When Ulysses Britegam was born on 10 December 1866, in Ohio, United States, his father, Michael Britegam, was 36 and his mother, Mary Anne Pontious, was 28. He married Nellie Belle Ricketts on 25 December 1895, in Stanton, Miami, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Elkhorn Township, Lincoln, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 June 1951, in Lincoln, Kansas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Lincoln, Kansas, United States
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
form of the Greek name Odysseus, borne by the famous wanderer of Homer's Odyssey. The name is of uncertain derivation (it was associated by the Greeks themselves with the verb odyssesthai ‘to hate’). Moreover, it is not clear why the Latin form should be so altered; mediation through Etruscan has been one suggestion. As an English given name it has occasionally been used in England from the 16th century and more commonly in America in the 19th and 20th centuries (like other names of classical origin such as Homer and Virgil ). It was the name of the 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant ( 1822–85 ). It has also been used in Ireland as a classicizing form of Ulick .
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