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William F Lynch was an American explorer. He was born in 1801 and died in 1865. He planned and carried out the exploration of Jordan and the Dead Sea in 1848. He entered the Confederate navy, commanding at Roanoke Island, at Albemarle Sound and at Smithville.
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William F Johnston was an American politician. He was a Whig governor of Pennsylvania from 1848 until 1852.
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William F Packer was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Pennsylvania from 1858 until 1861.
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William F Winter was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Mississippi from 1980 until 1984.
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Sir William Fairbairn was a Scottish engineer. He was born in 1789 at Kelso and died in 1874. He built the Conway and Menai tubular bridges in 1845.
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William Harrison Faulkner was an American author. He was born in 1897 and died in 1962. He joined the Canadian Air Force in 1918, and later took various jobs, including painting and carpentry. His novels present a vivid picture of life in the Deep South of the USA. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949.
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William Pitt Fessenden was an American politician. He was born in 1806 at New Hampshire and died in 1869. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, and soon began practice in Portland, Maine. He served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1832 until 1840, 1845 until 1846, and 1853 until 1854. He was a member of the Whig National Conventions of 1840, 1848 and 1852, and became one of the founders of the Republican party. He was elected to the US Congress from 1841 to 1843, and served in the US Senate from 1854 until 1864, when he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Abraham Lincoln, and served until 1865. He was again a US Senator from 1865 until 1869. While in the Senate he made a famous speech against the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and in 1861 was appointed chairman of the Finance Committee, where he very ably sustained the national credit. He was one of the seven Republican Senators who voted for the acquittal of President Johnson in the impeachment trial of 1867.
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Sir William Fettes was a Scottish man who left a large sum of money for the education of orphans and other unfortunate children. He was born in 1750 and died in 1836.
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William Fiennes (Lord Saye) was an English colonist. He was born in 1582 and died in 1663. A Puritan lord, he was prominent in colonization enterprises. In 1633 he and others obtained a grant for a colony on the Connecticut River, afterward called Saybrook, from his name and that of Lord Brooke. In 1633 he procured a grant in New Hampshire.
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William Findlay was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1817 until 1820.
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William Fleming was an American politician. He was a governor of Virginia during 1781.
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Sir William Fletcher Barrett was a British scientist. He was the principal founder of the Society for Psychical Research. He was born in 1844 and died in 1925.
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William Floyd was an American politician. He was born in 1734 and died in 1831. He was a delegate from New York to the Continental Congresses from 1774 to 1783, and signed the Declaration of Independence. He was a State Senator from 1777 to 1778, and a member of the first US Congress from 1789 to 1791. He was a Presidential elector in 1800, 1804 and 1820, and again State Senator in 1808.
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William Francis Bartlett was an American soldier. He was born in 1840 at Massachusetts and died in 1876. He left Harvard in 1861 to join the army as a private and rose through the ranks during the American Civil War to become a brevet major-general. He was wounded at Yorktown and Port Hudson and was taken prisoner at Petersburg.
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William Franklin was the last royal Governor of New Jersey. He was born in 1729 and died in 1813. He was an illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin. During a residence in Great Britain he was appointed Governor of New Jersey, and held the office from 1762 until 1776. In that year he was arrested as a Tory by the provincial Congress of New Jersey. In 1778 he was exchanged, lived in New York until the close of the American War of Independence, and then retired to England, where he died.
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William Friese-Greene was an English photographer and the inventor of kinematography. He lived in North London, and it was there in 1889 that he invented the first working moving film camera, which he demonstrated early one morning to a passing policeman. He died in 1921.
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William G Brownlow was an American politician. He was a Whig-Republican governor of Tennessee from 1865 until 1869.
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William G Conley was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of West Virginia from 1929 until 1933.
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William G Crosby was an American politician. He was a Whig governor of Maine from 1853 until 1855.
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William G Milliken was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Michigan from 1969 until 1983.
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William G Stratton was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Illinois from 1953 until 1961.
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William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist. He was born in 1805 at Newburyport, Massachusetts and died in 1879. He began his career in the employ of the Newburyport Herald in 1818, making-anonymous contributions reproving the general apathy on the subject of slavery. In 1826 he became editor of the Newburyport Free Press and in 1831 started in Boston the Liberator which exerted an immense influence against slavery, and which he conducted for thirty-four years until slavery was made illegal in the USA. He formed and organised the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1832 and was its president from 1843 to 1865.
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William Gaston was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Massachusetts from 1875 until 1876.
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William Gilbert was an English physician and physicist. He was born in 1544 at Colchester and died in 1603. He coined the word electricity to describe the property of amber for attracting light objects. He also pioneered work into magnetism, being the first to suggest that the earth was a giant magnet, and demonstrated magnetism to queen Elizabeth I.
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William Ewart Gladstone was an English Liberal member of parliament. He was born in 1808 and died in 1898. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1852 until 1855 and Prime Minister from 1868 until 1874 and again from 1880 until 1885 and yet again from 1892 until 1894.
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William Godwin was an English political writer and philosopher. He was born in 1756 and died in 1836.
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William Goebel was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Kentucky during 1900.
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William Goffe was an English soldier. He was born in 1605 and died in 1679. He became a major-general in the English army, and was one of the judges who sentenced Charles I to death, and was prominent in political affairs during the Protectorate. Upon the restoration of Charles II, he fled to America in 1660, landing at Boston. He was concealed in New Haven from 1661 until 1664, when he went to Hadley, Massachusetts, where he remained until just before his death.
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Sir William Gerald Golding was an English novelist, actor and theatre director. He was born in 1911 at St Columb Manor, Cornwall and died in 1993. Educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford in science and English literature he worked as an actor and theatre director before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and afterwards working as a teacher. His 1954 book, 'Lord of The Flies' - inspired by his war service and time as a teacher - gained him international fame. In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Later in his life he was an ardent fan of the Australian soap-opera 'Neighbours', never missing an episode and ringing his wife to ask her to video it if he was away from home.
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Sir William Gooch was an English colonial governor. He was born in 1681 and died in 1751. He was Governor of Virginia from 1727 until 1747, when he returned to England. He was created a baronet in 1746, and was appointed major-general.
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William Gordon was an English writer. He was born in 1730 and died in 1807. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1770, and was active in Massachusetts politics. He returned to England in 1786, and published a valuable 'History of the Rise, Progress and Establishment of the Independence of the United States'.
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William Grason was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Maryland from 1839 until 1842.
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William Greene was an American politician. He was a governor of Rhode Island from 1778 until 1786.
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William Gregory was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Rhode Island from 1900 until 1901.
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William W Gwin was an American politician. He was born in 1805 and died in 1885. He represented Mississippi in the US Congress from 1841 to 1843, and was a US Senator from California from 1850 until 1861, during which time he served on the Finance and Naval Committees. He was a pro-slavery Democrat.
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William H Aspinwall was an American merchant. He was born in 1807 and died in 1875. A merchant of New York, in 1850 he secured the contract for building the Panama Railroad, which was completed in 1854 and its eastern terminus named Aspinwall in honour of William H Aspinwall.
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William H Adams was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Colorado from 1927 until 1933.
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William H Avery was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Kansas from 1965 until 1967.
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William H Bissell was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Illinois from 1857 until 1860.
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William H Cabell was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Virginia from 1805 until 1808.
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William H Ellerbe was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of South Carolina from 1897 until 1899.
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William H Gist was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of South Carolina from 1858 until 1860.
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William H Murray was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Oklahoma from 1931 until 1935.
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William H Ross was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Delaware from 1851 until 1855.
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William H Upham was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Wisconsin from 1895 until 1897.
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William H Vanderbilt was an American businessman. He was born in 1821 and died in 1885. The son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, became president of the New York Central and Hudson River and New York and Harlem Railroads in 1877, and at his death was probably the richest man in America.
William H Vanderbilt was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Rhode Island from 1939 until 1941.
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William H Wills was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Vermont from 1941 until 1945.
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William Habington was an English poet and historian. He was born in 1605 at Hindlip and died in 1654.
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William Haile was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of New Hampshire from 1857 until 1859.
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William Hall was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Tennessee during 1829.
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William J Hardee was an American soldier. He was born in 1817 at georgia and died in 1873. He was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for gallant conduct in the Mexican War. In 1856 he produced a work for the American Government on the tactics of infantry, known as 'Hardee's Tactics'. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service as a colonel at Fort Morgan, and was soon afterward made brigadier-general. He gained a success at Shiloh, was prominent in the campaign about Murfreesboro, and fought at Chattanooga. He surrendered with General Johnston's
army at Durham Station in 1865.
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William S Harney was an American soldier. He was born in 1800 and died in 1889. He joined the US army in 1818, was brevetted major-general in 1865 for long and faithful service, and at the time of his death was the oldest officer in the US army.
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William Harris Crawford was an American statesman. He was born in 1772 and died in 1834. he served in the Georgia Legislature and obtained distinction as a lawyer. He was a member of the US Senate from 1807 until 1813, being president pro tem for part of the time. He was a minister to France from 1813 until 1815 and Secretary of War from 1815 until 1816. From 1816 until 1825 he was Secretary of the Treasury and afterwards a candidate for Monroe's successor to the Presidency. He stood for president in 1824, receiving forty-one electoral votes, and with Adams and Jackson he was after the indecisive contest brought before the House of representatives, and like Jackson went down before the Adams and Clay forces.
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William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the USA. He was born in 1773 at Berkeley, Charles County, Virginia and died in 1841. A son of Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, he was educated at Hampden Sidney College, entered the army, and fought at Wayne's victory of 1794. In 1798 he became Secretary of the Northwest Territory, and in 1799 delegate to Congress.
In 1800 he was appointed Governor of the new Indiana Territory. He was still Governor when the Indian outbreak occurred, and his victory at Tippecanoe, on November the 7th, 1811, gave to him a national reputation and an epithet for life.
In the War of 1812 he was major-general, first of Kentucky militia, and then in the regular army. He defended Fort Meigs against the British in 1813, and on October the 5th of the same year he achieved his second noted military exploit by defeating Proctor and Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames. General Harrison resigned from the army in 1814.
From 1816 to 1819 he was Congressman, from 1825 to 1828 US Senator, and US Minister to the United States of Colombia from 1828 until 1829. As the Whig candidate for President in 1836 he was defeated by Van Buren. In December, 1839, the Whig Convention put Harrison again before the country, and Van Buren was again his antagonist. The campaign of 1840 was without precedent or successor. The log cabin and hard cider charged by his opponents against his early record, became a tower of strength to him; a campaign ball was set rolling across the country and Tippecanoe and Tyier too were fairly sung into the White House.
In his Cabinet Webster as Secretary of State was the ablest member. Fatigue and exposure and importunities of office-seekers caused his death after a month of service, the first death of a President while in office. General Harrison, though by no means brilliant, was an able administrator, and a man of good sense.
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William Harvey was an English physician. He was born in 1578 at Folkestone and died in 1657. He discovered the circulation of the blood.
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William F Havemeyer was an American politician. He was born in 1804 and died in 1874. He was mayor of New York City from 1845 to 1851, and from 1872 to 1874, was president of the Bank of North America from 1851 to 1861, and very prominent in the overthrow of the Tweed ring.
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William Hawkins was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of North Carolina from 1811 until 1814.
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William Hayley was an English author. He was born in 1745 at Chichester and died in 1820. His work ' Triumphs of Temper' published in 1781 made him the most popular poet of the day. His autobiography was published in 1823.
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William B Hazen was an American soldier. He was born in 1830 and died in 1887. He commanded in the Mexican War, led a brigade at Shiloh, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, was promoted major-general, and was afterward prominent in the Signal Service, of which he was chief from 1880 to 1887.
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William Hazlitt was an English literary critic. He was born in 1778 at Maidstone and died in 1830. He settled in London in 1812 and in 1817 became known for his 'Characters of Shakespeare's Plays'.
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William Heath was an American soldier and jurist. He was born in 1737 and died in 1814. He was chosen captain of the Suffolk regiment before theAmerican War of Independence, and commanded the Boston artillery in 1770. He was a Massachusetts Assemblyman in 1761 and from 1771 to 1774, and a member of the Committee of Safety and of the Provincial Congress from 1774 to 1775. He was made brigadier-general in 1774 for meritorious services, and was promoted major-general in 1775. He was a member of the convention which ratified the American Constitution, was a State Senator from 1791 to 1792, and a probate judge from 1793.
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William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist renowned for his humorous drawings of machines. He was born in 1872 and died in 1944.
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William Hendricks was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Indiana from 1822 until 1825.
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William L Herndon was an American explorer. He was born in 1813 and died in 1857. He entered the navy in 1828, explored the Amazon for the US Government in 1851 and 1852, and bravely died while aiding passengers on the sinking mail steamer, 'Central America'.
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Sir William Herschel was an Anglo-German astronomer. He was born in 1738 and died in 1822. He discovered the planet Uranus.
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William Hodges Mann was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Virginia from 1910 until 1914.
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William Hogarth was an English artist. He was born in 1697 at London and died in 1764.
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William Hone was an English social reformer. he was born in 1780 at Bath and died in 1842. He was prosecuted three times for blasphemy for writing a travesty of the Prayer-book, but was acquitted each time.
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William Hooper was an American politician. He was born in 1742 and died in 1790. He was a member of the North Carolina Legislature in 1773, and of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1777. He signed the Declaration of Independence. He was author of the 'Hampden' essays in 1773.
