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The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), formally the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), is a federally chartered patriotic organization.The National Society, a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, [8] was formed in New York City on April 30, 1889. [9]
President Joe Biden, then a United States Senator, was awarded a Gold Good Citizenship Medal by The Delaware Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1999. [ 6 ] Of the 22 presidents who served prior to the founding of the SAR, six qualify as patriot ancestors – George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James ...
The Sons of the Revolution (SR), formally the General Society of the Sons of the Revolution (GSSR), is a patriotic organization headquartered at Williamsburg, Virginia. A nonprofit corporation, the Sons of the Revolution was founded by John Austin Stevens on February 22, 1876, at New York City. The organization is governed by a board of ...
After the Spanish–American War he returned to work at the Deseret News and served as an executive editor of the newspaper off-and-on until his death. He was much beloved by his co-workers. [2] Cannon was a member of the Utah Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. [3]
The Annapolis Convention, formally titled as a Meeting of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government, was a national political convention held September 11–14, 1786 in the old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House [1] in Annapolis, Maryland (The Maryland Society, Sons of the American Revolution claim the location was at Mann's Tavern [2] [3] where some of the delegates ...
The Robards–Donelson–Jackson relationship controversy has been an ongoing scandal ever since, not to mention a major issue during the 1828 U.S. presidential election. After his first marriage was a closed book, Lewis Robards married Hannah Winn. They had ten children together, including five sons, before Robards died in 1814.
Pages in category "Members of the Sons of the American Revolution" The following 161 pages are in this category, out of 161 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.