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<mask> (; 22 August 1915 – 11 October 2005) was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile. Biography

<mask> was born on 21 August 1915 (his birth was registered with the birth date of 22 August 1915) in Suwałki, a small town in northern Poland, while the country was part of Imperial Russia under German occupation. Early life

<mask> lived in Kościuszko street, he went to the local grammar school and then studied at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). He studied for his MSc in political economy under Professor <mask> in 1936. During his compulsory military service he was stationed at the Artillery Officers' School with the 29th Light Artillery Regiment. He won a scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, studying under Professors Lionel Robbins, Friedrich Hayek and Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan. On his return he became an assistant in Lipiński's department in SGH.After the interruption of the War, he completed his education with an MSc in Economics from the LSE in 1953 and also a PhD in Economics in 1956. World War II

During the Invasion of Poland, Szczepanik was interned in Lithuania and later captured by the Soviet forces. From 1940 until 1942, he was held prisoner in the Soviet Gulag camps in Kozielsk and Kola Peninsula. Following the outbreak of the Russo-German War and signing of the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he was released and joined the Polish II Corps under general Władysław Anders. As an Officer (and eventually Major) in the Polish Army, he served with distinction in the Fifth Polish Artillery Regiment – notably in the battles of Monte Cassino, Ancona, and Bologna. He was one of the first members of the Allied troops to enter Bologna. In 1945 he received the Cross of the Valorous, and the following year was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit with Swords.In addition, Szczepanik was awarded the Italian

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<mask>k married Hanna Maria Janikowska on 29 June 1946 in Rome. They had four children, Barbara, Tadeusz, Zofia and Tomasz, all of whom were born in London. Economics career

Szczepanik's career as an economist encompassed many educational institutions, including:
assistant lecturer – Warsaw School of Economics, Poland (1938–1939 SGH)
assistant professor – Polish University College, London (1947–1953)
senior lecturer – University of Hong Kong (1953–1961)
advisor – Harvard University Advisory Team, Karachi, Pakistan (1961–1963)
senior research fellow – University of Sussex, England (1978–1981)
professor of economics – Polish University Abroad, London (Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyznie – PUNO) 1981. In addition, Szczepanik also performed consulting for the following:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Hong Kong (1954)
United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (UN-ECAFE), Bangkok, Thailand (1956)
International Coffee Organization (ICO), London (1975)
Szczepanik also worked with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the UN – first as a consultant in Hong Kong from 1954 to 1955; and later as Senior Economist in Rome, Italy from 1963 until 1977.Polish politics

<mask> was the founder and chairman of the Polish Institute for Research into National Affairs (Instytut Badań Zagadnień Krajowych) in London during 1951 to 1953 and 1983 to 1986. While in Rome, Italy from 1963 to 1977, he was also the Polish representative to the Holy See – one of only three states that still continued its relations with the Polish Government in Exile. He was a director of the Council for Understanding Research on Poles

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<mask> (born 12 December 1970) is a German serial killer. He wore a mask while killing three and sexually assaulting at least 40 children in school camps. He also did some of his activities in camps, private homes and other places. <mask>, who committed his first act in 1992, was also known as the "Masked Man" and the "Black Man". After his arrest on 15 April 2011, the 40-year-old educator confessed to three murders, but is suspected of two others. <mask> was sentenced on 27 February 2012 by the Stade district court, among other things, for three murders to life imprisonment. The court also noted the particular severity of the guilt.Crimes
In 1992, a series of abuse began on boys, mainly in northern Germany. <mask>, who was described as tall and strong, always attacked at night, masked in school homes, camps and youth homes. From 1994, he began to break into single-family homes. <mask> has also committed three murders in northern Germany, in addition to about 45 attempted or completed abusive offenses. In the case of two more homicides in western France and the Netherlands, he is considered a suspect. The three year rhythm (1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004) of the alleged murder series is particularly striking. School Home Attacks

Children's home in Hepstedt
On 3 March 1992, a student discovered a masked man in an empty dormitory of a children's home in Hepstedt, who fled shortly thereafter through a patio door.A few days later, the man tried to abuse an 11-year-old boy, but fled when he began to scream. Between April and June 1992, the masked man was seen twice by students before one night in August, when

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In March 1992, a teacher in the hallway of the Schullandheim Cluvenhagen saw a man carrying a drowsy boy who did not resist. When the offender noticed the teacher, he fled. In the early morning of 31 March 1992, 13-year-old Stefan Jahr disappeared from a boarding school in Scheeßel. Five weeks later, his body was found buried with his hands tied behind his back in the Verden dunes. On 7 April 2004, 11-year-old Jonathan Coulom disappeared from a school home in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins in western France. In May, his undressed, handcuffed body weighted with a concrete block was found in a pond about 30 kilometres away.<mask> is said to have been close to the scene of the crime in May 2004. Tent camp attacks – Murder of Dennis Rostel (1995)
This crime spree began in August 1992, when a masked offender sexually abused a 9-year-old and another child in a camp near Selker Noor. In July 1994, the perpetrator entered two tents, one after another, in a camp in Otterndorf and awoke seven boys aged between 8 and 9, which he touched inappropriately. At the end of August 1994, a 13-year-old boy woke up in the Selker Noor camp when the offender began touching him. After about ten minutes, the masked man disappeared. Two days later, the man again touched another 13-year-old in Selker Noor. During the night of 24 July 1995, 8-year-old Dennis Rostel disappeared from the camp.Two weeks later, German tourists found his body buried in a sand dune near Vinderup in Denmark. Family house attacks
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 Bremen area, especially in the Horn-Lehe district, and abused three boys. The actions differed in detail and approach from the usual attacks, however, according to the investigators it was the same masked offender. The police, despite the insistence of parents, issued no public warning. Chronological overview of the acts
The list includes the crimes that were attributed to the masked man even before <mask>'s arrest. The investigation after the arrest and also the process gave indications of further cases of abuse. Some acts, including the murder of Jonathan Coulom, were denied by <mask> and so far could not be proven.Investigations
In connection to the murder of Dennis Klein, a special commission as formed by the Verden an der Aller police (SoKo "Dennis"). In the context of the investigation, the murders and, sometimes unknown to the investigating authorities, cases of abuse could be put into narrower context and assigned them to an alleged perpetrator based on testimonies and almost identical facts. The Bavarian Landeskriminalamt supported SoKo "Dennis" by creating offender profiling. Offender description
According to a case analysis by Alexander Horn, the offender was said to be a strikingly tall, stocky man with a deep voice speaking German, between the ages of 30 and 50. He was supposedly well versed in Northern Germany, especially in the area around Bremen, and possibly lived there. He should have had a reference to the area around the towns of Hepstedt and Badenstedt in the early 1990s. In his actions, the man wore dark clothes, a mask and gloves, succeeding in intimidating children.Initially

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 described as athletic, the perpetrator put on weight over the years. He was mostly travelling by car and seemed to have experience with children. It was assumed that he lived alone and was socially integrated, but had pedophilic tendencies towards boys, a fact possibly noticed by family and close friends. Also striking was the certain risk-taking of the offender, who exposed himself to many crime scenes of a possible discovery. In addition, he had transported the three German murder victims over long distances by car, and in the case of Dennis Rostel, even more than 250 kilometres over the guarded border in Denmark. Nevertheless, he had always managed to leave hardly any traces. The investigators, therefore, theorized that he was a smart offender who probably carried out his actions in a familiar environment and previously planned accordingly.According to criminologist Stephan Harbort, the perpetrator was classified as extremely dangerous: '"This is a person with high levels of planning ability. He is able to gain the trust of children. Those who have the discipline to do so for twelve years have reached a stage where there is no longer any inhibition to kill. Such a person no longer kills just children. As a banal quarrel with any ordinary person can be enough to commit murder." Search
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 times on television, including special broadcasts from , Spiegel TV, Ungeklärte Morde and Galileo. In addition, reports of the crimes were broadcast three times on Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst, but without receiving any crucial information from the spectators. The police went after about 7,800 clues, without any breakthrough. In August 2010, a witness came to police, who had seen an old documentation about murders on the Internet that awakened a memory within him. He claimed to have seen the culprit along with the victim Dennis Klein in the car on a forest path in an early morning running track near the abduction site, whereupon a so-called situation sketch was prepared and published on 10 February 2011. Arrest
On 15 April 2011, police announced the arrest of a suspect. The crucial clue had come from an earlier victim who had been abused by a masked offender in his childhood home in 1995 and who had recalled in the February 2011 sketch that it was the same man who abused him.The then 40-year-old <mask>, who had lived in Bremen until September 2000, made a confession after the first interrogations. He admitted to killing Jahr, Rostel and Klein and abusing about 40 other children. He was also suspected of murdering Coulom and Dutch boy Nicky Verstappen, but he denied this. In 2020, a Dutch man was convicted of kidnapping and sexual abuse leading to Verstappen's death in 1998. Investigation
During his interrogation, <mask> stated that he had committed the three murders in order to cover up the sexual abuse and not be identified as a culprit. According to him, he strangled Jahr because had he had taken him in

