Favorite son (or favorite daughter) is a political term. At the quadrennial American national political party conventions, a state delegation sometimes...
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Look up favorite son in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Favorite son refers to a politician with strong regional or party support. Favorite Son may also...
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Robert Burns (redirect from Scotland's favorite son)
moved on to Jenny Clow (1766–1792), Nancy's domestic servant, who bore him a son, Robert Burns Clow, in 1788. He also had an affair with a servant girl, Margaret...
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147–148. "How 'Favorite Son' Politics Works". The Pittsburgh Press. January 12, 1928 – via Google News Archive Search. "How Term 'Favorite Son' Got Started...
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"Favorite Son" is an episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. First broadcast on UPN on March 19, 1997, it was the...
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Favorite Son is a miniseries about political intrigue that aired on NBC in three parts from October 30 to November 1, 1988, a week before that year's presidential...
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American Idiot (song) (redirect from Favorite Son (song))
"American Idiot" is a protest song by the American rock band Green Day. The first single released from the album American Idiot, the song received positive...
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field and pitted him against McCarthy and Governor Roger Branigin, a favorite son who had backed Johnson and now impliedly supported Humphrey. Audio of...
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considered national candidates by the media. The media referred to them as "favorite son" candidates. Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland (endorsed Nixon) Governor...
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drama film Burning Sands and later starred in films Favorite Son (2021) and its sequel Favorite Son Christmas (2023) directed by Robin Givens. In 2021...
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Oliver Stone in 2006; Snow Angels, directed by David Gordon Green; and Favorite Son, his first leading role. Paolo has a background in theatre and commercials...
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instead sending an uncommitted slate of delegates or preferring to back a favorite son on the first ballot. At the convention, Cox was ultimately nominated...
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planned on waging an active campaign after securing a role as Illinois's favorite son. Later, however, Percy declined to have his name listed on the ballot...
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candidate for the 1972 and 1976 Democratic presidential nominations as a favorite son. The fourth of seven children, Walter Fauntroy was born and raised in...
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race too late to participate in the Democratic primaries. He relied on "favorite son" candidates to win delegates and lobbied for endorsements from powerful...
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Harry F. Byrd and George White were favorite son candidates from their states. A. Harry Moore was a favorite son candidate supported by Lewis, but the...
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film production and returned to his hometown of Baton Rouge to produce Favorite Son, his first feature film. Since then, his Baton Rouge-based production...
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film 12 Angry Men And...Women on Apple TV with Wendell Pierce and BET's Favorite Son (2021). Arrindell opened the revival of Law & Order (2022) in its first...
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featuring America's favorite son, an attractive and masculine all-American sex symbol. He becomes convinced that the favorite son is everything he wants...
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backdrop of his nationwide landslide victory; not even in 1972, when favorite son George McGovern lost his state by a wide margin of 8.6%. South Dakota...
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December 2019. Masters, James (9 April 2019). "Son Heung-Min: How 'Little Seoul' fell in love with its favorite son". CNN. Archived from the original on 24 May...
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presidential candidate wins the state, it will be the first time since favorite son Jimmy Carter in 1980 that the Democrats have carried the state in two...
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only 39 votes short of the nomination, but on the third ballot, several favorite son candidates threw their delegations' support to Kefauver, and he prevailed...
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wishes. When the container holding his wings was stolen in the episode "Favorite Son", Lucifer recovers them only to set them on fire as a sign of his rebellion...
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with serene eyes, while taking small account of his other sons. He was Attila's favorite son, because as a certain Hun explained to him, the Hunnic prophets...
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Davis third, and 1920 candidate James M. Cox fourth, followed by various favorite son candidates. Due to the two-thirds rule governing nominations, neither...
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(with a peak of 64.5 votes on the 13th and 14th ballots). Most of the favorite son delegations refused to be stampeded to either of the leading candidates...
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God's Favorite Sons is the debut EP by Canadian hard rock band Organ Thieves (then known as The Organ Thieves), self-produced and released in March 2009...
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2022-05-27. "Black in Capital to Enter Primary; Fauntroy to Run May 2 as Favorite-Son Candidate" (PDF). The New York Times. "Humphrey Victor in Ohio Vote;...
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House of the Dragon (redirect from A_Son_for_a_Son)
King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, as king. Viserys is the firstborn son of Jaehaerys' second son Prince Baelon Targaryen and his sister-wife Princess Alyssa Targaryen...
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