who appointed the governor of the ms territory by president jefferson
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- Governor David Holmes. David Holmes, a U. S. Representative from Virginia, was appointed the fourth and final governor of the Mississippi Territory in 1808 by President Thomas Jefferson. During his tenure, Jefferson College opened in Washington, Mississippi, the territorial capital.
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- In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States.o Jefferson, westward expansion was the key to the nation’s health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent, virtuous citizenry for its survival, and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership, especially the ownership of small farms.
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- Napoleon Bonaparte offered the Louisiana Territory to the United  States in 1803. Thomas Jefferson was the President at the time and  felt the opportunity was too good to pa … ss up and made the purchase.
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- Judy Martz was elected in 2000. She is the first woman elected governor and the first woman elected Lieutenant Governor of Montana, on the ticket with Governor Marc Racicot in 1996. She was a member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Team and also Miss Rodeo Montana.oseph K. Toole, a Democrat from Helena, was born May 12, 1851, in Savannah, Missouri. A former territorial Legislator, and territorial delegate to the United States Congress, Governor Toole was elected Montana's first Governor in 1889 and served until 1893.
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PBSIs WTTW your local station?Yes WTTW No, Change My StationÃPBS.org Video Shows TV Schedules Shop Donate By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, Lincoln proclaimed that it was his duty to maintain the Union.
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- A Good Book. In December 1803 the French prefect turned the lower part of the Louisiana Territory over to the United States. The upper part was transferred in the spring of 1804 at St. Louis, where Captain Meriwether Lewis accepted the official documents on behalf of President Jefferson.
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James Madison - Key Events On October 27, 1810, President James Madison issued a proclamation that authorized the U.S. occupation of West Florida, which included land from the Perdido River west along the Gulf Coast to the Mississippi River.adison signs a bill admitting Indiana to statehood. April 19, 1816. James Madison - 11/1816: Secretary of State James Monroe is elected Preside…. Secretary of State James Monroe is elected President, easily defeating Federalist Rufus King of New York.
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Andrew Jackson Jackson embarked on another victory tour, visiting many ports on the Atlantic coast. Monroe offered Jackson the governorship of Florida territory in 1821, and Jackson resigned from the army to take the new post. On July 17, 1821, Jackson presided over the formal transfer of the territory to the U.S., watching as the stars and stripes were hoisted above the former Spanish capital.
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- On March 5, 1829, President Jackson appointed Van Buren Secretary of State, an office which probably had been assured to him before the 1828 elections, and Van Buren resigned the governorship on March 12.
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Edwin Edwards On taking office, Edwards hired J. Kelly Nix as his executive assistant and in 1974 elevated him to first executive assistant. In the second term, however, Nix left the administration to take office as the Louisiana state school superintendent.n taking office, Edwards hired J. Kelly Nix as his executive assistant and in 1974 elevated him to first executive assistant. In the second term, however, Nix left the administration to take office as the Louisiana state school superintendent.
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- Before he was president of the United States, General Andrew Jackson led an invasion of Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled Florida in 1817. After Florida became a U.S. Territory in 1821, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams appointed Jackson its military governor. Constructed over a 21-year period from 1845 to 1866, Fort Zachary Taylor in Key West was controlled by Federal forces during the Civil War and used to deter supply ships from provisioning Confederate ports in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Lewis and Clark: The Journey Ends Although Clark did not get the captain's commission that Lewis had recommended, Clark was granted two appointments: brigadier general of militia, and superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Upper Louisiana.
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List of Governors of Indiana William Henry Harrison, first governor of the Indiana Territory and ninth President of the United States. Indiana Territory was formed on July 4, 1800, and consisted of present-day Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and parts of Michigan and Minnesota. Michigan Territory was split from the territory on June 30, 1805, and Illinois Territory followed on March 1, 1809, leaving Indiana Territory with its final borders.
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Jefferson Buys Louisiana Territory, and the Nation Moves Westward Even as he was laying the groundwork for what became the Lewis and Clark Expedition, to explore Louisiana and the western lands, Jefferson gave his ambassador in Paris, Robert Livingston, instructions to negotiate with the French to buy New Orleans.
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Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.
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Lisa P. Jackson As Chief of Staff Jackson would have served as Corzine's top advisor and chief political liaison to the State Legislature. However, Jackson was tapped by President Barack Obama to become Administrator of the EPA just days after she became Corzine's chief of staff and resigned on December 15, 2008.
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- Huey Long was elected Governor of Louisiana in 1928 by the largest margin in the state’s history.In the face of entrenched opposition from the old guard, he launched an unprecedented program to build the state s infrastructure and provide education and economic opportunity to the masses.uey Long leading the LSU marching band. Courtesy of Louisiana State Archives. As Governor, Huey became an active promoter of Louisiana State University. He expanded the campus, tripled enrollment, and built LSU into one of the best schools in the South and the eleventh largest state university in the country.
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Louisiana Governors 1812 - 1861 Claiborne was assisted by Gen. James Wilkinson in administering the territory until the president named him the first governor of the Territory of Orleans which is now the State of Louisiana. Claiborne held the office of territorial governor through the admission of Louisiana to the Union in 1812.
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Thomas Jefferson Biography President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery Expedition (1804-06), led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, among other objectives. In 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France.
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- William Jefferson Clinton, a native of Hope (Hempstead County), was the fortieth and forty-second governor of Arkansas and the forty-second president of the United States. Clinton’s tenure as governor of Arkansas, eleven years and eleven months total, was the second longest in the state’s history. Only Orval E. Faubus served longer, with twelve years.
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Hamilton Fish Introduction. 1  Hamilton Fish was appointed Secretary of State by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 11, 1869, and began his duties on March 16. 2  Fish was born in New York, New York, on August 3, 1808, and graduated from Columbia University in 1827. 3  Fish was elected Governor of New York in 1848, and then to a term in the U.S. Senate in 1851.
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- It was Shannon’s own Senator Colonel John H. Simonton who introduced the bill in the Mississippi Legislature creating Lee County out of Pontotoc and Itawamba. Shannon has come a long way since the glory days in the 1800’s when the railroad first laid the tracks through here.
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Who was the first governor of Washington State? [1] Miles C. Moore was the last governor of the Washington territory, in 1889. In that year, on November 11, Washington became a state. [2] So in that same year, the first state governor, Elisha P Ferry, began a four-year term, 1889-1893.
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- 1 Step 3 – Unplug the printer’s power cord from the outlet and other cables from the printer. 2  Step 4 – After 30 seconds, plug back the power cord the same as the other cables to your HP DeskJet/HP PhotoSmart printer. 3  Step 5 – Open the printer and re-install the HP inkjet cartridges back.
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Jefferson Davis One month later, the Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Alabama selected Jefferson Finis Davis to become the provisional President of the Confederacy. He was inaugurated for a six-year term as President on February 22 of the following year.
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21b. Exploration: Lewis and Clark That plan took on new importance once the United States had acquired the huge new territory from France. In May 1804, a group of 50 Americans led by Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson's personal secretary, and William Clark, an army officer, headed northwest along the Missouri River from St. Louis. Their varied instructions reveal the multiple goals that Jefferson hoped the expedition could accomplish.