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 find the password and view the data they had saved.<mask> refused to mention the password, pointing to the protection of his friends and family. The likelihood of being able to decrypt complex access codes without his help was considered low, despite the state-of-the-art technology. At the end of 2016, <mask> voluntarily named the passwords to the authorities. As of May 2017, the evaluation of the now-usable data carries was not yet completed. In January 2021, <mask> was extradited to Nantes, France after he was charged with the murder of Coulom. Sentencing
On 15 July 2011, the prosecution filed charges against <mask> for threefold murder and sexual abuse in 20 cases. Around 20 more cases of abuse were already barred.On 10 October, the trial began before the district court of Stade, where the defendant showed constant. Psychological evaluations attested him a pedophilic disorder, but also noted that he was not insane and was a continuing danger with a risk of relapse. During the trial, there were indications of further acts of abuse in the 2000s and thus, an increased probability of recidivism. On 27 February 2012, <mask> was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the three boys and 20 abuse cases, with subsequent preventative detention condemned. In addition, the court noted the particular severity of the guilt. However, <mask>'s defenders appealed the verdict regarding the preventative detention. On 10 January 2013, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) took place and canceled the preventative detention.This was justified by the statement that according to the current legal situation, the


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 preventative detention can only be ordered to an indispensable protection of the general public. Since the BGH has confirmed the particular severity of the guilt, the minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years, which is usual for life imprisonment, will be extended. In addition, a discharge can only be carried out as a result of the demonstrable harmlessness of the convicted person. However, such proof would also suspend the execution of the preventative detention. Otherwise, it can be assumed that <mask> will remain in custody, possibly until the end of his life. Reception
 In the episode "Scream of the geese" on the Radio-Retort program on Radio Bremen this case was partially covered. ZDF filmed the story under the title In the Name of My Son, directed by Damir Lukacevic with Tobias Moretti and Inka Friedrich in the lead roles.Shooting began on 20 March 2015, and the broadcast took place on 2 May 2016. External links
 Official site of the police of Lower Saxony to SoKo "Dennis" (archived from 1 July 2011 on the Internet Archive)
 Confession of the child murderer in: Spiegel TV magazine of 14 August 2011 (15 minutes)
 Child murderer <mask>.: What became of the "Masked Man"? in: Spiegel Online on 14 April 2016, accessed on 16 April 2016

See also
 List of German serial killers

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Living people
1970 births
People from Bremen
German serial killers
Male serial killers
German rapists
German murderers of children
German people convicted of murder
People convicted of murder by Germany
German prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
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<mask> (real name Engelbertus Fukken; 28 August 1914 – 30/31 March 1941) was a Dutch espionage agent working for Germany who operated for five months in the United Kingdom. <mask> is believed to have been the German agent who was at large for the longest time in Britain during the Second World War, despite his short period of activity. When he ran out of money, <mask> committed suicide in a public air raid shelter. Youth
Engelbertus Fukken was born on August 28, 1914 in The Hague (Van Boetzelaerlaan 140). His parents were <mask> (1865 Amsterdam) and Elizabeth Johanna Fukken (1886 Rotterdam), who were not married because <mask>'s first wife refused to divorce  him. In the end he had  three brothers and three sisters. His father was a trader in cereals and later became an accountant.The family moved in 1917 to Noordwijk aan Zee, where they rented a villa at Duinweg 7. His mother died in 1920 of her eighth pregnancy. Engelbertus Fukken went to the Zeevaartschool in The Hague in 1930. He was interested in politics and became a supporter of Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler (NSDAP), which came to power in 1933. In 1934 he became member of the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB). His father died in December 1934 and he had to start working for his money. He got a job as an insurance agent in The Hague but  after half a year he did not pay the customer's premiums to his employer and was arrested for fraud.He received a sentence of three months. After that he worked as a journalist

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 Berlin. But in July/August he was back in the Netherlands for propaganda work in the Reichskommissariat of Seyss Inquart in The Hague. He suggested to Mirow that he ask his old friend Engelbertus Fukken to become a Lena-spy.(As children Dieter and Engelbertus had been pupils at the same school in Noordwijk.) Mirow did so, Fukken happily agreed and was turned into <mask> ter <mask>. He chose this forename because of his admiration for chief editor <mask> Henny of the Leidsch Dagblad. The last name he cynically derived from the famous journalist Menno ter <mask>, who published many articles against the Nazi policies. <mask> <mask> left Noordwijk and his fiancée on August 1, came back on August 12 for a few hours to say goodbye and to give a present to his fiancée, and then disappeared to "go to France for work" as he told her. It is also possible that he first worked for a few months for the Dutch Reichskommissariat and was only turned into a spy in October, when Dieter returned to Berlin. It is not clear where he was trained as a spy.Probably it was Germany (Berlin and Hamburg). In any case he also stayed in Brussels for some time because after his death MI5 found boots and some of his clothes, which were bought in Brussels. Arrival
<mask> <mask> arrived by parachute on a night between 31 October and 2 November 1940, landing near Haversham in Buckinghamshire. His parachute was discovered on 3 November but <mask> <mask> was not found. He had in fact made his way to

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Despite his false identity papers, Ter <mask> was able to rent an office above the renting firm Haslop & Co in Green Street. As an alien from an occupied country, Ter <mask>'s residence should have been registered with the police, but he did not do so. His landlord did tip the Aliens Officer off that a Dutch national was living with him, but the police did not follow up and speak to him, saying that they were sure he would register before long. He spent most of the day out of the house but never spent a night away, and supported himself from a large amount of cash which he had brought with him and which included United States Dollars. He left his office in December 1940. He had installed his suitcase transmitter in his room in St Barnabas Road but around Christmas the batteries had been running down, so since then he could only communicate with the Abwehr in Hamburg by letters, written with invisible ink.Sometimes he made daytrips by bus or train to small cities in the neighbourhood such as Bedford and also travelled several times

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 to London, where he probably inspected the effects of the bombardments on buildings and the citizens. Suspicion
In January 1941, <mask> <mask> was contacted by the Food Office about his ration card, which its records showed had been issued to a man named Burton, living in Homefields, Addlestone, Surrey. The card had been supplied by the Abwehr that had been given false numbers by the double agent SNOW (Arthur Owens). <mask> <mask> evidently suspected that he would be detected, and told his landlady that he had to leave for London. However, he relocated to Montague Road 11. Suicide
By March, Ter <mask>'s money was running out and he had to change his dollar bills through a fellow lodger who worked at a bank. At the end of the month he no longer had enough money to pay his landlady.On 29 March he deposited a large case in the left luggage office at Cambridge railway station and disappeared. Probably he visited somewhere around Cambridge, where he expected an airplane to help him out or provide him with further money, because he wore several layers of clothes in order to protect himself against the cold. The following day he went to one of the public air raid shelters at Christ's Pieces Park where, using an Abwehr-issue pistol, he committed suicide. His body was found on 1 April by an electrician; the possessions found on him included a forged identity card also carrying numbers issued by Double Agent SNOW (Arthur Owens) which had obvious errors, a Dutch passport without

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 an immigration stamp, and 1/9d in cash. The case at the station was found to contain a radio transmitter. <mask> <mask> was buried in an unmarked grave (number 154) in the village cemetery in Great Shelford, four miles south of Cambridge. After the war
<mask> <mask>'s story was suppressed at the time.An inquest was held in camera; its findings were released, along with other information about him, on 8 September 1945. MI5 had found a picture of a young woman in his suitcase with the address of the photoshop in Noordwijk aan Zee. So that is how the Dutch police found his fiancée, Miss Neeltje van Roon (born 1922 in Noordwijk aan Zee) in November 1946 and told her about his death. In 1947, the Dutch Government asked MI5 if they could have an official statement on the death on Engelbertus Fukken, as his fiancée wished to make a claim for his life insurance policy, which he had put on her name when he left Noordwijk in August 1940. But probably she would never get the money, because she had stopped paying the premiums in 1944 and because he had committed suicide. In 1956 Neeltje van Roon married a man from Rijnsburg, a village nearby, never had children and died of a heart attack in 1995. She never talked about the fate of her former fiancé.That is why his story remained completely unknown to his family and all inhabitants of Noordwijk aan Zee. Literature
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 out more about his spying activities. Historian Winston Ramsey conducted research in 1976 about the days that <mask> <mask> was found dead and was buried nameless (1-8 April 1941). <mask> van den <mask> wrote a biography of <mask> <mask> in 2017, named '' (Spy against Churchill). He found out many things about his youth and recruitment in Noordwijk aan Zee, also with the help of family members of <mask> <mask> and his fiancée and some Dutch files in the National Archive in The Hague. The only English authors who describe <mask> <mask>'s recruitment in Noordwijk and his life in Cambridge in more than one page are Joshua Levine in 'Operation Fortitude' (2011) and James Hayward, in 'Double Agent SNOW' (2013). About Operation Lena in general there are books by Bryden, Peis, Farago, Levine, Hayward, Siedentopf and Verhoeyen, the memoirs of Masterman (MI5), the diaries of Guy Liddell (MI5), the memoirs of Nikolaus Ritter (Abwehr Hamburg) and the website of Giselle Jakobs (a granddaughter of Lena-agent Josef Jakobs).KV2/114 TNA (MI5 file of <mask> Braak)
 <mask> van den <mask>, '' (WalburgPers 2017)
 <mask> van den <mask>, '' (ASPEKT 2018)
 Joseph Bryden, 'Fighting to lose' (2011)
 Ladislas Farago, 'The game of the foxes' (David McKay 1971)
 James Hayward, 'Double Agent SNOW: The true story of Arthur Owens, Hitler's Chief Spy in England' (Simon and Schuster 2013)
 Joshua Levine, 'Operation Fortitude: The Story of the Spy Operation that Saved D-Day' (Collins 2011)
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 'A friend among spies' (2014)
 J.G. Masterman, 'The Double-Cross System in the war 1939-1945' (Yale University Press 1972)
 Günter Peis, 'They spied on England' (Odham 1958)
 Winston Ramsey (ed. ), '<mask> Ter Braak' (After the Battle Magazine, 11-76: 32-34) (1976)
 Nikolaus Ritter, 'Deckname RANTZAU' (1972)
 Monika Siedentopf, '' (DTV 2014)
 Etienne Verhoeyen, '' (2011)
 'The Guy Liddell Diaries: Vol. I: 1939-1942', ed. by Nigel West (Routledge 2005)

