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William A Buckingham was an American politician. He was born in 1804 and died in 1875. he was Governor of Connecticut from 1858 until 1866 and actively supported the American Civil War. He was Republican senator for Connecticut from 1869 until 1875.
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William A Duer was an American politician and jurist. He was born in 1780 and died in 1858. He was prominent in the New York Assembly in 1814, was Judge of the New York Supreme Court from 1822 until 1829, when he became president of Columbia College, resigning in 1842, and published some historical works.
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William A Graham was an American politician. He was born in 1804 and died in 1875. He represented North Carolina in the US Senate from 1840 to 1843, was Governor of the State from 1845 to 1849, Secretary of the Navy in Fillmore's Cabinet from 1850 to 1853, and Whig candidate for Vice-President in 1852.
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William A Allain was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Mississippi from 1984 until 1988.
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William A Barstow was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Wisconsin from 1854 until 1856.
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William A Comstock was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Michigan from 1933 until 1934.
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William A MacCorkle was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of West Virginia from 1893 until 1897.
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William A Newell was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of New Jersey from 1857 until 1860.
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William A Palmer was an American politician. He was a Anti-Masonic governor of Vermont from 1831 until 1835.
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William A Poynter was an American politician. He was a Fusion governor of Nebraska from 1899 until 1901.
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William A Richards was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Wyoming from 1895 until 1899.
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William A Stone was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 until 1903.
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William Aberhart (nicknamed Bible Bill) was a Canadian politician. He was born in 1878 at Huron County, Ontario and died in 1943. After working as a teacher and a clergyman in 1935 he became a member of the Alberta legislature, forming the Canadian Social Credit Party and becoming Premier in the same year. He campaigned for legislation to give each Albertan a $5 a month dividend from the province's natural resources, but was blocked by the federal government.
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Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney was an English chemist and physicist. He was born in 1843 at Derby and died in 1920. After a career in the Royal Engineers he became a pioneer in colour photography and printing and carried out important work in the field of spectrum analysis.
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William Abraham (known as Mabon for his skill as a singer) was a Welsh trade unionist and politician. He was born in 1842 at Cwmavon, Glamorganshire and died in 1922. A leader of the miner's union in South Wales he argued strongly for a system of pay related to the selling price of coal. In 1885 he was elected MP for Rhondda, a position he held until 1918. After the miner's strike of 1898 that pay system was replaced with collective bargaining and he lost popularity in the union.
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William Aiken was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of South Carolina from 1844 until 1846.
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William Aikman was a Scottish portrait painter. He was born in 1682 at Forfarshire and died in 1731. He studied at Edinburgh and in Italy, visited Turkey and spent the later portion of his life in London where he enjoyed the friendship of most of the distinguished men of Queen Anne's time.
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Sir William Alexander (Lord Stirling) was an American soldier. He was born in 1726 at New York and died in 1783. In 1757 he laid claim before the House of Lords to the earldom of Stirling, but in vain. He became Surveyor-General of New York and in 1775 a colonel in the Revolutionary army. In 1776 he was promoted to brigadier-general and in 1777 major-general. He distinguished himself at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.
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Sir William Allan was a Scottish painter. He was born in 1782 at Edinburgh and died in 1850. He was apprenticed as a coach painter and later studied at the Royal Academy schools in London. After a spell in Russia between 1805 and 1814 he returned to Edinburgh and took to genre and history painting. In 1838 he was elected president of the Royal Scottish Academy and in 1841 succeeded Sir David Wilkie as limner to the queen in Scotland, an office which carried a knighthood.
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William Allen was an English Cardinal. He was born in 1532 at Rossall and died in 1594. As a Catholic he was forced to leave England in 1561 and 1565. In 1568 he founded the English college at Douai to train missionary priests for the re-conversion of England to Catholicism, and later founded similar establishments at Valladolid and Rome.
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William Allen White was an American newspaper editor and writer. He was born in 1868 at Emporia, Kansas and died in 1944. In 1895 he started Emporia Daily and Weekly Gazette, and became known nationally during the 1896 presidential election for his anti-Populist editorial 'What's the matter with Kansas?'. During the Second World War he founded the 'Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies' that encouraged America, then neutral, to send aid to Britain and the Allies in their fight against Nazi Germany and encouraged America to enter the war on the side of the Allies.
