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See also:REAGAN, See also:JOHN HENNINGER (1818-1905) , See also:American politician, was See also:born in See also:Sevier See also:county, See also:Tennessee, on the 8th of See also:October 1818. He removed to See also:Texas in 1839, was See also:deputy surveyor of public lands in 1839-1843, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1846, was a member of the See also:state See also:House of Representatives
in 1849–1848, served as See also:district See also:judge in 1852–1857, and in 1857–1861 was a representative in See also:Congress. His See also:political views were determined by the ultra-democratic See also:influence of See also:Andrew See also:Jackson and the state-See also:sovereignty See also:philosophy of John C. See also:Calhoun. In 1861 he was a member of the Texas See also:secession See also:convention, served in the Confederate provisional Congress, and on the 6th of See also:March was appointed postmaster-See also:general in See also:President See also:Davis's See also:cabinet. He served in this capacity through-out the See also:war, and for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time before its See also:close was also acting secretary of the See also:treasury. He was captured with the Davis party on the loth of May 1865, and was imprisoned in Fort See also:Warren, See also:Boston See also:Harbour, until the following October. While in See also:prison he wrote the " Fort Warren See also:letter " (See also:August 11th), in which he urged the See also:people of Texas to recognize their defeat, See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant See also:civil rights to the freedmen, and try to conciliate the See also:North. From 1875 to 1887, when he entered the U.S. See also:Senate, he was again a representative in Congress, and from 1877 almost continuously to the close of his service he was chairman of the See also:Committee on See also:Commerce, in which capacity he had a prominent See also:part in securing the passage of the Interstate Commerce See also:Act of 1887. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1876. In state politics his sympathies were with the Radicals. In 1891, believing that his first See also:duty was to his state, he resigned from the Senate to accept the chairmanship of the newly established state railway See also:commission. In 1901 he retired from public service. From 1899 until his See also:death he was president of the Texas State See also:Historical Association. He died at his See also:home, near See also:Palestine, Texas, on the 6th of March 1905.
See his See also:Memoirs; with See also:Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War (New See also:York, 1906), edited by W. F. McCaleb.
End of Article: REAGAN, JOHN HENNINGER (1818-1905)
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