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 Information about Josef Jakobs, <mask> <mask> <mask> and other Lena agents)
 Great Shelford Online website

1914 births
1941 suicides
Dutch people of World War II
World War II spies for Germany
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On November 24, 2014, it was announced that <mask> had accepted his invitation to play in the 2015 Senior Bowl. He became the fourth player from Delaware to appear in the Senior Bowl and first since Joe Flacco in 2008. Throughout the week leading up to the Senior Bowl, <mask> performed well at practice and showed scouts and teams his versatility, blocking capability, and his receiving ability. On January 24, 2015, <mask> caught two passes for 31 yards, leading all tight ends, and helped the North defeat the South 34–13. He accepted his invitation to the NFL combine and was one of the 19 tight ends invited.<mask> completed all of the required combine and positional drills. His performance was described by media and analysts as mediocre as he finished last in the 40-yard dash among tight ends and dropped a few passes during positional drills. <mask> finished first among tight ends in the 60-yard shuttle and 20-yard shuttle, eighth in the broad jump, ninth in the vertical, and tied for fifth in the bench press. On March 12, 2015, <mask> opted to participate at Delaware's pro day, along with 11 other teammates. He ran his 40-yard dash (5.00), 20-yard dash (2.85), 10-yard dash (1.65), and also performed positional drills. Scouts and representatives from 22 NFL teams attended,  including tight ends coaches from the New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts, and Detroit Lions. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, <mask> was projected to be a fifth or sixth round pick by the majority

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 of NFL draft experts and scouts.He was ranked the 11th best tight end prospect in the draft by NFLDraftScout.com. The Baltimore Ravens selected <mask> in the fifth round with the 171st overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft. He was the ninth tight end selected in the draft and the second tight end selected by the Ravens, with the first being Minnesota's Maxx Williams (second round, 55th overall). He was the 27th player to be drafted from Delaware and became teammates with fellow Delaware alumnus Joe Flacco. 2015
On May 7, 2015, the Baltimore Ravens signed <mask> to a four-year, $2.44 million contract that includes a signing bonus of $166,254. He competed with Maxx Williams, Crockett Gilmore, Dennis Pitta, and Konrad Reuland throughout training camp for the vacant starting tight end position left by the departure of Owen Daniels. He made his professional regular season debut in the Baltimore Ravens' season-opening 19–13 loss to the Denver Broncos.On September 27, 2015, <mask> caught two passes for 19 yards during a 28–24 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. He made the first reception of his career on a six-yard pass from Joe Flacco in the second quarter. On October 1, 2015, <mask> made his first career start and caught three passes for 12 receiving yards in a 23–20 victory at the Pittsburgh Steelers. During a Week 10 matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars, he had three receptions for a season-high 35 receiving yards in the Ravens' 22–20 loss. On December 7, 2015, it was reported that the NFL would suspend <mask> for four games after violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drug policy. He was required to forfeit his salary for four games, equaling $112,132. <mask> was

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 immediately suspended and missed Weeks 14–17.He finished the season with a total of 18 receptions for 153 receiving yards in 11 games and two starts. 2016
On February 19, 2016, it was announced that <mask> would be suspended for the first ten games of the 2016 season for his second violation of the performance-enhancing drug policy. His was activated to the Ravens' active roster on November 26, 2016 prior to Week 12. On December 4, 2016, <mask> caught two passes for a season-high 24 yards as the Ravens routed the Miami Dolphins 38–6. The following week, he had a season-high three receptions for 15 yards in a 30–23 loss against the New England Patriots. <mask> finished the  season with six receptions for 44 receiving yards in six games and zero starts. 2017
Throughout training camp, <mask> competed with Benjamin Watson, Dennis Pitta, Crockett Gilmore, Maxx Williams, Larry Donnell, and Ryan Malleck for the job as the starting tight end.Head coach John Harbaugh named him the starter for the beginning of the season after Gilmore suffered a torn MCL and Pitta retired after suffering another hip injury. He started the Baltimore Ravens' season-opener at the Cincinnati Bengals and had one catch for 14 yards in their 20–0 victory. On October 1, 2017, he caught a career-high five passes for 36 receiving yards in the Ravens 26–9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He missed a Week 9 contest at the Tennessee Titans after suffering a toe injury. He finished the 2017 season with 28 receptions for 203 receiving yards. 2018
After competing with Maxx Williams and rookies Hayden Hurst and Mark Andrews, <mask> was named the starting tight end to begin the season. Despite being

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 outplayed by the rookie Andrews, <mask> finished the season with 23 receptions for a career-high 213 yards.2019
On March 7, 2019, <mask> signed a three-year, $18 million contract extension with the Ravens through the 2021 season. <mask> caught his first career touchdown during a Week 9 37–20 victory over the New England Patriots. He caught his second career touchdown in a Week 14 24-17 win over the Buffalo Bills. Overall, <mask> finished the 2019 season with 31 receptions for 321 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns. 2020
In Week 10, <mask> was tackled at the knees, causing the left knee to dislocate inward. He was placed on injured reserve on November 17, 2020. <mask> had 13 receptions for 109 yards and two touchdowns on the season.2021
On January 29, 2021, <mask> agreed to a two-year, $13 million contract extension with the Ravens. This new deal keeps <mask> in contract through the end of the 2023 season. On September 10, 2021, <mask> was placed on short-term injured reserve to start the season. He was activated on November 8, 2021. Player profile
<mask> primarily acts as a blocker on offense and special teams, rather than an offensive target, and is considered a key part of the Ravens' rushing success since Lamar Jackson became the team's starting quarterback. He is considered one of the top blocking tight ends in the NFL. References

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title: Rachael Flatt

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<mask> (born July 21, 1992) is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2008 World Junior champion, a winner of four silver medals on the Grand Prix series, and the 2010 U.S. national champion. She was nominated to represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics and placed 7th. She is a 2015 graduate of Stanford University. Personal life
<mask> was born on July 21, 1992, in Del Mar, California. She is an only child. Her father is a biochemical engineer and her mother a molecular biologist.Her grandfather competed on the national level in fencing. Flatt is a 2010 graduate of Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In spring 2015, she received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, where she majored in biology with a minor in psychology. She was the junior class president and a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. In her senior year, she became a research assistant in the laboratory of Professor C. Barr Taylor. As of September 2018, she is focusing on eating disorders as a Ph.D. student under Dr. Cynthia Bulik at the University of North Carolina. Career
Flatt began skating at age four.In addition to her singles career, Flatt also competed as a pair skater from 2001 to 2004 with partner Andrew Speroff. The pair won the silver medal at Nationals on the juvenile level in 2003 and the intermediate title in 2004. Competing in ladies' singles, Flatt won the US Novice national title in 2005 at age 12. While, under other circumstances, this would have earned her an event on the Junior Grand Prix for the following season, Flatt was three weeks too young to compete internationally as a junior. She was invited to compete at the 2005 Triglav Trophy event in Slovenia, where she won the Novice

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 competition. Later in 2005, Flatt was invited to compete at the 2005 North American Challenge competition as a junior lady, where she won the bronze medal. Flatt won the silver medal at US Nationals at the junior level in 2006.2006–2007 season
Flatt missed the 2006–2007 ISU Junior Grand Prix season due to injury, but qualified through the regional and sectional qualifying competitions, winning both, and made her senior debut at the 2007 U.S. Championships, where she placed 5th and earned a bye to the 2008 U.S. Championships. Flatt made her international debut as a junior in March 2007 at the International Challenge Cup, which she won. Flatt was often referred to as "<mask> the Rock" and was often called  " The Consistency Queen" because of her ability to compete cleanly, landing up to seven triples in a freeskate, including her triple-triple combinations. 2007–2008 season
Flatt competed on the Junior Grand Prix for the first time in the 2007–2008 season, winning the gold medal at her first JGP in Vienna, Austria, and a silver medal at her second JGP in Chemnitz, Germany. She qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final, placing third in the short program, first in the free skate, and winning the silver medal. At the 2008 U.S. Championships in St Paul, Minnesota, she won the silver medal on the senior level after winning the free skate. Too young to be eligible for the senior World Championships, Flatt was placed on the team to the 2008 World Junior Championships.After placing third in the short program, she won the free skate and won the title overall. The American ladies – <mask>, Zhang and Nagasu – swept the podium. 2008–2009 season
<mask> began her season at the 2008 Skate America, where she placed fourth overall. She also competed at

