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<mask> (born April 5, 1999) is a Filipino actress, singer, vlogger, VJ, and TV host. She made her first television appearance at the age of four when she joined ABS-CBN's talent search Star Circle Quest: Kids Edition in 2004, and came in at second place. She is known for portraying the roles of Gigi, Calla & Lily, and Shirley in the series Mga Anghel na Walang Langit, Calla Lily, and Luv U respectively. She also played the title role in Princess Sarah in 2007. <mask> received her first acting award as the "Most Popular Child Actress" by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation in 2009. In 2012, <mask> was nominated in the 17th Asian Television Awards as Best Actress in a Lead-Drama Role for her portrayal as a teenage mother in the Maalaala Mo Kaya episode, "T-Shirt". Early life
<mask> was born on April 5, 1999, in Pulilan, Bulacan to parents Hector, a business man, and Myleen.She has two brothers named Jeremy and Clark: the former being the oldest of the three, while the latter is the youngest. She attended Sto. Cristo Elementary School during kindergarten. Career

2004–2006: Star Circle Quest and Goin' Bulilit
In 2004, <mask> joined the reality-based talent competition Star Circle Quest on ABS-CBN. Together with the other contestants, <mask> Pedro had undergone talent training, physical enhancement and different challenges to test their talent skills. She managed to be in the "Magic Circle of 5" with fellow competitors Nash Aguas, Aaron Junatas, Mikylla Ramirez, and CJ Navato. During the 'Grand Questors Night' held on June 5, 2004, in Araneta Coliseum, she won first runner-up.Soon after, she became a part of Star Magic with an exclusive contract with ABS-CBN. Her acting career began in the same year, portraying the young Faith/Tala in Krystala. In February 2005, <mask> was cast in the then newly launched sketch comedy gag show, Goin Bulilit, featuring children in various comedic situations. She was in the main cast until 2011 when she graduated. The 'Seventh Batch Graduates', including <mask> Pedro, left due to the fact that the show is for kids, while they were already growing older. Aside from being one of the original mainstays in Goin Bulilit, <mask> also starred in OK Fine Whatever sitcom, again, with Aguas. In addition, she was one of the main cast in Mga Anghel na Walang Langit, portraying as Gigi.Her performance involved heavy drama acting since the series depicts the lives of exploited and unfortunate children. She was next cast to play two different characters on ABS-CBN's television series Calla Lily. The story was about Calla and Lily (both played by <mask>) who have different personalities: one is outspoken while the other is shy. 2007–2011: Film projects and recognition

In 2007, <mask> became the main lead once again in ABS-CBN's Princess Sarah after Calla Lily. The next year, <mask> was chosen to portray the role of Young Selene in Rounin, a fantasy and martial arts series shot using high-definition video technology, a first in the Philippine series. The series marked <mask> and Jairus Aquino's first team-up; they were once again paired up later on as on-screen teenage sweethearts in Luv U in 2013. In October 2008, she was cast on her first film, Mag-ingat Ka Sa... Kulam, with Judy Ann <mask>.Her performance earned her a nomination for the Movie Child Performer of the Year at the 25th PMPC Star Awards for Movies. She also appeared as a guest star in the series Kung Fu Kids, playing the role of Reyna Ungga-Ungga, the person who eventually helped the seven Kung Fu kids in their battles. The next year, <mask> joined the cast of Kamoteng Kahoy, an indie film by Maryo J. de los Reyes. She was also cast with Jairus Aquino in ABS-CBN's Pieta as Kakai Angeles. <mask> received her first acting award as the Most Popular Child Actress by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation. In addition, she was nominated the Best Comedy Actress by the PMPC Star Awards for TV for two consecutive years since 2008 for her character roles in Goin Bulilit. Her portrayal of young Mabel in the horror suspense film Segunda Mano marked her fourth film and her first official entry to the 2011 Metro Manila Film Festival.The following year, she played Nene in Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang. Following the start of her teenage years came the end of her spot in Goin Bulilit. After six years, she left the show in 2011. 2012–2017: Teenage years, international recognition and Luv U

