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22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (UA) Battles/wars. American Civil War. Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873.
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Henry Leroy Willson (July 31, 1911 – November 2, 1978) was an American Hollywood talent agent who played a large role in developing the beefcake craze of the 1950s.
May 6, 2020 · Here's who Willson was, and what happened to him. It's not an exaggeration to say that the talent agent Henry Willson invented Rock Hudson. Depicted by Jim Parsons in the Netflix show Hollywood, Willson was a powerful figure in 1940s Hollywood. He was also a controversial one.
Henry Wilson was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement. Wilson was the son of Winthrop Colbath, Jr., a labourer, and Abigail Witham.
sir henry hughes Wilson, Baronet, army officer and politician, was born on 5 may 1864 at the family home of currygrane, near edgeworthstown, county longford, ireland. Born to James Wilson and constance grace, he was the second son of seven children.1 henry Wilson came from a modestly prosperous protestant family whose fortune was made
Henry Wilson was an American general, senator, and later vice president who played a key role in the political lead up to the Civil War, handling military affairs during the war, and fighting for civil rights for all Americans during Reconstruction.
Henry Wilson was born on February 16, 1812, in Farmington, New Hampshire. He was born Jeremiah Jones Colbath, but legally changed his name when he was twenty-one years old. Wilson grew up very poor, and when he was ten years old, his father hired him out as an apprentice to a local farmer.
Wilson introduced the first post war civil rights bill in 1865 and influenced Congress’s passage of constitutional amendments to guarantee citizenship rights to African Americans. Elected vice president in 1873, he became ill shortly after taking office and died on November 22, 1875.
Henry Wilson was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery.
