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  2. Henry Charles Lea - Wikipedia

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    Henry Charles Lea (September 19, 1825 – October 24, 1909) was an American publisher, civic activist, philanthropist and historian from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He took over the family publishing business from his father, Isaac Lea , and implemented several medical and scientific publications.

  3. Corrupt bargain - Wikipedia

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    Votes in the Electoral College, 1824 The voting by the state in the House of Representatives, 1825. Note that all of Clay's states voted for Adams. After the votes were counted in the U.S. presidential election of 1824, no candidate had received the majority needed of the presidential electoral votes (although Andrew Jackson had the most [1]), thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the ...

  4. List of revocations of appointments to orders and awarded ...

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    2011: Henry Charles Day (appointed 2003) following his conviction for child sex offences. [208] 2012: Dr Roselle Antoine (appointed 2005) following her conviction for conning foreign students into handing over thousands of pounds for bogus qualifications. [209]

  5. Charles Henry Parkhurst - Wikipedia

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    Charles Henry Parkhurst (April 17, 1842 – September 8, 1933) was an American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts.Although scholarly and reserved, he preached two sermons in 1892 in which he attacked the political corruption of New York City government.

  6. List of federal political scandals in the United States

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    Charles R. Forbes was appointed by Harding as the first director of the new Bureau of Veterans Affairs. After constructing and modernizing VA hospitals, he was convicted of bribery and corruption and sentenced to two years in jail. [125] Charles Cramer, Forbes's general counsel, committed suicide. (1923) [126]

  7. Henry Charles Carey - Wikipedia

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    Henry Charles Carey (December 15, 1793 – October 13, 1879) was an American publisher, political economist, and politician from Pennsylvania.He was the leading 19th-century economist of the American School and a chief economic adviser to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase during the American Civil War.

  8. Prince Charles made a joke after Prince Harry's birth that ...

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    Diana gave birth to a baby boy, Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor, ... Charles began an affair around 1978 or 1979 with his now-wife Camilla while still married to Diana. Charles and ...

  9. Henry Charles Sirr (town major) - Wikipedia

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    Henry Charles Sirr (25 November 1764 – 7 January 1841) was an Anglo-Irish military officer, policeman, merchant and art collector. He played a prominent role in suppressing the Irish Rebellion of 1798 , which included personally killing Society of United Irishmen leader Lord Edward FitzGerald , who Sirr alleged had been resisting arrest .