#John Breckinridge Martin

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What a lovely little #opossum portrait!

John Breckinridge Martin (American, 1857 - 1938) Possum, 1910 Pastel, 19 1/2 × 16 in. (49.53 × 40.64 cm) Dallas Museum of Art 1950.95

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2 and a half weeks until JC passes Cactus Jack!

It took me a little bit to figure out what you were referencing, but yes, Jimmy Carter will pass John Nance Garner as the longest-living President or Vice President in American history on September 18th. And if he is still with us on October 1st, Carter will be the first President or Vice President in American history to celebrate their 99th birthday.

And since I'm a huge dork who finds this stuff interesting, here's the big, complete list of longest-living to shortest-living Presidents and Vice Presidents in American history: (Presidents are in bold text, Vice Presidents are in italics, and those who served as both POTUS and VP are in bold italics.) John Nance Garner: 98 years, 351 days Jimmy Carter: 98 years, 337 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Levi P. Morton: 96 years, 0 days George H.W. Bush: 94 years, 171 days Gerald R. Ford: 93 years, 165 days Ronald Reagan: 93 years, 120 days Walter Mondale: 93 years, 81 days John Adams: 90 years, 247 days Herbert Hoover: 90 years, 71 days Harry S. Truman: 88 years, 232 days Charles G. Dawes: 85 years, 239 days James Madison: 85 years, 104 days Thomas Jefferson: 83 years, 82 days Dick Cheney: 82 years, 216 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Hannibal Hamlin: 81 years, 311 days Richard Nixon: 81 years, 104 days Joe Biden: 80 years, 287 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) John Quincy Adams: 80 years, 227 days Aaron Burr: 80 years, 220 days Martin Van Buren: 79 years, 231 days Adlai E. Stevenson: 78 years, 234 days Dwight D. Eisenhower: 78 years, 165 days Alben W. Barkley: 78 years, 157 days Andrew Jackson: 78 years, 85 days Spiro Agnew: 77 years, 261 days Donald Trump: 77 years, 81 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) George W. Bush: 77 years, 59 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry A. Wallace: 77 years, 42 days James Buchanan: 77 years, 39 days Bill Clinton: 77 years, 15 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Dan Quayle: 76 years, 211 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Charles Curtis: 76 years, 14 days Al Gore: 75 years, 156 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Millard Fillmore: 74 years, 60 days James Monroe: 73 years, 67 days George Clinton: 72 years, 268 days George M. Dallas: 72 years, 174 days William Howard Taft: 72 years, 174 days John Tyler: 71 years, 295 days Grover Cleveland: 71 years, 98 days Thomas R. Marshall: 71 years, 79 days Nelson Rockefeller: 70 years, 202 days Elbridge Gerry: 70 years, 129 days Rutherford B. Hayes: 70 years, 105 days Richard M. Johnson: 70 years, 33 days William Henry Harrison: 68 years, 54 days John C. Calhoun: 68 years, 13 days William A. Wheeler: 67 years, 339 days George Washington: 67 years, 295 days Benjamin Harrison: 67 years, 205 days Woodrow Wilson: 67 years, 36 days William R. King: 67 years, 11 days Hubert H. Humphrey: 66 years, 231 days Andrew Johnson: 66 years, 214 days Thomas A. Hendricks: 66 years, 79 days Charles W. Fairbanks: 66 years, 24 days Zachary Taylor: 65 years, 227 days Franklin Pierce: 64 years, 319 days Lyndon B. Johnson: 64 years, 148 days Mike Pence: 64 years, 88 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry Wilson: 63 years, 279 days Ulysses S. Grant: 63 years, 87 days Franklin D. Roosevelt: 63 years, 72 days Barack Obama: 62 years, 30 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Schuyler Colfax: 61 years, 296 days Calvin Coolidge: 60 years, 185 days Theodore Roosevelt: 60 years, 71 days Kamala Harris: 58 years, 318 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) William McKinley: 58 years, 228 days Warren G. Harding: 57 years, 273 days Chester A. Arthur: 57 years, 44 days James S. Sherman: 57 years, 6 days Abraham Lincoln: 56 years, 62 days Garret A. Hobart: 55 years, 171 days John C. Breckinridge: 54 years, 116 days James K. Polk: 53 years, 225 days Daniel D. Tompkins: 50 years, 355 days James Garfield: 49 years, 304 days John F. Kennedy: 46 years, 177 days

#History #Presidents #Vice Presidents #Longest-living Presidents and Vice Presidents #Presidential Data #Presidential Statistics #Presidential Facts #POTUS #VP #Jimmy Carter #President Carter #John Nance Garner #Vice President Garner

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mobile muse list : television

* original character. ** written as an original character.

american horror story :

moira o'hara , twenty three / seventy six , alexandra breckinridge / frances conroy

tate langdon , twenty one , evan peters

violet harmon , twenty one , taissa farmiga

bob's burgers :

gene belcher , twenty three , noah centineo

louise belcher , twenty one , hailee steinfeld

tina belcher , twenty five , barbie ferreira

disney / nickelodeon :

alex russo , twenty three , wizards of waverly place , selena gomez

carly shay , twenty two , icarly , miranda cosgrove

maddie fitzpatrick , twenty four , suite life , ashley tisdale / olivia holt

doctor who :

amelia pond , twenty one , karen gillan

clara oswald , twenty six , jenna coleman

rose tyler , twenty one , billie piper

euphoria :

barbara "bb" brooks , twenty three , faceclaim tbd

cassie howard , twenty three , sydney sweeney

lexi howard , twenty two , maude apatow

maddy perez , twenty three , alexa demie

ruby "rue" bennett , twenty two , zendaya

suze howard , forty six , stefania spampinato

gossip girl :

blair waldorf , twenty two , leighton meester

dan humphrey , twenty two , penn badgley

serena van der woodsen , twenty two , blake lively

grey's anatomy :

cristina yang , twenty four plus , sandra oh

isobel "izzie" stevens , twenty four plus , katherine heigl

josephine "jo" wilson , twenty four plus , camilla luddington

jules millin , twenty four , adelaide kane

lucas "luke" adams , twenty four , niko terho

mark sloan , twenty eight plus , eric dane

meredith grey , twenty four plus , ellen pompeo

mika yasuda , twenty four , midori francis

it's always sunny in philadelphia :

frank reynolds , fifty eight , danny devito

the waitress , thirty four , rachel mcadams

outer banks :

cleo , twenty three , carlacia grant

jj maybank , twenty two , rudy pankow

john b routledge , twenty two , chase stokes

kiara carrera , twenty one , madison bailey

pope heyward , twenty two , jonathan daviss

sarah cameron , twenty one , madelyn cline

schitt's creek :