During her career gap, she frequently stars in Maalaala Mo Kaya series, which features weekly real-life stories or anecdotes of common people or even famous celebrities and personalities through letter-sending. In 2012, she starred in Larong Bata, a film promoted and supported by the Department on Education for it showed the effects of bullying among kids. The film received positive reviews and was frequently shown in the different schools in the Philippines. In the same year, she was nominated in the 17th Asian Television Awards as Best Actress in a Lead-Drama Role for her portrayal as a teenage mother in the Maalaala Mo Kaya episode, "T-Shirt".The next year, she starred as Lavinia in Star Cinema's Must Be Love released on March 13. She later joined the second-season cast of Luv U. In 2014, she starred in Wansapanatym'''s month-long special "Si Lulu at Si Liit" with Jairus Aquino and Francis Magundayao. The story and their team-up received favorable reviews and consecutive high ratings. She started appearing in the Primetime series again soon after, now as a teenager. She received guest roles in FlordeLiza and FPJ's Ang Probinsyano, wherein she was reunited with Nash Aguas in the latter. She also starred as one of the supporting cast in Nathaniel in 2015.By the end of the year, she was cast in the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival film entry Haunted Mansion as Faye. Her acting was praised as she "...displays acting chops honed from years in the business. She does not resort to hysterics, but doles out an even and even mature performance as Ella's best friend. Together with Jairus Aquino, <mask> was announced to be one of the new video jockeys in the music channel myx in the beginning of the year 2016. According to the announcement, ever since "[t]hey... won as the MYX Celebrity VJ Duo in the show's weekly online poll [in February 2015], their followers have shown interest in seeing them again on the music channel". Both were also cast in Wansapanatym's "Susi Ni Sisay" by Wenn V. Deramas. This was Deramas' last TV project before he died.Still paired with Aquino, <mask> was supposed to appear in Written in Our Stars as a supporting cast but the show was postponed due to lead star Toni Gonzaga's pregnancy announcement. During this time, they were cast in the noon-time drama series Langit Lupa. Also in 2016, <mask> pursued her singing career when she launched her first single "Paraan". The song is a cover of Filipino band Mayonnaise's track from their album Tayo na Lang Dalawa released in 2014. The band members, significantly its singer, Monty Macalino, worked closely with her and supported her to pursue her singing career. An accompanying music video was also released under Yellow Room and directed by Chuck Ronquillo. Her cover single received the Favorite Remake award at the 12th Myx Music Awards held the next year.In 2017, she released another cover single "Stars & Caramel Bars", originally performed by Filipino indie band Sourberry. The music video accompaniment features Arturo Daza, her co-VJ in MYX. 2018–present: Singing career and Class of 2018

After releasing two cover singles in 2016 and 2017, respectively, San Pedro continued to pursue her music career. In June 2018, she signed a contract with Ivory Music and Video. She then released two original singles entitled "Pa'no Ang Lahat" and "Everything Will Be Alright" accompanied by music videos. In June 2019, she performed as a special guest during Mayonnaise's first major concert Akalain Mo 'Yun at the Music Museum. In September, she was once again invited to perform on the band's sophomore concert, Akalain Mo 'Yun Part 2, three months after the success of the first one.In May 2018, <mask> was cast in TRex Entertainment's teen suspense–thriller film Class of 2018 alongside Nash Aguas, Kristel Fulgar, and CJ Navato. The four of them were former part of Goin' Bulilit cast. This marks as her first lead role in a film and her first time in years to act again. Her drama episode in Maalaala Mo Kaya (for which she received the "Best Single Performance by an Actress" nomination at the 32nd PMPC Star Awards for Television) was her most recent work. Her performance as Ada in the film received satisfactory reviews: the critics agreed that she has a screen presence especially since she achieved in performing her role, whether during fight-scenes, heart-fluttering scenes or drama scenes. In May 2019, <mask> Pedro and Aguas have partnered once again in iWant's digital film The Gift directed by Onat Diaz. It was filmed way back in 2016.San Pedro plays the role of Tina, a sheltered woman who has a congenital heart problem. Due to its digital platform release, "the film received positive feedback online for its lead stars' performances and relatable story, and for promoting awareness on the developmental disorder". After leaving MYX as a VJ, <mask> Pedro started hosting television and online shows in 2019. Personal life and education
Aside from acting, she also sings and plays the guitar. She also collects watches as she values time. Despite her work schedule, she finished her high school as a regular student at the Sanctuary Christian School in 2015. She is currently taking AB Psychology at the AMA Online Education.Public image
Star Cinema recognized <mask> Pedro as the most promising female star in 2014 after she won the votes from the fans. The production company lists that she is a "versatile teen actress", "hard worker", "talented", "the next big thing", and "being an inspiration to people". Hosting

