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John Smith (February 12, 1752 – August 12, 1816) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from New York from 1804 to 1813. He previously was the U.S. representative for New York's 1st congressional district from 1800 to 1804.
Smith in 1921 Chief John Smith Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. It is thought that Smith was born between 1822 and 1826. [citation needed] Some sources place his birth as early as 1787, which would have made him 137 years old when he died of pneumonia on February 6, 1922. [1]
Wanting to use the new anthology to find new British talent, MacManus turned to the 22-year old John Smith to write it, whose work on Starblazer and 2000 AD had drawn good critical notices, with Jim Baikie - another 2000 AD alumni - as artist. Part of the attraction was the increased creator rights offered by Fleetway after MacManus heavily ...
Amine. In chemistry, amines (/ ə ˈ m iː n, ˈ æ m iː n /, [1] [2] UK also / ˈ eɪ m iː n / [3]) are compounds and functional groups that contain a basic nitrogen atom with a lone pair.Formally, amines are derivatives of ammonia (NH 3 (in which the bond angle between the nitrogen and hydrogen is 107°), wherein one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by a substituent such as an ...
Portrait of John Smith is a 1708 portrait painting by the German-British artist Godfrey Kneller depicting the English politician John Smith. Smith was a Whig, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer twice during the reign of Queen Anne. He was also Speaker of the House of Commons from 1705 to 1708, when he sat for Kneller. [1]
John Smith (baptized 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author.Following his return to England from a life as a soldier of fortune and as a slave, [1] he played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century.
By her he had two sons, John and Donald, and three daughters. Smith was an accomplished Gaelic scholar, and took part in translating the scriptures into Gaelic, besides publishing Gaelic translations of Alleine's ‘Alarm to the Unconverted,’ Joseph Watts's Catechism, and other small religious works.
John Smith fell out of favor with the directors of the Virginia Company mostly due to his insistence of increasing food supply and reducing colonist numbers. Despite this, he wrote a series of publications after returning to England in October 1609 [2] about the colonial effort in North America, where he marginalized the Company's involvement.