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"Jonathan Drake Stevenson (1800â1894) was born in New York; won a seat in the New York State Assembly ; was the commanding officer of the First Regiment of New York Volunteers during the MexicanâAmerican War in California; entered California mining and real estate businesses; and died in San Francisco on February 14, 1894. New York state politics Stevenson became the protĂ©gĂ© of New York Governor Daniel D. Tompkins and served as his private secretary, and accompanied him to Washington in that capacity when Tompkins was elected Vice President in 1816. His friendship with prominent politicians and his helping to expose the Glentworth election frauds of 1839 gained him a certain stature in the Democratic Party. He supported James K. Polk for the Presidency in 1844, and was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co.) in 1846. Jonathan Drake Stevenson papers Regiment of New York Volunteers In 1846, President Polk offered Stevenson the command of a regiment of volunteers to be raised as part of the American occupation army during the MexicanâAmerican War in California. Colonel Stevenson raised a volunteer regiment of ten companies of 77 men each or 770 men to go to California with the understanding that they would be muster out and stay in California. On 1 August 1846, the regiment was mustered into Federal service as the "Seventh" New York Volunteers. Stevenson with his Regiment of New York Volunteers sailed around Cape Horn for California on September 26, 1846, and arrived at San Francisco March 7, 1847. Stevenson's Regiment Davis, William Heath. Seventy-five Years in San Francisco, 1929: San Francisco After his arrival in San Francisco, Stevenson joined General Stephen W. Kearny at Monterey and was made commander of the post. In May, 1847, he became the military commander of the southern district of California with headquarters in Los Angeles.Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1890, New York Volunteers, History of California, Volume 5, Chapter XIX, pp.499-518 In 1848, an order was received by Colonel R.B. Mason, directing that Colonel Stevenson's regiment should be designated thereafter the "1st Regiment of New York Volunteers" instead of the "Seventh".Stevenson's Regiment: First Regiment of New York Volunteers by Captain Jim Balance Post bellum When his Regiment was mustered out of service in 1848, Stevenson went to the mining community of Mokelumne Hill. He was appointed alcalde of the settlement, and drew up a code of mining laws and regulations. He returned to San Francisco to enter the real estate business with Dr. William C. Parker, who had been assistant surgeon in the Regiment of New York Volunteers.Frank SoulĂ©, John H. Gihon, Jim Nisbet ,1855,The annals of San Francisco, Berkeley Hills Books, He bought the southern half of Rancho Los Medanos in 1849 and laid out a site for a town they called "New York of the Pacific", which was changed to Pittsburg in 1911. He was active in Freemasonry. In 1850 he participated in organizing the Grand Lodge of California, and served as its first Grand Master.Edwin A. Sherman, 1898, Fifty Years of Masonry in California, Vol I, pp. 72-82 He was appointed Shipping Commissioner for the Port of San Francisco in 1872. He died in San Francisco on February 14, 1894.Jonathan Drake Stevenson, 1886, Memorial and petition of Col. J.D. Stevenson of California San Francisco, J.R. Brodie & Co. A street in San Francisco, Stevenson Street, is named for him.The Chronicle 12 April 1987 p.6 References External links * Category:1800 births Category:1894 deaths Category:American military personnel of the MexicanâAmerican War Category:Members of the New York State Assembly Category:New York (state) Democrats Category:19th-century American politicians "
"The 105th Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1 and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 8, 1929, which was two weeks before the beginning of the first administrative year of Governor C. Douglass Buck and James H. Hazel as Lieutenant Governor. Currently the distribution of the Senate Assembly seats was made to seven senators for New Castle County and for five senators to each Kent and Sussex counties. Likewise the current distribution of the House Assembly seats was made to fifteen representatives for New Castle County and for ten representatives each to Kent and Sussex counties. The actual population changes of the county did not directly affect the number of senators or representatives at this time. In the 105th Delaware General Assembly session both chambers had a Republican majority. Leadership Senate *William A. Simonton, New Castle County, Republican House of Representatives *Charles W. Messick, Sussex County, Republican Members Senate About half of the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population. {|width=100% |-valign=top :New Castle County *1. William A. Simonton *2. Joseph B. Green *3. Benjamin R. Veasey *4. Carl R. Vansant *5. George McIntire *6. John W. Spicer *7. Elmer David :Kent County *1. Hervey P. Hall *2. Charles C. Hopkins *3. Joshua B. Wharton *4. Wilburn E. Jacobs *5. James H. Latchum, Jr. :Sussex County *1. Harry M. Deputy *2. Charles M. Hollis *3. Willard F. Deputy *4. Clifford E. Burton *5. Gove S. Lynch |} House of Representative All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population. {|width=100% |-valign=top :New Castle County *1. Joseph Scheifele *2. Harry B. Van Sciver *3. Walter G. Tatnall, Jr. *4. William E. Virden *5. Edward I. Glenn *6. John T. Talley *7. William C. Clark *8. William F. Seal *9. Wayne C. Brewer *10. George McIntyre *11. Joseph T. Laws *12. Harry C. Nickle *13. Walter Beaston *14. Edward H. Hart *15. Eugene Deakyne :Kent County *1. Walter W. Hynson *2. Edward T. Paradee *3. George W. Cook *4. J.B. Chadwick *5. Charles C. Short *6. Samuel C. Hughes *7. Luther S. Conwell *8. Elijah S. Hughes *9. Ray Cannon *10. Hoey S. Farrow :Sussex County *1. John W. West *2. Francis F. Morgan *3. William H. Parsons *4. Charles W. Messick *5. Charles J. Moore *6. Silas W. Lewis *7. Harvey O. Derrickson *8. Carlton L. Lingo *9. Frank E. Smith *10. Marshall P. Hazzard |} References Places with more information *Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161 *University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965 A 105 Category:1929 in Delaware Category:1930s in Delaware "
"Daniela Dahn (born 9 October 1949, in Berlin) is a German writer, journalist and essayist. Since the reunification of Germany in 1990, Dahn has been an outspoken critic of the reunification process.Rado PribiÄ, The trouble with German unification: essays on Daniela Dahn, NoRa-NovitĂ€ten & RaritĂ€ten, 2008, Her highly personal style of writing,Daniela Dahn, âConformists like me.â New German Critique. Winter91, Issue 52: 50-60 and her strident political opinions, have stirred controversy within Germany, but Dahn, who considered herself a dissident within East Germany before 1989, advocates for a critical journalism that continues the democratic tradition of challenging the government and policies of reunified Germany. Biography Dahn is the daughter of the journalist Karl-Heinz Gerstner and fashion journalist Sibylle Gerstner, founder of the East German fashion magazine "Sibyl", and the older sister of Sonja Gerstner, who famously documented her own mental illness and the professional treatment she received. Dahn was born just two days after the founding of the East German state. Dahn was brought up in Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg in what was then East Germany. Daniela Dahn studied journalism in Leipzig and then worked as a television journalist, editing for GDR Television, before turning to freelance writing in 1981. In 1989 Dahn became one of the founders of the GDR opposition group Democratic Awakening. She later withdrew from it. (German) The Party of Democratic Socialism controversially introduced Dahn as one of their two candidates for the office of Constitutional Court judge in Brandenburg, in 1998. Her nomination was challenged by the Social Democratic Party of Germany and her candidacy was retracted at the last moment, after heated debate among the parties of the Brandenburg state parliament. Dahn serves on the Executive Board of the writers' association PEN and lectures internationally. Dahn is also on the Advisory Board of the Humanist Union, and has held the post of Writer in Residence at Sunderland University in the UK. In addition, Dahn is co-editor of the weekly newspaper der Fritag. Her husband Jochen Laabs was from 1999 to 2001 Vice-President of PEN Center in Germany. Along with Christa Wolf, with whom she has collaborated in the past, Dahn was seen as a possible choice by Die Linke as their candidate for President of Germany in the 2009 presidential election. (German) Peter Sodann was eventually chosen instead. Works * Prenzlauer Berg-Tour. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle/Leipzig 1987, * Wir bleiben hier oder Wem gehört der Osten. Pol. Sachbuch, Reinbek 1994, * WestwĂ€rts und nicht vergessen. Vom Unbehagen in der Einheit, Essay. Berlin 1996, * Vertreibung ins Paradies. UnzeitgemĂ€Ăe Texte zur Zeit, Essays. Reinbek 1998, * In guter Verfassung. Wieviel Kritik braucht die Demokratie?, Essay u. Dokum., Reinbek 1999, * Wenn und Aber. Anstiftungen zum Widerspruch. Essays. Reinbek 2002, * Demokratischer Abbruch, Von TrĂŒmmern und Tabus, Essays, Reinbek 2005, * Wehe dem Sieger! Ohne Osten kein Westen, Rowohlt, 2009, Awards * Ludwig Börne Prize (Ludwig-Börne-Preis), 2004 * Louise Schroeder Medal (Louise- Schroeder-Medaille), 2002 (German) * Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Tucholsky-Preis), 1999 * Fontane Prize (Fontane-Preis), 1988 * Berlin Prize (Berlin-Preis), 1987 External links *Daniela Dahn website: http://www.danieladahn.de/ *Daniela Dahnâs author page at Rowohlt: http://www.rowohlt.de/autorin/daniela-dahn.html *Video: Daniela Dahn on the Ukrainian Crisis: âDaniela Dahn: NATO finanzierte ukrainischen MinisterprĂ€sidenten Jazenjuk - Kontext TVâ (In German) References Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:People from East Berlin Category:Writers from Berlin Category:Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) politicians Category:Aufstehen Category:East German writers Category:German essayists Category:German women journalists Category:German women essayists Category:German women poets "