San Pedro made her hosting debut with the music channel MYX in 2016, although she first started as a guest video jockey in February 2015. Her guest appearance allowed her to receive the "Favorite MYX Celebrity VJ" nomination at the 11th MYX Music Awards. After her successful stint as a MYX Celebrity VJ, she was given a regular spot in the music channel in the beginning of the year 2016. Her role as a MYX VJ included introducing music videos, hosting segments, and interviewing singers. She was a MYX VJ for three years.In 2019, she started to appear on the online counterpart of the variety show ASAP, known as iWant ASAP, both as a guest and a guest/co-host. According to iWant ASAP, she was the Most Requested Artist in the show. She also joined the other hosts in the award-winning variety show S.M.A.C. Pinoy Ito Season 3 and the new online show Your Moment Apartment (the online counterpart of the reality talent competition show Your Moment) in IBC 13 and ABS-CBN, respectively. She was also invited to host events, regional shows, and others. Filmography
Film

Television

Digital shorts
 2017: MYX Halloween Special: "Kwintas"
 2018: Coffee Break'' – "Decaf"
 2018: "Gusto Ko Lang Kasama Ka Palagi" by Mayonnaise

Reality/Variety shows

Discography

Singles

Videography

Video albums

Other releases

Music videos

Awards and nominations

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Living people
Star Circle Quest participants
Star Magic
Actresses from Bulacan
Filipino television actresses
Filipino child actresses
VJs (media personalities)

