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Nathaniel P. Banks
Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union Army, Union general during the American Civil War, Civil War. A millworker, Banks became prominent in local debating societies and entered politics as a young adult. Initially a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Banks's abolitionist views drew him to the nascent Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, through which he won election to the United States House of Representatives and as Governor of Massachusetts in the 1850s. At the start of the 34th United States Congress, 34th Congress, he was elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the House in 1855–56 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, an election that spanned a record 133 ballots taken over the course of two months. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln appointed Banks as on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maude Banks
Maude Banks (1857–1927) was an American stage actress. Life Maud Banks, the daughter of Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, was born in 1857. After a course of study and training at the New York school of acting, she went upon the stage in 1886, making her first appearance at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the character of Parthenia in ''Maria Ann Lovell, Ingomar''. She may also have written plays. She died, unmarried, in 1927.''Lewiston Evening Journal'', p. 2. References Sources * James Grant Wilson, Wilson, J. G.; John Fiske (philosopher), Fiske, J., eds. (1888). iarchive:appletonscyclop01wils/page/158/mode/2up, "Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss". ''Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography''. Vol. 1. New York: D. Appleton & Co. p. 159. "Actresses in Real Tears; Final Rehearsal of "The City's Heart" Too Strenuous.It Resulted in the Postponement for One Week of the Professional Woman's League's Matinee". ''The New York Times''. April 18, 1902. . Retrieved January 25, 2023. "Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliphalet Trask
Eliphalet Trask (January 8, 1806 – December 9, 1890) was an American politician who served as the third mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, and as the 23rd lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1861. In 1855 Trask was elected the Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, on the Know Nothing The American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855 and colloquially referred to as the Know Nothings, or the Know Nothing Party, was an Old Stock Americans, Old Stock Nativism in United States politics, nativist political movem ... party ticket. References External links''New York Times'' obituary 1806 births 1890 deaths 19th-century mayors of places in Massachusetts Massachusetts Republicans Massachusetts Whigs Mayors of Springfield, Massachusetts Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Lieutenant governors of Massachusetts Springfield, Massachusetts City Council members Massachusetts Know Nothings {{Massachusetts-MAR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District
Massachusetts's 6th congressional district is located in northeastern Massachusetts. It contains almost all of Essex County, Massachusetts, Essex County, including the North Shore (Massachusetts), North Shore and Cape Ann and excluding the Merrimack Valley, as well as some towns in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County. Recent election results from statewide races Cities and towns in the district For the 118th United States Congress, 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2020 United States census, 2020 census), the district contains all or portions of two counties and 39 municipalities: Essex County, Massachusetts, Essex County (31) :Amesbury, Massachusetts, Amesbury, Andover, Massachusetts, Andover, Beverly, Massachusetts, Beverly, Boxford, Massachusetts, Boxford, Danvers, Massachusetts, Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, Essex, Georgetown, Massachusetts, Georgetown, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Gloucester, Groveland, Massachusetts, Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the primary Land warfare, land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United States Constitution (1789).See alsTitle 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001 It operates under the authority, direction, and control of the United States Secretary of Defense, United States secretary of defense. It is one of the six armed forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. The Army is the most senior branch in order of precedence amongst the armed services. It has its roots in the Continental Army, formed on 14 June 1775 to fight against the British for independence during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army.Library of CongressJournals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union (American Civil War)
The Union was the central government of the United States during the American Civil War. Its civilian and military forces resisted the Confederate State of America, Confederacy's attempt to Secession in the United States, secede following the 1860 United States presidential election, election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States. Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's administration asserted the permanency of the federal government of the United States, federal government and the continuity of the Constitution of the United States, United States Constitution. Nineteenth-century Americans commonly used the term Union to mean either the federal government of the United States or the unity of the states within the Federalism in the United States, federal constitutional framework. The Union can also refer to the people or territory of the states that remained loyal to the national government during the war. The loyal states are also known as the North, although fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Officer (military)
An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service. Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer (NCO), or a warrant officer. However, absent contextual qualification, the term typically refers only to a force's ''commissioned officers'', the more senior members who derive their authority from a commission from the head of state. Numbers The proportion of officers varies greatly. Commissioned officers typically make up between an eighth and a fifth of modern armed forces personnel. In 2013, officers were the senior 17% of the British armed forces, and the senior 13.7% of the French armed forces. In 2012, officers made up about 18% of the German armed forces, and about 17.2% of the United States armed forces. Historically armed forces have generally had much lower proportions of officers. During the First World War, fewer than 5% of British soldiers were officers (partly becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Republican Party (United States)
The Liberal Republican Party was an American political party that was organized in May 1872 to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters in the 1872 United States presidential election, presidential election of 1872. The party emerged in Missouri under the leadership of Senator Carl Schurz and soon attracted other opponents of Grant; Liberal Republicans decried the scandals of the Grant administration and sought U.S. Civil Service Reform, civil service reform. The party opposed Grant's Reconstruction Era, Reconstruction policies, particularly the Enforcement Acts. It lost in a landslide, and disappeared from the national stage after the 1872 election. The History of the United States Republican Party, Republican Party had emerged as the dominant party in the aftermath of the Civil War, but many original Republicans became dissatisfied with the leadership of President Grant. Prominent Classical liberal, liberal leaders like Schurz, Ch ... [...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] |
Know Nothing
The American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855 and colloquially referred to as the Know Nothings, or the Know Nothing Party, was an Old Stock Americans, Old Stock Nativism in United States politics, nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by outsiders, providing the group with its colloquial name. Supporters of the Know Nothing movement believed that an alleged "Romanism, Romanist" conspiracy to subvert civil and freedom of religion, religious liberty in the United States was being hatched by Catholic Church in the United States, Catholics. Therefore, they sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in defense of their traditional religious and political values. The Know Nothing movement is remembered for this theme because Protestants feared that Catholic priests and bishops would control a large bloc of voters. In mos ... [...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] |
Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the Technological and industrial history of the United States, American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning, spawning what became known as the Waltham-Lowell system of labor and production. The city is now a center for research and higher education as home to Brandeis University and Bentley University. The population was 65,218 at the 2020 United States census. Waltham is part of the Greater Boston area and lies west of Downtown Boston. Waltham has been called "watch city" because of its association with the watch industry. Waltham Watch Company opened its factory in Waltham in 1854 and was the first company to make watches on an assembly line. It won the gold medal in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
