Franklin, his father, was a successful lawyer who collected money from mortgages. Emily, his mother, was an abolitionist who supposedly was part of the “underground railroad”. Frederick was the youngest of eleven children. He attended many different levels of private schooling, eventually making his way into the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. After finishing there, he was accepted into the Harvard Law School; being expected to follow in the footsteps of his father.
On may 3, 1787 he arrived in Philadelphia to attend the constitutional convention. Then convention convened to discuss the structure of the U.S. government. James was 36 years old but it didn’t take him long to get and enviable reputation. While serving on the committees that drafted the first constitution of Virginia and the Virginia declaration of rights in 1776 was what gained his attention. He was also an elected representative to the Virginia House of Delegates and the constinential congress.
However, in the conclusion of this text a rational explanation will be offered to give insight concerning Senator Lugar's motivations and tendencies to act in the way he does. Biographical Background Richard Green Lugar was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 4, 1932. Attending Shortridge High School he excelled academically and was the class Valedictorian. After graduation, Dick Lugar (as he is commonly known) attended Denison University, in Ohio, and met his future wife Charlene Smeltzer. In 1954 Lugar received his degree from Denison and went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College on the campus of Oxford University, in England.
Consequently, Brandeis graduated high school at the young age of 14. He first attended college in Kentucky but later transferred to Germany when his father had to relocate. He went on to study at Harvard Law School and graduated in 1875 as valedictorian at the age of 20. Brandeis started practicing law in St. Louis, Missouri and after a short time, he moved back to Boston to start a law firm with former Harvard classmate, Samuel Warren. The firm of “Warren and Brandeis” spent much of their time arguing against monopolies and large corporations and advocating for free speech.
Dellinger was an influential pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change in the mid-1900s. He is most remembered as a member of a group called the Chicago Seven, a group that is remembered for protesting the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Dellinger’s pacifistic beliefs began to take shape at a very young age. One of the childhood memories that had a profound effect on him was when he attended The Armistice Day parade at the conclusion of World War 1 and saw the wounded veterans who attended
Born on July 23, 1936 in Sacramento California. Anthony McLeod Kennedy was the second child born to Anthony J. Kennedy and Gladys McLeod. His father started as a dock worker in San Francisco then worked his way through law school to form himself as a lawyer and lobbyist in the California legislature and his mother was active in civic affairs (Grimm, French, and Pak). Since a young age he came in contact with outstanding politicians and developed sympathy for the whole world of government and public service. An honor student for his high school years at McClatchy High School in Sacramento, California, Kennedy graduated in 1954(Grimm, French, and Pak).
Throughout his life and up until the day he dies, Malcolm X tries to pursue this ultimate goal of seeing white racism in a positive light and making something good come out of the events that happened in his life. The four factors that greatly influenced Malcolm X to become a successful activist were his family life, growing up and living in an urban ghetto environment, prison, and his religion. The horrific events of Malcolm’s childhood would have led anyone else to a depression and a downfall. However, these events sparked his reasoning for becoming a successful activist. When Malcolm Little was in the womb, members of the Ku Klux Klan broke all the windows in his family’s home in Omaha, Nebraska.
He was made professor of Logic, Metaphysics and Ethics in the philosophy department. To the chagrin of his opponents, Baldwin soon became a popular professor on campus. Misfortune, however, delayed Baldwin’s grand plans to establish a psychological laboratory at U of T. A month after his inaugural lecture, a fire destroyed University College. In the two years that followed, Baldwin received funding to establish a new laboratory. The university provided four rooms on the second floor of the West wing of the restored University College building.
Where he founded a debate club called the American Whig Society which they still have at Princeton. After he graduated at the time the American Revolution on 1776 he was elected
George Washington was born into a wealthy planter family that owned tobacco plantations and slaves that he inherited later in his life. Washington owned hundreds of slaves throughout his lifetime, but his views on slavery evolved. He soon realized how bad slavery was and he in turn wrote in his will that after his wife had died that all the slaves he owned are to be released. After his father and older brother died when he was young he became personally and professionally attached to William Fairfax, who introduced his career as a surveyor and soldier. Washington quickly became a senior officer in the colonial forces during the first stages of the French and Indian War.