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    his son James Pleasants Massie after Pleasants. The name has been handed down now to a total of four generations. His son John Hampden Pleasants (1797–1846)...
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  • James J. Pleasants served as the third Secretary of State of Alabama from 1821 to 1824. He was married and had eight children, including the author, Julia...
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    nominee James Pleasants easily won re-election as he ran unopposed. Pleasants was sworn in for his second term on 1 December 1823. "Gov. James Pleasants". nga...
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    namesake is James Pleasants, Jr., an esteemed former US Senator and Virginia Governor. On June 20, 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Pleasants County was...
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    nominee James Pleasants easily won re-election as he ran unopposed. Pleasants was sworn in for his third term on 1 December 1824. "Gov. James Pleasants". nga...
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    1822, Democratic-Republican nominee James Pleasants won the election against his foremost opponent George Hay. Pleasants was sworn in as the 22nd Governor...
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    he was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of James Pleasants, and was elected later to serve the regular term for six years beginning...
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    economic views, and he acquired a lifelong love of William Shakespeare. Bishop James Madison, the college's president, served as a second father and mentor to...
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    17th district James Pleasants in a Virginia General Assembly vote. On election day, 30 November 1813, Democratic-Republican nominee James Barbour won re-election...
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  • "Curling makes a cool sport for families". The Seattle Times. Jim Pleasants at World Curling Jim Pleasants on Facebook James Pleasants - Granite Curling Club...
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    he helped Pleasant manage her husband's estate after his death. At some point, Pleasant developed a relationship with John James Pleasants, who was a...
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    1820 Pleasants purchased interest in the Lynchburg Press and began serving as an editor. Four years later he founded the Richmond Whig. Pleasants married...
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    the houses of their siblings during times of sickness. She never married. James Madison Randolph (1806–1834) was born at the President's House, now called...
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  • Association. Retrieved July 17, 2023. Sobel 1978, pp. 1633–1634. "James Pleasants". National Governors Association. Retrieved July 17, 2023. Sobel 1978...
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    marriages. She was the mother of James Pleasants Jr., the 22nd Governor of Virginia, via her last marriage to James Pleasants Sr. Thomas Randolph (born August...
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    (Chairman: James Noble) Missouri's Admission to the Union (Select) Naval Affairs (Chairman: James Pleasants) Pensions (Chairman: Nicholas Van Dyke then James Noble)...
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    Goochland County, Virginia (category Counties on the James River (Virginia))
    county was a site of a battle late in the war. When the war broke out, James Pleasants, a native of Goochland County and descendant of the 22nd governor of...
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  • and Genealogy, by James Barnett Adair, 1924, page 123 Edward Pleasants Valentine, The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers: Hardy-Pleasants, 1927, page 1291...
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  • James Pleasants Massie III (May 3, 1958 – January 25, 2023) was an American politician of the Republican Party. From 2008 to 2018, he was a member of...
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  • Henry Pleasants (May 12, 1910 – January 4, 2000) was an American music critic and intelligence officer. Pleasants studied voice, piano and composition...
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    for the 37th Congress Archived June 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine". James M. Mason and Robert M. T. Hunter "withdrew" from the Senate on Mar 28, 1861...
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    grandmother of Isham and Lilburn Lewis), Ann Randolph (who was the mother of James Pleasants Jr., the 22nd Governor of Virginia), and Susannah Randolph (who married...
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  • Julia Pleasants Creswell (née Julia Pamelia Pleasants; pen names, Adrienne and Amelia; August 21, 1827 – June 9, 1886) was a poet and novelist of Southern...
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    appointed as a United States Attorney in 1816. The following year, President James Monroe appointed him to the position of United States Attorney General....
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  • acknowledged her mixed race origins. Mary Ellen Pleasant, born to a slave and the youngest son of James Pleasants, contributed to advancing the abolitionist...
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    p. 3. Kolin (1978), p. 1. North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994: Robert James Pleasants, 1989. Glascock (1989), p. 33. The News and Observer staff (1946a)...
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    Kentucky (1787–1863) Ann Randolph (1732–1824), ∞ 1765 : James Pleasants (1738–1824) James Pleasants, 22nd Governor of Virginia (1769–1836) Susannah Randolph...
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    James Barbour (June 10, 1775 – June 7, 1842) was an American politician, planter, and lawyer. He served as a delegate from Orange County, Virginia, in...
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    Mount Pleasant. In London's West End, Dreyfus starred in The Producers in 2004 as Carmen Ghia. In 2006, he starred as the Emcee in Cabaret. James Louis...
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    (Chairman: James Noble) National Road from Cumberland to Wheeling (Select) Naval Affairs (Chairman: James Pleasants) Pensions (Chairman: James Noble) Post...
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