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Mary Adams (curler)
Mary Adams may refer to: * Mary Adams (activist) (born 1938), American tax activist who led the repeal of Maine's statewide property tax and efforts to enact a Taxpayer Bill of Rights * Mary Adams (actress) (1910–1973), American actress * Mary Adams (broadcaster) (1898–1984), English administrator who helped to develop the BBC's television service in the 1950s * Mary Adams (codebreaker) (1922–2010), Scottish interceptor for Bletchley Park during World War II * Mary Adams (educator) (1823–1898), Canadian women's education reformer * Mary Adams (politician) (born 1952), American member of the North Dakota House of Representatives * Mary Anne Adams (born 1954), African American lesbian activist, social worker, and public health researcher * Mary Ann Adams, aka Kudnarto (c. 1832–1855), Aboriginal Australian landowner who was the first Aboriginal woman to legally marry a colonist in South Australia * Mary Mathews Adams (1840–1902), Irish poet * Mary Jane Adams (1840–1902), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Adams (activist)
Mary G. Adams (born 1938) is an American tax activist from Maine. Adams successfully led the effort to repeal Maine's statewide property tax in the mid-1970s. She led a failed 2006 referendum effort to enact a Taxpayer Bill of Rights in the state. In the mid-1970s, Adams challenged Maine's educational establishment and through her grass roots "Freedom Fighters" successfully repealed Maine's statewide property tax and prevented the state from reducing local control of public schools in Maine. In 1994, Adams unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. She sought the Maine Republican Party's nomination, finishing in 6th of 8 places. Susan Collins won the nomination. In both 1996 and 1997, Adams and her "Common Sense" grass roots effort defeated a citizens' initiative to expand the regulation of private forest land in Maine. Adams was appointed to the Maine State Board of Education by Maine's first independent Governor, James B. Longley James Bernard Longley Sr. (April 22, 1924 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jane Adams
Mary Mathews Adams (previously, Mary Mathews Smith and Mary Mathews Barnes; October 23, 1840 – December 11, 1902) was an Irish-born American writer and philanthropist. The author of thirty or more hymns, it was her Shakespearian study in which she won repute. She became wealthy after marrying Alfred Smith Barnes and distributed numerous Benefactor (law), benefactions. Early life and education Mary Jane Mathews was born in Granard, County Longford, Ireland, October 23, 1840. She was the oldest child of John Mathews (d. Staten Island, April 1, 1869), a Protestant. Her mother, a Catholic, was Anna (Reilly) Mathews (d. Brooklyn, ca. 1850). All of the children —Mary Jane, Robert, Anna, John, and Virginia Scott (born in New York City)— were reared in the Catholic Church but all save the youngest left the church early in life. Emigrating to the United States about 1846, when Adams was six years old, the family grew up in Brooklyn. When she was 12 or 13 years of age, Adams became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williana Burroughs
Williana "Liana" Jones Burroughs (January 2, 1882 – December 24, 1945) was an American teacher, communist political activist, and politician. She is best remembered as one of the first women to run for elective office in New York. Biography Early years Williana Jones, known to family and friends as "Liane," was born on January 2, 1882, in Petersburg, Virginia.Philip Sterling, "Williana J. Burroughs: Ousted from New York Public School System, Now Communist Candidate for Comptroller," ''The Daily Worker,'' vol. 10, no. 232 (September 27, 1933), p. 5. Her mother had formerly been a slave for 16 years, her father died when Williana was just four years old. Her widowed mother left Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ... for New York City, bringing Williana toget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |