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    Governor of New Jersey John Franklin Fort. Franklin W. Fort was born on March 30, 1880, in Newark, New Jersey, to John Franklin Fort and Charlotte Stainsby...
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    John Franklin Fort (March 20, 1852 – November 17, 1920) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 33rd governor of New Jersey, from...
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  • Fort (poet) (born 1951), American poet Cornelia Fort (1919–1943), American aviator De Witt Clinton Fort (1830–1868), American politician Franklin W....
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  • Franklin's Fort was a small fortification that had been erected in Franklin, Douglas County, Kansas by pro-slavery settlers. During the "Bleeding Kansas"...
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    Reaching safety at Fort Franklin on 21 September 1826, he left on 20 February 1827 and spent the rest of the winter and spring at Fort Chipewyan. He reached...
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    Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman...
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    33°42′22″N 84°26′00″W / 33.7062055°N 84.433279°W / 33.7062055; -84.433279 Fort McPherson was a U.S. Army military base located in Atlanta, Georgia...
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  • (1899–1917). Otto G. Foelker, U.S. Congressman from New York (1908–1911). Franklin W. Fort (1880–1937), represented New Jersey's 9th congressional district from...
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    Fort Franklin here, named after Benjamin Franklin. In 1787 Andrew Ellicott, who surveyed Washington, D.C., was hired to lay out the town of Franklin,...
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    (Franklin would die in 1790 at age 84). In the "Introduction" of the 1916 publication of the Autobiography, editor F. W. Pine wrote that Franklin's biography...
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    forward Hanscom AFB was part of the AFLCMC. Fort Franklin (42°28′22″N 71°18′12″W / 42.4729°N 71.3033°W / 42.4729; -71.3033) was an on-base encampment...
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    Fort Granger was a Union fort built in 1862 in Franklin, Tennessee, south of Nashville, after their forces occupied the state during the American Civil...
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    into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Franklin was raised by his aunt, Gertrude, having been abandoned as a...
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    quarters for Sir John Franklin's second Arctic expedition of 1825–1827. It became known as Fort Franklin. Sir John Franklin's diary records that his...
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    William Franklin FRSE (22 February[citation needed] 1730 – 17 November 1813) was an American-born attorney, soldier, politician, and colonial administrator...
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    The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin, Lost State of Franklin, or the State of Frankland) was an unrecognized proposed state located...
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    project funded by the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Its overall size is somewhat larger than the original fort, but provides a representation...
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  • 1908–11, Federal Trade Commission 1917–19. Nephew of George F. Fort. Franklin W. Fort (1880–1937), U.S. Representative from New Jersey 1925–31, delegate...
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    HMS Terror (1813) (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    the War of 1812, including the Battle of Baltimore with the bombardment of Fort McHenry (as mentioned in The Star-Spangled Banner: "And the Rockets' red...
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    Franklin County is a county in Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,097. The county has two county seats, Charleston and Ozark. The county...
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    present-day Waterford, Pennsylvania, and Fort Machault, on the Allegheny River in Venango County in present-day Franklin, Pennsylvania. Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant...
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    years later. The last remaining building of the Fort Bragg military post is located at 430 North Franklin Street. It may have been the Quartermaster's storehouse...
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    Franklin Parish (French: Paroisse de Franklin, Spanish: Parroquia de Franklin) is a parish located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana...
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    ISBN 9780809323487. Cooling, p. 178. Wallace, p. vi> Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, The Campaign for Fort Donelson, U.S. National Park Service and Eastern National,...
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    Fort George G. Meade is a United States Army installation located in Maryland, that includes the Defense Information School, the Defense Media Activity...
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    Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. A northern Democrat who believed...
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  • Herbert W. Taylor (1921–23, 1925–27) Randolph Perkins (1921–36) George N. Seger (1923–40) Stewart H. Appleby of Asbury Park (1925–27) Franklin W. Fort of East...
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    Franklin purportedly wagon-mastered by Stephen Turley and Jesse B. Turley, friends from nearby Lamine. Franklin is located at 39°0′41″N 92°45′13″W /...
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    Franklin is a city in and the county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. About 21 miles (34 km) south of Nashville, it is one of the principal...
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    officer, Henry W. Howgate, was arrested for embezzlement. However, that did not deter the planning and execution of the voyage. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition...
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