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1884 Nebraska Lieutenant Gubernatorial Election
The 1884 Nebraska lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1884, and featured Republican nominee Hibbard H. Shedd defeating fusion Democratic and Greenback (Anti-Monopoly) nominee Lewis C. Pace. Incumbent Nebraska Lieutenant Governor Alfred W. Agee was renominated at the Nebraska Republican state convention, but he was defeated for the nomination by Shedd by a vote of 292 to 153 of the delegates. General election Candidates *Col. Lewis Clark Pace, Democratic candidate who had also been associated with the Greenback Party, which, at its convention, decided to form a fusion ticket with the Democratic party * Hibbard H. Shedd, Republican candidate, men's clothier and tailor, member of the Nebraska Constitutional Convention of 1875, and former member and Speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883 from Ashland, Nebraska Ashland is a city in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,262 at th2022 census History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibbard Houston Shedd
Hibbard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aldro Hibbard (1886–1972), American painter * Bill Hibbard, American scientist * Brian Hibbard (1946–2012), Welsh actor and singer * Claude W. Hibbard (1905–1973), American paleontologist * David Hibbard (stage actor), American stage actor * David Sutherland Hibbard (died 1966), American missionary and educator * Edna Hibbard (1895–1942), American actress * Ellery Albee Hibbard (1826–1903), American politician from New Hampshire * Fred Hibbard, pseudonym of Fred Fishback (1894–1925), American silent film director * Frederick Hibbard (1881–1950), American sculptor * George A. Hibbard (1864–1910), American politician from Boston * George E. Hibbard (1924–1991), American collector of Tibetan art * Greg Hibbard, American baseball player * Hall Hibbard (1903–1996), American aviation engineer and administrator * Harry Hibbard (1816–1872), American politician from New Hampshire * James Hibbard, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred W
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series *Alfred (Arne opera), ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne *Alfred (Dvořák), ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album ''Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher *Alfred University, New York, U.S. *The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario ** Alfred, Ontario, a community in Alfred and Plantag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival since the 1850s has been the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, and the two have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 from remnants of the Democratic-Republican Party. Senator Martin Van Buren played the central role in building the coalition of state organizations which formed the new party as a vehicle to help elect Andrew Jackson as president that year. It initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and Manifest destiny, geographical expansionism, while opposing Bank War, a national bank and high Tariff, tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whig Party (United States) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenback Party
The Greenback Party (known successively as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party and the Greenback Labor Party) was an Political parties in the United States, American political party with an Competition law, anti-monopoly ideology which was active from 1874 to 1889. The party ran candidates in three United States presidential election, presidential elections, in 1876 United States presidential election, 1876, 1880 United States presidential election, 1880 and 1884 United States presidential election, 1884, before it faded away. The party's name referred to the non-Gold standard, gold backed paper money, commonly known as "United States Note, greenbacks", that had been issued by the Northern United States, North during the American Civil War and shortly afterward. The party opposed the deflationary lowering of prices paid to producers that was entailed by a return to a bullion-based monetary system, the policy favored by the Republican Party (United States), Republ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebraska Lieutenant Governor
The lieutenant governor of Nebraska is the highest-ranking executive official in the State of Nebraska after the Governor of Nebraska, governor. According to the Constitution of Nebraska, Nebraska State Constitution, in the event a governor dies, becomes permanently incapacitated, resigns, or is removed from office, the lieutenant governor will become governor. Prior to the Constitution of 1875, Nebraska had no office of lieutenant governor. If the governor died, resigned, or was removed from office (as happened to Governor David Butler (politician), David Butler in 1871), then the Nebraska Secretary of State was appointed as Acting Governor until the vacancy would be filled by the next election. The Constitution of 1875 created the office of Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, leading to the first election of a lieutenant governor in Nebraska in the election of 1876. Prior to 1962, both the governor and the lieutenant governor were elected to two-year terms, but in 1962, voters app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebraska House Of Representatives
The Nebraska House of Representatives was the lower house of the Nebraska Legislature during the days when Nebraska was a territory from 1854 to 1867 and then as a state from 1867 to 1936. In 1934, Nebraska voters amended the Nebraska Constitution to reconfigure the Nebraska Legislature to a unicameral system. This system became effective for the 1937 legislative session. In 1854, as the territorial lower house, it had 26 members; in 1858, this number was raised to 39 members. The second state constitution in 1875 limited membership in the House at 100 members, a limit which would be filled by 1881. The last representatives were elected to a two-year term in 1934 and began their service with the final legislative session in 1935. References See also * List of speakers of the Nebraska House of Representatives * Members of the Nebraska House of Representatives Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an objec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashland, Nebraska
Ashland is a city in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,262 at th2022 census History Ashland is located at the site of a low-water limestone ledge along the bottom of Salt Creek, an otherwise mud-bottomed stream that was a formidable obstacle for wagon trains on the great westward migrations of the late 1840s and 1850s. The Oxbow Trail, a variant route of the Oregon Trail, ran from Nebraska City (on the Missouri River) to Fort Kearny (on the Platte River), where it joined the main route of the Oregon Trail. The limestone bottom of Salt Creek at Ashland made it an excellent fording site. Ashland was established in 1870 and named after Ashland, the estate of Henry Clay. Today, Ashland benefits by its proximity to Interstate 80 and the cities of Omaha and Lincoln. While in some respects Ashland is becoming a "bedroom community" of those much larger cities, it retains a rural character. That coherence as a community, and a 30-minute drive to eith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Nebraska Gubernatorial Election
The 1884 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1884, and featured incumbent Governor James W. Dawes, a Republican Party (United States), Republican, defeating Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee J. Sterling Morton for a second time after the 1882 Nebraska gubernatorial election, 1882 election. General election Candidates *James W. Dawes, Republican candidate, incumbent Governor of Nebraska *Rev. Jason G. Miller, Prohibition candidate *J. Sterling Morton, Democratic candidate, former acting List of governors of Nebraska, Governor of Nebraska Territory and former Democratic candidate for Governor of Nebraska in the 1866 Nebraska gubernatorial election, 1866 and 1882 Nebraska gubernatorial election, 1882 elections. Results See also * 1884 Nebraska lieutenant gubernatorial election References 1884 Nebraska elections, Gubernatorial Nebraska gubernatorial elections, 1884 1884 United States gubernatorial elections, Nebraska November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Nebraska Elections
Events January * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London to promote gradualist social progress. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera ''Princess Ida'', a satire on feminism, premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 7 – German microbiologist Robert Koch isolates ''Vibrio cholerae'', the cholera bacillus, working in India. * January 18 – William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' (London). Based on the disappearance of the crew of the ''Mary Celeste'' in 1872, many of the fictional elements introduced by Doyle come to replace the real events in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