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William Howard (Viscount Stafford) was an English nobleman. He was born in 1614 and died in 1680. He was the fifth son of Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel and was created Viscount Stafford in 1640. William Howard was one of the five Roman Catholic peers denounced by Titus Oates. He was arrested and tried for high treason in 1680. Convicted after false evidence was presented to the court against him by Titus Oates, William Howard was executed by beheading on Tower Hill on December the 29th 1680.
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William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the USA from 1909 to 1913.
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Sir William Howe was a British soldier. He was born in 1729 and died in 1814. He served under General Wolfe at Quebec in 1759. In 1775 he succeeded General Gage as commander-in-chief of the British forces in America. He commanded the British troops at Bunker Hill. In conjunction with his brother, Richard, he defeated the colonial armies at Long Island and at White Plains in 1776, and captured Fort Washington and Fort Lee. He defeated George Washington at Brandywine in 1777, and entered Philadelphia. After repulsing the American attack at Germantown he went into winter quarters in Philadelphia, and was accused of spending his time in the pursuit of pleasure. He was removed from command in 1778, and superseded by Sir Henry Clinton. He was a well-educated general and a favourite with his officers, but unsuccessful in strategy and incapable of managing a large army. He was described by General Henry Lee as 'the most indolent of mortals, who never took pains to examine the merits or demerits of a cause in which he was engaged.'
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William Hubbard was an English clergyman. He was born in 1621 and died in 1704. He went to America from England in 1630. He was a pastor at Ipswich, Massachussetts, from 1665 to 1703. He was author of a 'History of New England' and 'A Narrative of Troubles with the Indians'.
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William Hugh Smith was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Alabama from 1868 until 1870.
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Wlliam Hull was an American soldier. He was born in 1753 and died in 1825. He was chosen captain in a Connecticut regiment in 1775. He fought at White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, Fort Stanwix and Stony Point, attaining the rank of major. From 1805 to 1812 he was Governor of Michigan. In 1812 he was placed in command of the Army of the Northwest, with headquarters at Detroit. He regarded himself as compelled by superior forces and by lack of proper facilities to surrender Detroit to the British. He was tried by court-martial and sentenced to death, but was reprieved by Madison.
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William Holman Hunt was an English painter. He was born in 1827 at London and died in 1910.
William H Hunt was an American jurist and politician. He was born in 1824 at Louisiana and died in 1884. was appointed Judge of the US Court of Claims in 1878. He was Secretary of the Navy in Garfield's Cabinet from 1881 to 1882, when he was appointed Minister to Russia.
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William I was king of Prussia and German emperor. He was born in 1797 at Berlin the son of Frederick William III. of Prussia and died in 1888. He first saw service in the war of liberation against Napoleon I, and for his gallantry in the 1814 campaign in France received the iron cross. His reactionary sympathies at the time of the revolution of 1818 in Berlin made him very unpopular, and he was compelled to take refuge in England. In 1858 the mind of the king, Frederick William, gave way, and Prince William became regent.
In the beginning of 1861 William I succeeded to the throne of Prussia. In September 1862 he called Otto Bismarck to office, and in 1863 the Schleswig-Holstein question came to the fore, and embittered the relations of Austria and Prussia. In 1866 the Austro-Prussian war broke out, and at the conclusion of the war the Prussian ascendancy in Germany was assured. The war of 1870 - 1871 completed the triumph of William I. On January 18th 1871, in the palace of Versailles, William I was chosen German emperor. William I's honesty and sagacity made him universally popular.
William I was King of Scotland from 1165 to 1214.
William I was king of the Netherlands. He was born in 1772 at the Hague, the son of William V and died in 1843. He was the last hereditary stadtholder. He commanded the army of the Netherlands against France from 1793 until the subjection of the kingdom in 1795. After that he joined the army of Prussia, and served as a general until his capture by the French at Jena in 1806. He also served in the Austrian army. On the downfall of Napoleon, and the subsequent adjustment of European affairs, the Congress of Vienna decided that Belgium and Holland should be united under one sovereign, William I. He reigned until 1840, when he resigned in favour of his son William II.
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William II (known as William Rufus) was a Norman king of England. He was born in 1057 and died in 1100 Strong, outspoken and ruddy (hence his nickname 'Rufus'),
William II reigned from 1087 to 1100 and extended his father's (William the Conqueror) policies, taking royal power to the far north of England. Ruthless in his relations with his brother Robert, William II extended his grip on the duchy of Normandy under an agreement between the brothers in 1091. William II's relations with the Church were not easy; he took over Archbishop Lanfranc's revenues after the latter's death in 1089, kept other bishoprics vacant to make use of their revenues, and had numerous arguments with Lanfranc's popular successor Anselm.
