William O Connell Bradley's Contributions

Wallace, in June 1964 decided to throw his hat in the ring for his first presidential election. He ran as a Democrat. His platform was that he opposed to the federal government gaining power over the states. He did carry one third of the votes in the primaries in Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin; but eventually he withdrew from the election.

He was rarely seen, while serving as congressman and governor, without his trademark carnation. McKinley served 7 terms in Congress from 1877-1891, except for a 9-months in 1884-1885. The House ruled that his opponent, lawyer Jonathan Wallace, had received the most votes in the 1882 election, so Wallace took McKinley’s seat for the rest of the term. McKinley easily got back to the office in the 1884 election. McKinley consistently won re-election even though the districts he represented were heavily Democratic. As a congressman, he focused his energies on the tariff problem and became known as a protectionist and as a persuasive speaker. He was usually associated with being on the side of big business, but he also worked hard for labor and later, as governor of Ohio, he encouraged employees to join labor unions and to criticize employers who refused workers the right to organized. Also as congressman he supported gold over silver as the backbone of America’s money system. In 1889, Thomas Reed of Maine defeated him in the position of Speaker of the House. McKinley lost his next bid for Congress and returned to Canton in 1891. As governor, a position he held for two terms from 1891-1895, he proposed laws to protect railroad workers and address the issue of child labor, and a state board of arbitration was established to deal with labor and business problems. During this time as governor he became friends with millionaire industrialist Mark Hanna

Lorraine O’Gradys’ unintentionally historic performances, seemingly elevate everyday life to the status of art. In her ‘exhibit’ at the Studio Museum, her work is represented through photographs, in ‘Art is…’. Thirty years ago, O’Grady presented ‘Art is’ in the form of a float in the African American Day Parade right here in Harlem. Performers pranced with empty frames, metaphorically capturing fleeting pictures of the people and places that surrounded the route of the parade. By doing so, the trappings of high art were brought out of the museum, into the street, which promotes a new way people might begin to recognize this new art form in the celebrations of every day life. The

Hi I am Charles Arthur Floyd also known as “pretty boy” Floyd my greatest achievement is being a criminal such as a bank robber and if people try to stop me to rob a bank I will shoot them. In my younger life my family was poor then when I turned 16 I ran away from home then a couple months later I started to rob banks and being a criminal. I was born February 3rd, 1904 in Adairsville, GA I died October 22nd, 1934 and my location of death was in a cornfield east of Liverpool, OH my cause of death was homicide my remains were buried Akins cemetery in Akins , OK. My gender was male and my religion is Christian and race was white. My father name was Walter Lee Floyd my mother's name was Hamie Helan Echols Floyd my wife name is Ruby Hardgravers

With the Fusion party being active, the Election of 1896 was different than any election before in North Carolina. For the first time since Reconstruction, a Republican governor was elected, Daniel Russell. Russell was a leader of the Fusion party and won the state election with 46.57% of the vote, beating out the Democratic candidate, Cyrus B. Watson. Daniel Russell was raised in a family with unusual political beliefs, including an opposition to secession during the years of the Civil War. Russell gained an interest in politics, joined the Fusion party and ran for governor, known as a man who advocated for the rights of blacks. Cyrus Watson was raised in North Carolina and fought in the confederate army during the Civil War, he was the

     William H. Crawford was very experienced in politics. Before running for president in 1824, he was James Monroe’s secretary of war and he was also secretary of treasury under Monroe and James Madison. He also served in congress as an U.S. Senator from Georgia. He was a minister to France from 1813 thru 1815. Prior to the election of 1824, Crawford had a stroke and was nearly blinded. Despite his health, the Congressional caucuses selected Crawford for their

Ruby Laffoon (1869–1941) was an American politician and the 43rd governor of Kentucky, from 1931 to 1935. At age 17, Laffoon moved to Washington, D.C. to live with his uncle, U.S. Representative Polk Laffoon. In 1931, he defeated Republican William B. Harrison by what was then the largest margin of victory ever in a Kentucky gubernatorial election. To make up for a revenue shortfall during the Great Depression, Laffoon advocated the enactment of the state's first sales tax. This issue dominated most of his term in office and split the state Democratic Party and his own administration; the tax was defeated three times before he forged a bipartisan alliance to get it passed in a special legislative session in 1934. Term-limited by the state

Elected to the Georgia state legislature as a member of the Democratic Party in 1882, Watson struggled to fight against the overwhelming influence/reach of big businesses and powerful corporations. Watson would resign his seat in frustration after being dealt his first political

Leading up to the twentieth-century, Kentucky had to deal with pressing issues that arose through lack of proper health regulations and proper prison regulations. The lack of change within each of these issues created major problems for Kentuckians. Two governors of Kentucky, seen these issues as pressing problems. Political leaders such as, Gov. James McCreary and Gov. Luke Blackburn, made efforts to remedy these two problems that they recognized as major issues for Kentucky.

The nominees during this election were Ulysses S. Grant who was a Republican was against the Democrat Horatio Seymour, who was a Democrat. This election was very crucial for people in the state and the future condition and laws to be

The year was 1824. The election of this year was very unusual because of the number of candidates running for president. One of the candidates was Andrew Jackson, or “Old Hickory” as they called him, a general that had won the Battle of New Orleans(which was a battle not needed) in the War of 1812. Jackson became a hero after this war, and it would bring him all the way to the presidency. Another one of the candidates was John Quincy Adams. The son of John Adams, the second president of the United States, Adams was a excellent debator from New England. He was the only candidate from the NorthEast. The two other candidates were William Crawford and Henry Clay. Crawford, the secretary of the Treasury during the

State chairman Gaylord Parkinson took on the task of bringing the Party back together and reinforced it at all levels on both a local and state level. Parkinson's 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any Republican,” proved useful when implemented. Parkinson took a strategy out of the 1952 presidential nomination book, by recruiting an attractive candidate with no political experience, Ronald Reagan (TOTTEN 539). Like Eisenhower in 1952, Reagan was an attractive conservative who had almost no political experience. The Democratic Party would use this strategy as well in 2008 with its candidate Barack Obama (MCKENNA). Reagan, the party favorite, ran against moderate former mayor George Christopher. Christopher fired at Reagan's conservative leanings and Brown's “alleged ineptness.” (TOTTEN 539). He aimed at winning votes from both Democrats and Republicans. Anderson Totton and Eugene Lee contend that the main issue in the Republican primary was which candidate could unify the party and beat Brown. (539) In his memoir, Reagan noted that when leaders asked him to run, “nothing was said, incidentally, about whether I would make a good governor or not. They just said I was the only one who could bring the party together.” (REAGAN

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The prominent issue that was the center of this election was countries money supply. William M, won over the Republicans presidential submission. Democrats chose William Jennings Bryan former Nebraska congressman. William M had an emphasis on the importance of gold as a means of the currency for the economy. Whereas William B wanted gold and silver to play a part in the currency. These candidates were very opposite like oil and water. William M stayed at home, and spoke to delegates from the comfort of his porch, William B went out and gave

It was a hot blistering summer day not a leaf in sight or a hint of shade to be found. Mouth is dry as cotton from thirst and hands bleeding and blistering from a hard days work, exhausted from fatigue and hunger, because Master had me out here since the crack of dawn. Tending to the crops in the field and told me not come until every last crop has been tended which is about three football fields long. This is some of the Vigorous work that slaves had to endure. Slavery is a big part of American history. Many of the African Americans you see today are descendants of the 500,000 plus Africans who were sent to North America as slaves. To work