alexis rose , twenty seven , annie murphy

david rose , thirty one , dan levy

patrick brewer , thirty , noah reid

shameless :

fiona gallagher , twenty eight , emmy rossum

mickey milkovich , twenty four , noel fisher

phillip "lip" gallagher , twenty six , jeremy allen white

supernatural :

alex jones , twenty one , faceclaim tbd **

brooklyn winchester , twenty two , kaitlyn dever *

castiel , unknown , misha collins

charlotte winchester , twenty two , olivia holt *

dean winchester , twenty six plus , jensen ackles

ed zeddmore , twenty seven , nicholas galitzine **

elena gilbert , twenty one , nina dobrev **

harry spangler , twenty five , devon bostick **

hayley wilson , twenty three , maia mitchell *

iliana , unknown , astrid berges-frisbey *

jessica moore , twenty two , adrianne palicki **

joanna "jo" harvelle , twenty five , dianna agron

kevin tran , twenty one , osric chau

layla rourke , twenty six , rebecca rittenhouse **

lucas barr , twenty three , nick robinson **

olivia sawyer , twenty six , alexandra daddario *

sarah blake , twenty three , taylor cole **

weston lane , twenty eight , pete davidson *

teen wolf :

allison argent , twenty four , crystal reed

asher mccall , twenty two , niko terho *

caleb miller , twenty five , michael trevino *

cora hale , twenty one , adelaide kane

daniella coleman , twenty two , chase sui wonders *

derek hale , twenty five , tyler hoechlin

emma martin , twenty two , madelyn cline *

emmett hale , twenty five , mike faist

erica reyes , twenty three , gage golightly

hadley cooper , twenty three , abigail cowen *

hayden romero , twenty one , victoria moroles

indiana stilinski , twenty nine , lily james *

isaac lahey , twenty three , daniel sharman

kira yukimura , twenty three , arden cho

laura hale , twenty eight , phoebe tonkin **

liam dunbar , twenty one , dylan sprayberry

lydia martin , twenty three , holland roden

malia tate , twenty two , shelley hennig

melissa mccall , forty six , melissa ponzio

noah stilinski , fifty , linden ashby

paige krasikeva , twenty five , maia mitchell **

peter hale , forty five , ian bohen

quinn fabray , twenty three , dianna agron **

riley hale , twenty two , zoey deutch / maia mitchell *

scott mccall , twenty three , tyler posey

stiles stilinski , twenty three , dylan o'brien

victor perez , twenty six , diego tinoco

misc :

emma forbes , eternally twenty two , the vampire diaries , madelyn cline * ( extremely selective original verse , reserved for existing threads / plots )

kimberly holloway , twenty two , stranger things , inde navarrette *

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Raquel Welch, the big-screen star of the 1960s and ’70s who gained fame in movies including Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B.C., Myra Breckinridge, and many others, died today after a brief illness was confirmed by her reps at Media 4 Management.

Welch’s career spanned more than 50 years, 30 films, and scores of TV series and appearances, including about a dozen visits to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson spanning two decades and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Imagen Foundation in 2001.

Born Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, Welch's family moved to San Diego when she was a toddler on a theatre arts scholarship, and she began her career as a local TV weathercaster before landing guest shots on classic TV series such as McHale's Navy, Bewitched, The Virginian, and others, including Cora in the wild 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage, which also starred Stephen Boyd and Edmund Gwenn and only had an hour before they returned. 

The film won Oscars for its visual effects, art direction, and set decoration and became a cult classic with a 91% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Welch then starred as a clan cavewoman in the 1966 British film One Million Years B.C., another wild tale set in a time when humans and dinosaurs coexisted; a slightly censored version of the film was released in the United States, and the film became a TV staple in later years, inspiring her to star with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in the London-set 1967 comedy Bedazzled and opposite James Stewart, Dean Martin, and George Kennedy in the 1968 western Bandoler.

Welch continued her big-screen career alongside some of the era's biggest stars, including Burt Reynolds in the 1972 cop comedy Fuzz, Richard Burton in Bluebeard the same year, and James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, and others in Herbert Ross' The Last of Sheila, written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins and starring Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed, and Michael York in 1973.

That film earned Welch a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, and it spawned a 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge. She also appeared in the 1976 ambulance-crew comedy Mother, Jugs & Speed, alongside Bill Cosby and Harvey Keitel; her other films from the era were Kansas City Bomber, a 1972 drama set in the then-popular world of roller derby; The Beloved (1971); and the western Hannie Caulder, which she co-starred in with Robert Culp and Ernest Borgnine. 

Welch was never shy about fighting for herself and her place at the Hollywood table. In that context, she made a very different set of headlines in the 1980s when she sued MGM over being dumped from starring with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row to play an empathetic prostitute in the David S. Ward-helmed movie based on the work of John Steinbeck. Welch was booted off the project by the studio over a contract violation in which she insisted on having her hair and makeup done there.

MGM said no and replaced Welch with Debra Winger to make peace by taking another role, but after being rebuffed by the studio, then run by David Begelman, Welch hit back and sued MGM for $24 million.

Making headlines all over the world, Welch alleged in her suit that the studio had built the movie and its financing around her and then used the hair-and-makeup dispute as a way to get a younger actress in the hooker role through the courts and appeals, but Welch ultimately was awarded a $10 million verdict in 1987, which, of course, generated a whole new set of headlines for her.  

By the late 1970s, Welch's film career had peaked, and she began doing more TV work in 1979, appearing in a couple of Season 2 Mork & Mindy episodes with Robin Williams, and she continued to appear in telefilms throughout the decade, including the title role in "The Legend of Walks Far Woman," a 1982 NBC telepic about a woman who murders her abusive husband, and the role of a successful woman whose husband is murdered.

She later did a memorable cameo as herself in 1994's Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, wrestling Leslie Nielsen's Lt. Frank Drebin onstage at the Oscars, and briefly appeared as Mrs. Windham-Vandermark herself in the classic 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Summer of George," which featured the actress mistakenly presenting a Tony Award to Michael Richards' Kramer, with unexpected repercussions.

Other 1990s TV guest roles included Evening Shade (reuniting with Reynolds), Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Lois & Clark, and multiple episodes of Spin City and C.P.W. Her small-screen credits since then include a recurring role on the 2002 PBS series American Family, which starred Edward James Olmos and Sonia Braga, along with 8 Simple Rules, CSI: Miami, the telefilm House of Versace, the short-lived CBS sitcom Welcome to the Captain, the Canadian comedy Date My Dad, and her career, Welch appeared on scores of TV talk, game, and awards show; hosted Saturday Night Live during its first season in 1976; was a presenter at multiple Academy Awards and Tony Awards ceremonies; appeared on Bob Hope comedy specials and toplined her own specials; in 1970, 1974, and the 1980 CBS special Raquel! showcased Welch’s comedy, dancing, and singing skills, earning a 51% share.