William II died on the 2nd of August 1100, after being shot by an arrow whilst hunting in the New Forest.
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William III was king of England from 1689 to 1702. In 1689 Parliament declared that James had abdicated by deserting his kingdom and William III and Mary were offered the throne as joint monarchs. They accepted a Declaration of Rights (later a Bill), drawn up by a Convention of Parliament, which limited the Sovereign's power, reaffirmed Parliament's claim to control taxation and legislation, and provided guarantees against the abuses of power which James II and the other Stuart Kings had committed.
The exclusion of James II and his heirs was extended to exclude all Catholics from the throne, since 'it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince'. The Sovereign was required in his coronation oath to swear to maintain the Protestant religion. The Bill was designed to ensure Parliament could function free from royal interference.
The Sovereign was forbidden from suspending or dispensing with laws passed by Parliament, or imposing taxes without Parliamentary consent. The Sovereign was not allowed to interfere with elections or freedom of speech, and proceedings in Parliament were not to be questioned in the courts or in any body outside Parliament itself. The Sovereign was required to summon Parliament frequently.
Parliament tightened control over the King's expenditure; the financial settlement reached with William and Mary deliberately made them dependent upon Parliament, as one Member of Parliament said, 'when princes have not needed money they have not needed us'. Finally the King was forbidden to maintain a standing army in time of peace without Parliament's consent.
William III died in rather odd circumstances, he was thrown from his horse when his horse tripped over a mole-hill.
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William Irwin was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of California from 1875 until 1880.
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William IV was king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1830 to 1837. William married Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen in 1818, but all of their children died in infancy. The third son of George III, William became heir apparent at the age of 62 when his elder brother died. William's reign was dominated by the Reform crisis, beginning almost immediately when Wellington' s Tory government lost the general election in August 1830. Pledged to parliamentary reform, Grey's Whig government won a further election which William had to call in 1831 and then pushed through a reform bill against the opposition of the Tories and the House of Lords, using the threat of the creation of 50 or more peers to do so. The failure of the Tories to form an alternative government in 1832 meant that William had to sign the Great Reform Bill. Control of peerages had been used as a party weapon, and the royal prerogative had been damaged.
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William IX was duke of Aquitaine and count of Poiton. He was born in 1071 and died in 1127. He seized the territory of Raymond IV when he was absent at the crusades, but he afterwards in 1101 joined the crusaders himself, with the duke of Bavaria, but was entrapped by Alexis, emperor of Constantinople. William saved himself by flight, and took refuge with the prince of Antioch, whom he accompanied to Jerusalem. On returning home he assisted the king of Aragon against the Moors, over whom a victory was obtained at Cordova. He afterwards assisted Louis the Fat in his campaign against the Germans in 1124. He was also a celebrated Provencal poet.
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William J Duane was an American lawyer. He was born in 1780 and died in 1865. He became Secretary of the US Treasury in 1833, and was removed by President Jackson for refusing to withdraw the deposits from the US bank.
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William J Lowndes was an American politician. He was born in 1782 and died in 1822. He was a member of the South Carolina Legislature from 1806 to 1810. He represented South Carolina in the US House of Representatives from 1810 to 1822. He served on the Committee of Ways and Means from 1818 to 1822. He earnestly supported the War of 1812. He was a brilliant debater, and called by Henry Clay 'the wisest man he had ever known in Congress'.
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William J Fields was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Kentucky from 1923 until 1927.
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William J Holloway was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Oklahoma from 1929 until 1931.
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William J Janklow was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of South Dakota from 1979 until 1987.
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William J McConnell was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Idaho from 1893 until 1897.
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William J Northen was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Georgia from 1890 until 1894.
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William Lawies Jackson (Lord Allerton) was an English politician. He was born in 1840 at Otley, Yorkshire and died in 1917. A tanner by trade, he built up a large and profitable leather business before becoming a Conservative politician, winning Leeds in 1880. In 1892, when the Conservative party lost control of the government he was made the first Baron of Allerton (Lord Allerton). In 1895 he became the first Conservative mayor of Leeds.
William Jackson was an American soldier. He was born in 1759 and died in 1828. A major, he entered a South Carolina regiment in 1775. He fought at Stono, Savannah and Charleston. He was secretary to the convention which framed the Federal Constitution in 1787, his notes of which were preserved.
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William James was an American psychologist. He was born in 1842 and died in 1910. He received a medical degree from Harvard in 1869 and began teaching anatomy and physiology. Later he wrote several books and helped found the American Society for Psychical Research.
