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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 (search)
Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 Politician; born in Providence, R. I., Nov. 5, 1805; graduated at Harvard in 1823; studied law with Chancellor Kent; and began its practice in 1827. He is chiefly conspicuous in American history as the chosen governor of what was called the Suffrage party, and attempted to take the place of what was deemed to be the legal State government (see Rhode Island). He was tried for and convicted of high treason, and sentenced to imprisonment for life in 1842, but was pardoned in 1847; and in 1853 the legislature restored to him his civil rights and ordered the record of his sentence to be expunged. He lived to see his party triumph. He died in Providence, Dec. 27, 1854.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dorr's rebellion. (search)
Dorr's rebellion. See Dorr, Thomas Wilson; Rhode Island.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
call a convention to prepare a constitution. That convention assembled at Providence Oct. 4, and framed a constitution which was submitted to the people Dec. 27, 28, and 29, when it was claimed that a vote equal to a majority of the adult male citizens of the State was given for its adoption. It was also claimed that a majority of those entitled to vote under the charter had voted in favor of the constitution. Under this constitution State officers were chosen April 18, 1842, with Thomas W. Dorr as governor. The new government attempted to organize at Providence on May 3. They were resisted by what was called the legal State government, chosen under the charter, at the head of which was Governor Samuel W. King. On the 18th a portion of the Suffrage party assembled under arms at Providence and attempted to seize the arsenal, but retired on the approach of Governor King with a military force. On June 25 they reassambled, several hundred strong, at Chepacket, 10 miles from Prov
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
his release in extra session of Congress; Mr. Webster advocates his discharge. A special session of the circuit court, ordered by the legislature of New York at Utica, tries and acquits him......Oct. 4-12, 1841 A. W. Holmes, of the crew of the William Brown for murder on the high seas (forty-four of the passengers and crew escaping in the long-boat, the sailors threw some passengers overboard to lighten the boat, April 19, 1841), convicted, but recommended to mercy......May, 1842 Thomas W. Dorr, Rhode Island; treason......1842 Alexander S. Mackenzie (Somers's mutiny)......1842 Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk, of New York, for immoral conduct; by ecclesiastical court, suspended......Dec. 10, 1844–Jan. 3, 1845 Ex-Senator J. C. Davis, of Illinois; T. C. Sharp, editor of Warsaw signal; Mark Aldrich, William N. Grover, and Col. Levi Williams, for murder of Hiram and Joe Smith (Mormons) ; trial begins at Carthage, Ill.; acquitted......May 21, 1845 Albert J. Tirrell (the somn
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ances......March 3, 1845 Twenty-eighth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1845 Fifteenth administration—Democratic, March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1849. James Knox Polk, Tennessee, President. George Mifflin Dallas, Pennsylvania, Vice-President. Mexican minister demands his passport......March 6, 1845 Andrew Jackson, seventh President, dies at the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn., aged seventy-eight......June 8, 1845 By an act of amnesty the Rhode Island legislature releases Thomas W. Dorr, who was under a life sentence for treason......June 27, 1845 Naval school established at Annapolis, Md., while George Bancroft is Secretary of Navy......1845 Annexation ratified by Texas in convention......July 4, 1845 Texas in convention adopts a constitution......Aug. 27, 1845 Gov. Silas Wright, of New York, proclaims Delaware county in a state of insurrection from anti-rent difficulties......Aug. 27, 1845 Joseph Story, associate judge of the United States Supreme Court
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
orporated......Nov. 22, 1832 Company incorporated to construct a railroad from Providence to Stonington in 1832, and railroad building commenced......1835 Fort Adams in Newport Harbor, begun in 1824, is completed......1839 Convention of delegates elected by friends of extension of suffrage, without regard to the law regulating the right of voting, at Providence, Oct. 4, 1841, forms a people's constitution, and declares it adopted by a vote of the people......Dec. 27-29, 1841 Thomas W. Dorr elected governor under the people's constitution......April 18, 1842 Dorr government attempts to organize, May 3, 1842, but is resisted by legal State government......May 3, 1842 Constitution to supersede the charter of 1663 is framed by a convention which meets at Newport, Sept. 12, 1842, adjourns to East Greenwich, and completes its labors Nov. 5; constitution ratified by vote of the people, 7,032 to 59......Nov. 21-23, 1842 Franklin Lyceum, formed in 1831, is incorporated at