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See also:WILMOT, See also:DAVID (1814-1868) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Bethany, See also:Pennsylvania, on the loth of See also:January 1814. He was admitted to the See also:bar in 1834 and practised See also:law in See also:Towanda. He entered politics as a Democrat, served in the See also:National See also:House of Representatives from 1845 to 1851, and although he favoured the See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker See also:Tariff, the Mexican See also:War and other party See also:measures, opposed the See also:extension of See also:slavery. On the 8th of See also:August 1846, when a See also:bill was introduced appropriating $2,000,000 to be used by the See also:president in negotiating a treaty of See also:peace with See also:Mexico, Wilmot immediately offered the following See also:amendment: " Provided, That, as an See also:express and fundamental See also:condition to theacquisition of any territory from the See also:Republic of Mexico by the See also:United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary See also:servitude shall ever exist in any See also:part of said territory, except for See also:crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted." The amendment, famous in American See also:history as the " Wilmot Proviso," was adopted by the House, but was defeated, with the See also:original bill, by the See also:Senate's See also:adjournment. A similar measure was brought forward at the next session, the See also:appropriation, however, being increased to $3,000,000, and the amendment being extended to include all territory which might be acquired by the United States; in this See also:form it passed the House by a See also:vote of 115 to 105; but the Senate refused to concur, passed a bill of its own without the amendment; and the House, owing largely to the See also:influence of See also:General See also:Lewis See also:Cass, in See also:March 1847, receded from its position. The amendment was never actually adopted by See also:Congress, and was in fact expressly repudiated in the See also:Compromise of 185o, and its content declared unconstitutional by the Supreme See also:Court in the Dred See also:Scott See also:case. Although known as the Wilmot Proviso it really originated with See also:Jacob Brinkerhoff (1810-188o) of See also:Ohio, Wilmot being selected to See also:present it only because his party See also:standing was more See also:regular. The extension of the principle to territory other than that to be acquired from Mexico was probably due to See also:Preston See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King (18o6-1865) of New See also:York. Wilmot supported See also:Van Buren in 1848 and entered the Republican party at the 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 of its formation, and was a delegate to the national conventions of 1856 and 186o. He was president See also:judge of the 13th Judicial See also:District of Pennsylvania in 185 1861, United States senator in 1861-1863 and Judge of the United States Court of Claims in 1863-1868. He died at Towanda, Pennsylvania, on the 16th of March 1868.
See G. P. See also:Garrison, Westward Extension (New York and See also:London, 1906).
End of Article: WILMOT, DAVID (1814-1868)
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