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<mask> or Anne  <mask>  (July 27, 1853 – 1923) was an American philanthropist in the early 20th century, the daughter of Milwaukee businessman <mask>. She was also known as "Miss Lizzie" and the people of Milwaukee called Plankinton the "municipal patroness" because of her generosity. She made a large donation that built the first YWCA in Milwaukee. She also purchased an elaborate large-scale pipe organ for the newly constructed city auditorium. She supported local artists and artisans. One of her notable gifts was the 1885 statue of George Washington that was ultimately placed in Milwaukee's Monument Square. It is nine feet tall and sits on a twelve-foot base.This was the first piece of public art for the city and was sculpted by her fiancé. Plankinton had a three-bedroom mansion built for her in an upscale Milwaukee neighborhood as a wedding gift from her father. Her fiancé abandoned her for a dancer from Minneapolis. Distraught, Plankinton lost interest in the mansion. It stood empty for a decade and was eventually purchased by a widow. Biography
Plankinton was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 27, 1853. She was a daughter of <mask> and <mask> (some records show Bracken or Brucken).Her older brother, William, was born in 1844 and her sister, Hannah, in 1851; Hannah died of a heart condition in 1870 when Plankinton was seventeen. <mask>ton House

The <mask>ton House was a three-bedroom mansion in the upscale Milwaukee neighborhood of west Grand Ave that was built by businessman and millionaire <mask> and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It was constructed in 1886–87 at a cost of $100,000 (equivalent to $ million in ). and was located across the street from his own palatial residence. His daughter, <mask>, was engaged to marry American sculptor Richard Henry Park, and he built the

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texts: house to give to her as a wedding gift. The marriage never took place, as on September 18, 1887, Park abandoned <mask> and married a dancer from Minneapolis instead. Distraught, <mask> completely lost interest in the mansion, rejecting her wedding gift and never living in the residence which bore her name; instead, she travelled the world.The mansion stood empty for nearly ten years before eventually being sold to a widow in 1896, who lived in it to 1904. It was resold by her family in 1910 to the Knights of Columbus, who continued to occupy and use it until 1978. It was acquired by the Milwaukee redevelopment authority in 1967, and then transferred it to Marquette University in 1975. The house provoked strong feelings at that time, with local historian H. Russell Zimmermann arguing for its preservation on historic grounds, in which he was supported by an analysis by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). However, local opinions included that it was an "eyesore," an "ugly behemoth," and a "monument to Victorian bad taste," and it was entirely surrounded by university buildings by 1980. A representative of Marquette University declared that the "mansion is neither historical nor architecturally significant. It is the product of the whims of the owner and the architect, and does not represent a true example of any particular style of architecture."The university demolished it in October 1980 to make room for student facilities; this occurred approximately two months after the HABS survey report has been issued, and despite the House having been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Its destruction was a significant factor in the 1981 formation of the City of Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission, with the aim of protecting Milwaukee's architectural heritage. Philanthropy

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<mask> followed in her father's footsteps as a humanitarian and was affectionately called "Miss Lizzie" by the citizens of Milwaukee. She continued the tradition of philanthropy and historical records show that Miss <mask> gave many gifts to the citizens of Milwaukee for their benefit. Out of respect, she was referred to as the "municipal patroness" because of her spirit of giving. One of her public gifts was a $100,000 donation (equivalent to $ million in ) in 1892 that ultimately built in 1899 the first YWCA hotel of the city (pictured) for affordable housing for working women. She also purchased a $10,000 pipe organ (equivalent to $ million in ) for the then-new half million dollar 1909 Milwaukee Auditorium.Milwaukee Washington monument

Plankinton's most notable gift was a George Washington bronze statue for the city of Milwaukee, first announced in January 1885. Sculpted by 47 year old Park and dedicated in November 1885, it was the first piece of public art in Milwaukee, and cost around $20,000 (equivalent to $,000 in ). George Washington is portrayed in uniform as the 43-year-old commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, and stands  tall on a  granite base. The complete statue assembly with its 12 foot pedestal sits on a Wauwatosa limestone foundation that is  square and  deep consisting of 4 steps. Inscriptions on the sculpture include: on the lower left side, "RH PARK SC," acknowledging the sculptor (who was Plankinton's then-fiancé); on back of the base, "The Gift of / Elizabeth A. Plankinton / To the City of Milwaukee / 1885"; and, on the front of the base, simply "WASHINGTON". At the foot of statue are two bronze figures, a mother and a child, which were included following a specific request from Plankinton. At a time when immigrants were coming in large numbers to live in Milwaukee, their

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 inclusion is intended to portray a mother showing her child the father of the United States as a message on the importance of history or education.In 2016–2018, the statue was extensively restored. Later life
Some time before World War I, Plankinton built a large home in Dresden, Germany, where she spent several months of the year. She was trapped there when the war broke out, and the government impounded her property in the United States. She visited Milwaukee after the war, but was in Europe as her health deteriorated, and she died in Lucerne in Switzerland in 1923. She was buried in the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, alongside her father, step mother, brother, and sister, near the monument and pillar erected after her father's death. In her will, she left considerable bequests to the people of Milwaukee, including $50,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) each to the YWCA, the Milwaukee Hospital, and the Milwaukee-Downer College, to whom she had already endowed $65,000 shortly before her death. After her father's death, Plankinton commissioned artist Susan Frackelton and her daughter, Gladys Frackelton Seely, to prepare and illustrate a hand-illuminated volume, Voices of Friends (also known as the <mask> memorial book), with reminiscences of him from his personal friends, "who knew and loved him well."It was displayed at the Layton Art Gallery, to whom Plankinton bequeathed $25,000 in her will. The gallery has since closed, but the volume has become a part of the rare books collection of the Milwaukee Central Library. Plankinton's share of her father's estate was held in trust for her children, and as she never had a child, her share went to her nephew, William Woods <mask>. References

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<mask> (17 October 1724, Falkenwalde, Prenzlau district, Brandenburg – 23 February 1795, Langenfeld, Sternberg district) was a German parson and entomologist (lepidopterist). Life
Until the late 20th century nothing was known about Hufnagel's life. Even his first names remained unknown. In 1987 Gerstberger and Stiesy succeeded in identifying him with the help of Fischer's work (1941) and uncovered some basic biographical information. Hufnagel came from a family of Protestant clergymen, his father and grandfather before him having been parsons. <mask> probably attended one of the universities in northern or eastern Germany (but not in Berlin as Berlin had no university at the time). From 1759 to 1767 the Berlin address book mentions one "Hufnagel" or "Huffnagel" who was praeceptor (teacher) at the Protestant-Lutheran church near the Grosses Friedrichs-Hospital und Waisenhaus (hospital and orphanage) and lived in the orphanage.As this is consistent both with the career progression of young theologians at the time who often worked as teachers before their first appointment and with Fischer's records it seems safe to assume that this was indeed the lepidopterist <mask> Hufnagel. He had his first position in 1767 in Petersberg (Oststernberg district; today Jemiołów, Swiebodzin district, Poland). From 1775 until his death in 1795 he was the parson of Langenfeld (Oststernberg district, today Długoszyn, Sulecin district,

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texts: bisher unbekannten Raupe, und der daraus entstehenden Phaläne. – Berlinisches Magazin, 1(6): 648-654, 1 pl. Hufnagel, J. S. (1766a): Tabelle von den Tagevögeln der hiesigen Gegend, worauf denen Liebhabern der Insekten Beschaffenheit, Zeit, Ort und andere Umstände der Raupen und der daraus entstehenden Schmetterlinge bestimmt werden. – Berlinisches Magazin, 2(1): 54-90. Hufnagel, J. S. (1766b): Natürliche Geschichte des Changeant oder Schielervogels mit seinen Verwandlungen.– Berlinisches Magazin, 2(2): 111-131, 1 pl. Hufnagel, J. S. [as H—l] (1766c): Zwote Tabelle worinnen die Abendvögel (Sphinges Linnaei) angezeigt, und denen vornehmsten Umständen nach beschrieben werden. – Berlinisches Magazin, 2(2): 174-195. Hufnagel, J. S. [author not stated] (1766d): Dritte Tabelle von den Nachtvögeln. – Berlinisches Magazin, 2(4): 391-437. Hufnagel, J. S. [as H===l] (1766e): Gedanken über die Mittel, die schädlichen Raupen zu vertilgen. – Berlinisches Magazin, 3(1): 3-19.<mask>, J. S. [author not stated] (1766f): Vierte Tabelle von den Insekten, oder Fortsetzung der Tabelle von den Nachtvögeln hiesiger Gegend, welche die Zwote Klasse derselben, nemlich die Nachteulen (Noctuas [sic]) in sich begreift. – Berlinisches Magazin, 3(2): 202-215. Hufnagel, J. S. [author not stated] (1766g): Fortsetzung der vierten Tabelle von den Insecten, besonders von denen so genannten Nachteulen als der zwoten Klasse der Nachtvögel hiesiger Gegend.


