#josiah bartlett

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Happy birthday (old style) to Josiah Bartlett

[hitchell-mope]

Very good movie.

[fetchmearum420]

The more I watch 1776 (which is now 2 times a day) the more I find this line funny.

Here’s proof that Bartlett is funny when he wants to me.

[summerhighlandfalls]

Fuck my life he appeared to have a neutral relationship with grandpappy 💔

Is my personal beef with Alexander Hamilton even something I’ve discussed on this blog

[armitageshux]

“Joy cometh in the morning.”

— Josiah Bartlett, The West Wing

[thealogie]

I’m related to the real life Josiah Bartlett that the fictional president in the west wing is descended from and while it was airing a Canadian friend of my parents called to ask my dad if he was related to the president because she got George Bush (real president) confused with Jed Bartlet (fake president)

OH NO!

[timeclipsed]

I hope ur shoelace gets untied while jogging >:c

Georgia

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton

North Carolina

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn

South Carolina

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton

Massachusetts

John Hancock

Maryland

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

Pennsylvania

Robert Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Franklin

John Morton

George Clymer

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

George Ross

Delaware

Caesar Rodney

George Read

Thomas McKean

New York

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris

New Jersey

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopkinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark

New Hampshire

Josiah Bartlett

William Whipple

Massachusetts

Samuel Adams

John Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery

Connecticut

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

New Hampshire

Matthew Thornton

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The Exhibitors Herald, June 1926

The first of the deluxe presentations was at the Forrest theatre, Philadelphia, Thursday evening. The audience was composed largely of members of the Advertising Clubs of the World, which was holding an international convention in the Quaker City, and the members of the Poor Richard Club. There were also present a large turnout of society, official and judicial life of Philadelphia. The other audience, which included Mrs. Coolidge, members of the diplomatic corps and Washington newspapermen, as guests of the National Press club, viewed the picture at a special screening Friday night at Poli’s theatre in Washington. General W. W. Atterbury; Senator-elect [and notorious political boss] Wm. S. Vare; Senator [and law professor] George W. Pepper; Lieut. Commander Geo. B. Wilson, U. S. Navy [not to be confused with the character from the Great Gatsby] ; Mrs. Barclay Warburton [civil rights supporter and journalist] ; Major Norman MacLeod; E. T. Stottsbury; Paul Thompson; Alexander Van Rensselaer; Mrs. Charlemagne Tower; Dr. H. J. Tily [department story owner, mason] ; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Reath; Frank Smith; Mr. and Mrs. Jos. N. Snellenburg [merchant in clothing trade] ; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Block; Mr. and Mrs. Jules E. Mastbaum [movie theater and department store magnates] ; George Nitsche [possibly an affiliate of U. Penn]; Josiah H. Penniman [Provost of U. Penn] ; J. Willis Martin [a judge]; H. S. McDevitt; John J. Monaghan. Judge Buffington, of Pittsburgh; Thos Finletter [could be one of a a number of lawyers with this name]; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Einstein; Maurice Paillard, French consul; Robt. Von Moschzisker [justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania]; Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick; Geo. H. Elliott, director of public safety; Chas. B. Hall, president of City Council; Dr. Charles Hart; Rev. Wm. H. Fineschriber; Chas Fox, district attorney [could be a coincidence but Charles Fox III and IV are both currently lawyers in Pennsylvania]; John Fisler, president Manufacturers Club [golf afficianado]; Albert M. Greenfield [real estate broker and developer]; Jos. P. Gaffney; Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Gimbel [department store owner]; Daniel Gimbel [brother and co-owner along with Ellis]; J. D. Lit; Richard Gimbel [son of Ellis Gimble]; Benedict Gimbel [brother of Ellis and Daniel]; Colonel Robert Glendinning [banker]; Benjamin Golder [member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives], Agnew T. Dice [President of Reading Railroad]. Dr. Leon Elmaleh [founder of the Levantine Jews Society of Philadelphia]; H. Gilbert Cassidy [a judge]; Utley E. Crane [author of Business Law for Business Men]; Cyrus H. K. Curtis [magazine publisher]; Chas. S. Caldwell; G. W. Cole; Hampton L. Carson [lawyer, professor, state Attorney general]; A. Lincoln Acker [Philidelphia port collector]; Max Aron [lawyer]; Eugene C. Bonniwell [a judge]; Chas. L. Brown; Edward Groome; Chas. L. Bartlett; Edward Bok [editor of the Ladies Home Journal]; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lorimer [editor of the Saturday Evening Post]; Edw. Bacon; Chas. Curtis Harrison [a judge]; Samuel S. Eels, Rev. J. J. O’Hara [future Archbishop of Philadelphia], and Bishop Thos. J. Garland, D. D. [Episcopalian bishop]

There were a bunch of Universal employees in attendance too but that's less interesting to me. Let's see who went to the Washington show

Both showings were under the auspices of Ambassador Henri Beragner of France and Marcel Knecht, French publisher and trade representative. Dr. Ferdnand Heurteur, leader of the orchestra of the Paris Opera House, came to the United States to conduct the orchestras at these two showings. Among the distinguished guests at the Washington showing were: Don Juan Riano, Spanish ambassador; Senor and Senora de Mathieu, Chilan ambassador; Raoul Tilmont, secretary, Belgium embassy; G. H. Thompson, second secretary, British embassy; A. J. Pack, British embassy; Eduardo Racedo and Madame Racedo, first secretary, Argentine embassy; Conrado Traverso, Argentine embassy; Dr. and Senora Velarde, Peruvian ambassador; Dr. and Madame Santiago F. Bedoya, secretary, Peruvian embassy; Senor and Senora Tellez, Mexican ambassador; Senor and Senora Castro, secretary, Mexican embassy; Ambassador de Martino, Italy; Colonel Augusto Villa, miltary attache, Italian embassy; Count and Countess Sommati di Mombello, Italian embassy; Signor Leonardo Vitetti, Italian embassy. Baron and Baroness Ago Maltzan, German embassy; Mr. and Madame Matsuidaira, Japanese embassy; Mr. and Madame Gurgel de Amaral, Brazilian embassy; Senor and Senora de Sanchez Aballi, Cuban embassy; Senor Don Jose T. Baron, secretary, Cuban embassy; Brigadier General Georges A. L. Dumont, military attache, French embassy; Mr. Jules Henry, first secretary, French embassy; Major and Madame Georges Thenault, French embassy; Captain and Madame Willm, French embassy; Mr. A. Konow Bojsen, secretary, Danish legation; Mr. and Madame Marc Peter, Swiss ambassador; Mr. Andor de Hertelendy, Hungarian embassay; Senor and Senora Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, Bolivian embassy. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Smiddy, minister, Irish Free State; Mr. and Madame Simoposilis, Minister from Greece; Mr. and Madame Prochnik, Austrian ambassador; Mr. and Madame Charles L. Seya, Latvian embassy; Mahmoud Samy Pasha and Madame Samy Pasha, Egyptian embassy; Mr. Zdenek Fierlinger, Minister from Czechoslovakia; Mr. Simeon Radeff, Bulgarian embassy; Mr. and Madame Jan Ciechanowski, Polish minister; Senor don Manuel Zavala, Nicaragua embassy, and Mr. and Madame Bostrom, Swedish ambassador.

[catholic-character-tournament]

missing josiah "the GOAT" bartlett whos numerous struggles over his deeply held catholic faith make for the unambigiously best parts of one of the greatest tv shows in american history so this is irrelevant actually

I'm sorry T_T

[bullfrawgs]

Zelensky is such a fascinating guy, his big role is playing the President on TV, in a comedy making fun of how divorced from the common people and beholden to the oligarchs the government was. And then he parleyed that into... Playing that guy IRL. And despite some initial concerns that he was in the pocket of one of those oligarchs, he really did just become that guy. Like imagine if Martin Sheen had been elected president and we found out Josiah Bartlett was just actually what he was like all the time.

would be difficult to make a biopic of Zelensky that wouldn't feel like a cheap overblown drama compared with reality, I mean how realistic is it for a comedian to become a politician to become a war leader

