• William Wirt may refer to: William Wirt (attorney general) (1772–1834), Attorney General of the United States William Wirt (educator) (1874–1938), superintendent...
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    William Wirt (November 8, 1772 – February 18, 1834) was an American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney...
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    William Wirt Winchester (June 22, 1837 – March 7, 1881) was an American and the treasurer of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a position he held...
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  • American politician and lawyer Václav Wirt (1893–1962), Czech gymnast Wigand Wirt (1460–1519), German theologian William Wirt (attorney general) (1772–1834)...
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    General and presidential candidate William Wirt. The county is served by one high school, Wirt County High School. Wirt County is part of the Parkersburg-Vienna...
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    American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester, and her mother in law, Jane Ellen Hope. Winchester has become...
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    William Wirt Adams (1819–1888) was a banker, planter, state legislator, and a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army. Adams was born in Frankfort...
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    William Albert Wirt (January 21, 1874 – March 11, 1938) was a superintendent of schools in Gary, Indiana. Wirt developed the Gary Plan for the more efficient...
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    William Wirt Hastings (December 31, 1866 – April 8, 1938) was an American lawyer, educator and politician who served nine terms as a U.S. Representative...
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  • chose former U.S. attorney general William Wirt as their standard bearer in the 1832 presidential election; Wirt won 7.8% of the popular vote and carried...
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  • The population was 106 at the 2010 census. Wirt Township was named for William Wirt, ninth United States Attorney General. According to the United States...
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    the first major U.S. third parties, nominated former Attorney General William Wirt. Jackson faced heavy criticism for his actions in the Bank War, but remained...
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  • William Wirt Watkins (April 1, 1826 – January 15, 1898) was an American politician. He was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee, and later moved to Arkansas...
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    William Wirt Henry (February 14, 1831 – December 5, 1900) was a Virginia lawyer and politician, historian and writer, a biographer of Patrick Henry, his...
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    delivered his speech and eighteen years after his death, biographer William Wirt published a posthumous reconstruction of the speech in his 1817 work...
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    William Wirt Culbertson (September 22, 1835 – October 31, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He was born near Lewistown, Pennsylvania on September...
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  • Regiment of Mississippi Cavalry, the unit was renamed after its commander, William Wirt Adams, in December, 1861. After Adams was promoted to Brigadier general...
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    were: Ann Rebecca Winchester (1835–1864) who married Charles B. Dye William Wirt Winchester (1837–1881) who married Sarah Lockwood Pardee Hannah Jane...
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    William Wirt Warren (February 27, 1834 – May 2, 1880) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. William W. Warren was born in Brighton (now a part...
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    William Wirt Courtney (September 7, 1889 – April 6, 1961) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Tennessee. Born in Franklin, Tennessee...
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  • William A Wirt Senior High School was a four-year (9-12) public high school of the Gary Community School Corporation in Gary, Indiana. In May 2009 the...
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    personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's...
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  • Pennsylvania Colony, 1684–1685 William Wirt Clayton (1812–1885), judge, director and tax collector in Atlanta, Georgia William M. Clayton (1824–?), US politician...
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  • William Wirt Vaughan (July 2, 1831 – August 19, 1878) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 8th...
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    Treasury William H. Crawford, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Crowninshield, and Attorney General William Wirt. Adams developed...
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  • William Wirt Howe (November 24, 1833 – March 17, 1909) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from November 1, 1868, to December 3, 1872. Born in...
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  • December 1880; his son and successor, William Wirt Winchester, died of tuberculosis four months later. William Wirt Winchester's widow, Sarah Winchester...
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    William Wirt Kimball (January 9, 1848 – January 26, 1930) was a U.S. naval officer and an early pioneer in the development of submarines. Kimball was born...
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  • Superintendent William Wirt in 1907 and implemented in the newly built steel mill city of Gary, Indiana. Reformers tried to copy it across the country. Wirt later...
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  • William Wirt Sikes (November 23, 1836 – August 18, 1883) was an American journalist and writer, perhaps best known today for his writings on Welsh folklore...
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