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 – Berlinisches Magazin, 3(3): 279-309. Hufnagel, J. S. (1766h): Zwote Fortsetzung der vierten Tabelle von den Insecten, besonders von denen so genannten Nachteulen als der zwoten Klasse der Nachtvögel hiesiger Gegend. – Berlinisches Magazin, 3(4): 393-426. [Hufnagel, J. S.] (1766i): Beschreibung einer sehr bunten Raupe auf den Eichen, und der daraus entstehenden Phaläne Phalaena aprilina minor.– Berlinisches Magazin, 3(6): 555-559, 1 pl. Hufnagel, J. S. [as "H---l"] (1766k): Beschreibung einer seltenen und besonders schönen Phaläne. (Phalaena pyritoides.). – Berlinisches Magazin, 3(6): 560-562. <mask>, J. S. (1767a): Fortsetzung der Tabelle von den Nachtvögeln, welche die 3te Art derselben, nehmlich die Spannenmesser (Phalaenas Geometras [sic] Linnaei) enthält. – Berlinisches Magazin, 4(5): 504-527. Hufnagel, J. S. (1767b): III.Fortsetzung der Tabelle von den Nachtvögeln, welche die 3te Art derselben, nehmlich die Spannenmesser (Phalaenas Geometras [sic] Linnaei) enthält. – Berlinisches Magazin, 4(6): 599-626. References

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title: Ted Sobel

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<mask> (born July 14, 1953) is an American sportscaster and author who is the longest current tenured Los Angeles-based radio sports reporter. He has worked mostly with CBS Radio since 1985. <mask> is the network's in-studio host and producer of Sports USA Radio's NFL pre, halftime, and postgame shows and NHL pre and postgame shows in addition to providing in-game scoreboard updates during Sunday NFL doubleheader broadcasts and NHL games including the Stanley Cup Final. Since 2004, <mask> has been a sideline reporter for Sports USA Radio's NFL and NCAA games of the week while also hosting podcasts for the network along with field reporting covering all major sports, most notably the Masters Tournament. <mask> completed his first book Touching Greatness in 2021. Education
<mask> was raised in Culver City, California, and is a Fairfax High School grad who later enrolled at Los Angeles City College in their Radio and TV Broadcast Department. He is listed as a Los Angeles City College distinguished alum.Early career
<mask> has been credentialed by the Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Lakers, and Los Angeles Kings since 1973 and the Anaheim Angels a year later when he was mostly stringing as a reporter for many of the major news/sports outlets. These included: the Associated Press Radio (AP), United Press International Radio (UPI), ESPN Radio, Mutual Broadcasting System, Westwood One, WFAN Radio in New York, Sports Fan Radio Network, Radio-Canada Montreal (French speaking network), and others. In 1977, <mask> became the Public Address Announcer for the Pacific Hockey League's Long Beach Sharks. He also got his first professional play-by-play opportunities that season with the Sharks on local cable TV and on radio with the league’s Phoenix Roadrunners. He has completed 10 seasons of hockey play-by-play including five with the IHL Los Angeles/Long Beach Ice Dogs (until the league folded in 2000) on KPLS and KMAX-FM in Southern California while also being the voice of the first pro sports franchise to ever broadcast a full season schedule on the Internet at Broadcast Dot Com. He also

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 did hockey play-by-play at the University of Wisconsin (including two games vs. the 'Miracle on Ice' Olympic Gold Medal winning team in 1980) on WIBA Radio. He did play-by-play for the New Hampshire/Cape Cod Freedoms of the North Eastern Hockey League  and was the club's public relations and media director.He called the playoffs and championship series for the NEHL's Hampton Aces, and was a radio color analyst for the San Diego Mariners of the Pacific Hockey League. <mask> was also the game reporter and in-studio host on the NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim inaugural 1993 telecast on KHJ-Channel 9 in Los Angeles. Work in Los Angeles
<mask> returned to Los Angeles after his time in Madison, Wisconsin to do radio play-by-play for Long Beach State basketball and football (their last PCAA Conference championship team) on KNAC-FM and U.C. Irvine basketball on KWVE-FM in 1980-82. In 1985 <mask> began working as a sports anchor and field reporter for the CBS-owned and operated KNX Radio where he continued until joining KMPC Radio when they became the first all-sports station in Los Angeles in 1992. He was an update anchor, field reporter, and talk show host for the Gene Autry-owned station while also producing Los Angeles Rams and UCLA football postgame shows. <mask> continued to work on assignment for KNX most recently covering the 2016 Masters Tournament for Los Angeles' only all-news station.In 1994, <mask> moved over to radio station KFWB where he was also a sports anchor/reporter and talk show host and the lone survivor of four different format changes (the last being all-sports "The Beast 980") until the station was sold in 2016. He also hosted Los Angeles Dodgers pre and postgame shows from 2003-2007 on the Dodgers flagship station and some NBA Los Angeles Clippers pre and post game shows as part of their flagship station. He has reported from numerous Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals, NHL Stanley Cup Finals, Rose Bowl games, NCAA Football and Basketball National Championships, Summer Olympics, The Masters, U.S. Open Golf, The Open Championship, PGA Championship, The

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 Championships, Wimbledon, US Open (tennis), World Cup of Soccer, Breeders Cup and Triple Crown horse races, etc. He broke several big stories including the Wayne Gretzky trade from Los Angeles to St. Louis and the NFL's Seattle Seahawks brief move to Los Angeles in 1996. Awards
<mask> was a three time Golden Mike winner for best sports news reporting in Southern California radio while at KFWB where he also enjoyed being part of a record 10-year run of winning the prestigious Best Radio Anchor Staff awards presented by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. Other sports assignments
<mask> spent seven years as the 18th green announcer at the LPGA's first major of the year: the ANA Inspiration (formerly known as the Kraft Nabisco Championship) in Rancho Mirage, California. He was the on-court stadium announcer for over 15 years at the now defunct Los Angeles Open ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament at UCLA (through 2012), most recently known as the Farmers Classic under the direction of Bob and Jack Kramer where he also did tennis play by play for their in-house radio setup to the attending fans.<mask>'s extensive voice over work includes many local commercials while also being the hockey arena public address announcer's voice for the 1986 movie Touch and Go for Tri-Star Pictures starring Michael Keaton. Personal life
A Los Angeles native, <mask> is one of four children born to parents Sherry and <mask>. His father was the founder/owner of  Bernie Sobel of California, a popular women's apparel label of the 1960s. His mother was a big band and USO singer (including with the Frankie Ortega Orchestra) who used the stage name Shari Fare. Her maiden name was Foreman and was the sister of six-time Academy Award nominee Carl Foreman who won the Oscar for his best written adapted screenplay of the 1958 Oscar winning best picture The Bridge on the River Kwai. <mask> is also a first cousin to author Amanda Foreman and her journalist brother Jonathan Foreman. References

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<mask> (November 20, 1878 – May 6, 1930) was one of the most highly regarded stage actors of the 1920s. He played in critical debuts in New York City: the 1919 premier of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln and the lead role of Brutus Jones in the 1920 premiere of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, also touring with the play. In 1920, he was the first black American to receive The Drama League's annual award as one of the 10 people who had done the most that year for American theatre. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Richmond, Virginia, to <mask> (a factory worker) and Caroline White (a nurse); he attended St. Francis RC School in that city. He started work as an apprentice in the Richmond Planet print shop before finding his career in theater. He first performed on stage as a singer at the age of 12. Prior to becoming a stage actor full-time, he worked as a printer and a pressman at several black newspapers during the late 1880s and into the 1890s, while getting some part-time work in vaudeville.He married Florence Howard in 1897, and they had one son. Career

In 1896 at the age of 18, <mask> joined a minstrel show, leaving Richmond and beginning a life on the road that lasted for many years. When between performances on stage, like many performers, he worked odd jobs to earn money: as a printer, barber, boxing trainer, and railroad porter. In 1903, he joined Hamilton, Ontario's Canadian Jubilee Singers. In 1905, he started performing with traveling musical troupes of the Red Cross and the Candy Shop of America. He also played his first dramatic roles and honed his character acting in Chicago. He performed with Robert Mott's Pekin Theater in Chicago for four years until 1911.Soon after, he toured the United States with the Pan-American Octetts. <mask> worked with Rogers and Creamer's Old Man's Boy Company in New York. In 1915, <mask>

