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Gouverneur Morris (/ ɡ ʌ v ər n ɪər ˈ m ɒr ɪ s / guh-vər-NEER MOR-ris; [1] January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.
A peg leg is a prosthesis, or artificial limb, ... Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), American politician; Brook Watson (1735–1807), Lord Mayor of London;
Gouverneur Morris IV was born in 1876 and was a great-grandson of American Founding Father Gouverneur Morris. He graduated from Yale University, where he wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. [1] He was a prolific novelist and short story writer, with multiple of his works adapted into films.
The Penalty. As described in a film magazine, [3] Blizzard (Chaney), the legless crime boss of the Barbary Coast underworld, is possessed of two ambitions. One is to get revenge upon Dr. Ferris (Clary), whose blunder during a childhood operation resulted in Blizzard's legs being hastily and unnecessarily amputated; the other is to rally the Reds in his organization and loot the city of San ...
He married his first cousin Martha Jefferson Cary, daughter of writer Virginia Randolph Cary (1786–1852). [1] Together they had three children: Gouverneur Morris III (1842–1897); Anne Cary Morris (1847–1926), who married Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850–1931), the British diplomat, explorer and archaeologist; [3] and Peter Randolph Morris (1865–1934), who helped to establish the ...
Ann Cary Randolph Morris (September 16, 1774 – May 28, 1837) (nicknamed Nancy) was the daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. and the wife of Gouverneur Morris. Books have been written about the scandal in which she was embroiled in central Virginia as a young woman after the death of her fiance.
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1960s – Walt Kelly draws a caricature of a New Hollander as a mascot for his alma mater the Collegiate School; the presence of a peg-leg draws analogy with Stuyvesant. [66] 1966 – In the last episode of season 3 of My Favorite Martian Tim and Martin travel back in time and meet Peter Stuyvesant. They almost prevent the sale of Manhattan to ...