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    John Slidell (1793 – July 9, 1871) was an American politician, lawyer, slaveholder, and businessman. A native of New York, Slidell moved to Louisiana as...
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    Slidell /slaɪˈdɛl/ is a city on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 28,781 at...
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  • Slidell may refer to: Slidell, Louisiana Slidell Airport Slidell station Slidell High School (Louisiana) Slidell, Texas Slidell High School (Texas) Slidell...
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    Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (April 6, 1803 – September 13, 1848), born Alexander Slidell, was a United States Navy officer, famous for his 1842 decision...
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  • Coordination Maintenance and Engineering Tom S. Bozzuto and his three partners John Slidell, Rick Mostyn, and the late Bernie Lubcher founded the company in 1988...
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  • Slidell is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas, United States. Slidell was named for John Slidell, a 19th-century U.S. Senator and C.S.A...
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    France. The Confederate government sent James M. Mason to London and John Slidell to Paris. On their way in 1861, the U.S. Navy intercepted their ship...
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    untrustworthy and sent his own representative, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, (a relative of John Slidell) to meet with Santa Anna. Mackenzie told Santa Anna...
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    Belmont met John Slidell, a leading member of the Democratic Party in Louisiana, through the Union Club of the City of New York. By 1850, Slidell encouraged...
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    as contraband of war, two Confederate envoys: James Murray Mason and John Slidell. The envoys were bound for Britain and France to press the Confederacy's...
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    Admiral Morris Robinson Slidell Mackenzie and Lieutenant Commander Alexander Slidell MacKenzie. His grandfather was John Slidell, a bank president and a...
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    Alexander Slidell MacKenzie (January 24, 1842 – June 13, 1867) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the son...
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  • Representative from Tennessee 1864–65. Son-in-law of John Bell. See also The Perry Family John Slidell (1793–1871), Louisiana State Representative, candidate...
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    April 1856, he led on the first ballot, supported by powerful Senators John Slidell, Jesse Bright, and Thomas F. Bayard, who presented Buchanan as an experienced...
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  • industrialists or diplomats until the Confederacy sent diplomats James Mason and John Slidell in November 1861. That led to a diplomatic blowup in the Trent Affair...
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    Thomas Slidell (c. 1807 – April 20, 1864) was chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was a brother of John Slidell, a diplomat of the Confederate...
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    in Newport. Perry was married to Jane Slidell Perry (1797–1864), sister of United States Senator John Slidell (1793–1871), in New York on December 24...
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    Mathilde Slidell (1842–1927), the daughter of the influential American lawyer, businessman and politician John Slidell (1793–1871). Slidell was the Ambassador...
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  • d'Erlanger was married to Matilde Slidell, the daughter of Louisiana merchant, lawyer and politician John Slidell. The company was known for its cotton...
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    willingly went out with the Southern tide." He and his Louisiana colleague, John Slidell, resigned from the Senate on February 4, 1861, nine days after their...
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    narrowly defeated. Employing the political influence of his brother-in-law, John Slidell, Beauregard obtained an appointment as superintendent of the U.S. Military...
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    Affair, Yancey did not leave until his replacements, James M. Mason and John Slidell (selected by President Davis in July before he was aware of Yancey's...
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    led on the first ballot, boosted by the support of powerful Senators John Slidell, Jesse Bright, and James A. Bayard, who presented Buchanan as an experienced...
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    original (PDF) on October 18, 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2018. Cyrulik, John M., A Strategic Examination of the Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916–1917...
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    support of the influential U.S. Senator John Slidell. Another Louisiana figure, Pierre Soulé, backed Douglas. John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana...
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    dispatches to Confederate Commissioners James Mason in England, and John Slidell in France. Wirz returned from Europe in January 1864 and reported to...
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    (1899–1960) – businessman and publisher Kaseem Sinceno – football player John Slidell – Senator from Louisiana and Confederate diplomat Al Smith (1873–1944)...
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    document was published, many northern states denounced it. In 1859, Senator John Slidell introduced a bill to purchase Cuba from Spain. Cuba, like many Spanish...
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  • Confederate President Jefferson Davis had named James M. Mason and John Slidell as commissioners to represent Confederate interests in England and France...
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    after Mr. Elkin encountered financial difficulty, these men included John Slidell, John Randolph Grymes, and Glendy Burke. It was the first official private...
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