[hitchell-mope]

Ooooh. Bartlett

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.21

Beer Birthdays

Edward Younger (1906)

Joris Pattyn (1957)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Björk (Guðmundsdóttir); Icelandic pop singer (1965)

Coleman Hawkins; jazz saxophonist (1904)

René Magritte; Belgian artist (1898)

Harold Ramis; actor, writer, film director (1944)

Larry Welz; cartoonist (1948)

Famous Birthdays

Troy Aikman; Dallas Cowboys QB (1966)

Beryl Bainbridge; writer (1953)

Josiah Bartlett; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1729)

Jim Bishop; writer (1907)

Roy Boulting; British film director (1913)

Tina Brown; magazine publisher (1953)

Dasha; adult actress (1976)

Marilyn French; writer (1929)

Ken Griffey Jr.; Seattle Mariners OF (1969)

Goldie Hawn; actress (1945)

Dr. John; rock pianist, singer (1940)

Hugh Kingsmill; English writer (1889)

Sid Luckman; Chicago Bears QB (1916)

Juliet Mills; actor (1941)

Lewis H. Morgan; anthropologist (1818)

Stan Musial; St. Louis Carinals 1B/OF (1920)

Eleanor Powell; actor, dancer (1912)

Jim Ringo; Green Bay Packers C (1931)

Brian Ritchie; rock bassist (1960)

Nicolette Sheridan; actor (1963)

Isaac Bashevis Singer; writer (1902)

Marlo Thomas; actor (1938)

Voltaire; French philosopher (1694)

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Top Business School Obliterates Kamala's Claim That She'll Boost the Economy

I know that’s weird to say: ‘Kamala vows to strengthen the economy, which she helped wreck.’ That might be one of the more surreal aspects of this election, being that Harris is the incumbent. She’s been in Washington for over three years and acts like some outsider. No one voted for you. No one liked you until recently when Democrats finally accepted Joe Biden’s brains were applesauce. Kamala hasn’t won anything of value. 

Sorry, being a Democrat or an attorney general elected in deep blue California isn’t a notable accomplishment. Even in the fictional West Wing universe, Leo McGarry knew President Josiah Bartlett’s three terms in Congress and New Hampshire gubernatorial wins were worthless—his family founded the state. The same principle applies. And if she’s trying to cast herself as Ms. Jobs growth, the Wharton School had a brutal assessment (via Newsweek): 

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 24, 2024

A top business school has shot down claims made by Vice President Kamala Harris that her economic proposals would strengthen the U.S. economy.  During a "Unite for America" livestream event in the battleground state of Michigan with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday, Harris sought to persuade the audience that she had an economic policy that would deliver for businesses and for the American people, saying "and that is why Goldman Sachs . . . is why Moody's, which is why Wharton School of Business, which is why 16 Nobel laureates, have collectively determined after analyzing our plans . . . mine would strengthen the economy, his would weaken it."  When contacted by Newsweek for comment, one of the institutions Harris referenced directly refuted her claim.  "We did not find a positive impact on the economy from her plan in any future year. The Trump plan does increase GDP for a few years but lowers by the end of the 10-year budget window," a spokesperson for the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) said. 

We all know that Trump's economy is better. It’s not even close. Goldman Sachs also slapped down Kamala,

touting their support, adding, “A lot more has been made of this than should be.”

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 12, 2024

Again, this is why the woman hides and dodges media interviews. She’s not good, and her lies would easily be exposed

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1776 at the Ahmanson Theatre, my thoughts three months late:

I already liked the musical & have a DVD of the film, but the reviews were pretty mixed on Broadway so I was worried about being disappointed. But I ended up being surprised when I really enjoyed it way more than expected. Part of that was just seeing nontraditionally-cast actors in these roles, which would otherwise not happen outside of some one-off thing like Miscast or Broadway Backwards. (I am a little worried that the mixed reception to this revival means I may never see a version of the show like this again.) Also this production is all about highlighting uncomfortable juxtapositions, and it’s fun to go see something that gives me complicated feelings and gets me to try to take it apart. 