She also was a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and talk or variety shows hosted by Oprah Winfrey, Craig Ferguson, Bonnie Hunt, Dick Cavett, Mike Douglas, Joey Bishop, Dean Martin, Merv Griffin, and others twice on Broadway: the first time in 1981, when she filled in for a vacationing Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year 1997, and the second time in 1997, when she played the lead role of Victoria Grant in Victor/Victoria, replacing original star Julie Andrews.

Despite her Golden Globes win and nomination, Welch never earned an Oscar or Emmy nomination during her long career; other accolades include an ALMA Award in 2001, a Western Heritage Award for The Legend of Walks Far Woman, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996 by her son, Damon Welch, and daughter, Tahnee Welch.  

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Raquel Welch: A Career In Photos

Raquel Welch had a 50-plus year career in film and television, starring opposite Marcello Mastroianni, Edward G. Robinson, Robin Williams, Jimmy Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Farrah Fawcett, Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Mae West, John Huston, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn and many others. Raquel Welch Dies: ‘Fantastic Voyage’, ‘One Million Years B.C.’, & ‘Myra Breckinridge’ Star Was…

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Countries of Origin of Paternal Ancestors of US Vice Presidents.

DarkCoke:

These are the countries of origin of paternal ancestors of US Vice Presidents:

England:

1 John Adams 1789-1797 2 Thomas Jefferson 1797-18o1 3 Aaron Burr 18o1-18o5 5 Elbridge Gerry 1813-1814 6 Daniel Tompkins 1817-1825 1o John Tyler 1841-1841 12 Millard Fillmore 1849-185o 13 William King 1853-1853 15 Hannibal Hamlin 1861-1865 17 Schuyler Colfax 1869-1873 19 William Wheeler 1877-1881 22 Levi Morton 1889-1893 24 Garret Hobart 1897-1899 26 Charles Fairbanks 19o5-19o9 27 James Sherman 19o9-1912 29 Calvin Coolidge 1921-1923 3o Charles Dawes 1925-1929 31 Charles Curtis 1929-1933 32 John Garner 1933-1941 34 Harry Truman 1945-1945 38 Hubert Humphrey 1965-1969 4o Gerald Ford 1973-1974 43 George H.W Bush 1981-1989 45 Al Gore 1993-2oo1 46 Dick Cheney 2oo1-2oo9 47 Joe Biden 2oo9-2o17

Ireland: 4 George Clinton 18o5-1812 7 John Calhoun 1825-1832

Scotland: 9 Richard Johnson 1837-1841 11 George Dallas 1845-1849 14 John Breckinridge 1857-1861 16 Andrew Johnson 1865-1865 23 Adlai Stevenson 1893-1897 33 Henry Wallace 1941-1945 35 Alben Barkley 1949-1953 37 Lyndon Johnson 1961-1963

Netherlands: 8 Martin Van Buren 1833-1837 21 Thomas Hendricks 1885-1885 25 Theodore Roosevelt 19o1-19o1

Northern Ireland: 18 Henry Wilson 1873-1875 2o Chester Arthur 1881-1881 36 Richard Nixon 1953-1961

Wales: 28 Thomas Marshall 1913-1921

Greece: 39 Spiro Agnew 1969-1973

Germany: 41 Nelson Rockefeller 1974-1977 48 Mike Pence 2017-

Norway: 42 Walter Mondale 1977-1981

Isle of Man: 44 Dan Quayle 1989-1993 https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7dqdrq/countries_of_origin_of_paternal_ancestors_of_us/

#maps #europe #us vice presidents #ancestry

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Republican Presidents of the 19th Century

Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States from 1861 until his shocking assassination in 1865. The colorful stories about Abe Lincoln's life really are true: He was born in a log cabin and grew up on the American frontier, educated himself by reading borrowed books, and worked splitting fence rails and clerking in a general store, and then as a country lawyer, long before he became president. He served in the Illinois General Assembly for eight years and in the U.S. House of Represe More »Born: February 12, 1809 (Near Hodgenville, Kentucky) By Martin Kelly Updated June 05, 2019 Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 to 1865. During his time in office, the nation fought the Civil War, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. One of Lincoln's greatest accomplishments was the abolition of enslavement in 1864.

Fast Facts: Abraham Lincoln

Known For: U.S. president from March 4, 1861–March 3, 1865; issued Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, freeing enslaved people in the southern United States

Also Known As: Honest Abe

Born: February 12, 1809 in Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky

Died: April 15, 1865 in Washington, D.C.

Spouse: Mary Todd Lincoln (m. 1842–1865)

Children: Robert, Edward, Willie, Tad

Notable Quote: "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Early Life

Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809. He moved to Indiana in 1816 and lived there for the rest of his youth. His mother died when he was 9 but he was very close to his stepmother, who urged him to read. Lincoln himself stated that he had about one year of formal education. However, he was taught by many different individuals. He loved to read and learn from any books he could get his hands on.

On November 4, 1842, Lincoln married Mary Todd. She had grown up in relative wealth. Many historians believe that Todd was mentally unbalanced; she struggled with mental health issues throughout her life and may have suffered from bipolar disorder. 

The Lincolns had four children, all but one of whom died young. Edward died at age 3 in 1850. Robert Todd grew up to be a politician, lawyer, and diplomat. William Wallace died at the age of 12. He was the president's only child to die in the White House. Thomas "Tad" died at 18.

Presidential Election

In 1860, Lincoln was nominated for the presidency by the Republican Party with Hannibal Hamlin as his running mate. He ran on a platform denouncing disunion and calling for an end to enslavement in the territories. The Democrats were divided, with Stephen Douglas representing the Democrats and John Breckinridge the National (Southern) Democrats nominee. John Bell ran for the Constitutional Union Party, which took away votes from Douglas. In the end, Lincoln won 40% of the popular vote and 180 of the 303 electoral college votes. Since he was in a four-way race, this was enough to ensure his victory.

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FATcS:  Abraham Lincoln was a ‘Republican’ President and he was the one that freed slaves in this country.  Slaves that the Democrats kept in chains, and beaten even day to keep them from leaving the Democrat Plantations all through out the Southern Sates in this country.

So, lets fast forward to the twenty century, when the Democrats changed their statics when Lynda Bain Johnson ran for President of the USA, it was during that time period the Democrats decided to switch sides, because they couldn’t win the Presidency in this country ever again unless they changed their ‘statics’ or to get ride of Slavery in the Southern States in this country.   Which they did under the guise of holding on to their position in this country which was at that time a ‘fake’ pretends.

The Republicans in this country have always supported all people of ‘skin color’. They never, ever owned salves in this country and never supported slavery in this country.  

