William Cosby

(noun)

William Cosby (1690–1736) served as the British royal governor of New York from 1732 to 1736.

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  • Freedom of Expression and its Limits

    • John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper editor, began to voice opposition to several policies implemented by the newly appointed colonial governor, William Cosby.
    • In 1734, Cosby issued a proclamation condemning the newspaper's "scandalous, virulent, false and seditious reflections," and in November, Zenger was arrested and charged with seditious libel.
    • Cosby was attacked by Zenger's paper for his actions while governor of New York.

  • The Trial of Zenger

    • John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper editor, publicly opposed several policies implemented by the newly-appointed colonial governor William Cosby.
    • In 1734, Cosby issued a proclamation condemning the newspaper's "scandalous, virulent, false and seditious reflections," and in November, Zenger was arrested and charged with seditious libel.
    • Cosby was attacked by Zenger's paper for his actions while governor of New York

  • From Roosevelt to Taft

    • In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft to run against Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan.
    • The U.S. presidential election of 1908 was between Republican Party candidate William Howard Taft and Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.
    • On their side, the Democrats, after badly losing the 1904 election with a conservative candidate, turned to two-time nominee William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley.
    • Portrait of William Howard Taft, the Republican Party candidate in the presidential election of 1908.
    • Portrait of William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Party candidate in the presidential election of 1908.

  • The Glorious Revolution

    • The Glorious Revolution was the peaceful overthrow and replacement of King James II with William III and Mary II of England.
    • In February 1689, William and his wife became joint monarchs as William III and Mary II of England .
    • King James was deposed in the Revolution of 1688 by William III.
    • Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay, engraving by William Miller after J M W Turner, 1852
    • William of Orange successfully invaded England with a Dutch fleet in the Glorious Revolution of 1688

  • Rhode Island

    • Rhode Island was formed as an English colony by Roger Williams and others fleeing prosecution from Puritans.
    • Williams named the other islands in the Narragansett Bay after virtues: Patience Island, Prudence Island, and Hope Island.
    • Williams wrote favorably about the American Indian peoples, contrasting their virtues with Puritan New England’s intolerance.
    • In 1644, Roger Williams secured a land patent establishing the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in the Narragansett Bay.
    • Engraved print depicting Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, meeting with the Narragansett Indians.

  • The People's Party and the Election of 1896

    • When the Republicans nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president in June 1896 and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of "Silver Republicans" walked out of the convention.
    • In that year's presidential election, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan, who focused (as Populists rarely did) on the free silver issue as a solution to the economic depression and the maldistribution of power.
    • He lost to Republican William McKinley by a margin of 600,000 votes, losing again in a 1900 rematch by a larger margin.
    • Assess the significance to the Populist Party William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign

  • Pennsylvania and Delaware

    • William Penn founded the Pennsylvania Colony in 1681 and brought over Quaker dissidents from England, Wales, the Netherlands, and France.
    • In 1681, William Penn founded the Province of Pennsylvania, also known as Pennsylvania Colony, in British America by royal charter.
    • William Penn had asked for and later received the lands of Delaware from the Duke of York.
    • Benjamin West's painting (in 1771) of William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenni Lenape.
    • William Penn, holding paper, standing and facing King Charles II, in the King's breakfast chamber at Whitehall.

  • The Last Days of the Federal Presidency: The Midnight Judges

    • This appointment of the so-called "midnight judges" to the Supreme Court angered Democratic-Republicans, and Jefferson refused to allow the midnight judges (including William Marbury) to take office .
    • William Marbury (1762–1835) was one of the "midnight judges" appointed by United States President John Adams the day before he left office.

  • The Populist Party and the Election of 1896

    • The Populist Party backed the Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election.
    • It sometimes formed coalitions with labor unions, and in 1896 the Democrats endorsed their presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan.
    • William Jennings Bryan had an innate oratory talent.

  • Woodrow Wilson and Race

    • Treasury Secretary William G.
    • On November 12, 1914, Wilson met with a group led by prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter to discuss the continuing spread of segregation.
    • William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934) was a prominent African-American civil rights activist as well as founder and editor of the independent African-American newspaper the Boston Guardian.