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Presented by Will Payne ’01, Jay Jones ’10, Caleb Rogers ’20, Briana Sewell ’12, Benny Zhang ’16 Hear from fellow W&M alumni about their experiences running for office in Virginia, from city council seats to attorney general. Attendees learn about how to start a political campaign, ...
William Campbell Steere, born on November 4, 1907 in southern Michigan, comes from a long line of pioneering-naturalist Irish-Quaker ancestors. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Beal Steere, was a professor of zoology and paleontology at the University of
clean up the park and they were asking for other people to help with it. So I was curious about that and I contacted one of the people, or I guess the person who was pretty much the head of it. It was a woman named Betsy Barlow. Her name is now Betsy Barlow Rogers, she ...
William Dawes (1762–1836), who was born in Portsmouth, the son of the clerk of works in the local Ordnance Office, Benjamin Dawes, served the British empire in several of its theatres: naval engagement in the marines, New South Wales (as a marine officer, astronomer, and surveyor with ...
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How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slaveryMuseum director Ashley Rogers explains how the Whitney Plantation became the only former plantation site in Louisiana with an exclusive focus on slavery.(more) See all videos for this article ...
The son of Alphonso Taft, secretary ofwarandattorney general(1876–77) under Pres.Ulysses S. Grant, and Louisa Maria Torrey, Taft graduated second in his Yale class of 1878, studiedlaw, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1880. Drawn to politics in theRepublican Party, he served in seve...