• John James Beckley (August 4, 1757 – April 8, 1807) was an American political campaign manager and the first Librarian of the United States Congress, from...
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    Shortly thereafter, Jefferson appointed his former campaign manager John J. Beckley to serve as the first librarian of Congress. He was paid $2 a day and...
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    and served from March 4, 1805, to March 3, 1807. After the death of John J. Beckley, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Magruder to the dual post of...
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  • Beckley (born 1952), American musician Jake Beckley (1867–1918), American baseball player John J. Beckley (1757–1807), American political campaign manager...
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    Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 17,286 at the 2020 census, making it the...
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    Hamilton proposed to fund the national and state debts, and Madison and John J. Beckley began organizing a party to oppose it. It became what is now called...
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  • Derek Anthony Beckley (7 October 1929 – 19 April 1980) was an English actor. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Beckley went on to carve...
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    Just as important was effective party organization of the sort that John J. Beckley pioneered. In 1796, he managed the Jefferson campaign in Pennsylvania...
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  • Order in Baiern. J. C. W. Beckham (1869–1940), 35th governor of Kentucky. Member of Duvall Lodge No. 6, Bardstown, Kentucky. John J. Beckley (1757–1807),...
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    Albert Gallatin and Thomas Cooper, and Jefferson himself. Meanwhile, John J. Beckley of Pennsylvania, an ardent partisan, invented new campaign techniques...
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