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William James Samford was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Alabama from 1900 until 1901.
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William Janszoon was a Dutch explorer. He discovered Australia in 1606.
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William Jay was an American abolitionist. He was born in 1789 at New York City and died in 1858. A son of John Jay, from 1812 to 1842 he was a judge of the Westchester County Court, New York and in 1815 a founder of the American Bible Society. He devoted his efforts to the abolition of slavery and war, and wrote a biography of his father.
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William Joel Stone was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Missouri from 1893 until 1897.
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Sir William Johnson was a British colonial soldier. He was born in 1715 at Ireland and died in 1774. Having emigrated to America, he settled in the Mohawk Valley. In this region, then mainly an Indian wilderness, Sir William Johnson's tact, ability and knowledge of the Indian character, made him the central personage. He was colonel of the Six Nations, commissary of Indian affairs, and member of the Governor's council. His headquarters was Fort Johnson, near Amsterdam. The influence of the Johnson family held the Six Nations to the English alliance in the French war and American War of Independence. Johnson attended the Albany Congress in 1754, and the next year was appointed to command in the north. For the victory at the head of Lake George, on September the 8th, 1755, really won by General Lyman, Johnson received the credit together with a baronetcy and a sum of money. In 1759, after the fall of Prideaux, he succeeded to the command in the attack on Fort Niagara.
William S Johnson was an American politician. He was born in 1727 and died in 1819. He was a Connecticut delegate to the Stamp-Act Congress in 1765. He was London agent of the colony from 1766 to 1771. He was Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1772 to 1774, served in the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787, and aided in drafting the American Constitution. He was a US Senator from 1789 to 1791, then president of Columbia College until 1800.
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William Jones was an American politician. He was a Federalist governor of Rhode Island from 1811 until 1817.
William Jones was an American politician. He was born in 1760 and died in 1831. He served in the battles of Trenton and Princeton during the American War of Independence. He represented Pennsylvania as a Democrat in the US Congress from 1801 to 1803. He was Secretary of the Navy in 1813 and 1814. Subsequently he was president of the US Bank.
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William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was an American fascist. He was born in 1906 at Brooklyn, New York and died in 1946. As a child he was brought up in Ireland and in 1922 emigrated to England with his family. In 1933 he joined the British Union of Fascists, before being expelled in 1937 and forming his own Nazi party. He fled to Nazi Germany before the outbreak of the Second World War and from there made propaganda broadcasts on Radio Hamburg against Britain. After the war he was captured by the British, tried for treason and executed, his defence of his US nationality being dismissed on the grounds he had held (albeit illegally obtained by deception) a UK passport which expired in 1940.
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William D Kelley was an American jurist. He was born in 1814 and died in 1890. He was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was Judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1846 to 1856. He was a member of the Republican National Convention of 1860, and represented Pennsylvania in the US Congress as a Republican from 1861 to 1890. He published 'The New South' and many influential political writings, and was noted as a strong protectionist.
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William Thomson Kelvin (Baron Kelvin) was a professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow. He was born in 1824 at Belfast and died in 1907. He determined the absolute zero of temperature.
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William Kennedy was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of New Jersey during 1815.
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William Kidd (Captain Kidd) was an Anglo-American pirate. He was born around 1645 in Greenock, Scotland and died in 1701. Kidd went to sea as a young man, and by 1690 was established as a ship- owner in colonial New York. In 1695 he went to England where, backed by Richard Coote, Earl of Bellamont, he was commissioned as a privateer to operate against pirates. After he had sailed to Madagascar as captain of the ship Adventure the following year, reports reached England that he himself had turned to piracy. In 1697 and 1698 he seized several ships off the east coast of Africa, the richest of which was an Armenian vessel, the Quedagh Merchant. Arriving in the West Indies in 1699 and learning that a warrant had been issued for his arrest, he proceeded to Oyster Bay, Long Island, and then to Boston, where his former patron Richard Coote (Lord Bellamont) was governor. Kidd tried to justify his acts, but Richard Coote sent him to England for trial. Convicted of piracy, Kidd was hanged in London on May the 23rd 1701. Some of his treasure was found on Gardiners Island, at the eastern end of Long Island, and the belief long persisted that more was buried nearby.
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Sir William Killigrew was an English dramatist. He was born in 1606 and died in 1695. He was gentleman-usher to Charles I and suffered for his adherence to the royal cause. He was ruined by his unsuccessful attempts to drain the Lincolnshire fens.