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texts: joined the Anita Bush Players as they moved from the Lincoln Theater in Harlem to the Lafayette Theatre. As New York theater was expanding, this was a time when the theatrical careers of many famous black actors were launched. In 1916, <mask> made a memorable appearance in whiteface as Jacob McCloskey, a slave owner and villain of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. Though <mask> left Bush's company over a salary dispute, his reputation allowed him to get the role of Rev. William Curtis in the 1919 premier of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln.<mask>'s Broadway debut led to his being cast in the premier of Eugene O’Neill's The Emperor Jones. He played the lead role of Brutus Jones to great critical acclaim, including a lauded review by writer Hubert Harrison in Negro World. <mask>'s achievement resulted in The Drama League's naming him as one of the 10 people in 1920 who had done the most for American theater. He was the first black American so honored. Following the Drama League's refusal to rescind the invitation, <mask> refused to decline it. When the League invited <mask> to their presentation dinner, some people found it controversial. At the dinner, he was given a standing ovation of unusual length when he accepted his award.Although <mask> continued to perform the role of Brutus Jones in the U.S. tour that followed the Broadway closing of the play, he had a falling out with O'Neill. <mask> wanted O'Neill to remove the word "nigger", which occurred frequently in the play. The playwright refused, asserting its use was consistent with his dramatic intentions. In 1921, <mask> was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal. He was also honored at the White House by President Warren G. Harding. A year later, the Dumas Dramatic Club (now the Karamu Players) of Cleveland renamed itself the Gilpin Players in his honor. When they could not come to a

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 reconciliation, O'Neill replaced <mask> with Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones in the London production.In early April 1922, <mask> became one of the first black performers to give a dramatic presentation on radio. He gave readings from "The Emperor Jones" over greater Boston station WGI, from their Medford Hillside studios. After the extended controversy and the disappointment of losing his signature role, <mask> started drinking heavily. He never again performed on Broadway. He died in 1930 in Eldridge Park, New Jersey, his career in shambles. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, his funeral arranged by friends shortly after his death. In 1991, 61 years after his death, <mask> was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.Relationship with Eugene O'Neill

O’Neill had major influence on African American actors, in particular <mask> and Paul Leroy Robeson. O’Neill and Robeson worked on three productions together: All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924), The Emperor Jones (1924), and The Hairy Ape (1931). Robeson, however, did not originate the lead role in O’Neill's The Emperor Jones. <mask> <mask>, a respected leading man from the all-black Lafayette Players of Harlem, was the first actor to play the role of Brutus Jones when it was first staged on November 1, 1920, by the Provincetown Players at the Playwright's Theater in New York City. This production was O'Neill's first real smash hit. The Players' small theater was too small to cope with audience demand for tickets, and the play was transferred to another theater. It ran for 204 performances and was hugely popular, and toured in the States with this cast for the next two years.<mask> continued to perform the role of Brutus Jones in the U.S. tour that followed the Broadway closing of the play, and in 1920 became the first black American to receive the Drama

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 character portrayed in a serious manner. The play was adapted for a 1933 feature film starring Paul Robeson, directed by Dudley Murphy, an avant-garde filmmaker of O'Neill's Greenwich Village circle who pursued the reluctant playwright for a decade before getting the rights from him. <mask> continued to make a small living performing monologues from O'Neill's play at church gatherings, but after the extended controversy and the disappointment of losing his signature role, succumbed to depression and began drinking heavily. He never again performed on Broadway and died in 1930 in Eldridge Park, New Jersey, his career in shambles.He was buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, his funeral arranged by friends shortly after his death. In recognition of his groundbreaking work, <mask> was posthumously inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1991. Further reading
 "<mask> Comments. Striving to Present His Art Rather Than Himself to Public, Says Negro", The New York Times, February 19, 1921. "The New Plays", The New York Times, December 26, 1920. "News and Gossip of the Rialto", The New York Times, October 24, 1920. "Don Quixote Back to Life", The New York Times, May 7, 1920
 "'Emperor Jones' Coming Uptown", The New York Times, December 13, 1920.References

Sources
 Henry T. Sampson The Ghost Walks: A Chronological History of Blacks in Show Business 1865–1910, (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1988), p. 321. "<mask> <mask>", Dictionary of American Biography, American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936. John T. Kneebone, "'It Wasn't All Velvet': The Life and Hard Times of <mask><mask>, Actor", Virginia Cavalcade, 38 (summer 1988): 14–27. External links

1878 births
1930 deaths
African-American male actors
American male actors
Blackface minstrel performers
Vaudeville performers
Spingarn Medal winners
20th-century

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<mask> (January 11, 1842 – October 23, 1916) was an American artist, businessman and philanthropist who worked in Buffalo, New York, and in Colorado. While he considered himself to be foremost a painter, he also worked in sculpture, sketches, poetry and other writings. His primary occupation was an engraver, making illustrations for publications of the day. He was a partner in a lithography business and an engraving/publishing business, and founded a shipping company for artists. As a young man, <mask> was badly injured in the Second Battle of Bull Run, and he was involved with veterans' groups for the rest of his life, primarily the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). He was a member of numerous artists' groups, some of which he founded, and he arranged exhibitions and taught art classes. In his later life, <mask> became a supporter of the emerging Baháʼí Faith which he helped to establish in Buffalo.<mask>'s artworks are known for capturing the time in which he lived. His work depicts the US Civil War and its lasting effects, wilderness landscapes, portraiture, and life scenes. He won a few prizes for his art, pieces of which are in the collections of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, and the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. Early life and education

<mask> <mask> was born January 11, 1842, in the hamlet of Bowmansville, New York. He was the first son of Aaron P<mask> and Abigail, both from Otsego County. They were a farming family, which grew with children Daniel W., Elvira, and Aaron T. (born ). All the children

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 worked on the farm and were raised with a Baptist sensibility of serious-mindedness.As a child, <mask> was known to mold with clay. Early biographer Benedict R. Maryniak wrote:

Abigail had died by late 1855. In 1857, at age 15, <mask> moved to Buffalo to become an artist. Maryniak believed <mask>'s father endorsed this as a step towards developing business sense. <mask> became an apprentice bank-note engraver to Jack Jamison, but suffered eye strain. He then took up marble work with sculptor William Lautz and painting with Lars Gustav Sellstedt and, with encouragement from William H. Beard, began doing portraits. At age 17, <mask> painted a portrait of his father.He camped along the Niagara River 1859–1860 and sold paintings. That year in the fall he was noted as a member of the Nameless Club and had given a talk. By December 1860, <mask> had rented rooms for a studio in Buffalo, in the Weed Block building. War experience
After the April 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter, <mask> enlisted for the Union in the Civil War, aged 19. On May 8, he mustered out with the 21st New York Volunteer Infantry, which joined the Army of the Potomac for the duration of the war. By May 21, they had established "Camp Buffalo" and then "Fort Buffalo" at Washington, DC. <mask> carried out the record keeping of the regiment in the early days of their deployment.He also painted some portraits of soldiers and camps. They took part in the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, during which <mask> was a private of Company D.

He next fought on August 30, 1862, in the

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 Second Battle of Bull Run. He later recorded personal details of the battle in his Chronicles. <mask>'s company began to engage in hand-to-hand combat at the front line when he was struck down, and evacuated by ambulance as a retreat was called. One report stated that his leg had been shattered, and <mask> later called it a knee injury, but it was a bullet lodged through the front of his pelvis which was removed from the back side. "They cut where I told them and when they pulled it out the suction made a noise... a sort of whistle that I will never forget." Some reports were that he nearly died and <mask> gained the title "the name who would not die".He was registered as totally disabled. <mask> spent four months recovering and made some drawings which he sold on return to Buffalo. While convalescing, he began the work that led to the Chronicles of the 21st Regiment. He also visited the old Smithsonian Institution during this time and saw George Catlin's Indian and war paintings. <mask> was discharged December 22, 1862, and filed paperwork for his military pension, marked as an invalid. Artistic career

Establishment
<mask> returned to Buffalo and wrote his first notable work, Chronicles of the 21st Regiment of New York. The first edition was published in six parts, from August 1863
to July 1866.Some of the writing was delayed due to complications from his injury
and a further serious illness. During this time, <mask> continued to paint and was awarded a bronze medal from the New York State Agricultural Society for a painting of a bull. The

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 funeral train of Abraham Lincoln came to Buffalo on April 27, 1865. <mask> was an honor guard for the coffin in St. James Hall, despite looking out of place due to his disability and his hair being in the long fashion of an artist rather than a soldier. For two hours while a reception area was being finished, <mask> was allowed to sketch Lincoln. From these he made a bust
of plaster about ten inches tall. Some gray-tinted copies were made, which were mass reproduced in the fall of 1865.In 1865, <mask> was described by the president of the Buffalo Nameless Club (of which he had been a member for more than five years) as "equally at home in sculpture, poesy, and painting. His bust of Abraham Lincoln, his poem of 'Booths', and twin pictures 'A dream of life' each are master pieces of conception and composition." In 1867, <mask> sketched scenes of the Angola Horror railroad disaster for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. In 1869, <mask> became a partner in a lithography business. From 1869 to 1872, <mask> was on the staff of the Buffalo Morning Express, starting as a copy reader and rising to assistant editor under Samuel Clemens. For a time <mask> was responsible for converting drawings into wood-stock for printing, and he reworked Clemen's illustrations for a Buffalo Express series of articles spoofing coverage of a tightrope walker crossing Niagara Falls. During this time, <mask> and Clemens were both members of the "Nameless Club" of war veterans.By December 1869, <mask> was an elected senior vice-commander of the Grand Army of the Republic


