Posted on 01/18/2005 11:55:32 AM PST by PeaRidge
James Monroe was an Anti-Federalist in 1788 as a delegate to the Virginia convention which debated ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and was later a Jeffersonian Republican. He became President by defeating the Federalist candidate, Rufus King, in 1816.
free dixie,sw
That is a line that could easily be delivered today on your average cable show. Nice.
President Tyler had 14 kids, the way I read that article. I see he had an appetite that seems to be a common one in the White House ;)
And down the street from Tyler's house is Berkeley Plantation, birthplace of William Henry Harrison. Berkeley Plantation was the place where TAPS was written during the Civil War. It is also said to be the site where slavery was introduced in the New World. It is a place loaded with history.
Richmond, March 1 -- Ex-President Tyler and Mr. Seldon, late Commissioners to the Washington Peace Conference, arrived in this city, on their way home, yesterday afternoon, and in the evening were honored with a serenade. Ex-President Tyler, in returning his thanks, said the South had nothing to hope from the Black Republicans. The secession feeling is on the increase. (Mar 2, 1861 Daily Picayune of New Orleans)
We visited Hollywood Cemetery for the first time about a year ago. The hurricane had just been through a month or two earlier and there were trees down everywhere in the cemetery. Big place. We found Jefferson Davis' grave and JEB Stuart's.
Berkeley Plantation was also where the first annual Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in America in December, 1619.
And husband says that most importantly, Berkeley Plantation was the birthplace of bourbon.
It's funny that you wrote me this msg. on 01/18/05 b/c yesterday was MY birthday!
What a co-inky-dink!
oh my. don't you know that there is no such think as a coinkydink???
Well, happy birthday! I really had no idea. Well, I have been to the birthplace of bourbon and bourbon.
Take one of those "well"s out of my last post.
Coinkydinkally, my grandmother was also born on January 18.
Bump for a great President.
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