When Clarence Harwood Burr was born on 29 August 1889, in Sherburne, Rutland, Vermont, United States, his father, George Harwood Burr, was 33 and his mother, Edith M Briggs, was 29. He married Mary Tenau Patenaude on 14 August 1912, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Ponca City, Kay, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 1, Houston County, Texas, United States in 1935. He died on 27 December 1964, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Memorial Oaks Cemetery, Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.
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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.
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
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