Word: governor
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...Army and Navy Journal of New York, and the next year was elected managing editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. He was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature from 1903 to 1905 and in 1906 was the candidate of the Lincoln Republican Club; on a reform platform, for Governor of New Hampshire. He is a member of the Union and Century Clubs of New York, of the Union and Century Clubs of New York, of the Union and the Tennis and Racquet Clubs of Boston, and of the University Club of St. Louis. He has attained much prominence...
...bulletin given out by Doctor Winslow last night states that Governor Guild is sinking very slowly. It is a question of how long his strength will hold...
General Stewart L. Woodford, LL.D., D.C.L., President of the National Federation of Hughes Clubs, spoke in the Union last night on Governor Hughes as a presidential candidate...
...once recognized in him a genius for work. He distinguished himself as counsel for the commission which was investigating the gas system of New York, and in 1905-06 by his honesty and courage procured the punishment of the guilty officers of the great insurance companies. As Governor of New York he has worked quietly and bravely, not setting the people against the corporations or the corporations against the people, but making both obey the same laws...
...been prominent in the political and military affairs of the country. In 1857 he was messenger of the New York electoral college which conveyed to Washington the vote for Abraham Lincoln as president. In the Civil War he became brevet-brigadier-general of volunteers and was first military governor of Charleston, S. C. After the war, Gen. Woodford resumed the practice of law, and in 1867 was elected lieutenant-governor of New York He was president of the electoral college that voted for U. S. Grant as president. In 1873 he was a member of Congress from New York...