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    was a free black man, a descendant of William Randolph. His father was a nephew of John Randolph of Roanoke and his mother was Flora Beverly, whom he later...
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    Payne was born in Roanoke, Virginia. His mother, Ida Hope (née Schaeffer), a singer, graduated from the Virginia Seminary in Roanoke and married George...
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    and writing in four languages. John Randolph of Roanoke said that she was "the sweetest woman of Virginia". Randolph was a rare southern woman who had...
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    Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Fisher Ames, George Canning, John C. Calhoun, John Randolph of Roanoke, Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Benjamin...
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    Gouverneur Morris of New York Jacob Randolph of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, freed 13 slaves in 1783. John Randolph of Roanoke freed nearly 400 slaves in his...
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    1807. While debating in Congress about a duty on salt, John Randolph of Roanoke, Randolph's cousin and the chair of the Ways and Means Committee, made...
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  • promoted in Jeffersonian democracy, especially by the Quids, such as John Randolph of Roanoke, but never became law. The term derives from the Virginia and Kentucky...
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  • Representative John Randolph of Roanoke broke with Jefferson and James Madison in 1806, his faction was called the "Quids". Randolph was the leader of...
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    Lynchburg, Randolph College, University of Lynchburg, Central Virginia Community College and Liberty University. Nearby cities include Roanoke, Charlottesville...
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    Walter Raleigh (category People of the Roanoke Colony)
    encouraged veterans of the earlier attempts of the Roanoke Colony settle in Ireland, including Thomas Hariot and John White from the 1585 trip. (He was the governor...
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    ISBN 978-0465030941. Horn, James, ed. (2007). Captain John Smith, Writings, with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the English Settlement of America...
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    J. Lindsay Almond (category United States federal judges appointed by John F. Kennedy)
    1923. Almond prosecuted criminals as assistant commonwealth attorney of Roanoke, Virginia from 1930 to 1933. During the Great Depression, Virginia legislators...
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    Linwood Holton (category Politicians from Roanoke, Virginia)
    Law School in 1949. Prior to entering politics, he was an attorney in Roanoke, Virginia. Holton was active in the Republican Party when it barely existed...
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    Assembly on December 19, 1794, on land owned by Samuel Fitz Randolph. John Patterson, John Davis, Samuel Lippincott, James Davis, Zebulon Maxon, Benjamin...
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    meeting Madge. The senior Byron Nelson went on to serve as an elder in the Roanoke Church of Christ, and the younger Byron Nelson was a committed member of...
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    splits within the party. Old Republicans, led by John Taylor of Caroline and John Randolph of Roanoke, believed that the administrations of Jefferson,...
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  • Virginia (1585–1590, absentee) Sir Ralph Lane, governor of Roanoke (Virginia) (1585–1586) John White, governor of Raleigh (Virginia) (1587–1590) From 1606...
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  • Andy." Peggy is secretly in love with the well-known Virginia senator John Randolph, but her feelings are seemingly unrequited. When new inn resident "Beau"...
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    Moberly, Missouri (category Cities in Randolph County, Missouri)
    glacial plains area in a county organized, 1829, and names for John Randolph of Roanoke, Va. In Missouri's Little Dixie Region, it was first settled by...
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    of both anti-war New Englanders and ardent Jeffersonians led by John Randolph of Roanoke, they demanded war against Britain, claiming that American honor...
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  • History of Southern Oregon (1884), they named the place after John Randolph of Roanoke, a Virginia politician. However, an article published by the Oregon...
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    Audie Murphy (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium))
    Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy. McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2261-6. O'Connor, John E.; Rollins, Peter C...
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  • Early, and John Randolph of Roanoke, and John Rhea. On November 30, 1804, at the end of impeachment inquiry activities, Congressman Randolph reported eight...
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  • 1752) first married John Randolph, the son of Burgess Richard Randolph, and had four children (including John Randolph of Roanoke); then later married...
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    demand in 2020. Columnist Dan Casey wrote in a July 2014 op-ed in The Roanoke Times that the PAEA is "one of the most insane laws Congress ever enacted"...
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    W. A. R. Goodwin (category Roanoke College alumni)
    Mary Randolph Mordecai (1906–1990) in 1940. After his first wife's death in 1915, he was married to Ethel Howard (1887–1954), the daughter of John Clarke...
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    Peter 3:18 "Write that word 'Remorse'; show it to me.": 134  — John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician (24 May 1833) "If I should die...
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    Harold Huglin (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Fuqua from Roanoke, Virginia, in 1936; she travelled to the Philippines for the wedding. They had a daughter, Judith, and two sons, Robin and John, but later...
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    Metropolitan Statistical Area Roanoke, City of 100,011 43 Roanoke, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area Salem, City of 25,346 15 Roanoke, VA Metropolitan Statistical...
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