Word: gouverneur
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...only expected them to work closely in tandem, they worried about it. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry, who would become Vice President in 1813, complained: "The close intimacy that must subsist between the President and Vice President makes the relationship absolutely improper." To which Gouverneur Morris replied: "The Vice President then will be the first heir apparent that ever loved his father...
Also elected were: Sallie T. Gouverneur of Lowell House and Kent, Conn.; Mary S. Holland of Currier House and Princeton, M.J.; Judith F. Kaufer of North House and New York City; Wendy C. Lesser of Dunster House and Palo Alto, Calif.; Melinda Liu of Currier House and Kettering, Ohio; Lucy T. Marx of Dudley House and Amherst; Randy S. Milden of Currier House and Haverhill; Carol C. Neely of Dudley House; and Ellen S. Peel of South House and Alexandria...
...could not really escape the war. Several hundred demonstrators in the wealthy, conservative area awaited him in front of the Gouverneur Morris Inn. They held candles and chanted "Peace now." A few held up placards reading EFFETE SNOBS FOR PEACE...
...origins of the College when they write that the constitutional draftsmen of 1787 did not trust the people to choose a President directly. In part, the Electoral College plan did emerge as a compromise between the patrician view of government and the belief, shared by James Madison and Gouverneur Morris, that Americans should elect their President directly. Also important, however, was a seamier accommodation with slavery. The Southern states had already forced a provision into the Constitution that permitted three-fifths of their slaves to be tallied in determining their seats in the House of Representatives-even though the slaves...
...Marie Monroe's groom was Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur, her father's private secretary and scion of a distinguished New York clan; Elizabeth Tyler's groom was William Waller, a tobacco planter and lawyer; Nellie Grant's Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris came from a wealthy British family; Alice Roosevelt's Nicholas Longworth was a Representative who later became House Speaker; Jessie Wilson's was Francis Bowes Sayre, a lawyer; Eleanor Wilson's was William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; and Anna Roosevelt's second husband was John Boet-tiger, a newspaper correspondent...