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HOW MANY TIMES WAS THE VICE PRESIDENCY VACANT?
The Society of Presidential Descendants Panel highlighted that there were long periods when we had no Vice President since both Taft and Truman inherited the Presidency. The vice presidency has been vacant 18 times, totaling 38 years. The occurrence was due to the death or resignation of the Vice President or when the Vice President assumed the Presidency after the death or resignation of the President.
Here are the periods of Vice President Vacancy:
1. April 20, 1812 – March 4, 1813, when George Clinton died (see previous story).
2. November 23, 1814 – March 4,...
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GENEALOGISTS VISITED THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS MUSEUM
NEW YORK – February 25, 1983- Tennessee Williams' younger brother said Friday he believed the famed playwright had returned to a life of drugs just months before he died.
Reached by telephone in Collinsville, Ill., shortly after his brother died in a Manhattan hotel suite, Dakin Williams, 64, told UPI Tennessee Williams' health and stamina have been going downhill for the past three months.'
Dakin Williams, whose relationship with his brother had been strained for years, offered no proof that the playwright had returned to narcotics but volunteered his suspicions.
'I think he'd gone back on drugs. His...
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AMAZING: THE SOCIETY OF PRESIDENTIAL DESCENDANTS
This past week, we had the opportunity to watch a panel of Presidential Descendants at the Truman Little White House in Key West.
Left to Right above are Kurt Graham, Moderator and Director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum; Clifton Daniel, Harry Truman's grandson; James Earl Carter IV, Jimmy Carter's grandson; Patricia Taft, William Taft's Great Granddaughter and the Granddaughter of Senator Robert Taft; Mary Jean Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower's Granddaughter, and Massee McKinley, William McKinley's Great-Great Nephew. It was interesting as there were descendants of two Republicans and three Democrats (the third Republican,...
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ANCESTORS- DURING WWI, A GERMAN OFFICER TRIES TO BLOW UP A BRIDGE AT THE U.S.-CANADIAN BORDER AND IS SENTENCED TO ONLY 30 DAYS IN JAIL
Ancestors ask about the railroad bridge over the St Croix River between Vanceboro, Maine and McAdam, New Brunswick, was an essential link on the Grand Trunk railroad, which fed war materials from Canada and the United States to the port of St. John, New Brunswick. The bridge had been unguarded on the night of the attempt, even though experts say the destruction of the bridge would have seriously reduced the usefulness of the Port of St....
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THE SUTTON-TAYLOR FEUD AND YOUR GENEALOGY
The Sutton–Taylor feud arose from a growing animosity between the Texas Taylor family—headed by Pitkin Taylor, the brother of Creed Taylor (a Texas Ranger)—and local lawman William E. Sutton, who moved to DeWitt along with his mother when she married a man named William McDonald. Before the feud began, Sutton had been elected deputy sheriff in Clinton, Texas. The feud lasted almost a decade and has been called "...
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MY UNCLE, A DEVELOPER, AND A HOBBY GENLEALOGIST TOLD ME THAT, GENERALLY, THE NORTHWEST PART OF CITIES WAS THE NICEST
He said that was because the prevailing winds blow from northwest to southeast in North America, barring barriers like mountains. So, the bad smells of the affluent and the less all ended up in the southeast.
By 1894, the 15 to 30 pounds of manure produced daily by each beast multiplied by the 150,000+ horses in New York City resulted in more than three million pounds of horse manure per day that somehow needed to be disposed of. That’s not to mention...
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ANCESTORS OF THE WHITE HOUSE BABY
Esther Cleveland was born on September 9, 1893, in the White House, to the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, and First Lady Frances Folsom. She remains the only child of a president to have been born there and was nicknamed "the White House baby" as a result.
In April 1896, she contracted measles when it spread through the White House, leading to a quarantine. Five years later, she contracted diphtheria.
She made her debut in 1912 and was rumored to be engaged to Randolph D. West shortly after (which was denied by her relatives).
On March...
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WHY TEXAS HAS A SUNSET RED OR PINK COLORED STATE CAPITOL
Our ancestors might know, but we decided it was time to visit the capitol of our adopted state to get the answer.
Construction of the Italian Renaissance Revival–style capitol was funded by an article of the state constitution, adopted on February 15, 1876, which authorized the sale of public lands to pay for the capital.
In one of the largest barter transactions of recorded history, the builders of the capitol (John V. Farwell and Charles B. Farwell), known as the Capitol Syndicate, were paid with more than three million acres of public...
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DEJAVU AMONGST GENEALOGISTS AT THE BALLOT BOX
If our next presidential election were to be held today, we would have the same major party choices as last time. I was curious how many times that has happened in the past that has occurred:
In 1789 and 1792, George Washington beat John Adams. However, before the 12th amendment, it was a forced rank election, and the consolation prize for the loser was becoming the Vice President. Of course Adams later went on to become president in his own right.
The next time was in 1824 when John Quincy Adams beat Andrew Jackson. Four years...
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CAMP DAVID ACCORDS
THERE HAS BEEN 35 YEARS OF PEACE IN ONE PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST
We recently visited the Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, and refamiliarized ourselves with the Camp David Accords which were negotiated while we were in college. With all of the troubles in the Middle East, I was struck by the fact that since the 1978 accords, not one Egyptian or Israeli has died fighting each other in war.
Here’s a summary of the Camp David Accords-: They were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17...
