined the honor . He was an industrious writer as well as a great orator ; and his collected writings , with a memoir , were published in ...
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... served repeatedly in the Legis- lature of that State ; was Speaker of its House in 1848 and 1849 ; and elected a Representative in Con- gress , from 1827 to 1829 , and was a member of the Committee on the Boundary - Line of Missouri ...
... served repeatedly in the Legis- lature of that State ; was Speaker of its House in 1848 and 1849 ; and elected a Representative in Con- gress , from 1827 to 1829 , and was a member of the Committee on the Boundary - Line of Missouri ...
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Page 113 - The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood or Forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the Public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.
Page 107 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to th.e places of choosing senators.
Page 120 - THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 106 - No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. The Vice-President of the United States shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
Page 120 - After the first enumeration required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number...
Page 116 - Delaware, December 7, 1787; Pennsylvania. December 12, 1787; New Jersey, December 18, 1787; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts. February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788; South Carolina, May 23, 1788; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788; Virginia, June 26, 1788; and New York, July 26, 1788.
Page 120 - ARTICLES IN ADDITION TO, AND AMENDMENT OF, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PROPOSED BY CONGRESS, AND RATIFIED BY THE LEGISLATURES OF THE SEVERAL STATES PURSUANT TO THE FIFTH ARTICLE OF THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION : Article I.
Page 114 - ... states concerned, as well as of the congress. The congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECT. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ;...
Page 120 - RESOLVED, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 263 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.