Word: winants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Gilbert Winant, onetime (1925-26) Governor of New Hampshire, bought for his private collection the famed Edgehill portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted by Gilbert Stuart. He bought it from Francis Burton Harrison, great-great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippine Islands, now resident of Scotland. Never until now has this portrait, by many , regarded as the finest ever made by famed Gilbert Stuart, valued at $100,000, belonged to a person in no way related to famed Thomas Jefferson...
John Gilbert Winant...
Hampshire, a son, Rivington Russell Winant; in Manhattan...
...Boston, a meeting of the New England Emergency Fuel Committee was held. Governor Duller of Massachusetts and Governor Winant of New Hampshire were present, and the other New England Governors sent representatives. John Hays Hammond, who was Chairman of the late U. S. Coal Commission (1920-23) which drafted a survey of the industry and made recommendations for preventing strikes, was elected Chairman of the New England Committee. Plans were laid for educating the New England public to the use of bituminous coal. Said Mr. Hammond...
...John E. Winant, Governor of New Hampshire...