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Dennie, Joseph

(Encyclopedia)Dennie, Joseph, 1768–1812, American Federalist journalist, b. Boston. As editor, he made the Farmer's Weekly Museum at Walpole, N.H., an influential paper, particularly because of the “Lay Preache...

Ames, Fisher

(Encyclopedia)Ames, Fisher, 1758–1808, American political leader, b. Dedham, Mass.; son of Nathaniel Ames. Admitted to the bar in 1781, he began political pamphleteering and by a speech in the Massachusetts conve...

Hammond, James Henry

(Encyclopedia)Hammond, James Henry, 1807–64, American statesman, b. Newberry co., S.C. A lawyer and the owner of large plantations on the Savannah River, Hammond was an early believer in secession. He voiced this...

Stanley, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Stanley, Thomas: see Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of. ...

Beauchamp, Thomas de

(Encyclopedia)Beauchamp, Thomas de: see Warwick, Thomas de Beauchamp, earl of. ...

Mowbray, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Mowbray, Thomas: see Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of. ...

Cochrane, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Cochrane, Thomas: see Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th earl of. ...

Fitzgerald, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Fitzgerald, Thomas: see Kildare, Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of. ...

Wentworth, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Wentworth, Thomas: see Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of. ...
 

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