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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was captured, at age 13, and mistreated by his British captors. He later became a lawyer, and in 1796 he was in Nashville and helped found the state of Tennessee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U.S. Senate. In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, which became his political as well as military base. Jackson owned hundreds of slaves who worked on the Hermitage plantation which he acquired in 1804. Jackson killed a man in a duel in 1806, over a matter of honor regarding his wife Rachel. Jackson gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, where he won decisive victories over the Indians and then over the main British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson's army was sent to Florida where, without orders, he deposed the small Spanish garrison. This led directly to the treaty which formally transferred Florida from Spain to the United States. more....... |
Brent was born George Brendan Nolan in Ballinasloe, County Galway. the son of a shopkeeper.[1] During the Irish War of Independence (1919–1922), Brent was part of an IRA Active Service Unit as early as 1920, carrying out IRA directives.[2][3] He fled with a bounty set on his head by the British, although he claimed only to have been a courier for guerrilla leader and tactician Michael Collins.[2][4] Brent came to the United States in 1925, touring with a production of Abie's Irish Rose.[2] During the next five years, he acted in stock companies in Colorado, Rhode Island, Florida, and Massachusetts.[2] In 1927, he appeared on Broadwayin Love, Honor, and Betray, alongside Clark Gable.[2] He eventually moved to Hollywood and made his first film, Under Suspicion, in 1930.[2][3] Over the next two years he appeared in a number of minor films produced by Universal Studios and Fox, before being signed to contract by Warner Brothers in 1932.[2] He would remain at Warner Brothers for the next twenty years, carving out a successful career as a top-flight leading man during the late 1930s and 1940s.[2][3] more....... Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943, Denton, Texas) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and '70s. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the group.[1] The Stewart family was a deeply religious middle-class household from Denton, Texas. As part of the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), to which the Stewart family belonged, the parents - K.C and Alpha Stewart - encouraged musical expression in the household.[2] Born March 15, 1943,[3] before the family had moved from Denton, Texas to Vallejo, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, Sylvester was the second of the family's five children. more....... |
Edward Macdonald Carey (March 15, 1913 – March 21, 1994) was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives. For almost three decades, he was the show's central cast member.[Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Carey graduated from the University of Iowa in Iowa City with a bachelor's degree in 1935, after attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison for a year where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He first made his career starring in various B-movies of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was known in many Hollywood circles as "King of the Bs", sharing the throne with his "queen", Lucille Ball.1] A successful radio actor, Carey's work included playing Dick Grosvenor on the soap opera Stella Dallas[2] and Ridgeway Tearle in John's Other Wife,[3] both in the early 1940s. As a stage performer, his credits included the hit Broadway show Lady in the Dark and the 1942 film Wake Island. Carey also appeared in Take a Letter, Darling (1942) and Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), filmed in Santa Rosa,California. In 1943, he joined the United States Marine Corps and stayed on active duty until 1947. more....... |
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