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Willard had tried and failed to convince Lucy Hayes (wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes) to assist the temperance cause, but writer Sallie F. Chapin, a former Confederate sympathizer who had published a temperance novel, supported Willard and was a friend of the Davises. In 1887, Davis invited Willard to her home to discuss the future of her ...
Frances Willard, the second WCTU president, objected to this limited focus of social issues WCTU was addressing. [11] Willard believed that it was necessary for the WCTU to be political in women’s issues for the success, expansion, and implementation of WCTU. [11] In 1879, Willard successfully became president of the WCTU until her death in ...
Frances Willard was born September 28, 1839, in New York. She was a founder of the Women's Temperance Union and President from 1879 until her death in 1898. [8] Willard was a very spiritual woman due to her upbringing and a brush with death when she was 19.
Robert Frederick Willard [1] is a retired United States Navy admiral who last served as the 22nd Commander, U.S. Pacific Command from October 19, 2009 [2] to March 9, 2012. He previously served as Commander , U.S. Pacific Fleet from May 8, 2007, to September 25, 2009.
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known as RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In 1920, Cagney was a member of the chorus for the show Pitter Patter, where he met Frances Willard "Billie" Vernon. They married on September 28, 1922, and the marriage lasted until his death in 1986. Frances Cagney died in 1994. [167] In 1940 they adopted a son whom they named James Francis Cagney III, and later a daughter, Cathleen "Casey ...
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Frances E. Willard is a marble sculpture depicting the American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist of the same name by Helen Farnsworth Mears, installed in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.