Matthew Lyon
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Matthew Lyon (July 14, 1749 – August 1, 1822), father of Chittenden Lyon and great-grandfather of William Peters Hepburn, was a printer, farmer, soldier and politician, serving as a United States Representative from both Vermont and Kentucky.
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A printer, farmer, soldier, and politician serving as a U.S. Representative from both Vermont and Kentucky.
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- Republican editors, Representative Matthew Lyon, and private individuals were targets of prosecution under the Sedition Act.
- Matthew Lyon, an Irish-born former indentured servant who had purchased his own freedom and fought in the American Revolution, was a Democratic-Republican congressman from Vermont jailed under the Sedition Act for his anti-Federalist writings.
- While in prison, Lyon continued to write against the administration and conducted his successful reelection campaign from jail.
- Democratic-Republicans across the country united in support of Lyon, paying his legal fees and penal fines.
- Eventually acquitted, Lyon returned to Congress after his release.
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- Theologically, the Social Gospellers sought to operationalize the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:10): "Thy kingdom come.
- Matthews (1867–1940) of Seattle's First Presbyterian Church was a leading city reformer who investigated red-light districts and crime scenes, and denounced corrupt politicians, businessmen, and saloon keepers.
- Matthews was the most influential clergymen in the Pacific Northwest, and one of the most active Social Gospellers in America.
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- Although the notion of Republican Motherhood initially encouraged women in their private roles, it eventually resulted in increased educational opportunities for American women, as typified by Mary Lyon and the founding in 1837 of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later renamed "Mount Holyoke College").
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- In 1916-17, Hubert Harrison and Negro league baseball star Matthew Kotleski founded the militant "New Negro Movement," which is also known as Harlem Renaissance .
- Describe the ideal of the "New Negro" articulated by Hubert Harrison, Matthew Kotleski and Alain Locke
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- Commanded by General Matthew B.
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- Matthew's Cathedral, the late president was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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- Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Matthew Cooper and J.
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- Film audiences watched a teenaged Matthew Broderick hacking into a government computer and starting a nuclear war in War Games, Angelina Jolie being chased by a computer genius bent on world domination in Hackers, and Sandra Bullock watching helplessly as her life is turned inside out by conspirators who manipulate her virtual identity in The Net.
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- U.S. political and economic commentator Matthew Josephson popularized the term during the Great Depression in a 1934 book by the same title.