They believe that all human-being should have an opportunity work, and or own their on businesses and take care of their families.

LET THE TRURTH BE TOLD.

LET’S EDUCATE OUR SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ABOUT THE TRUE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY AND MAKE IT MANDATORY THAT ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES TEACH AMERICAN HISTORY IN ORDER FOR THE CHILDREN TO KNOW AND APPRECIATE HOW FAR OUR COUNTRY HAVE GROWN.

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September 16, 1860; Daily National Democrat

Headline: Are They Disunionists or Not?

Description: Writer compiles quotes from southern democrats discussing plans for disunion (i.e. secession) by various southern democrats, focusing on then-vice-president and southern democratic candidate John C. Breckinridge. 

This article demonstrates that serious discussion of secession was already happening since the spring, and the divisions between northern and southern democrats through denouncement of radical plans from within their own party. 

[Transcript:

Headline: Are They Disunionists or Not?

Article:  Mr. Breckinridge is thoroughly identified — we suppose no one will now deny it—with the Yancey and Khett party. Mr. Yancey's letter to Mr. Slaughter, in which ho declared his policy to he to “precipitate the cotton States into a revolution," we have already several times published. We are indebted to-the National Intelligencer, through the medium of the Sacramento Union, for the following additional testimony of the disloy alty of the Breckinridge party to the union of the States. The Charleston Mercury, iu April 185S>, laid out the Disunion programme in unmis takable language. Its propositions were then, that the Charleston Convention should adopt a platform to suit the South Carolina views of State Rights; if it did not do so, then, to use the language of the Mercury, “let the Southern States Dominate and support candidates of their own, <tc.” Its filth and sixth propositions were as follows : Should the Southern States succeed in electing 'heir teclional candidates, thus nominated, of course they will deem it a sullicient prooflor the present of their safety in the Union. Rut -.linnlii the Southern States fail in electing their national candidates thus nominated, then let the same course be pursued as has been suggested in ease the Democratic party be defeated with can didates standing on the rights of the South, and Black Republican or Abolition candidates be elected. Hire U a deliberate intention expressed to weaken the Democratic party, by uniting on a purely sectional platform which it was known the National Convention would not adopt. The result of a thorough weakening of the Democratic party would be to throw the Government into the hands of the Re publicans. What is contemplated after this sought-for result is attained, is sufficiently set forth in the speech delivered by Yancey | in the original Alubair.a State Convention ! which sent delegates to Charleston and which ' Mr. Yancey controlled. Said lie: “I would suggest that the Several State Legis latures should, by law, require the Governor, when it shall be made manifest that the Republi can candidate tor the Presidency shall receives ' majority of the electoral vote, to call a convention | of the people of the State to assemble in time to provide for their safety before the 4111 of March, IH61. If however a Republican should not be elected, then in pursuance of the policy of maxing thiscontcst within the Union, we should initiate measures in Congress w hich would lead to a re peal of all unconstitutional Acts against slavery. If we should fail to obtain so just n system of leg islation then the South should seek her indepen dence out tf the Union. In further pursuance of this programme, the Yanceyfied Legislature of Alabama passed on the 2oth of February, 1800. the following Resolutions: 1st. lie it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama, in (ten oral Assembly convened, that the State of Ala bama, fully concurring with the State of South Carolina in affirming the right of any State to se cede from the confederacy, w henever, in her judg ment, such a step is demanded by the honor, in terest and safety of her people, is not unmindful of the fact that the assaults upon the institution of slavery, and upon the rights and equality of the Southern States, unceasingly continued with in creasing violence and in new and more alarming forms, may constrain her to a reluctant, but early exercise of that invaluable right. 2d. lie it further resolved, That, in the absence of any preparation for a systematic co-operation of the Southern States in resisting the aggressions of their enemies, Alabama acting for herself, has solemnly declared that under no circumstances will she submit to the foul domination of a see tional Northern party, has provided for the call of a Convention in the event of the triumph of such a faction in the approaching Presidential election; and, to maintain the position thus deliberately as sumed, has appropriated the sum of $200,000 for the military contingencies which such a course may involve.” The Camden, (Alabama) Register hoisted the names of Breckinridge and Lane, with the following notable words: •‘We run up our flag to-day for Breckinringe and Lane, as the Democratic nominees for Presi dent and Vice President of the United States. We have unwaveringly concluded for the last ten years that it would be better (for all concerned) to make two or more distinct governments of the territory comprising the United States of Ameri ca, and that such w ill ultimately be done there cat! he no sort of doubt. But it should be done with fairness and justice to every section of the Union ; and believing that the party to which we belong is the only reliable one to carry out this measure, and secure to our own section all her rights, we intend to battle for its principles to the fullest extent of our ability.” Here is a frank declaration that the Breek inridge party is the reliable one to carry out the measure of making “two or more distinct Governments of the territory comprising the United States of America.” The Montgomery (Alabama) Mail is even more explicit. It says : “Run three Presidential tickets against Lin coln, thereby giving Lincoln the best chance for election. After Lincoln is elected, some Southern communities—most of them perhaps—will refuse to let a Postmaster appointed under his Adminis tration take possession ol the (.dice. Then the United States authorities will be interposed to “enforce the law.” Then the United States au thorities will either be shot down, os they will shoot somebody down. Then the people of the communities will rise up against the United States Government and will be sustained by the neighboring communities, until civil war, with all its horrible butcheries, envelops the land in a cloud of blood and carnage I Yes, ifyou wish to tiring this delightful state of affairs about, run three tickets in the South against Lincoln. If you do not, then run but one ticket, and let that ticket be not only the strongest but also in favor of Southern equality in the Union unequivocally expressed. That ticket is Breckin ridge and Lane. Lawrence M. Keitt , of South Carolina, an ardent supporter of Breckinridge ami Lane, said in July last, “The Federal Government might he abolished to-morrow, and the Soutli would only know it through the removal of burdens and the withdrawal of oppression. * * Her protection comes from her State Governments, and under these alone ; if the Union were in ruins, she could achieve her safety and prosperity.” This is the estimate in which the supporters of Breckinridge and Lane iu the South hold the Union. Ex-Governor Herbert, of Louisiana, an oilier supporter of Breckinridge and Lane> says : “The secession of the Southern delegation at Charleston and Baltimore, upon a principle so vital to us, and the final nomination of Breckin ridge and Lane upon this principle, prove that the Soutli tins at last come to hei senses, and openly declared her determination to accept “the responsibility forced upon her.” For once, the issue is fairly and properly made.” One of the delegates of the Richmond Coir vention, IVin. E. Martin, from South Carolina’ said : “The people of the South are prepared to act with a dignity worthy of the great issues and their own bright history. They know t lie crisis is inevitable. The election of n Democrat may sound a hollow truce, or the success of a Iiluck Republican may at once precipitate it upon us. In either event, it is only a qutitionof time. We might go oti with the like proofs almost ad infinitum, but the testimony is already sufficient. Iso true lover of his country can read the sentiments avowed in the above extracts, without a feeling of man ly scorn and indignation.