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 (GAR) veterans' association of Post Chaplin in Buffalo. <mask> had married Henrietta Fell, a Canadian, on August 25, 1865. Their first child, <mask>, was born , followed by Margaret Elvira about a year later. Another daughter Bertha was born in 1869 but died after a few months. The family lived in the home of Henrietta's father, a civil engineer. Henrietta suffered illness
and in summer 1872,
due to concerns for her health, the family moved
to Colorado, where <mask>'s brother Aaron
had an engraving company. Frontier artist
<mask> bought 5 acres of land in town.He took a prize at the Art Department of Colorado's Agricultural Fair, and painted a sheep for a stockmen's show. A poem of his was published in Denver's Rocky Mountain News. In 1873, <mask> was joined by Buffalo artist Hamilton Hamilton, and together they sold art during the year. They went on the Upper Arkansas expedition invited by the Chain & Hardy Bookshop owners. <mask> took other horse trips into the mountains to paint water colors, and by 1873 offered art classes in Denver. <mask> continued to sell paintings and contributed art and articles to publications, while periodically travelling into the mountains to sketch. As his wife's health improved, they bought a wagon and began to travel the lands.They made a trip to the Colorado Basin, called "Middle Park", and found a place to make a homestead. Around 1874 they were living in what was then called Hot Sulphur Springs, where Henrietta held a school. This later became the subject of his painting "First School in Middle Park".

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 However, while the scenery was rich and inspiring, there was no local market for his art and it was a difficult life. At one point, <mask> suffered from rheumatic fever and had to be rescued by hunters. In 1876, the family moved into a brick house in Denver and <mask> took a studio at what later grew to become the Tabor Grand Opera House. <mask> organized short-lived art schools and associations.He was also appointed a probate judge, seemingly on his reputation for mediating differences between whites and Ute people, and also became secretary of the local Republican party. Engraving was his success in these times. <mask> sold wood engravings and writing to Scribner's Monthly and Harper's Magazine. In particular, a 12-page article in Scribner's with mostly his own sketches with the story "Hunting the Mule-Deer in Colorado" was published in September 1978. He sold another illustrated article for the October 1879 Scribner's titled "The Camp of the Carbonates". <mask> was commissioned by George Crofutt to do illustrations and wood-engravings for several guidebooks, among which the 1881 "Colorado Springs, Pike's Peak Sunset", was called his greatest wood-engraving. The engraving/publishing company Mills was a partner in expanded in 1881,
and <mask> was also co-owner of a publishing shop in Denver.In January 1882, <mask>'s painting "Frontier School" was reported sold to Wolfe Londoner, later mayor of Denver, for $1000 (more than $25,000 in 2020 dollars). <mask> did multiple "pioneer-life dugout" paintings including "News from Home" (1882) which is

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 now in the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. As president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Colorado, <mask> worked with state senator and mining tycoon Horace Tabor to set up the Mining and Industrial Exposition in the summers of 1882 and 1883. <mask> taught through the Academy as well, holding meetings in the Tabor Opera House building. Among his students was political caricaturist Albert Wilbur Steele. Despite the short-lived nature of some groups he founded – such as the Colorado Academy of Design, which suffered from conflicts – <mask> had great influence in developing artists and an art market in Colorado. Henrietta's health returned and she bore a third child – <mask> – on June 19, 1882.In July 1883, Henrietta was a delegate from the Denver chapter of the Ladies Auxiliary to the national meeting. The Woman's Relief Corps was established by the GAR at Farragut Post, chartered with <mask> present. Henrietta was a charter member and founded the Colorado state chapter in the <mask> home in Denver, becoming its first president. (It was named the Farragut Corps [after Farragut Post].) In October, <mask> wrote an article reporting on the organization and local militia groups. In mid-December <mask> aided the organization of the GAR corp in Delta, Colorado, and in late December <mask> was elected commander of the Farragut GAR corps. Exhibition organizer

Exhibitions at the American Art Association in New York City () spread <mask>'s reputation and he moved to Manhattan where he was invited to the founding of the New York Art Guild, becoming its

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 general manager under president Thomas Moran.In 1889, the American Fine Arts Society was incorporated in New York with <mask> among the trustees. He held a similar position when the New York Art Guid incorporated in 1891. <mask> commented at this time that he was too busy for more than brief trips into the countryside for inspiration. In 1892, <mask> was coordinating the New York component of the country's contribution to the World of Art exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington, where Henrietta hosted a White House reception for the artists. <mask> had also opened a shipping company for artists
(which was taken over by his son <mask> by 1898). In June, <mask> contributed the painting "On the Croquet Ground of Central Park" toward fundraising for Grant's Tomb. He exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.<mask> organized many art exhibitions during this time, including the 1898 "Art Kalendarium" exhibition series for the New York Art Guild. In 1895, <mask> organized a retreat for art students at a summer home in Rothesay, New Brunswick, then organized an art school and student's exhibition series. In August 1897, a bicyclist ran into <mask> and his arm was broken. By April 1901, <mask> had moved to Westford, New York, where Henrietta had formed a branch of the Sunshine Society club (a service club which often worked with the blind). In 1902, <mask> won a $100 prize from the New York Herald for best poem on the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. His poem, "The Third Day", did not have universal critical acclaim,

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 but it was widely circulated and brought <mask> considerable publicity. It ends: They laid the wounded on the floor,
The little house would hold no more:
The little maid was not afraid,
But the tender eyes ran o'er;
The spent shot swept the town,
With the dying she lay down;
The little maid smiled – she was not afraid
To die as the sun went down

Buffalo artistic community

In 1904, <mask> and his wife moved back to Buffalo.Now in his sixties, <mask> hosted artists, and held artists' meetings and exhibitions in his house, often on a weekly basis. A profile of <mask> in the 1905 Artists Year Book, published in Chicago, noted that he had exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York and was a member of professional arts clubs including New York's Salmagundi Club and some Philadelphia clubs. <mask> continued to paint
largely creating portraits at this time. He also taught a class on clay modeling
and exhibited the work of his art students. <mask> became a founding director of the Artists and Illustrators Club of Buffalo,
and joined the Buffalo Historical Society. <mask> was also active with the Buffalo Society of Artists, with which he exhibited some paintings. <mask> exhibited several times at the Albright Gallery.Among the groups the <mask> hosted was the Progressive Thought League. Its 1908 business meeting was held at their home, and <mask> was listed as the vice-president. In January 1910, <mask> presented a painting of the new commander of the Chapin Post at a GAR reception. In 1911, <mask> visited Bull Run for the 50th

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 anniversary of the battles there, and made some commemorative portraits. <mask> wrote a memorial poem for Gettysburg, "To the devoted departed". He was honored at a GAR gathering for Gettysburg,
and later at a reunion of veterans of the 21st Regiment. He remained an elected officer of the GAR corps until his death.<mask> joined the Guild of Allied Arts in January 1916. In March, <mask> wrote a booklet on the early artists of Colorado. Promotion of Buffalo Baháʼí community

<mask> stated that had been interested in the Baháʼí Faith since 1898, when he was living in New York City. <mask> may have been introduced to the religion through his daughter Margaret's husband, Charles Sprague, who had been an active Baháʼí in New York in 1900. Margaret moved to Buffalo in March 1906,
and a series of talks by her the following month were the first mentions of the Baháʼí Faith in local newspapers. This was about the time that the first meetings of the Baháʼís were later credited as beginning. The <mask> sought to have more Baháʼís to work with.Religious scholar Robert Stockman summarized a November 1906 letter to Henrietta from the Baháʼí House of Spirituality of Chicago (a precursor of the Baháʼí administrative institution the Local Spiritual Assembly) as: "We don't know of any believers there." Margaret spoke at the Progressive Thought League
(organized that year by Elizabeth Marney Conner and Grace Carew Sheldon),
and presented a paper which was published in the local newspaper. By mid-July, Margaret was vice-president of the League. Through August