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was a Japanese painter and luminary of the yōga (or Western-style) scene in the late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy, an Imperial Household Artist, a recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure and Order of Culture, an Officier in the Légion d'honneur, and a Person of Cultural Merit. Biography
Born in what is now the city of Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1874, little <mask> moved to Azabu in Tokyo with his family at the age of four or five when his father , a pastor, was appointed as an instructor in English at the Naval Academy. In 1887 the young <mask> entered the Protestant ; among his classmates was fellow yōga painter , while author Tōson Shimazaki was in one of the years above. After learning the rudiments of Western-style painting from Uesugi Kumatsu, with his introduction, dropping out of Meiji Gakuin in 1891, he studied alongside Miyake and  under Soyama Sachihiko at his  painting school. After his death in 1892, <mask> studied alongside Miyake at Harada Naojirō's ; the same year his work featured at the 4th  Exhibition, and again at the 5th in 1893. In 1893 he also studied Nihonga, under Kubota Beisen.After Harada's painting school closed in 1894, <mask> studied under Kuroda Seiki and Kume Keiichirō, on their return from Paris, at their newly established , where he became versed in pleinairism. Kuroda was not alone in being struck by his student's precocious abilities: at the following year's Fourth National Industrial Exhibition, his Early Summer Beside the Sea was awarded a "Virtuosity Prize" (similarly honoured were Kuroda (for his scandalizing Morning Toilette), Kume, and Asai Chū). In 1896 <mask> was involved, along with Kuroda and Kume, in the establishment of the Hakuba-kai or "White Horse Society", submitting nineteen pieces for the 1st Exhibition that year; he would continue to submit paintings for their exhibitions until the 12th in 1909, even during the time he was in Europe. Also in 1896, when Kuroda became Professor in the newly formed Department of Western-Style Painting (yōga) at the , <mask>, Fujishima Takeji, and Okada Saburōsuke were appointed Assistant Professors; however, in 1897 he resigned from his post, enrolling as a student in the same department, with special dispensation to enter as a fourth-year student, whence he then became the first to graduate, his graduation piece being his 1897 Evening at the Ferry Crossing. He spent half of 1898 guiding Adolf Fischer (de), future founder of the Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne), around various locales, including the Kinai and Hokuriku regions and Kyūshū. In 1899 <mask> took up Fischer's invitation to assist with the cataloguing of his burgeoning collection of Japanese art, and travelled to Berlin; this was the time of the Berlin Secession. In March 1900 he moved to Paris, where he saw his Evening at the Ferry Crossing at the Grand Palais during the Exposition Universelle (where it received an Honourable Mention).There he studied, like Kuroda, Kume, and Okada, under Raphaël Collin at the Académie Colarossi, sponsored by the Monbusho. From Autumn 1901 to Spring the following year, <mask> stayed in Grez-sur-Loing with Asai Chū, where they painted and penned their . His Thoughts of Home (Portrait of a Japanese Lady) appeared at the 1902 Salon organized by the Société des Artistes Français, while he sent Kodama back home for the Fifth National Industrial Exhibition, in 1903, where again he was awarded a runners-up prize. Returning to Japan, via Italy, also in 1903 he was appointed professor at his alma mater. In 1904 he exhibited a landscape at the St. Louis World's Fair. In 1907 he was appointed one of the judges at the , where he was awarded a First Prize for his Setting Sun, and also of the inaugural Bunten exhibition (he would continue to be a member of the adjudicating committee until the 12th and final Bunten exhibition in 1918). Also in 1907, he married .In 1911 he painted the ceiling of the Imperial Theatre as well as murals for its dining room. In 1914 he was appointed one of the judges at the , exhibited at the  and painted murals for the Akasaka Detached Palace and Tokyo Station. In 1919 he became a member of the Imperial Fine Arts Academy. In 1920 he travelled again to Europe, returning in 1921 after his involvement in the display of Japanese works in an exhibition organized by the French government. In 1922 he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th Class, and in 1923 membership in the Légion d'honneur with the rank of Officier. Also in 1923 he was appointed one of the judges at the second Chōsen Art Exhibition (ja) ("Senten"). In 1925 he transferred his official place of residence from Kagoshima to Tokyo.In 1926 one of his paintings was included in the 1st Exhibition in Honour of Shōtoku Taishi, and in each of 1929, 1936, and 1941 he was the subject of one-man shows at the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi. In 1932 he became President of the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts (he retired in 1936, to become an emeritus professor). In 1933 he became a member of the Historical Sites, Places of Scenic Beauty, and Natural Monuments Examining Committee. In 1934 he became an Imperial Household Artist. In 1936 he completed his Ceremony for the Promulgation of the Constitution for the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery. In 1937 he became a member of the Imperial Art Academy. For three years from 1940 he was involved in the copying of the wall paintings of the Hōryū-ji kondō.In 1943 he was a recipient of the Order of Culture. In 1945 he evacuated to what is now Yamatokōriyama in Nara Prefecture, then to Chiryū in Aichi Prefecture. In 1951 he was recognized as a Person of Cultural Merit and moved to Shimizu in Shizuoka Prefecture, where he died in 1959, posthumously receiving the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st Class. Works
Representative works include his early Evening at the Ferry Crossing (1897), Thoughts of Home (1902), and Kodama (1902); his mid-life series of portraits; and his late Ue-no-Midō (1945) and Summer Clouds (1950). He painted many still lifes with flowers, especially roses, and a number of views of Mount Fuji. His Evening at the Ferry Crossing depicts a family of farmers at the Yaguchi crossing (ja) of the Tama River, strikingly illuminated, according to art historian , through his "skillful manipulation of evening light". Kodama, inspired by the classical sculptures in the Louvre, and translated alternatively by Harada as Echo, is said to combine French Academism with German Expressionism as a  of <mask>'s period of study abroad; in Harada's words, it "evokes a Romantic sensuousness through gentle shading of the figure and barely visible handling of the brush"; the painting has also been likened in effect to Munch's The Scream.Exhibitions
Dedicated retrospectives include the 2002 , at the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2007 , at the Kariya City Art Museum, 2014 , at the Kagoshima City Museum of Art, and 2016 , again at the Kariya City Art Museum. Gallery

