Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From such lowly origin he rose through military apprenticeship under Andrew Jackson, six months' law study and admission to the bar, governorship of Texas, championship of the Indians, and national notoriety gained by a brawl with a Senator, to generalship of the Texan army, 800 strong. For Texas had at last revolted against the duplicity of the Mexican government...
...when "Uncle Alf" Taylor first stumped from Knoxville to Memphis and back again, campaigning for the Governorship against his Brother Bob, he fiddled in vain for the political support of the gentlemen of Tennessee. Last week, the gentlemen of Tennessee, political and notable, danced attendance on Uncle Alf. In the greatest fox hunt the state has ever known, Tennessee honored its beloved old sportsman and one time (1920-22) governor, Alfred Alexander Taylor. And up in the rugged foothills of the Smoky Mountains, on the northeastern tongue of Tennessee, the rugged 80-year-old "Sage of Happy Valley" played jovial...
...have always considered the Governorship of Massachusetts as second only to the Presidency and I assure you I am not interested in any minor jobs such as Vice President or Senator or anything like that...
Albert C. Ritchie was graduated from Johns Hopkins University at twenty, and from the law school of Maryland at twenty-two. Leaving law school in 1898 he practiced with a Baltimore firm. Through city solicitor and people's counsel and State Attorney-General the road led to the Governorship. He was elected first in 1920, and has been reelected twice. He has given the State an economical, business-like administration...
Married. Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder, 63, presiding Judge in the Snyder-Gray murder trial, investigator of the Queens (New York City) sewer scandal, potential Democratic candidate for the Governorship of New York; to Miss Alice Booth McCutcheon, 42, daughter of the late James McCutcheon, linen merchant, and founder of the Manhattan store of that name; at Greenwich, Conn...