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William Allingham was a British poet. He was born in 1824 at Ballyshannon and died in 1889. After working in Customs in Ireland and England he retired in 1870 and in 1874 became editor of Farser's Magazine.
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William Ames was an English theologian and cleric. He was born in 1576 at Ipswich, Suffolk and died in 1633. While studying at Cambridge, he clashed with the authorities on account of his religious Nonconformity and denunciations of university life, whereupon he fled to Holland. Installed as pastor in Franeker, Friesland, 1622, he established himself as professor, preacher, and theologian. His book De conscientia connected Christianity with the common things of life. His Puritan views, expounded in De conscientia et ejus jure vel casibus/Fresh Suit against Ceremonies 1630, helped to convert Richard Baxter to Nonconformity.
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William Pitt Amherst was an Enlish statesman. He was born in 1773 and died in 1857. The nephew of Jeffrey Amherst he was Governor-general of India, 1823; prosecuted the first Burmese war, and suppressed the Barrackpore mutiny.
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William George Armstrong was a British engineer and inventor. He was born in 1810 at Newcastle and died in 1900. A solicitor by trade, his real interest were in science and by 1841 he was publishing papers on engineering, mainly specialising in hydraulic machinery. During the Crimean War he turned his attention to the invention of guns and invented the breech-loading Armstrong Gun. In 1859 William Armstrong was knighted and in 1887 made a peer as Baron Armstrong.
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Sir William Arrol was a Scottish engineer. He was born in 1839 and died in 1913. In 1868 he founded the firm of William Arrol and Company which was responsible for the Forth Bridge, Tower Bridge and the Manchester Ship Canal. In 1890 William Arrol was knighted and from 1895 until 1906 sat in Parliament as Liberal Unionist member for South Ayrshire.
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William Atkinson was an English policeman. The first policeman attested by the newly formed Metropolitan police, he was dismissed for drunkenness on the first day of patrol on September the 29th 1829, along with the second policeman attested, William Alcock.
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish poet and prose writer. He was born in 1813 at Edinburgh in 1813 and died in1865. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he became a writer to the signet in 1835, and passed as advocate in 1840. He issued a volume of poems in 1832, by 1836 was a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and he published the Life and Times of Richard I in 1840. In 1848 he published a collection of ballads entitled Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, which has proved the most popular of all his works. It was followed in 1854 by Firmilian, a Spasmodic Tragedy (intended to ridicule certain popular writers); the Bon Gaultier Ballads (parodies and other humorous pieces, in conjunction with Theodore Martin), 1855; in 1856 the poem Bothwell; and in subsequent years by Norman Sinclair, The Glenmutchkin Railway, and other stories. In 1858 he edited a critical and annotated collection of the Ballads of Scotland. A translation of the poems and ballads of Goethe was executed by him in conjunction with Theodore Martin. In 1845 he became professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edinburgh - a position which he held until his death. In 1852 he was appointed Sheriff of Orkney and Shetland.
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William B Bate was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Tennessee from 1883 until 1887.
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William B Campbell was an American politician. He was a Whig governor of Tennessee from 1851 until 1853.
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William B Cooper was an American politician. He was a Whig governor of Delaware from 1841 until 1845.
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William B Ross was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Wyoming from 1923 until 1924.
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William B Umstead was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of North Carolina from 1953 until 1954.
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William B Washburn was an American politician. He was born in 1820 and died in 1887. He represented Massachusetts in the US Congress as a Republican from 1862 to 1872. He was Governor of Massachusetts from 1872 to 1874, and a US Senator from 1874 to 1875.
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William Badger was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of New Hampshire from 1834 until 1836.
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William Baffin was an English navigator. He was born in 1584 and died in 1622. He is famous for his discoveries in the Arctic regions. In 1616 he ascertained the limits of Baffin Bay. He was killed at the siege of Ormuz, in the East Indies, 1622.
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William Balfour Baikie was a Scottish explorer. He was born in 1824 ar the Orkney Islands and died in 1863. He joined the British navy, and was made surgeon and naturalist of the Niger expedition of 1854. He took the command on the death of the senior officer, and explored the Niger for 250 miles. Another expedition, which started in 1857, passed two years in exploring, when the vessel was wrecked, and all the members, with the exception of William Baikie, returned to England. With none but native assistants he formed a settlement at the confluence of the Benue and the Quorra, in which he was ruler, teacher, and physician, and within a few years he opened the Niger to navigation, made roads, established a market, etc.