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 1906, the Mills hosted Baháʼí Alma Knobloch,
who promoted that faith through publications in local newspapers and meetings
held at the <mask> home. Margaret wrote to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, the head of the religion, expressing her wish for martyrdom. Before she received a reply, Margaret suffered a night of hysteria and broke her arm while running from her parent's house; she was placed in a state hospital. In April and May 1907, <mask> gave the talks: "Bahais  at home and abroad"
and a talk on the religion's "mission as a unifier of all faiths".The following year he gave an extended talk at the League, "Basis of the Bahai Faith" which was published in the Buffalo Times. <mask> counted some 35 people as the Buffalo Baháʼí community, and called the faith the "cord which binds all faiths in God as One". Baháʼí literature could be obtained free from <mask>'s home. <mask> represented the Buffalo Baháʼís at the national convention
in March 1909,
where he voted for the precursor of the national organization of Baháʼís. Regular Baháʼí meetings continued at the <mask> home. He was described as the president of the local Baháʼí community
and his meetings were listed in first editions of Star of the West (the national Baháʼí magazine). In June 1912, <mask> received ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in Buffalo.The meetings at the home continued after <mask>'s death, and some visitors from abroad referred to it as the "Bahai center". Death and remembrance
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 showed his work in December. A group of Civil War veterans marched the following summer in remembrance of <mask> and others who had been lost. Biographer Nelson A. Reiger called <mask> a "highly intelligent, deeply caring, sensitive man, greatly motivated, widely experience[d]". An exhibition on <mask> with newspaper clippings and art was held at the Denver Public Library in the early 1930s.There was renewed interest in <mask>  with the rediscovery of When Mark Twain lived in Buffalo, and his "Campsite in the Rockies" painting was included in the Western America: Landscapes and Indians collection for 1994–1998. Biographies began to appear. "From Bowmansville and back: the odyssey of <mask> <mask>" (1999) and "The Most Humane of Humans: Mark Twain and <mask> <mask>" (2002) were published in the Buffalo area. The review says that <mask>'s original text When Mark Twain lived in Buffalo, remains unknown except for the excerpts printed in newspapers. These excerpts were reprinted by the Western New York Heritage Institute's magazine. A 2004 biographical review of Mark Twain noted <mask>. In 2009, a biography of <mask>'s early years as a Colorado painter was published.The Huntington Library in San Antonio, California, exhibited a painting of <mask> in 2011. The holdings of <mask>'s work continue to be found at Albright-Knox Gallery and Colorado Springs Pioneers Museums. Notable works

Poetry

Booths
Poem about 1871, title unknown (1873)
Over the Range (1874)
"Colorado" (1880)
"The Third Day" (year unknown)
"What they did to the flag" (year

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<mask> (7 April 1873 – 6 December 1946) was a British politician, who served as an Member of Parliament (MP) from 1915 to 1922. He entered Parliament by winning one of the two seats for Merthyr Tydfil at a by-election on 25 November 1915 caused by the death of Labour Party founder, Keir Hardie. After the two-member Merthyr Tydfil seat was divided into two single member seats, <mask> focused on the Aberdare division, which he won at the 1918 general election, but lost at the 1922 general election. Political career

Miner's agent and district councillor, Aberdare

<mask> began his political career as a miners' agent at Aberdare where he was a member of the Independent Labour Party. In 1904, he was elected to the Aberdare Urban District Council as a member for the Aberaman Ward. Then a militant, he was critical of the more moderate approach adopted by the local Labour MP, Keir Hardie. The general election of December 1910 – East Glamorganshire

At the December 1910 general election, <mask> unsuccessfully fought the East Glamorganshire seat as a Labour candidate.Since its creation in 1886, East Glamorganshire had been represented by the Liberal Alfred Thomas, a prominent Baptist and former Mayor of Cardiff, who stood as candidate of 'The Liberal and Labour Association' in the constituency. For the 1910 general election, the East Glamorganshire Liberal and Labour Association selected Clement Edwards. Edwards had solid Lib-Lab credentials, a barrister who had represented trade unions in major cases, he was also active in organising trade unions and industrial action. Edwards was not a socialist and he opposed a separate Labour Party. In February 1910, <mask> comfortably won a poll organised by the South Wales Miners' Federation to select a candidate for East Glamorganshire should Alfred Thomas retire (C. B. <mask> 6,297; Alfred Onions 3,214;

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 Thomas Andrews 3,156; T. I. Mardy Jones 2,257). In May 1910, <mask> was selected as the Labour candidate for the seat by a trade union delegates meeting and, by July 1910, he was described as the "accepted Labour candidate for East Glamorgan". However, <mask> was not universally popular among the leadership of the South Wales Miners Federation and the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, in part because of his militant position on industrial disputes.In November 1910, the Executive Committee of the M.F.G.B. at first refused to place <mask>'s name on the Federation Parliamentary List for East Glamorgan, a decision which was reversed the following day. At the general election in December 1910, Clement Edwards comfortably won the seat, the Conservative candidate took second place, while <mask> finished third: Edwards (Lib-Lab) 9,088; Gaskell (Con) 5,603; <mask> (Lab) 4,675. In his speech at the declaration, <mask> said that "Although defeated, he was by no means downhearted, as he realised that he was preaching a new gospel for which the electors were evidently not prepared, but the day would come when his views would be much more acceptable. The Merthyr by-election of November 1915

When the United Kingdom entered the First World War, <mask> became a strong supporter of the national war effort, and publicly opposed Keir Hardie's stance opposed to the war. Hardie's death, on 2 September 1915, a year after the outbreak of the war, caused a vacancy in one of the two Merthyr Tydfil parliamentary seats. The by-election to fill the vacancy was called for 25 November 1915.The official Labour candidate chosen to succeed Keir Hardie was James Winstone. Winstone was a leader of the miners' union, a miner's agent since 1906, he served as Vice-President of the South Wales Miners Federation from 1912, and had recently been elected President of the

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texts: South Wales Federation. He had also been a County Councillor in neighbouring Monmouthshire since 1906, and was a former chairman of the Urban District Councils of both Risca and Abersychan. In the four by-elections held in Wales since the outbreak of war, the candidate of the former member's party had been returned unopposed, in accordance with an electoral truce agreed between the parties. It was assumed therefore that the Labour Party candidate to succeed Keir Hardie would also be returned unopposed. Arthur Henderson, the Secretary of the Labour Party, wrote to the Western Mail on 17 November stating that Winstone's candidature was supported and approved by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the South Wales Miners' Federation, the National Executive of the Labour Party and the Merthyr constituency conference "representative practically of every organisation in the constituency", and "Accordingly, other parties have intimated their intention of observing the obligations of the party truce." <mask> announced that he would stand against Winstone on a patriotic, win-the-war platform.<mask>'s campaign focused its attack on the Independent Labour Party. <mask> presented himself as a 'National' candidate "standing on a National platform, and respecting, as I am, the political truce, I am considering not only the opinion of Labour men but of all sections of the community. And hence I do not hesitate to say that my candidature is national in the truest sense of the term. Surely, it is obvious that the success of Mr. Winstone, which is unthinkable, would be a message of discouragement to our soldiers in the field". In fact, unlike Hardie, Winstone was not a pacifist: he was a supporter of the war effort. One of his sons was serving in France and another had only recently volunteered. Winstone himself addressed recruiting

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texts: meetings.However, Winstone did not support conscription. Officially the national Liberal and Conservative parties were not involved in the by-election. But their members actively supported the <mask> campaign on the ground. On 23 November, the Western Mail carried a letter to <mask>'s election agent from T. Artemus Jones, who had been adopted as the prospective Liberal candidate before the outbreak of war, stating that there "was no foundation [for] the rumour ... that the 'official' candidate [i.e. Winstone] must receive the support of all the great parties ... Such a contest as is being waged in Merthyr is outside the terms of the party truce because it is essentially a domestic difference among the members of one party and neither of the other parties in the State has any sort of right to interfere either with the one section or the other." Jones added that members of the Liberal and Conservative parties were free to support <mask>: "There is only one issue, one duty before the people.So long as the war lasts and the party truce continues, there are neither Tories nor Radicals nor Socialists in the party sense. That issue is the war and that duty is the vigorous prosecution of the war. ...  neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives are concerned in their political organisations with the dispute between Mr. <mask> and the Independent Labour Party. In their capacity as citizens, however, they have the right to form their own judgement at this supreme hour in the fortunes of the country with regard to the support they must give the government." <mask> was also endorsed by the Socialist National Defence Committee. <mask>'s election address described him as a "National" candidate. <mask> won the vacant seat with a majority of over 4,000 votes in a low poll.(<mask>: 10,286 votes; Winstone: 6,080 votes). A few weeks after <mask>'s

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 election, on 6 January 1916, the government introduced its first conscription bill. <mask>'s by-election victory in Keir Hardie's old seat has been seen as facilitating the introduction of conscription. <mask> supported the Lloyd George Coalition Government throughout the war. The 'Coupon' general election of December 1918

Under the Representation of the People Act 1918 the existing parliamentary borough of Merthyr Tydfil (with its two parliamentary seats) was divided into two single-member constituencies. One of these was Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare Division, which consisted of the two urban districts of Aberdare and Mountain Ash. <mask> fought the "Coupon" general election of December 1918 for the Aberdare Division, as a National Democratic and Labour Party candidate, with the support of the Coalition National Government "coupon".He comfortably defeated the Labour candidate, Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais). (<mask>: 22,824 votes; Nicholas: 6,229 votes)

<mask> and Nicholas had taken opposite positions during the War. Nicholas, like Hardie, was a pacifist, and had opposed both the War and conscription. They were also opposed in their policies for the peace, <mask> supporting the policy of imposing heavy reparations obligations on the defeated nations: his manifesto demanded that "the filthy, murderous Huns" be made to pay for the war. He called for the expulsion of "all aliens". In the Merthyr Division, at the 1918 general election, Sir Edgar Rees Jones, standing as a Coalition Liberal, defeated James Winstone, standing again as a Labour candidate, by 1,445 votes. Sir Edgar Rees Jones had first been elected to Parliament at the January 1910 general election as one of the two MPs for Merthyr Tydfil.The general election of November 1922

<mask> again fought the Aberdare division at the general election of November 1922, this time as