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William R King was an American politician. He was born in 1786 and died in 1853. He represented Alabama in the US Congress as a War Democrat from 1811 to 1816. He was Secretary of Legation to Russia from 1816 to 1818. He was a US Senator from 1819 to 1844, and Minister to France from 1844 to 1846. He was a US Senator from 1846 to 1853, when he was elected Vice-President of the United States, but died soon after.
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William Kingsford was a Canadian historian. He was born in 1819 at London and died in 1898. He went to Canada and became a journalist and proprietor of the Montreal Times. He wrote 'The History of Canada' published in ten volumes from 1887 to 1897.
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William L Dayton was an American statesman. He was born in 1807 and died in 1864. A US Senator from New Jersey from 1842 until 1851, he was candidate for Vice-President in 1856 on the Republican ticket, and was Attorney-General for New Jersey from 1857 until 1861, when he was appointed Minister to France, where he served during the American Civil War, until his death.
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William L D Ewing was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Illinois during 1834.
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William L Douglas was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Massachusetts from 1905 until 1906.
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William L Greenly was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Michigan during 1847.
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William L Guy was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of New Dakota from 1961 until 1973.
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William L Harding was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Iowa from 1917 until 1921.
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William L Sharkey was an American politician. He was a Whig-Democratic governor of Mississippi during 1865.
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William Lamed Marcy was an American politician. He was born in 1786 and died in 1857. An American Cabinet officer, he graduated at Brown, became a lawyer, took part in the War of 1812, and became a Democratic editor in Troy. He was one of the leaders in the Albany Regency, and a master in political management. From 1823 until 1829 he was. Conttroller of New York, Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court from 1829 until 1831, and from 1831 until 1833 a member of the US Senate, where he made-his famous 'to the victors belong the spoils speech. He was Governor of New York from 1833 until 1839, Secretary of War from 1845 until 1849, and Secretary of State from 1853 until 1857. In the latter office he has won general regard for his able treatment of difficult international questions.
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William Langer was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of New Dakota from 1937 until 1939.
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William Langland was probably an English priest. He was born in 1332 and died in 1400. He is remembered for his poem The Visions of Piers The Plowman which gives a detailed account of English life at the time.
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William Larrabee was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Iowa from 1886 until 1890.
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William Laud was an English churchman. He was born in 1573 at Reading and died in 1645. He was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633, a post he held until 1641. He sought to establish uniformity of worship by enforcing conformity to the Church of England. He increased the power of the clergy and punished all dissenters. His persecutions of the Puritans, who maintained liberty of conscience, caused them to seek refuge in other lands and many went to America. He was impeached in 1642 and executed in 1645.
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William B Lawrence was an American jurist. He was born in 1800 and died in 1881. He was acting Governor of Rhode Island in 1851. He was one of the chief American authorities upon international law, and edited an edition of Wheaton published in 1855.
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William Ledyard was an American insurgent. He was born in 1750 and died in 1781. He held Fort Griswold, Connecticut, with 157 other insurgents against the British in 1781. After the surrender the British,. commanded by Major Bromfield, executed all the insurgents.
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William Lilye was an English grammarian. He was born in 1466 at Odiham and died in 1522. He was appointed first headmaster at the new St Paul's school in 1510, and in conjunction with Erasmus he edited the 'Eton Latin Grammar'.
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William Lindley was an English civil engineer. He was born in 1808 at London and died in 1900. He learnt engineering under Francil Giles and was appointed chief engineer to the Hamburg and Bergedorf railway in 1838. he designed the Hamburg water-works; constructed the sewage work; reclaimed the 'Hammerbrook' district and planned the rebuilding of the city after the fire of 1842.
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William Livingston was an American politician. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. He was Governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790. In 1787 he was a delegate to the convention that framed the Constitution and signed that instrument. *William M. O. Dawson
William M O Dawson was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of West Virginia from 1905 until 1909.
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William W Loring was an American soldier. He was born in 1818 and died in 1886. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for services in the Mexican War. He served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, and commanded a division at Vicksburg and Chattanooga.
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William M Stone was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Iowa from 1864 until 1868.
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William M Tuck was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Virginia from 1946 until 1950.
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William Forbes Mackenzie was a Scottish politician. He was born in 1801 at Portmore, Peeblesshire and died in 1862. He was member of parliament for Peeblesshire from 1837 to 1852, during which period he introduced a liquor Act for Scotland which was passed in 1853 and imposed Sunday closing and other restrictions.