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William John Bailey was a British track cyclist. He was born in 1888 and died in 1971.
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Willem Barents was a Dutch navigator who discovered Spitsbergen on his third voyage to find a north east passage to Asia in 1594. He died in 1597.
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William Barnes was an English poet and philologist. He was born in 1801 at Rushay, Dorset and died in 1886. Educated at Mullett's School, Sturminster and St John's College, Cambridge he was ordained in 1847 and in 1862 was appointed rector of Winterborne-Came. His book of poems of Rural Life in Dorset Dialect was published in 1844.
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William T. Barry was an American politician. He was born in 1785 at Virginia and died in 1835. He was postmaster-General to president Andrew Jackson from 1829 until 1835 and was the first Postmaster-General admitted as a member into the American Cabinet.
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William Henry Bartlett was an English artist and author. He was born in 1809 at London and died in 1854. He devoted his life to making drawings of scenes in England, on the continent of Europe, in Palestine and in the USA and Canada.
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William Bates was an American ophthalmologist. He was born in 1860 and died in 1931. He wrote the book 'Better Eyesight without Glasses' which was published in 1919 and explained poor sight as a disturbance of normal mind- body coordination which results from mental, emotional or other disturbances. He developed a series of exercises to achieve healthy eyesight which emphasize relaxation, memory, imagination, and perception to improve the communication between the eyes and the brain.
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William Bebb was an American politician. He was a Whig governor of Ohio from 1846 until 1849.
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William Beldham (Silver Billy) was an English cricketer. He was born in 1766 and died in 1862. He played chiefly for Hambledon and at his peak was an unrivalled high-scoring batsman.
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William Belknap was an American soldier and politician. He wax born in 1829 at Iowa and died in 1890. A major-general during the American Civil War, in 1869 he was appointed Secretary of War by President Ulysses Simpson Grant, a post he held until 1876 when he was impeached for accepting bribes, whereupon he resigned before the impeachment resolution passed the House, preventing his prosecution.
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William Thomas Best was an English musician. He was born in 1826 at Carlisle and died in 1897. He went to Liverpool to study engineering, but became organist of a Baptist church and in 1846 a professional musician. He spent a few years in London before returning to Liverpool as organist at St George's Hall and a reputation as one of the finest organists of his time.
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William Henry Beveridge was the first baron Beveridge. He was born in 1879 and died in 1963. He was an economist who designed the present British social security service.
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William Bigler was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Pennsylvania from 1852 until 1855.
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William Blackwood was a Scottish publisher. He was born in 1776 in Edinburgh and died in 1834. He started publishing 'Blackwood's Magazine' in 1817.
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William Blake was an English poet and artist. He was born in 1757 at London and died in 1827.
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William Bligh was an English admiral and the commander of the ship 'Bounty' when the crew mutinied in the South Seas. He was born in 1753 in Plymouth and died in 1817 in London. The mutiny occurred while the Bounty was on course for Jamaica. Bligh and eighteen men were cast adrift in a boat not far from Tonga. After a journey of 4000 miles they reached Timor and made it back to England. The mutineers sailed to Pitcairn Island where their ancestors still live.
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William Booth was the founder and first general of the Salvation Army. He was born in 1829 at Nottingham and died in 1912. He started his career as a Methodist minister, but left to carry out more general evangelistic work. In 1865 he started a mission in the East End of London which in 1878 assumed the name of the Salvation Army.
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William Borlase was an English writer. He was born in 1695 in Cornwall and died in 1772. He studied at Oxford and took holy orders. In 1754 he published Antiquities of Cornwall and in 1758 Natural History of Cornwall.
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William Lisle Bowles was an English poet. He was born in 1762 at King' s Sutton and died in 1850.
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Sir William Bowman was an English anatomist and surgeon. He was born in 1816 and died in 1892. He collaborated with Todd in writing 'The Physiological Anatomy'.
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William Bowyer was an English printer. He was born in 1699 in London and died in 1777. In 1729 he became printer of the votes of the House Of Commons. In 1767 he was nominated printer of the journals of the House of Lords.
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William Boyce was an English composer. He was born in 1710 at London and died in 1779. In 1736 he became composer to the Chapel Royal and in 1758 organist.
