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    James Bowdoin II (/ˈboʊdɪn/ BOH-din; August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts,...
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    James Bowdoin III (September 22, 1752 – October 11, 1811) was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He has born to James...
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    Bowdoin College (/ˈboʊdɪn/ BOW-din) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part...
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  • Bowdoin may refer to: Bowdoin, Maine, a town Bowdoin College, a college in Brunswick, Maine Bowdoin Street, a street in Boston, Massachusetts Bowdoin...
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    death, the island was sold to James Bowdoin III. James Bowdoin III (1752–1811), son of Massachusetts' governor James Bowdoin II (1726–1790), was appointed...
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  • undergraduate and graduate students. From the income of the bequest of Governor James Bowdoin, AB 1745, prizes are offered to students at the university in graduate...
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    April 1785 in order to elect the Governor of Massachusetts. Candidate James Bowdoin won a plurality of the vote against incumbent Acting Governor Thomas...
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    Hancock as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress to replace James Bowdoin, who had been unable to attend the first Congress because of illness...
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    as early as the 1750s. In 1805 it was renamed after the Governor James Bowdoin. Bowdoin is situated on the north side of Beacon Hill, and runs north to...
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    (1848–1919) Alexander Hamilton (1847–1928) Henry Nicoll Hamilton (1849–1914) James Bowdoin Hamilton (1852–1853) Marie Elizabeth Hamilton (1855–1897) John Church...
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    lower-valued paper. The merchants were opposed to the idea, including James Bowdoin, since they stood to lose from such measures, and the proposals were...
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    conveyed in 1752 by the Kennebec Company to William Bowdoin of Boston, older brother of James Bowdoin. Originally called West Bowdoinham Plantation, it...
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    in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other Founding Fathers of the United States. It...
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    Schuyler Frances "Fanny" Hamilton (1813–1887), who married George Russel James Bowdoin (1809–1870). Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1816–1889), who married Angelica...
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    under the auspices of the Boston town meeting, principally written by James Bowdoin, a member of the governor's council and a vocal opponent of British...
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    governors Thomas Dudley and John Winthrop and commonwealth governor James Bowdoin, his great-grandfather. After a prestigious education at Boston Latin...
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    Incumbent Governor John Hancock won re-election against former Governor James Bowdoin and former United States Secretary of War Benjamin Lincoln. On election...
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  • direct descendant of James Bowdoin, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts and namesake of Bowdoin College, founded by his son James Bowdoin III. His siblings were...
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    appointed to a three-man drafting committee with his cousin John Adams and James Bowdoin. They drafted the Massachusetts Constitution, which was amended by the...
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    Massachusetts Constitution, first submitted on October 28, 1779, by James Bowdoin, Samuel Adams, and John Adams. The University of Pennsylvania, which...
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    governor in 1785 between the resignation of Hancock and the election of James Bowdoin. Thomas was born in Boston, the capital of the British Province of Massachusetts...
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    Massachusetts. Former Governor John Hancock defeated incumbent Governor James Bowdoin and former United States Secretary of War Benjamin Lincoln. On election...
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    victims of the Boston Massacre James Bowdoin's tomb Peter Faneuil's tomb Mary Goose's grave John Hancock memorial James Otis' grave Paul Revere memorial...
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    five months before the election and inauguration of his successor, James Bowdoin, leaving Lieutenant Governor Thomas Cushing as acting governor. Most...
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    Incumbent Governor John Hancock won re-election against former Governor James Bowdoin. On election day, 5 April 1790, incumbent Governor John Hancock won...
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    Governor James Bowdoin won re-election against former Governor John Hancock. On election day, 3 April 1786, incumbent Governor James Bowdoin won re-election...
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  • James L. Bowdoin (January 15, 1904 – May 11, 1969) was an American football guard for seven years, primarily with the Green Bay Packers of the National...
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    Bowdoin /ˈboʊdɪn/ is a historic schooner built in 1921 in East Boothbay, Maine, at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard. Designed by William H. Hand, Jr. under...
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    Faneuil, Gov. James Bowdoin, and Paul Revere, all descendants of Huguenots who fled persecution to the New World. However, while Faneuil and Bowdoin both spoke...
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    He served on a committee of three, also including Samuel Adams and James Bowdoin, to draft the constitution. The writing fell primarily to John Adams...
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