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Source: Daily national Democrat. [volume] (Marysville, Calif.), 16 Sept. 1860. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038814/1860-09-16/ed-1/seq-2/>

#This day in 1860 #This day in history #Today in history #history

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Today and every day we celebrate Love in the Archives! Here in Special Collections we preserve the personal papers of many romantic couples. We had fun compiling a list of some of the amorous duos whose collections cozy up together on our shelves.

Pictured couples:

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Lalitha Doraiswamy Chandrasekhar

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge and Edith Abbott

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge and Marion Talbot

John U. Nef, Jr. and Elinor Castle Nef

Robert Maynard Hutchins and Maude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins

Enrico Fermi and Laura Capon Fermi

And more!

Karl Llewellyn and Soia Mentschikoff

John U. Nef, Jr. and Evelyn Stefansson Nef

Mabel Wing Castle and Henry Northrup Castle

Fred Eggan, Dorothy Eggan, and Joan Eggan

Eva W Schutze and Martin Schutze

Louis Wirth and Mary B Wirth

William V. Moody and Harriet Moody

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[whorlslave39-blog]

PRESS ROOM: 100-year old legendary African-American debate coach awarded 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from NSDA

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

The NAACP plans to highlight 110 years of civil rights history, and the current fight for voting rights, criminal justice reform, economic opportunity and education quality during its 110th national convention now happening in Detroit.

The five-day event which began on Saturday, July 20, will also include a session on the 2020 Census, a presidential roundtable, CEO Roundtable, and LGBTQ and legislative workshops.

“We are excited to announce the 110th annual convention in Detroit, my hometown,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson.

“For me, it is a homecoming and I will also be excited to announce our theme for this year which is, ‘When we Fight, We Win,’” Johnson said.

Winning is what the NAACP was built on – winning battles for racism, freedom, justice and equality.

The NAACP was formed in 1908 after a deadly race riot that featured anti-black violence and lynching erupted in Springfield, Illinois.

According to the storied organization’s website, a group of white liberals that included descendants of famous abolitionists Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard; William English Walling, and Dr. Henry Moscowitz, all issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice.

About 60 people, seven of whom were African American, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell, answered the call, which was released on the centennial of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln.

“Echoing the focus of Du Bois’ Niagara Movement for civil rights, which began in 1905, the NAACP aimed to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, the equal protection of the law, and universal adult male suffrage, respectively.”

Accordingly, the NAACP’s mission remains to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice.

“The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes,” Johnson said.

The NAACP established its national office in New York City in 1910 and named a board of directors as well as a president, Moorfield Storey, a white constitutional lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association.

Other early members included Joel and Arthur Spingarn, Josephine Ruffin, Mary Talbert, Inez Milholland, Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Sophonisba Breckinridge, John Haynes Holmes, Mary McLeod Bethune, George Henry White, Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, William Dean Howells, Lillian Wald, Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Fanny Garrison Villard, and Walter Sachs. Despite a foundational commitment to multiracial membership, Du Bois was the only African American among the organization’s original executives.

Du Bois was made director of publications and research, and in 1910 established the official journal of the NAACP, The Crisis.

By 1913, with a strong emphasis on local organizing, the NAACP had established branch offices in such cities as Boston, Baltimore, Kansas City, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and Detroit.

NAACP membership grew rapidly, from around 9,000 in 1917 to around 90,000 in 1919, with more than 300 local branches.

Joel Spingarn, a professor of literature and one of the NAACP founders formulated much of the strategy that fostered much of the organization’s growth.

He was elected board chairman of the NAACP in 1915 and served as president from 1929-1939.

The NAACP would eventually fight battles against the Ku Klux Klan and other hate organizations.

The organization also became renowned in American Justice with Thurgood Marshall helping to prevail in the 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education, the decision that overturned Plessy.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, which was disproportionately disastrous for African Americans, the NAACP began to focus on economic justice.

Because of the advocacy of the NAACP, President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to open thousands of jobs to black workers when labor leader A. Philip Randolph, in collaboration with the NAACP, threatened a national March on Washington movement in 1941.

President Roosevelt also set up a Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) to ensure compliance.

The NAACP’s Washington, D.C., bureau, led by lobbyist Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., helped advance not only integration of the armed forces in 1948 but also passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964, and 1968 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

NAACP Mississippi field secretary Medgar Evers and his wife Myrlie would become high-profile targets for pro-segregationist violence and terrorism.

In 1962, their home was fire bombed, and later Medgar was assassinated by a sniper in front of their residence. Violence also met black children attempting to enter previously segregated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, and other southern cities.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s echoed the NAACP’s goals, but leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, felt that direct action was needed to obtain them.

Although the NAACP was criticized for working too rigidly within the system, prioritizing legislative and judicial solutions, the Association did provide legal representation and aid to members of other protest groups over a sustained period of time.

The NAACP even posted bail for hundreds of Freedom Riders in the ‘60s who had traveled to Mississippi to register black voters and challenge Jim Crow policies.

Led by Roy Wilkins, who succeeded Walter White as secretary in 1955, the NAACP collaborated with A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and other national organizations to plan the historic 1963 March on Washington.

The following year, the Association accomplished what seemed an insurmountable task: The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Much has changed since the creation of the NAACP 110 years ago, and as we highlight these achievements during this year’s convention, we cannot forget that we’re still tirelessly fighting against the hatred and bigotry that face communities of color in this country,” Johnson said.

“With new threats emerging daily and attacks on our democracy, the NAACP must be more steadfast and immovable than ever before to help create a social political atmosphere that works for all,” he said.

The NAACP provided all historical information for this report.