The show starts off by making it very clear that these actors are putting on the roles (literally stepping into the shoes) of the Founding Fathers, rather than “being” those characters. The conscious stagey-ness that I took to be part of that “putting on the roles of these 18th century white historical personages” approach did take a little bit of getting used to. The choreography of “Sit Down, John” and “Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve” had the cast constantly reforming into various tableaus that seemed to to be mimicking the arrangements and poses of neoclassical paintings. However I think this worked against ”The Lees of Old Virginia” – I expected that song to be a little goofy and over-the-top, but when everything before it already felt a little over-the-top, trying to dial it up further didn’t have the the contrasting effect that it might have had. Other songs that were staged in a bigger and more dramatic way than I expected were “Momma, Look Sharp” and “The Egg,” though those were more effective.  “He Plays the Violin” was more overtly sexual than what I recall from the 1972 filmed version but again was not as egregious as I had feared based on Broadway reviews. “The Egg” is a song that took me a long time to appreciate when first listening to the Original Broadway Cast recording; it is possibly the cheesiest song in in a show where multiple other songs are reliant on dad-joke level puns. This production decided to go with maximally earnest All-American cheddar by projecting inspirational montages of protests for civil rights and the like, with a good dose of air guitar. It sounds kind of ridiculous (and it was kind of ridiculous) and it worked on me, but within the show it felt tonally a bit out of place.

The ending: I think I get what it was going for – leaving the audience with a final moment that represents the compromises and hypocrisies that were part of the nation’s founding and how we look back on it. But I think if it had found a way to create a stronger emotional moment (e.g. by a contrasting effect or just by being a little less subtle, since the show was not all that restrained earlier) it might have been more effective.

Cast: Liz Mikel as Benjamin Franklin and Oneika Phillips as John Hancock were perfect as far as I’m concerned – funny and profound and authoritative.  Brooke Simpson kicked things off by giving an compelling and non-perfunctory land acknowledgment that made me want to go learn things, and was also good as the Courier. Also liked Gisela Adisa as John Adams and Kassandra Haddock as Edward Rutledge. One fun thing was realizing how the casting/character portrayals made me think of what type of person I usually think of in authority roles; for example, it’s probably not someone with a squeaky voice and pigtails (as Roger Sherman of Connecticut is played by Anissa Marie Griego).  But really, why shouldn’t it be?  

Costuming and styling - lots of interesting details and choices. Coats were great all around but I particularly liked the one John Hancock wore. Josiah Bartlett wore a sheer shirt that showed top surgery scars; Edward Rutledge wore a corset; Col. Thomas McKean had flowing hair and leather pants.

Audience: the reaction definitely seemed mixed, not unlike when the Oklahoma! revival tour was here last year. I saw the show twice, and during my second viewing at least six people in my row conspicuously disappeared after intermission. 

In conclusion: It may not be for everyone, but I enjoyed it tremendously and regret that I did not have time to see it yet another time before it left town.

[theworstfoundingfathers]

Who is the worst? Round 1: Josiah Bartlett vs Samuel Adams

Josiah Bartlett (December 2, 1729 [O.S. November 21, 1729] – May 19, 1795) was an American Founding Father, physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. He served as the first governor of New Hampshire and chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature.

On January 15, 1754, he married Mary Bartlett of Newton, New Hampshire. She was his cousin, the daughter of his uncle, Joseph.

The Bartlett family seems to have owned several slaves, and there are references to tracking down runaway slaves in Bartlett's correspondence.

Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.

His 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter calling for colonial non-cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British soldiers, eventually resulting in the Boston Massacre of 1770.

Accounts written in the 19th century praised him as someone who had been steering his fellow colonists towards independence long before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. This view was challenged by negative assessments of Adams in the first half of the 20th century, mostly by British historians, in which he was portrayed as a master of propaganda who provoked "mob violence" to achieve his goals. However, according to biographer Mark Puls, a different account emerges upon examination of Adams' many writings regarding the civil rights of the colonists, while the "mob" referred to were a highly reflective group of men inspired by Adams who made his case with reasoned arguments in pamphlets and newspapers, without the use of emotional rhetoric.