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William Brewster (c. 1566/67 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620. He became senior elder and the leader of Plymouth Colony, by virtue of his education and existing stature with those immigrating from the Netherlands, being a Brownist (or Puritan Separatist).
Before Jimmy Carter ever stepped into the Oval Office as president, he was just Dad to his four kids.. The former president, who turns 100 on Oct. 1, 2024, welcomed sons John William "Jack," 76 ...
William Brewster-In the 1580s, he was an assistant to William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I; Davison was a party to the 1587 execution of Mary Queen of Scots. About twenty years later, Brewster was among those prominent in the early English Separatist church, emigrating to Holland in 1608 where he became Ruling Elder of the Leiden church.
When Brewster defended Coffin, who was arrested in 1968 with Spock for encouraging draft resistance, he did so citing academic freedom. The action only complicated his dealings with an increasingly-wary alumni association. [32] Brewster was chairman of the National Policy Panel of the United Nations in 1968. He was a member of the President's ...
Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924, in the farming community of Plains, Georgia.. Carter went on to serve in the US Navy and was sworn in as president in 1977. After a 2015 cancer diagnosis ...
Former President Jimmy Carter became the first president to live to be 100 years old on Tuesday. The one-time peanut farmer's retirement years are a study in grace, as at one time Carter was as ...
Jonathan Brewster (August 12, 1593 – August 7, 1659) was an early American settler, the son and eldest child of elder William Brewster and his wife, Mary. Brewster had two younger sisters, Patience and Fear , and two younger brothers, Love and Wrestling along with an unnamed brother who died young.
The last time all of the living first ladies attended an event together was in 2018 at the funeral of former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral.