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See also:DEPEW, See also:CHAUNCEY See also:MITCHELL (1834– ) , See also:American lawyer and politician, was See also:born in See also:Peekskill, New See also:York, on the 23rd of See also:April 1834, of a Huguenot See also:family (originally Du Puis or De See also:Puy). He graduated at Yale in 1856, entered politics as a Whig—his See also:father had been a Democrat—was admitted to the See also:bar in 1858, was a member of the New York See also:Assembly in 1861–1862, and was secretary of See also:state of New York state in 1864-1865. He refused a nomination to be See also:United States See also:minister to See also:Japan, and through his friendship with See also:Cornelius and See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William H. See also:Vanderbilt in 1866 became See also:attorney for the New York & Harlem railway, in 1869 was appointed attorney of the newly consolidated New York Central & See also:Hudson See also:river railway, of which he soon became.a director, and in 1875 was made See also:general counsel for the entire Vanderbilt See also:system of See also:railways. He became second See also:vice-See also:president of the New York Central & Hudson river in 1869 and was its president in 1885–1898, and in 1898 was made chairman of the See also:board of See also:directors of the Vanderbilt system. In 1872 he joined the Liberal-Republican See also:movement, and was nominated and defeated for the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of New York. In 1888 in the See also:National Republican See also:convention he was a See also:candidate for the presidential nomination, but withdrew his name in favour of See also:Benjamin See also:Harrison, whose offer to him in 1889 of the See also:portfolio of state he refused. In 1899 he was elected United States senator from New York state, and in 1904 was re-elected for the See also:term ending in 1911. His See also:great See also:personal popularity, augmented by his ability as an orator, suffered considerably after 1905, the inquiry into See also:life See also:insurance See also:company methods by a See also:committee of the state legislature resulting in acute See also:criticism of his actions as a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and as counsel to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry B. See also:Hyde and his son. Among his best-known orations are that delivered at the unveiling of the Bartholdi statue of See also:Liberty enlightening the See also:World (1886), an address at the See also:Washington Centennial in New York (1889), and the Columbian oration at the See also:dedication ceremonies of the See also:Chicago World's See also:Fair (1892).
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