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Charles A Dana was an American newspaper man. He was born in 1819. From 1848 until 1862 he was the managing editor of the New York Tribune edited by Horace Greeley. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of War in 1863, and from 1867 to 1868 organized and became editor of the New York Sun.
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Francis Dana was an American politician. He was born in 1743 and died in 1811. A Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, he was Congressman in 1778 and secretary to the embassy of John Adams in 1779. He was Minister to Russia from 1780 until 1783. In 1785 he was made Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention in 1786, and Chief Justice of Massachusetts from 1791 to 1806.
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James Dwight Dana was an American academic., He was born in 1813 and was a professor of Yale University. He made extensive reports, geological and other, upon material collected in a United States expedition to the Southern and Pacific Oceans, and in 1850 became associate editor of the American Journal of Science and Art of which he later became editor.
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John Quincy Adams was an American politician. He was born in 1767 at Boston and died in 1848.
The eldest son of John Adams, he was a boy of precocious talents, he was early taken abroad by his father, studied at the University of Leyden, and at fourteen began his public career as secretary to Francis Dana, Minister to Russia. He was graduated at Harvard in 1788, admitted to the bar in 1791, and at once began to write on public affairs. From 1794 to 1797 he was Minister to Holland; from 1797 to 1801, Minister to Prussia. In 1803, the Federalists elected him to the US Senate.
Approving Jefferson's embargo, he became estranged from the Federalists, acted with the Republicans, and in 1808 resigned. In 1809, Madison appointed him Minister to Russia, and in 1814 he was one of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of Ghent; he then became Minister to England. From 1817 to 1825, he was Secretary of State to President Monroe. In the election of 1824, though he received but eighty-four electoral votes to ninety-nine for Jackson, he was, by a coalition of his friends with those of Clay, chosen President by the House of Representatives, becoming the sixth President of the United States.
He appointed Clay Secretary of State; Richard Rush Secretary of the Treasury;. James Barbour Secretary of War; Samuel L Southard Secretary of the Navy and William Wirt Attorney-General. John Calhoun was Vice-President. A cry of 'bargain and corruption' with Clay was raised, though without foundation.
Adams' administration was marked by intelligence and firmness, and by extreme integrity in all matters, especially that of appointments, but was made a stormy one by the bitter attacks of his enemies in Congress and by his own unbending and pugnacious character. He favoured protection and internal improvements at Federal expense. He failed to be re-elected in 1828. In 1831, still vigorous at sixty-four, he entered Congress as an independent member for the Quincy district in Massachusetts, which he continued to represent until his death. A model legislator, active and efficient in every valuable department of congressional business, his most memorable services were in behalf of the right of petition, threatened by the pro-slavery members, and in other assistance to the anti-slavery cause. He died at his post in the Capitol on February the 23rd, 1848. Twelve volumes of his diary have been published, abounding in information and acute though censorious judgments on the events of his long public career, and in evidence of his high character and patriotism.
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John W Dana was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Maine from 1847 until 1850.
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Richard Henry Dana was an American lawyer and poet. He was born in 1787 at Cambridge, Massachusetts and died in 1879. Educated at Harvard, he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1811, was one of the projectors of the North American Review in 1815, and associate editor until 1821. He wrote poems, of which 'The Buccaneer' is the most noted.
Richard Henry Dana the 2nd was an American writer. He was born in 1815 and died in 1883. He contributed largely to legal publications. He was author of the book 'Two Years Before the Mast', and revised 'Wheaton's International Law', taking it up to 1866.
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Dana Andrews (real name Carver Daniel Andrews) was an American actor. He was born in 1909 and died in 1992.
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Jim Hutton (real name Dana James Hutton) was an American actor. He was born in 1934 and died in 1979.
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Dana Delaney is an American actress. She was born in 1956 at New York.
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Dana Delany is an American actress and film producer. She was born in 1956 at New York.
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