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William Bradford was an English Separatist. He was born in 1588 at Austerfield and died in 1657. In 1607 he left England for Holland. He was among the leaders of the Mayflower Pilgrims that sailed for America. On the death of Carver in April 1621, he was chosen Governor of the Plymouth Colony.
William Bradford was Attorney-General of the USA. He was born in 1755 at Philadelphia and died in 1795. In 1780 he was appointed Attorney-General of Pennsylvania and in 1791 a judge of the Supreme Court before in 1794 being appointed Attorney-General of the United States.
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William Branch Giles was an American politician. He was born in 1762 and died in 1830. He represented Virginia in the US Congress from 1790 to 1799, 1801 to 1803, and in the Senate from 1804 to 1815. In 1826 he was a member of the Virginia Legislature, and was Democratic Governor of the State from 1826 until 1830. He was noted as a skilful parliamentary leader.
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William Brewster was an English Separatist. He was born in 1560 and died in 1644. In 1608 he led a band of Separatists from England to Holland. He obtained a grant of land in North America from the Virginia Company and took the first company of pilgrims to what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. He was pastor of the Plymouth colony until 1629.
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William Browne was an English poet. He was born in 1591 at Tavistock and died in 1645.
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William Spiers Bruce was a Scottish explorer and scientist. He was born in 1867 at Edinburgh and died in 1921. He undertook his first voyage as a naturalist to the polar regions in the Scottish Antarctic Expedition of 1892.
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William Cullen Bryant was an American poet and journalist. He was born in 1794 and died in 1878. He was editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post from 1828 to 1878 and aided the formation of the Republican Party.
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William Buchan was a Scottish medical writer. He was born in 1729 and died in 1805. He was the first to publish a domestic guide to medicine, which he did with the publication of Domestic Medicine: or, the Family Physician which was published in 1769.
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William Budd was an English physician. He was born in 1811 in Devon and died in 1880. He was a specialist in epidemic diseases and promoted better sanitation. His principle work was in typhoid fever, but also in cholera, and scarlet fever.
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Sir William Henry L E Bulwer was a British politician. He was born in 1801 and died in 1872. he was Minister to the USA from 1849 until 1852. He negotiated with Senator John M Clayton the Clayton-Bulwer treaty which related to the establishment of a canal through the Isthmus of Panama joining the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.
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William Burke was an infamous murderer. He was born in 1792 at Orrery, County Cork, Ireland and died in 1829. In 1827 he lived in Tanner's Close, Edinburgh, in a lodging house kept by William Hare. The two men used to inveigle wayfarers into their house, make them drunk and then suffocate them in such a way as to leave no sign of violence on the bodies (this has subsequently been known as burking) with the object of selling the bodies (for eight or ten pounds) for dissection to Doctor Robert Knox. Suspicion having been aroused, Burke and Hare were arrested; the latter turned king's evidence and Burke was executed.
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William Burn was a Scottish architect. He was born in 1789 at Edinburgh and died in 1870. He practised successfully in Edinburgh and then in London in 1844, making his reputation by public buildings.
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William Burton was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Delaware from 1859 until 1863.
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William Orlando Butler was an American soldier and politician. He was born in 1791 and died in 1880. He was an officer in the War of 1812. From 1839 until 1843 he was a Democratic Congressman from Kentucky, and in 1844 failed to be elected as Governor of Kentucky. During the Mexican War he served as a major-general, and was distinguished at the taking of Monterey in 1846. In 1848 he was unsuccessful as the Democratic candidate for Vice-President.
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William Butterfield was an English architect. He was born in 1814 and died in 1900. He did much to revive Gothic architecture, and largely developed the use of colour in ecclesiastic buildings by the aid of brick, marble, mosaic and painted tiles. He was the designer of the St Augustine's College, Canterbury; Keble College, Oxford; the grammar school in Exeter.
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William Byrd was a British composer. He was born in 1543 and died in 1623. He composed Masses, motets.
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William C Bouck was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of New York from 1843 until 1844.
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William C Cozzens was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Rhode Island during 1863.
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William C Gibbs was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Rhode Island from 1821 until 1824.
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William C Marland was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of West Virginia from 1953 until 1957.
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William C McDonald was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of New Mexico from 1912 until 1917.
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William C Sproul was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 until 1923.
