Word: governor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Each governor has invited as delegates the senators, congressmen, lieutenant-governor, attorney-general, president of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives in his particular state. To this gathering will be added special delegates selected at large by the several governors. President Eliot is to attend as a special delegate from Massachusetts. Governor Curtis Guild '81 will act as chairman and F. L. Dean '88 as secretary of the conference...
...Paris. James M. MacDonald, president of the American Roadmakers Association, will speak on the necessity of co-operation between states in the construction of state roads, in order that trunk lines may be made between important cities. The final paper will be read by Hon N. J. Batchelder, ex-governor of New Hampshire, on automobiles and their regulation. He will consider especially other means of enforcing the necessary laws than by traps and similar methods...
...General Lee's surrender in 1865. He carried the last message from Lee to President Davis. After the war, Mr. Wise returned to the University and was graduated in 1867. Fourteen years later he was elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket, soon after he ran for governor, but was defeated. Since 1885 he has been engaged in the practice of law in New York and has written books on several subjects...
Soon after his graduation from Harvard in 1884, Mr. Osborne became interested in the George Junior Republic and later was chosen one of its trustees. In 1896, he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention; two years later he ran for lieutenant-governor of New York on the Independent or Citizens' Union ticket. Mr. Osborne was twice elected mayor of Auburn, his home town, in 1902 and again in 1904. Two years ago he was chosen as delegate to the State Democratic Convention. Since June, 1907, he has served as a member of the Public Utilities Commission...
...Osborne was graduated from Harvard in 184 and soon after became connected with the George Junior Republic and the work it is doing. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1896 and two years later ran for lieutenant-governor of New York State on the Citizens' Union ticket. In 1899, he was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt, then governor, a delegate to the Trust Conference in Chicago. Since June, 1907, Mr. Osborne has been a member of the Public Utilities Commission in New York...