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    George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 – June 24, 1894) was an American portrait painter. He was one of the most prolific and popular painters of...
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    Abraham Lincoln is an 1869 oil-on-canvas painting by George Peter Alexander Healy of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. In the painting...
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    by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1857 Portrait of John Quincy Adams by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858 Portrait of Franklin Pierce by George Peter Alexander...
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    Hill's Hill Cottage Tavern, where he befriended the artist George Peter Alexander Healy. Healy would be a lifelong friend, and in 1857 bought the Hill Cottage...
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    Major George F. Downs, a Kentucky native. They resided at the Galt House, a hotel in Louisville. Her portrait was done by George Peter Alexander Healy. It...
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    American leaders were flirting with monarchical ideals, singling out Alexander Hamilton, a foe of Jefferson. Polk graduated with honors in May 1818....
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    canvas. It was a collaboration between three American painters: George Peter Alexander Healy, Frederic E. Church, and Jervis McEntee. It depicts the Arch...
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    earned Healy the Best Contemporary Song award at the 2019 Ivor Novello Awards, where he was also awarded Songwriter of the Year. Healy and George Daniel...
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    attempted to assert its authority in New Mexico, and the state's governor, Peter H. Bell, had sent belligerent letters to President Taylor. Fillmore received...
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  • a manga and 2003 anime The Peacemakers, an 1868 painting by George Peter Alexander Healy The Peacemakers (mural), a mural created by the Bruton sisters...
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    pp. 71–72 Wallner 2004, p. 67 Lamb, Brian; Wallner, Peter (October 25, 2004). "Interview with Peter Wallner: Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite...
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    confidence. In 1842, the British dispatched emissary Lord Ashburton (Alexander Baring) to the United States. Soon, favorable negotiations were started...
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  • journalist and editor George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), American painter Gerald Healy (1885–1946), Australian cricketer Gerard Healy (born 1961), Australian...
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    and befriended another important future Civil War general for the Union, George Henry Thomas. Sherman excelled academically at West Point, but he treated...
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    Civil War History. 29 (2): 123–134. doi:10.1353/cwh.1983.0013. Bearman, Peter S. (1991). "Desertion as Localism: Army Unit Solidarity and Group Norms...
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    The Peacemakers is an 1868 painting by George P.A. Healy. It depicts the historic March 27, 1865, strategy session by the Union high command on the steamer...
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  • statues of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (Healy), an 1869 oil-on-canvas painting by George Peter Alexander Healy Abraham Lincoln (train), a passenger train...
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    responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Congressman Alexander Ramsey told Lincoln in 1864, he would have gotten more re-election support...
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  • John Grochowski, author and radio personality[citation needed] George Peter Alexander Healy, painter Tom Higgenson, singer for pop punk band The Plain White...
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    needed] His appeal for financial support revived global donations known as Peter's Pence. He strengthened the central power of the Holy See and Roman Curia...
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    Weightman." James Heighe Blake Joseph Gales Jr. ca. 1844 by George Peter Alexander Healy William Winston Seaton of the National Intelligencer John Tayloe...
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    Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (27 October 1774 – 12 May 1848), was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring family....
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    talked of fighting a duel. In 1846, when Lincoln ran for Congress against Peter Cartwright, the noted evangelist, Cartwright tried to make Lincoln's religion...
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    John Quincy Adams (category George Washington University trustees)
    Adams established a successful legal practice in Boston. In 1794, President George Washington appointed Adams as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, and...
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    Edwin H. Sheldon, and George Peter Alexander Healy. Bryan was the inaugural president of the Graceland Cemetery Association, with Healy serving as treasurer...
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  • portrait painter Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888), lithographer George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), portrait painter Asahel Lynde Powers (1813–1843)...
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    Ulysses S. Grant (category George Washington University trustees)
    William W. Belknap Secretary of War. Grant appointed New York businessman Alexander T. Stewart Secretary of Treasury, but Stewart was found legally ineligible...
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    Younger), Elihu Emory Jackson (by Ida Foster), Robert M. McLane (by George Peter Alexander Healy), Thomas Swann (by Florence Mackubin), Francis Thomas (by Franklin...
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    system was by Confederate Captain Edward Porter Alexander at the First Battle of Bull Run. Alexander had been a subordinate of Myer's and assisted in...
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    The Peacemakers by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1868, depicts the historic 1865 meeting on the River Queen...
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