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William Sproston Caine was an English politician and temperance reformer. He was born in 1842 at Seacombe and died in 1903. In 1880 he was elected MP for Scarborough and was appointed civil lord of the Admiralty in the Gladstone administration of 1880 - 1885. In 1886 he was elected by Barrow- in-Furness as a Liberal Unionist.
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William Calvin Oates was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Alabama from 1894 until 1896.
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William Campbell was an American soldier. He was born in 1745 at Virginia and died in 1781. He led a corps of riflemen at King's Mountain, Guilford Court House and Eutaw Springs. In 1778 he was a commissioner to run the boundary-line between Virginia and the Cherokee country.
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William Cannon was an American politician. He was a Union governor of Delaware from 1863 until 1865.
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William Carleton was an Irish novelist. He was born in 1794 at Prillisk and died in 1869.
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William Carroll was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Tennessee from 1821 until 1827.
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William Cassidy was an American journalist and politician. He was born in 1815 at New York and died in 1873. He was editor of the 'Albany Atlas' and afterward of the 'Albany Argus' and one of the principal members of the 'Albany Regency'.
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William Caxton was the first English printer. He was born in 1422 and died in 1491. He established a press in Westminster in 1477 and from there he issued about 80 books.
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William Ellery Channing was an American theologian and writer. He was born in 1780 at Massachusetts and died in 1842. Educated at Harvard from 1798 until 1800 he was a private instructor in Richmond, studied theology at Cambridge and was settled over the Federal Street Church in Boston in 1803, where he became the leader of the Unitarian movement then stirring New England, and active in all the philanthropic enterprises of the time.
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William Claflin was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Massachusetts from 1869 until 1872.
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William Claiborne also known as William Clayborne was an American colonist. He was born in 1589 and died in 1676. In 1631, under a license from Charles I, he established a trading post on Kent Island in Chesapake Bay. His claim to this involved Virginia and Maryland, as well as himself, in fierce disputes. Lord Baltimore expelled him in 1635, but in 1645 he, in co-operation with Captain Richard Ingle, overthrew the Roman Catholic government. In the following year Calvert was reinstated, but in 1651 William Claiborne, as a commissioner of Parliament, reduced Virginia and Maryland to submission.
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William Clark was an American soldier. He was born in 1770 and died in 1838. In 1804, by appointment of Jefferson, he joined Captain Meriwether Lewis in the famous expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River; was Governor of Missouri Territory from 1813 until 1821 and, from 1822 until his death, superintendent of Indian affairs at St Louis.
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William Clifford was an English philosopher and mathematician. He was born in 1845 at Exeter and died in 1879. He was professor at University College London. His mathematical works include treatises and lectures on elliptic functions and non-Euclidean geometry, bi-quaternions and Riemann's surface. His philosophical works deal mainly with the relations between the individual and society, especially in ethics.
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William Cobbett was a British author and journalist. He was born in 1763 at Farnham and died in 1835. In 1783 he went to London where he became a solicitor's clerk, and then joined the army as a private and acquired a great amount of general knowledge. He obtained his discharge in 1791 and after a visit to France went to America in 1792 and opened a book shop in Philadelphia, occupying himself also with teaching and translating. He established a newspaper, 'Peter Porcupine's Gaxette', but his trenchant articles resulted in him being sued and he left America in disgust, arriving back in London in 1801 where he started another newspaper, the ' Porcupine' in support of Pitt's policy but which failed.
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William Coddington was an American colonist. He was born in 1601 and died in 1678. he went to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1630. In 1638 with John Clarke he founded the colony of Rhode Island at Aquidneck and was its first Governor.
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William Frederick Cody was an American scout and showman. He was born in 1846 and died in 1917. He coined the nickname 'Buffalo Bill' when in 1867 - 1868 he supplied 4000 buffaloes as food to the employees on the Kansas Pacific railway. He toured America and Europe with his famous Wild West Show between 1883 and 1887 and in 1904 wrote 'The Adventures of Buffalo Bill'.
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William T Coleman was an American pioneer. He was born in 1824 and died in 1893. He was an active member of the 'Vigilance Committee' of 1851, and chairman of its executive department in 1856.
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William Collins was an English poet. He was born in 1721 at Chichester and died in 1759.
William Collins was an English landscape and figure painter. He was born in 1788 at London and died in 1847. He entered the Royal Academy as a student in 1807 and elected R.A. in 1820. William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist. He was born in 1824 and died in 1889.
