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William Roberts (Australian politician) (1821–1900), New South Wales politician; William R. Roberts (1830–1897), U.S. Representative from New York; W. F. Roberts (William Francis Roberts, 1869–1938), Canadian politician and Minister of Health, New Brunswick; William Roberts (Alberta politician) (born 1954), Canadian politician, Alberta ...
Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was an American merchant who emigrated to Liberia in 1829, where he became a politician. Elected as the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after independence, he was the first man of African descent to govern the country, serving previously as governor from 1841 to 1848.
William Roberts was born in Newington Butts.He was educated at Eton, St Paul's and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he gained his BA in 1788 and MA in 1791.He toured the Continent (including Paris) before returning to England and founding a short-lived biweekly journal, The Looker-on (1792-1793) under the pseudonym Rev. Simon Olive-Branch.
William Charles Roberts (September 22, 1832 – November 27, 1903) was an American pastor and academic administrator. A graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary , he began his ministerial career at a Presbyterian church in Wilmington, Delaware .
William Jefferson may refer to: William Jefferson (actor) (1876–1946), American stage and film actor; William J. Jefferson (born 1947), former Louisiana Democratic congressman; Will Jefferson (born 1979), English cricketer; William Jefferson (United Nations employee) (1951–1995), killed serving in Bosnia in the 1990s; Bill Jefferson ...
William Jennings Jefferson (born March 14, 1947) is an American former politician from Louisiana whose career ended after his corruption scandal and conviction. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for nine terms from 1991 to 2009 as a member of the Democratic Party .
Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe and William Randolph II, sons of William Randolph, were Virginia Burgesses for Henrico County in 1720 and 1722. [10] Sir John Randolph , son of William Randolph, was a Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and later Deputy Attorney General for Charles City , Prince George , and Henrico Counties.
In the 1930s, Jefferson was held in higher esteem; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945) and New Deal Democrats celebrated his struggles for "the common man" and reclaimed him as their party's founder. Jefferson became a symbol of American democracy in the incipient Cold War, and the 1940s and 1950s saw the zenith of his popular reputation.