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William Branch Giles. William Branch Giles (* 12. August 1762 im Amelia County, Colony of Virginia; † 4. Dezember 1830 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und von 1827 bis 1830 Gouverneur von Virginia. Außerdem vertrat er seinen Staat in beiden Kammern des US-Kongresses
William Branch Giles (August 12, 1762 – December 4, 1830; the g is pronounced like a j) was an American statesman, long-term Senator from Virginia, and the 24th Governor of Virginia. He served in the House of Representatives from 1790 to 1798 and again from 1801 to 1803; in between, he was a member of the Virginia House of ...
Senator William Branch Giles of Virginia was 42 years old when he entered the Senate in 1804, having already served ten years in the House of Representatives. As a Representative during the presidencies of George Washington and John Adams, Giles was a leading Republican opponent of the Federalist administrations’ policies, criticizing ...
A JEFFERSONIAN LEADER: WILLIAM BRANCH GILES Among the Virginia worthies who as yet have not inspired chronicles of their careers, there is no more conspicuous name than that of William Branch Giles. It is true that no historian narrating the period 1790-1830 has failed to give him mention, but no study of his career has been presented to the ...
William Branch Giles (August 12, 1762 – December 4, 1830) was a prominent Virginian lawyer, congressman, senator, and governor who studied law under George Wythe at the College of William & Mary. He was an adamant anti-Federalist who advocated for the purity of the original Constitution and states' rights. William Giles was born on August 12 ...
8. Juni 2018 · Townesend, William (1676–1739). English master-mason and architect who worked in Oxford. He probably designed, and certainly built, the Fellows' Building and Cloister (1706–12) and the Gentleman Commoners' Building (1737),
GILES, WILLIAM BRANCH, A Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born near Amelia Court House, Amelia County, Va., August 12, 1762; pursued classical studies and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1781; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced in Petersburg, Va., 1784-1789; elected to the First ...