William Collins was an English landscape painter.
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William Congreve was an English playwright. He was born in 1670 at Leeds and died in 1729. He was educated in Ireland. He went to London when he was in his early twenties. He wrote comedy plays.
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William Henry Corfield was an English hygienist and sanitarian. He was born in 1843 at Shrewsbury and died in 1903. He obtained the medical fellowship at Pembroke College in 1865 and the Radcliffe travelling fellowship in 1866 which enabled him to visit the chief medical schools of France and Italy. In 1869 he was appointed professor of hygiene and public health at University College, London. He wrote numerous works relating to hygiene and sanitary arrangements.
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William Cowper was an English surgeon. He was born in 1666 at Petersfield, Sussex and died in 1709. He published Myotomia Reformata in 1694, a treatise on the muscles, and The Anatomy of the Human Body in 1698.
William Cowper was an English poet. He was born in 1731 and died in 1800.
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William Crawford was an American soldier. He was born in 1732 and died in 1782. He participated in Braddock's expedition against Fort Duquesne, fought at Long Island, Trenton and Princeton during the American War Of Independence, and fought in an expedition against the Wyandot and Delaware Indians in 1782, during which he was captured and executed.
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Sir William Crookes was an English physicist. He was born in 1832 and died in 1919. He discovered the element thallium in 1861, invented the crookes tube in 1874 and also made valuable discoveries about radium.
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William Crotch was an English composer. He was born in 1775 at Norwich and died in 1847. He excelled in anthems and oratories.
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William B Cushing was an American soldier. He was born in 1842 and died in 1874. In 1861 he captured the first prize of the American Civil War, and in 1864 by extraordinary boldness destroyed the Confederate ironclad Albemarle. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel and distinguished himself at Fort Fisher.
William Cushing was an American jurist. He was born in 1732 and died in 1810. He was Judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court in 1772, Chief Justice in 1777 and the first Chief Justice under the State Constitution in 1780, later he was Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1789 until 1810.
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William D Bloxham was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Florida from 1881 until 1885.
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William D Denney was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Delaware from 1921 until 1925.
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William D Hoard was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Wisconsin from 1889 until 1891.
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William D Moseley was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Florida from 1845 until 1849.
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William D Simpson was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of South Carolina from 1879 until 1880.
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William D Stephens was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of California from 1917 until 1923.
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William D Williamson was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Maine during 1821.
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William Dampier was an English explorer, and pirate. He was born in 1652 and died in 1715. After the death of his father when he was young, Dampier was sent to sea where he distinguished himself as an able mariner. After serving in the Dutch War, he became a pirate off the coast of Peru before returning to England in 1691. In 1699 he was sent to explore the coast of Australia and New Guinea, in a royal sloop-of-war. In 1703 he sailed for the South Sea as a pirate once more, returning to England in 1707, and in 1708 sailed as pilot with Captain Woodes Rogers on his voyage around the world.
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William Daniel was an American prohibitionist. He was born in 1826 at Maryland. He was prominent in Maryland prohibition movements, a delegate to the State convention for the emancipation of slaves in 1864, and a candidate for Vice-President on the Prohibition ticket in 1884.
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Sir William Davenant was an English poet and dramatist. He was born in 1606 and died in 1668.
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William Ralph Dean was an English Association Football player. He was born in 1906. He played as a centre forward for Tranmere, Everton and England making 16 appearances for England between 1927 and 1932, scoring 17 goals. In the 1927-1928 season he set a record for goal scoring, scoring 60 goals for Everton in 39 First Division matches.
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William Dennison was an American politician. He born in 1815 and died in 1882. He was a Republican governor of Ohio from 1860 until 1862. Known as the 'War Governor' of Ohio, he was an ardent Republican and anti-slavery man. With great energy and ability he prepared the State for the American Civil War and organized and supplied its forces. He was chairman of the Republican National Nominating Convention in 1864, and from that year until 1866 was Postmaster-General, in the cabinets of Abraham Lincoln and Johnson.
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William Dorsey Jelks was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Alabama from 1901 until 1907.
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William H Drayton was an American-born politician. He was born in 1742 at South Carolina and died in 1779. He went to England, and in 1771 was appointed a privy councillor of South Carolina. He was deprived of his crown offices on account of sympathy with the colonies, and was made president of the Provincial Congress in 1775. In 1776 he became Cliief Justice of South Carolina and in 1777 president, and in 1778 was a member of the Continental Congress.