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[deadpresidents]

Who are the youngest and oldest vice presidents

At the time of their Inauguration? Here's the list of the Vice Presidents' Age at Inauguration, from youngest-to-oldest:

AGE AT INAUGURATION: NAME OF VP [Administration] 36 years, 42 days: John C. Breckinridge [Buchanan] 40 years, 11 days: Richard Nixon [Eisenhower] 41 years, 353 days: Dan Quayle [G.H.W. Bush] 42 years, 128 days: Theodore Roosevelt [McKinley's 2nd VP] 42 years, 256 days: Daniel D. Tompkins [Monroe] 42 years, 352 days: John C. Calhoun [J.Q. Adams/Jackson's 1st VP] 44 years, 232 days: Al Gore [Clinton] 45 years, 26 days: Aaron Burr [Jefferson's 1st VP] 45 years, 346 days: Schuyler Colfax [Grant's 1st VP] 48 years, 243 days: Calvin Coolidge [Harding] 49 years, 15 days: Walter Mondale [Carter] 49 years, 56 days: Millard Fillmore [Taylor] 50 years, 72 days: Spiro Agnew [Nixon's 1st VP] 50 years, 98 days: Martin Van Buren [Jackson's 2nd VP] 50 years, 340 days: John Tyler [W.H. Harrison] 51 years, 150 days: Chester A. Arthur [Garfield] 51 years, 189 days: Hannibal Hamlin [Lincoln's 1st VP] 52 years, 105 days: Henry A. Wallace [FDR's 2nd VP] 52 years, 146 days: Lyndon B. Johnson [JFK] 52 years, 237 days: George M. Dallas [Polk] 52 years, 274 days: Garret A. Hobart [McKinley's 1st VP] 52 years, 297 days: Charles W. Fairbanks [T. Roosevelt] 53 years, 131 days: James S. Sherman [Taft] 53 years, 174 days: John Adams [Washington] 53 years, 238 days: Hubert H. Humphrey [LBJ] 53 years, 325 days: Thomas Jefferson [J. Adams] 56 years, 65 days: Andrew Johnson [Lincoln's 2nd VP] 56 years, 92 days: Kamala Harris [Biden] 56 years, 138 days: Richard M. Johnson [Van Buren] 56 years, 223 days: George H.W. Bush [Reagan] 57 years, 132 days: Adlai E. Stevenson [Cleveland's 2nd VP] 57 years, 227 days: Mike Pence [Trump] 57 years, 247 days: William A. Wheeler [Hayes] 58 years, 355 days: Thomas R. Marshall [Wilson] 59 years, 189 days: Charles G. Dawes [Coolidge] 59 years, 335 days: Dick Cheney [G.W. Bush] 60 years, 145 days: Gerald Ford [Nixon's 2nd VP] 60 years, 257 days: Harry S. Truman [FDR's 3rd VP] 61 years, 16 days: Henry Wilson [Grant's 2nd VP] 64 years, 102 days: John Nance Garner {FDR's 1st VP] 64 years, 292 days: Levi P. Morton [B. Harrison] 65 years, 178 days: Thomas A. Hendricks [Cleveland's 1st VP] 65 years, 221 days: George Clinton [Jefferson's 2nd/Madison's 1st] 66 years, 61 days: Joe Biden [Obama] 66 years, 165 days: Nelson Rockefeller [Ford] 66 years, 331 days: William R.D. King [Pierce] 68 years, 230 days: Elbridge Gerry [Madison's 2nd VP] 69 years, 38 days: Charles Curtis [Hoover] 71 years, 57 days: Alben W. Barkley [Truman]

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[amtopmthoughts]

EVERY UNITED STATES PRESIDENT

1. George Washington April 30, 1789 - March 1797

Vice-President: John Adams

First Lady: Martha Dandridge

John Adams March 4, 1797 - March 4, 1801

Vice-President: Thomas Jefferson

First Lady: Abigail Smith

Thomas Jefferson March 4, 1801 - March 4, 1809

Vice-President: Aaron Burr March 4, 1801 - March 4, 1805

George Clinton March 4, 1805 - March 4, 1809

First Lady: Martha Jefferson

James Madison March 4, 1809 - March 4, 1817

Vice-President: George Clinton March 4, 1809 - April 20, 1812 (Died in office)

Office vacant April 20, 1812 - March 4, 1813 (Blance of Clinton’s term)

Elbridge Gerry March 4, 1813 - November 23, 1814 (Died in office)

Office vacant November 23, 1814 - March 4, 1817

First Lady: Dolley Payne

James Monroe March 4, 1817 - March 4, 1825

Vice-President: Daniel D. Tompkins

First Lady: Elizabeth Kortright

John Quincy Adams March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829

Vice-President: John C. Calhoun

First Lady: Louisa Catherine Johnson

Andrew Jackson March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837

Vice-President: John C. Calhoun March 4, 1929 December 28, 1832 (Resigned from office)

Office vacant (Balance of Calhoun’s term)

Martin Van Buren December 28, 1833 - March 4, 1837 

First Lady: Emily Donelson

Martin Van Buren March 4, 1837 - March 4, 1841

Vice-President: Richard M. Johnson

First Lady: Sarah Yorke Jackson

William Henry Harrison March 4, 1841 - April 4, 1841

Vice-President: John Tyler

First Lady: Sarah Angelica Singleton

John Tyler April, 4 1841 - March 4, 1845

Office vacant

First Lady: Anna Tuthill Symmes

James K. Polk March 4, 1845 - March 4, 1849

Vice-President: George M. Dallas

First Lady: Jane Irwin Harrison

Zachary Taylor March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850

Vice-President: Millard Fillmore 

First Lady: Letitia Christian

Millard Fillmore July 9, 1850 - March 4, 1853

Office vacant

First Lady: Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper

First Lady: 

Franklin Pierce March 4, 1853 - March 4, 1857

Vice-President: William R. King March  March 4 - April 18, 1853 (Died in office)

James Buchanan March 4, 1857 - March 4, 1861

Vice-President: John C. Breckinridge

First Lady: Julia Garn

Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865

Vice-President: Hannibal Hamlin March 4, 1861 - March 4, 1865

Andrew Johnson March 4 - April, 1865

Andrew Johnson April 15, 1865 - March 4, 1869

Office vacant

Ulysses S. Grant March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877

Vice-President: Schuyler Colfax March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1873

Henry Wilson March 4, 1873 - November 22, 1875 (Died in office)

Office vacant (Balance of Wilson’s term)

Rutherford B. Hayes March 4, 1877 - March, 1881

Vice-President: William A. Wheeler

James A. Garfield March 4, 1881 - September 19, 1881

Vice-President: Chester A. Arthur

Chester A. Arthur September 19, 1881 - March, 1885

Office vacant

Grover Cleveland March, 1885 - March 4, 1889

Vice-President: Thomas A. Hendricks March 4 - November 25, 1885 (Died in office)

Office vacant (Balance of Hendricks’ term)

Benjamin Harrison March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1893

Vice-President: Levi P. Morton

Grover Cleveland March, 1893 - March, 1897 (again)

Vice-President: Adlai Stevenson

William McKinley March, 1897 - September 14, 1901

Vice-President: Garret Hobart March 4, 1897 - November 21 1899 (Died in office)

Office vacant (Balance of Hobart’s term)

Theodore Roosevelt March 4 - September 14, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt September 1901 - March 4, 1909

