But, he was also slaveowner, and unyielding taskmaster, somewhat vain and a failure of business. Unlike his peers, jefferson, madison, hamilton, and adams who are all college graduates, washington handling the equivalent of a seventh gradeuie education. Brown was born in brooklyn and he is an honors graduate of both yelling cambridge. Hes considered to be one of the most distinguished commentatorse on politics, business, and finance in america today. The st. Louis postdispatch has hailed him as a preeminent partner from the generation in the New York Times calls him and elegant architect of in history. 2000 for his biography won the inaugural George Washington book price for early american history. Mr. Chair now brings political perspective to the turnouttoday. Today. Listen to his words, president washington, like president obama enters the Office Opening for reasonable and sensible discourse. E. Hoping to ensure now partisan politics. The twoparty system emerges rapidly from his own
Public service like americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. Despite its pension for politics, New Hampshire only lays claim to one u. S. President. Coming up, American History tv goes inside the home of frequent fears and learns about a presidency barred with tragedy. Pierce is the 14th president of the United States. The only president from New Hampshire. He was a lawyer. Heharismatic politician, lived in a house here from 1842 to 1814 eight with his wife to 1848. He resigned a senate seat to come back to concord and be his with his family and to be with his family and work on his law practice. He was born in hillsboro on november 23, 1804. Before he was one year old, his father mentioned the big georgian mansion, where he ran a tavern. Pierce grew up in social circumstances, a lot of people coming and going. A lot of political discussions. He was educated at some of the academies around hillsboro. When he was 16, his father took
Curious about their politics at the local level, whether it is a town meeting or a school board, and they are equally passionate about politics at the county level, the state level particularly. And very interested in national politics, especially in regard to the president ial primary. What we will do today is take a look at some items that reflect not only on New Hampshires politics, and New Hampshire politics within a larger scope of national and Even International politics. First item right here is a portrait and the subject is governor wentworth. Governor went with has the distinction of being the longest tenured royal governor. He served for almost 26 years as governor of New Hampshire. 17411767. Rom that by itself is not that amarkable, except that he was hot tempered, arrogant person who made a lot of enemies. The medical is he survived the miracle is he survived even one or two years. With good coaching from his father, who was a lieutenant governor, and from good friends and
This is one of the oldest items in the collection. 500 years old. People. Here stone age they do not have tools, anything they had came from Natural Resources they found around them. This canoe wouldve taken about one month to build. They wouldve started with a slow burn, a very controlled burn on the top of a large pine tree and then they wouldve taken a stone tool to dig it up. Because of the high attrition rate, the life span was short for these people. They would die through disease or warfare. A lot of the canoes, they are still finding them to this day around lakes in new england. A storm will churn up the autumn a lake. This canoe was found in the lake region of New Hampshire and it is about 500 gears all of which makes it the second largest object. The second oldest item in this exhibit is the stumble which dates 20003000 years. A bowl like this was a lot of work to make. A soft stone, but still stone. They wouldve used a stone doubt to hell out this bull but it wouldve been ve
New Hampshire Historical Society to take a look at the long history with politics of this state. [chatter] this was the site of the first primary and on the eve of the elections there were quite a few undecided voters. People in New Hampshire take politics seriously. They study it. They spend a lot of time meeting with candidates, reading about candidates, interviewing candidates. And it is politics at all levels. New hampshire people are very curious about their politics at the local level, whether it is a town meeting or a school board, and they are equally passionate about politics at the county level, the state level particularly, and they get very interested in national politics, especially in regard to the president ial primaries. What we will do today is take a look at some items that reflect not only on New Hampshires politics, and New Hampshire politics within a larger scope of national and Even International politics. First item right here is a portrait and the subject is , g