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William Drummond was a colonial governor. He died in 1677. He was appointed Governor of Albemarle (North Carolina) by Governor Berkeley, of Virginia and afterward he was prominent as a leader in the Bacon Rebellion of 1676, and was subsequently executed by Berkeley.
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William Duane was an American journalist. He was born in 1760 at New York and died in 1835. He was abroad from 1771 to 1795, when he returned to Philadelphia, and until 1822 edited the 'Aurora' the leading Democratic paper. He served as adjutant-general from 1813 to 1815, and was an important figure in anti-Jeffersonian Democratic politics in Pennsylvania.
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William Duell was executed for murder at Tyburn in 1740, but whilst undergoing dissection at Surgeons' Hall he came back to life.
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William Duer was an American politican. He was born in 1747 in England and died in 1799). He arrived in New York from England in 1768. He was a member of the committee that drafted the first Constitution of New York in 1777, was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1777 and 1778, and Secretary of the Treasury Board in 1789.
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Sir William Dugdale was an English antiquary and Garter King-of-Arms. He was born in 1605 and died in 1686. He was a Royalist, and accompanied Charles I to Oxford during the Civil War. At the Restoration he was appointed King-of-Arms and knighted.
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William Dyce was a Scottish painter and etcher. He was born in 1806 at Aberdeen and died in 1864. He worked chiefly at portraiture in Edinburgh. He produced frescoes for the walls of the House of Lords and the Queen's robing- room at Westminster.
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William E Cameron was an American politician. He was a Readjuster-Republican governor of Virginia from 1882 until 1886.
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William E Glasscock was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of West Virginia from 1909 until 1913.
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William E Russell was an American politician. He was born in 1857 and died in 1896. He was mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1885 to 1889. He was Governor of Massachusetts from 1890 to 1893. He advocated tariff and industrial reforms, and was a prominent leader of the young democracy.
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William E Smith was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Wisconsin from 1878 until 1882.
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William E Stevenson was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of West Virginia from 1869 until 1871.
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William E Sweet was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Colorado from 1923 until 1925.
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William Eaton was an American statesman. He was born in 1764 at Connecticut and died in 1811. He served in the American War of Independence from 1780 until 1783 and was Clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1791 until 1797. He was Consul at Tunis, where he conducted important negotiations from 1799 until 1803, and was US Naval Agent to the Barbary States from 1804 until 1805. In 1805 he conducted the Derne expedition.
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William Eden (Lord Auckland) was an English statesman. He was born in 1744 and died in 1814. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1768, became under-secretary of state in 1772, and in 1776 lord of trade. In 1778 he was nominated in conjunction with Lord Howe and others to act as a mediator between Britain and the insurgent American colonies. He was afterwards secretary of state for Ireland, ambassador extraordinary to France, ambassador extraordinary to the Netherlands, etc. He was raised to the peerage in 1788.
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William Ellery was an American statesman. He was born in 1727 at Rhode Island and died in 1820. He was chosen a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, and served on the board of admiralty, and the treasury and marine committees. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and continued, except in 1780 and 1782, a member of the Congress until 1786.
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William Elphinstone was a Scottish prelate and statesman. He was born in 1435 and died in 1514. He was envoy of Scotland to France on behalf of James III and became Bishop of Aberdeen in 1484. He founded Aberdeen University.
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William Etty was an English painter. He was born in 1787 at York and died in 1849.
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William Eugene Stanley was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Kansas from 1899 until 1903.
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William Eustis was an American politician. He was born in 1753 and died in 1835. He represented Massachusetts in Congress from 1801 to 1805, and from 1820 to 1823. From 1809 to 1813 he was Secretary of War in Madison's Cabinet. From 1814 to 1818 he was Minister to Holland, and was a Democratic-Republican governor of Massachusetts from 1823 until 1825.
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William Ewart was an English Liberal politician. He was born in 1798 at Liverpool and died in 1869. He was elected Liberal MP for Bletchingley in 1828; and was returned for Liverpool in 1830, for Wigan in 1839 and in 1841 for Dumfries Burghs, which he represented until his retirement in 1868. He succeeded in abolishing hanging in chains and in 1850 carried a bill for establishing free libraries.
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