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    Wisconsin. Vilas County, Wisconsin, is named for William F. Vilas. Senator Vilas is also the namesake of the towns of Vilas, Colorado and Vilas, South Dakota...
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  • Elliott R. Sober (born 6 June 1948) is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at University...
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  • Vilas or विलास in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vilas may refer to: Last name Armin Vilas (fl. 1970s), Austrian bobsledder Charles Nathaniel Vilas...
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    1885, and served from 1885 to 1891, being defeated for re-election by William F. Vilas. He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims from 1886 to 1891...
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    year, Cleveland's brother William was hired as a teacher at the New York Institute for the Blind in New York City, and William obtained a place for Cleveland...
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    II Mississippi March 6, 1885 January 10, 1888 Grover Cleveland 17 William F. Vilas Wisconsin January 16, 1888 March 6, 1889 18 John W. Noble Missouri...
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    Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Durlauf was previously the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the...
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    in the movement John M. Palmer – as well as Simon Bolivar Buckner, William F. Vilas and Edward Atkinson – had died. During the 20th century, classical...
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    Augustus H. Garland of Arkansas as Attorney General. Postmaster General William F. Vilas of Wisconsin was the lone Westerner in the cabinet. Daniel S. Lamont...
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    political party of Bourbon Democrats who opposed the regular party nominee William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential election. The party was then a...
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    it one of seven states to have a split United States Senate delegation. William Proxmire was the state's longest serving senator (served 1957–1989). United...
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    Ohnuki-Tierney (Japanese: 大貫恵美子 born 1934) is a noted anthropologist and the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She...
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    Guillermo Vilas (born 17 August 1952) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Vilas was the world No. 1 of the Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975...
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    and U.S. Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas 1940 – U.S. Representative William Bankhead of Alabama 1944 – Governor Robert Kerr of Oklahoma 1948 – U.S...
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  • Representative William F. Vilas, U.S. Postmaster General and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Floyd E. Wheeler, Wisconsin State Assembly William Wheeler, Wisconsin...
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    William L. Wilson of West Virginia, John Griffin Carlisle of Kentucky, William F. Vilas of Wisconsin, J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, John M. Palmer of Illinois...
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    through Vilas County including the Ontonagan Mail Trail and a military road from Fort Howard to Fort Wilkins in Copper Harbor, Michigan. Vilas County was...
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    Coit Spooner (R) 50th (1887–1889) 51st (1889–1891) 52nd (1891–1893) William F. Vilas (D) John L. Mitchell (D) 53rd (1893–1895) 54th (1895–1897) 55th (1897–1899)...
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  • Roswell P. Flower, Gorman, John R. McPherson, John M. Palmer, William E. Russell, William F. Vilas, and Watterson were put forward as dark horse candidates...
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    lawyer, Nelson moved to Madison, where he studied law in the office of William F. Vilas, one of the few academically trained attorneys in the area. In the...
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    Nathan F. Dixon) Pensions (Chairman: John M. Palmer; Ranking Member: George L. Shoup) Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: William F. Vilas; Ranking...
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    Secretary of Interior William F. Vilas, appointed by President Grover Cleveland (1885-1889), a Democrat, was investigated by Congress. Vilas was a stockholder...
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  • 400,000 kg) had been assembled. After 26 minutes of speeches, Mrs. James F. Byrnes, the wife of the head of Roosevelt's Economic Stabilization Office...
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  • Milwaukee and other parochial leaders, the Wisconsin Democrats, led by William F. Vilas took up the cause for German and other minority languages and nominated...
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    of the United States: Thomas E. Benedict Chaplain: William H. Millburn (Methodist) Secretary: William Ruffin Cox Librarian: Alonzo M. Church Sergeant at...
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    James Fergus William N Byers Joshua Hendy Marcus Daly John Constantine William F. Vilas Myron T. Herrick Ring Lardner Horace Wells Winfield S. Stratton James...
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    2 seat up for election in 1894, state constitutional convention member William J. McConnell to serve for the remainder of the Fifty-first United States...
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    North Dakota was founded in 1882, and is named for Frank Hatton. Cutter, William Richard, ed. (1918). American Biography: A New Cyclopedia. New York, NY:...
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    " Chicago. Other notable people she painted were Wisconsin Senator William F. Vilas and New York Governors Frank W. Higgins and Martin H. Glynn. A group...
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  • 1973. p. 648. Sharp, Nancy Weatherly; Sharp, James Roger; Ritter, Charles F.; Wakelyn, Jon L. (1997). American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994...
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