Office vacant September 14, 1901 - March 4, 1905

Charles W. Fairbanks March 4, 1905 - March 4, 1909

William Howard Taft March 4, 1909 - March 4, 1913

Vice-President: James S. Sherman March 4, 1909 - October 30, 1912 (Died in office)

Office vacant (Balance of Sherman’s term)

Woodrow Wilson March 4, 1913 - March 4, 1921

Vice-President: Thomas R. Marshall

Warren G. Harding March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923

Vice-President: Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge August 2, 1923 - March 4, 1929

Office vacant August 2, 1923 - March 4, 1925

Charles G. Dawes March 4, 1925 - March 4, 1929

Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933

Vice-President: Charles Curtis

Franklin D. Roosevelt March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945

Vice-President: John N. Garner March 3, 1933 - January 20, 1941

Henry A. Wallace January 20, 1941 - January 20, 1945

Harry S. Truman January 20 - April 12, 1945

Harry S. Truman April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953

Office vacant April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1949

Alben W. Barkley January 20, 1949 - January 20, 1953

Dwight D. Einsenhower January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961

Vice-President: Richard Nixon

John F. Kennedy January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963

Vice-President: Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969

Office vacant November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1965

Hupert Humphrey January 20, 1965 - January 1969

Richard Nixon January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974

Spiro Agnew January 20, 1969 - October 10, 1973 (Resigned from office)

Office vacant October 10 - December 6, 1973

Gerald Ford December 6, 1973 - August 9, 1974

Gerald Ford August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977

Office vacant August 9 - December 19, 1974

Nelson Rockefeller December 19, 1974 - January 20, 1977

Jimmy Carter January 20, 1978 - January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981

Vice-President: Walter Mondale

Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989

Vice-President: George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993

Vice-President: Dan Quayle

Bill Clinton January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001

Vice-President: Al Gore

George W. Bush January 20, 2001 - January 2009

Vice-President: Dick Cheney

Barack Obama January 20, 2009 - January 2017

Vice-President: Joe Biden

Donald Trump January 20, 2017 - Incumbent

Vice-President: Mike Pence

[scrapleaves]

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 

Persuasion by Jane Austen 

Emma by Jane Austen 

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 

Middlemarch by George Eliot 

Love Story by Erich Segal

Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2) by Anthony Trollope 

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Interior Castle by Teresa of Ávila

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber 

The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Ulysses by James Joyce

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The God Who Is There by Francis A. Schaeffer 

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert 

H.M. Pulham, Esq. by John P. Marquand 

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 

The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts by Umberto Eco 

On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler 

The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks 

Writings in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure

Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

The Orthodox Church by Kallistos Ware

A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3) by Anthony Powell 

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James 

Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill 

The Drama of Atheist Humanism by Henri de Lubac 

The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous

Dark Night of the Soul by Juan de la Cruz 

V. by Thomas Pynchon 

Sarrasine by Honoré de Balzac

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 

New French Feminisms by Elaine Marks

[londontheatre]

Martin Shaw is William Russell, esteemed ex-Secretary of State and a US presidential candidate with a philandering reputation.

Jeff Fahey is Joseph Cantwell, an ambitious populist newcomer, opposing Russell for the party nomination.

Neck and neck, the only thing that separates the candidates are the endorsements from a respected Ex-President (Jack Shepherd) and party big-wig (Gemma Jones). As the race heats up the campaigns gets personal, involving Russell’s estranged wife Alice (Glynis Barber) and Cantwell’s wife Mabel (Honeysuckle Weeks) and drawing on all the resources of Russell’s campaign manager (Anthony Howell). But where does compromise end and corruption begin? How far will they go to be the most powerful man in the world and who in the end will be proven to be “the best man”?

Jeff Fahey has starred in many indie classics including the title role in cult sci-fi hit The Lawnmower Man opposite Pierce Brosnan and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse and has rarely been off our TV screens, starring in US series The Marshal and most recently in Lost. He returns to the stage following his acclaimed performance in Twelve Angry Men alongside Martin Shaw. BAFTA award-winning Gemma Jones, is one of our most distinguished actresses, best known for her roles in The Duchess of Duke Street, Spooks, the Harry Potter films and as Bridget’s mum in the Bridget Jones’s Diary films. Star of TV’s Wycliffe and Bill Brand, Jack Shepherd’s extensive stage career includes his award-winning performance in Glengarry Glen Ross and The Iceman Cometh (National Theatre). Glynis Barber is best known for Dempsey and Makepeace and her popular roles in Night and Day and EastEnders. Honeysuckle Weeks and Anthony Howell co-starred alongside Michael Kitchen as Samantha Stewart and Paul Milner in hit TV drama Foyle’s War. Leading the cast is Martin Shaw, best known for his TV roles in Judge John Deed, Inspector George Gently and The Professionals.

Born into a distinguished political family, Gore Vidal was a prolific writer known for the waspish wit, which peppered his essays, novels, screenplays and Broadway plays. Among his most famous works are Myra Breckinridge and Lincoln. The Best Man premiered on Broadway in 1960 and was nominated for six Tony Awards, including ‘Best Play’. Vidal adapted it into a film with the same title in 1964 starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Lee Tracy, who was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of the crafty ex-President. The play received a major revival on Broadway in 2012 starring James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury, and earned two Tony award nominations including ‘Best Revival of a Play’.

Further casting includes: Emma Campbell-Jones, Jim Creighton, Simon Hepworth, Ian Houghton, Craig Pinder, David Tarkenter, Alice Offley and Samuel Donnelly.

The Best Man is directed by Simon Evans, with set and costume design by Michael Taylor, lighting design by Chris Davey and composition and sound design by Ed Lewis. Presented by Bill Kenwright, the play will open at the Theatre Royal Windsor on Tuesday 12 September followed by Theatre Royal Brighton, Richmond Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, Cambridge Arts Theatre, and Sheffield’s Lyceum Theatre, prior to the West End.

The Best Man will visit Richmond Theatre as part of its UK tour from Monday 2nd – Saturday 7th October prior to a West End run.

The Best Man, Monday 2nd – Saturday 7th October Richmond Theatre

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[mapsontheweb]

Distribution of American Vice Presidents by State of Birth.

