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See also:OLNEY, See also:RICHARD (1835— ) , See also:American statesman, was See also:born at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, See also:Massachusetts, on the 15th of See also:September 1835. He graduated from See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown University in 1856, and from the See also:Law School of Harvard University in 1858. In 1859 he began the practice of law at See also:Boston, Massachusetts, and attained a high position at the See also:bar. He served in the See also:state See also:house of representatives in 1874, and in See also:March 1893 became See also:attorney-See also:general of the See also:United States in the See also:cabinet of See also:President See also:Cleveland. In this position, during the strike of the railway employes in See also:Chicago in 1894, he instructed the See also:district attorneys to secure from the Federal Courts writs of See also:injunction restraining the strikers from acts of violence, and thus set a precedent for " See also:government by injunction." He also advised the use of Federal troops to quell the disturbances in the See also:city, on the ground that the government must prevent interference with its mails and with the general railway transportation between the states. Upon the See also:death of Secretary W. Q. See also:Gresham (1832—1895), Olney succeeded him as secretary of state on the loth of See also:June 1895. He became specially prominent in the controversy with See also:Great See also:Britain concerning the boundary dispute between the See also:British and Venezuelan governments (see See also:VENEZUELA), and in his See also:correspondence with See also:Lord See also:Salisbury gave an extended See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation to the See also:Monroe See also:Doctrine which went considerably beyond previous statements on the subject. In 1897, at the expiration of President Cleveland's See also:term, he returned to the practice of the law.
End of Article: OLNEY, RICHARD (1835— )
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