named for Robert Toombs: Toombs County, Georgia is named for Robert Toombs. Wilkin County, Minnesota was originally Toombs County. Toombs Judicial Circuit...
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Toombs is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Kenneth Toombs (1928-2008), 20th-century American academic librarian Robert Toombs (1810-1885)...
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Camp Toccoa (redirect from Camp Toombs)
1940. Initially it was known as Camp Toombs, after Confederate Civil War General Robert Toombs. But Colonel Robert Sink, commander of the 506th Parachute...
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county was created on August 18, 1905. Toombs County is part of the Vidalia micropolitan statistical area. Toombs County was founded as the 144th county...
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acquired in 1837 by Toombs. Toombs is credited with a number of alterations, including the front colonnade and the west wing. Robert Toombs was one of the...
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southern Whig members of Congress, including Alexander H. Stephens and Robert Toombs, refused to support Scott. John P. Hale, U.S. senator from New Hampshire...
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Register of Historic Places, including the Wilkes County Courthouse, the Robert Toombs House State Historic Site, the Washington-Wilkes Historical Museum,...
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before Cone's death in 1859. Stephens and fellow Georgia Representative Robert Toombs campaigned for the election of Zachary Taylor as president in 1848....
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and somehow always followed by mischief". Toombs is the daughter of professional wrestler and actor Roddy Toombs (1954–2015), better known as "Roddy Piper"...
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Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, John H. Reagan, Christopher Memminger, Alexander H. Stephens, and Robert Toombs The pope's photograph was inscribed...
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by May 1865. The most significant capitulation was Confederate general Robert E. Lee's surrender on April 9, after which any doubt about the war's outcome...
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Confederate secretaries of war and state, LeRoy Pope Walker of Alabama and Robert Toombs of Georgia, respectively—as "brainless political appointees." The cabinet's...
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Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician and planter. He was a U.S. representative (1837–1843...
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Senator Robert Toombs then interceded for Crittenden, telling Keitt not to attack someone who was not a party to the dispute, though Toombs also indicated...
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by McKean. In 1999, a stage adaptation written by Marc Rosenbush and Robert Toombs was mounted in Chicago with Gaiman's cooperation. In 2002, McKean adapted...
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Wilkin County, Minnesota (redirect from Toombs County, Minnesota)
partitioned off on March 8, 1858, to create Toombs County, named after Robert Toombs (1810–85) of Georgia. Toombs had been a member of the US House of Representatives...
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Attack on Pearl Harbor Robert F. Travis (1904–1950), United States Army Air Forces general during World War II Robert Toombs (1810–1885), American lawyer...
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(1862) Joel Abbott (fl. 1790s–1800s), original owner of the historic Robert Toombs House This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the...
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dumbwaiter in China In Japan Matot rope-pulled dumbwaiter, circa 1940 Robert Toombs House George R. Strakosch (1998). The Vertical Transport Handbook. New...
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Roddy Piper (redirect from Rodderick Toombs)
George Toombs was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on April 17, 1954, the son of Eileen (née Anderson), a Scottish-Canadian and Stanley Baird Toombs, an...
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and 20th Georgia regiments, under the command of Brigadier General Robert Toombs, with two artillery batteries—defended Rohrbach's Bridge, a three-span...
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Georgia, future Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens and Robert Toombs competed for influence with their intra-party rival, John M. Berrien...
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(1959–2017), Pulitzer Prize winner and author of "My Family's Slave". Robert Toombs (1810–1885), U.S. Congressman, 1st Confederate Secretary of State, and...
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L-R: Judah P. Benjamin, Stephen Mallory, Christopher Memminger, Alexander Stephens, LeRoy Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, John H. Reagan and Robert Toombs...
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developed to the right of the house. During the Civil War, General Robert Toombs, a close friend of Prather, used this house as a refuge from Union troops...
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his attention to the upper bridge. As the sun began to set, General Robert Toombs (CSA) telegraphed Governor Joseph E. Brown of Georgia telling him that...
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Montgomery Daily Mail. May 22, 1864. p. 1. Retrieved September 7, 2023. Henry, Robert Selph (1931). "Chapter VII: Government, Provisional and "Permanent"". The...
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Taylor said he would give the order himself. Taylor's close advisors Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens, both Southern Whigs who later served as officials...
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in 1904. The community is named for 18th-century Georgia politician Robert Toombs. David Bumgardner, a developer who bought properties at auction, intended...
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Constitution". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 6, 2024. Remini, Robert (1998) [1977]. "The Creek War: Victory". Andrew Jackson: The Course of American...
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