New York

#4 - George Clinton, 1805–1812 (Little Britain)

#6 - Daniel D. Tompkins, 1817–1825 (Scarsdale)

#8 - Martin Van Buren, 1833–1837 (Kinderhook)

#12 - Millard Fillmore, 1849–1850 (Moravia)

#17 - Schuyler Colfax, 1869–1873 (New York City)

#19 - William A. Wheeler, 1877–1881 (Malone)

#25 - Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 (New York City)

#27 - James S. Sherman, 1909–1912 (Utica)

Kentucky

#9 - Richard Mentor Johnson, 1837–1841 (Beargrass Creek)

#14 - John C. Breckinridge, 1857–1861 (Lexington)

#23 - Adlai Stevenson I, 1893–1897 (Christian County)

#35 - Alben W. Barkley, 1949–1953 (Lowes)

Massachusetts

#1 - John Adams, 1789–1797 (Quincy)

#5 - Elbridge Gerry, 1813–1814 (Marblehead)

#43 - George H. W. Bush, 1981–1989 (Milton)

Vermont

#20 - Chester A. Arthur, 1881 (Fairfield)

#22 - Levi P. Morton, 1889–1893 (Shoreham)

#29 - Calvin Coolidge, 1921–1923 (Plymouth Notch)

Ohio

#21 - Thomas A. Hendricks, 1885 (Fultonham)

#26 - Charles W. Fairbanks, 1905–1909 (Unionville Center)

#30 - Charles G. Dawes, 1925–1929 (Marietta)

Indiana

#28 - Thomas R. Marshall, 1913–1921 (North Manchester)

#44 - Dan Quayle, 1989–1993 (Indianapolis)

#48 - Mike Pence, 2017–present (Columbus)

Virginia

#2 - Thomas Jefferson, 1797–1801 (Shadwell)

#10 - John Tyler, 1841 (Charles City County)

New Jersey

#3 - Aaron Burr, 1801–1805 (Newark)

#24 - Garret Hobart, 1897–1899 (Long Branch)

Pennsylvania

#11 - George M. Dallas, 1845–1849 (Philadelphia)

#47 - Joe Biden, 2009–2017 (Scranton)

North Carolina

#13 - William R. King, 1843 (Sampson County)

#16 - Andrew Johnson, 1865 (Raleigh)

Maine

#15 - Hannibal Hamlin, 1861–1865 (Paris)

#41 - Nelson Rockefeller, 1974–1977 (Bar Harbor)

Texas

#32 - John Nance Garner, 1933–1941 (Detroit)

#37 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961–1963 (Stonewall)

Nebraska

#40 - Gerald Ford, 1973–1974 (Omaha)

#46 - Dick Cheney, 2001–2009 (Lincoln)

South Carolina

#7 - John C. Calhoun, 1825–1832 (Abbeville)

New Hampshire

#18 - Henry Wilson, 1873–1875 (Farmington)

Kansas

#31 - Charles Curtis, 1929–1933 (Topeka)

Iowa

#33 - Henry A. Wallace, 1941–1945 (Orient)

Missouri

#34 - Harry S. Truman, 1945 (Lamar)

California

#36 - Richard Nixon, 1953–1961 (Yorba Linda)

South Dakota

#38 - Hubert Humphrey, 1965–1969 (Wallace)

Maryland

#39 - Spiro Agnew, 1969–1973 (Baltimore)

Minnesota

#42 - Walter Mondale, 1977–1981 (Ceylon)

Washington, D.C.

#45 - Al Gore, 1993–2001

#maps #united states #birthplaces

[deadpresidents]

Your post on vice presidents made me curious about who was the oldest vp was it also Ford?

Gerald Ford is in third place on the list of longest-living Vice Presidents in American history:

LONGEST-LIVING VICE PRESIDENTSAge at Death: VP (POTUS served under)•98 years, 351 days: John Nance Garner (FDR’s 1st VP)•96 years, 0 days: Levi P. Morton (B. Harrison)•93 years, 165 days: Gerald Ford (Nixon’s 2nd)•92 years+: George H.W. Bush (Reagan) [Still living]•90 years, 247 days: John Adams (Washington)•89 years+: Walter Mondale (Carter) [Still living]•88 years, 232 days: Harry S. Truman (FDR’s 3rd)•85 years, 239 days: Charles G. Dawes (Coolidge)•83 years, 82 days: Thomas Jefferson (John Adams)•81 years, 311 days: Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln’s 1st)•81 years, 104 days: Richard Nixon (Eisenhower)•80 years, 220 days: Aaron Burr (Jefferson’s 1st)•79 years, 231 days: Martin Van Buren (Jackson’s 2nd)•78 years, 234 days: Adlai E. Stevenson (Cleveland’s 2nd)•78 years, 157 days: Alben W. Barkley (Truman)•77 years, 261 days: Spiro Agnew (Nixon’s 1st)•77 years, 42 days: Henry A. Wallace (FDR’s 2nd)•76 years+: Dick Cheney (G.W. Bush) [Still living]•76 years, 14 days: Charles Curtis (Hoover)•74 years+: Joe Biden (Obama) [Still living]•74 years, 60 days: Millard Fillmore (Taylor)•72 years, 268 days: George Clinton (Jefferson’s 2nd/Madison’s 1st)•72 years, 174 days: George M. Dallas (Polk)•71 years, 295 days: John Tyler (W.H. Harrison)•71 years, 79 days: Thomas Riley Marshall (Wilson)•70 years+: Dan Quayle (G.H.W. Bush) [Still living]•70 years, 202 days: Nelson Rockefeller (Ford)•70 years, 129 days: Elbridge Gerry (Madison’s 2nd)•70 years, 33 days: Richard M. Johnson (Van Buren)•69 years+: Al Gore (Clinton) [Still living]•68 years, 13 days: John C. Calhoun (J.Q. Adams/Jackson’s 1st)•67 years, 339 days: William A. Wheeler (Hayes)•67 years, 11 days: William R. D. King (Pierce)•66 years, 231 days: Hubert H. Humphrey (LBJ)•66 years, 214 days: Andrew Johnson (Lincoln’s 2nd)•66 years, 79 days: Thomas A. Hendricks (Cleveland’s 1st)•66 years, 24 days: Charles W. Fairbanks (T. Roosevelt)•64 years, 148 days: Lyndon B. Johnson (JFK)•63 years, 279 days: Henry Wilson (Grant’s 2nd)•61 years, 296 days: Schuyler Colfax (Grant’s 1st)•60 years, 185 days: Calvin Coolidge (Harding)•60 years, 71 days: Theodore Roosevelt (McKinley’s 2nd)•57 years+: Mike Pence (Trump) [Still living]•57 years, 44 days: Chester A. Arthur (Garfield)•57 years, 6 days: James S. Sherman (Taft)•55 years, 171 days: Garret A. Hobart (McKinley’s 1st)•54 years, 116 days: John C. Breckinridge (Buchanan)•50 years, 355 days: Daniel D. Tompkins (Monroe)

#Presidential Data #Presidential Stats #Vice Presidents #Vice Presidency #Longest-living Vice Presidents #VPs #VPOTUS #Oldest Vice Presidents #John Nance Garner #Levi Morton #Gerald Ford #Vice President Garner #Anonymous #questions #History