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WilliamMahone was an American soldier and politician. He was born in 1836 and died in 1895. A Confederate major-general he was noted for hard fighting in several battles, especially at Petersburg. About 1878 he organized and became the leader of the party called Readjusters, advocating repudiation of the State debt of Virginia. From 1881 to 1887 he was a Senator from Virginia.
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William Markham was an English colonial governor. He was born in 1635 and died in 1704. He left England and arrived in America in 1681, and was Deputy-Governor of Pennsylvania and Delaware until 1682. He was Deputy-Governor of Delaware from 1691 to 1693 and Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania from 1694 to 1699.
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William Marsden was a British author and coin collector. He was born in 1754 at Verval, Ireland and died in 1836. He served in the East India Company at Bencoolen, Sumatra from 1771 to 1779, and on his return home became secretary to the Admiralty from 1795 to 1804. He presented his Oriental books and manuscripts to King's College London, and his splendid coin collection to the British Museum. He wrote several books about Sumatra, the Malay language and coins of the Orient.
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William Marvin was an American politician. He was a governor of Florida during 1865.
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William Maxwell the fifth Earl of Nithsdale was a Jacobite rebel. He was born in 1676 and died in 1744. He took part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and was captured at Preston, sent to the tower and sentenced to death in 1716. Through the help of his wife he escaped from the Tower disguised as a woman.
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William McKinley was the 25th president of the USA from 1897 to 1901. He was born in 1844 at Niles, Ohio and died in 1901. He served as a volunteer in the American Civil War. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1877 to 1891, and as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means had the chief hand in framing the Tariff Ac of October 1st, 1890, commonly called the McKinley Act. From January, 1892, to January, 1896, he was Governor of Ohio. He was elected President of the United States on November the 3rd, 1896 and inaugurated on March the 4th, 1897. When he was elected President he won by the largest majority of popular votes since 1872. He was standing in a receiving line at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition when an anarchist shot him twice. He died eight days later.
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William McWillie was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Mississippi from 1857 until 1859.
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William Meade Fishback was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Arkansas from 1893 until 1895.
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William Medill was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Ohio from 1853 until 1856.
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William M Meredith was an American politician. He was born in 1799 and died in 1873. He was Secretary of the Treasury in Taylor's Cabinet from 1849 to 1850. He was Attorney-General of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1867, and president of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1873.
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William Miller was an American soldier and religious fanatic. He was born in 1782 at Massachusetts and died in 1849. He served on the Canadian frontier in 1812. He proclaimed that the coming of Christ would occur in 1843, and founded the sect of 'Millerites', or 'Adventists'.
William Miller was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of North Carolina from 1814 until 1817.
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William Molyneux was an Irish mathematician and philosopher. He was born in 1656 at Dublin and died in 1698. In 1683 he founded the Dublin Philosophical Society and in 1685 joined the Royal Society of England. From 1692 to his death he represented Dublin University in the Irish Parliament.
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William Moore was an American politician. He was a governor of Pennsylvania from 1781 until 1782.
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William Morgan was an American Freemason. He was borrn in 1775 at Batavia, New York and died about 1836. He proposed in 1836 to expose the secrets of the Order of Freemasons, of which he had been a member. His sudden disappearance soon afterward, and apparent abduction by the Masons, caused great excitement in America. An Anti-Masonic party was formed in most free States, and William Wirt was nominated for president in 1831. William Morgan, it is now known, was taken from Batavia to Niagara and killed, his body being sent over the falls.
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William Morris was an English poet, craftsman and socialist. He was born in 1834 and died in 1896. He founded the socialist league and the Kelmscott press.
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William Motherwell was a Scottish poet. He was born in 1797 at Glasgow and died in 1835.
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William Moultrie was an American politician and soldier. He was born in 1731 and died in 1805. He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress in 1775. He successfully defended Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbour against a British fleet in 1776 (Battle of Fort Moultrie). The fort there was named in his honour. He defeated the British at Beaufort and successfully defended Charleston in 1779. He was Governor of South Carolina in 1785 and 1794. He wrote 'Memoirs of the Revolution'.
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William Murdock was a Scottish engineer. He was born in 1754 at Lugar near Auchinleck in East Ayrshire, and died in 1839. He invented the coal gas light, and in 1784 an engine which ran on wheels. He began experimenting with the illuminating properties of gases in 1792 and in 1800 erected an experimental apparatus at Soho (near Birmingham) with the result that gas was used in some places as an illumination after the peace of Amiens in 1802.
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William Murray (Lord Mansfield) was an English jurist. He was born in 1704 and died in 1793. The most eminent of English judges, he was Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1756 to 1788. He maintained the right of Great Britain to tax the American colonies and was one of the most zealous opponents of the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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