See also

 Japonisme

References

External links
  Tobunken bio

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1959 deaths
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Members of the Japan Art Academy
Imperial household artists
Recipients of the Order of Culture
Persons of Cultural Merit
Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure
Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
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<mask> (born May 11, 1947) is an American radical leftist, who was convicted in connection with violent and deadly militant activities committed as part of her goal to free African Americans from white oppression. <mask> was sentenced in 1987 to 40 years in prison for using false identification to buy firearms and for harboring a fugitive in the 1981 Brinks armored truck robbery, in which two police officers and a guard were killed, and Black Liberation Army members were wounded. In a second case, she was sentenced in 1990 to five years in prison for conspiracy and malicious destruction in connection with eight bombings including the 1983 United States Senate bombing, detonated at night to prevent injury to tourists and minimize risk to Senators or workers. Her sentence was commuted in 2001 by President Bill Clinton because of its extraordinary length. Students for a Democratic Society
<mask> began her life as an activist by organizing demonstrations at Michigan State University during 1965. In 1967, <mask> became a member of the East Coast chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). She stated that she became interested in the civil rights movement after getting attacked by police during a demonstration at the Pentagon."When I first became a political activist, I was a pacifist. I had never experience real violence in my own life and naively hoped that it changed." <mask> demonstrated her interest in anti-racism movements by supporting various groups championing Black, Native and Puerto Rican liberation causes. <mask>' leadership role in SDS began after a conference held on July 15, 1969, at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. At this she announced that she would be traveling with six other anti-war activists to Hanoi to participate in the release of three U.S pilots who were being held as prisoners of war. At this conference, she also read a statement from SDS which declared the organization's support for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Almost a month later, on August 7, 1969, <mask> returned from Hanoi along with the prisoners of war through Trans World Airlines.Soon after <mask> return from Hanoi, SDS held various conferences so that she could relate her experiences in Hanoi. During these conferences <mask> stated that "SDS is on the side of North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front", called out the U.S. as the aggressor, and spoke of the "extremely humane treatment" given to captured American GIs. To conclude many of her appearances, she mentioned how willing the Vietnamese women and children were to bear arms in order to fight for their cause, and told of seeing an antiaircraft gun operated by Viet Cong women, cradling the gun in her arms and "wishing that an American plane would come over." Two of these conferences were notable for their high attendance. One took place at St. Joseph's Episcopal Church in Detroit on August 11, 1969, while the other took place at Cleveland during the SDS National Conference held August 29 through September 1, 1969. While at the SDS national convention, <mask> announced her loyalty to Communism. In 1970, <mask> was arrested for conspiracy and crossing state lines to incite a riot while organizing for SDS's National Action, more commonly known as the Days of Rage.The charges were dropped after it was disclosed that the government had used illegal wiretaps to obtain evidence. <mask> was released on a $75,000 bond. After <mask> was released from prison in 1970, she moved to Texas where she continued to participate in radical causes. Weather Underground Organization and M19CO
<mask> became involved in Weatherman, a group that derived from SDS. She organized and led many Weatherman actions. Following the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three Weatherman members (Ted Gold, Diana Oughton, and Terry Robbins), <mask> was one of the Weatherman members who chose to go underground in 1970. During her membership in the Weather Underground Organization, <mask> provided safe housing for members of the Weather Underground Organization and by providing funding for their assumed identities.She generated these funds through her participation in various robberies. <mask> also participated in the May 19th Communist Movement, a group that included some former members of the Weather Underground Organization. On April 15, 1970, <mask> and Dianne Donghi were arrested for trying to forge checks using false identification. The FBI was able to arrest them because of a tip they received from ex-Weatherman Larry Grathwohl, who was working as an undercover informant for the FBI. Grathwohl's testimony was later used in <mask>' final arrest by the FBI to prove that she had repeatedly been involved in illegal activities. <mask>' final arrest was on May 11, 1985, for harboring Marilyn Jean Buck, a fugitive in the 1981 Brinks armored truck robbery case, in which two police officers and a guard were murdered. At the time of her arrest, <mask> was wearing a wig and glasses to disguise herself.The FBI agents obtained from her purse a Browning 9mm pistol and false documents with the name of Rebecca Ann Morgan, Christine Johnson, and Louise Robinett. The FBI was able to trace the gun to Louisiana, where <mask> was found to have purchased four firearms and three boxes of ammunition from three separate businesses under the false identity of Louise Robinett. Having purchased the four guns under a false identification, <mask> was charged with eleven violations of the Gun Control Act of 1968. From March 16 to March 20, 1987, she was tried before a jury. Along with the eleven violations charges and housing a fugitive, she was also charged for terrorist actions after 740 pounds of dynamite were found in her apartment along with evidence of a plan to target the U.S Capitol Building, the National War College, the Navy Yard Computer Center, the Navy Yard Officers Club, Israeli Aircraft Industries, the FBI and the New York Patrolman's Benevolent Association. On March 20, 1987, she was found guilty of all charges and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. While incarcerated at the Federal Corrections Institution in Dublin, <mask> advocated for an AIDS educational program for women and lesbian inmates.She helped raise funds for the program by creating quilts and served as a peer AIDS counselor and educator. <mask> advocated for inmates' rights, claiming that "When I was in jail in Louisiana we were able to win a jail house lawyer's legal suit forcing the jail to give women glasses and false teeth". On January 20, 2001, President Bill Clinton commuted <mask>' sentence, commuting her 40-year sentence to the 16-years already served. Life since prison
Along with her partner, Eve Goldberg, <mask> travels around the United States advocating for lesbian and female inmates' rights. <mask> is involved with the activist organization the Center for Third World Organizing. In March 2002, she helped convene a conference with other formerly incarcerated people, entitled "Tear Down the Walls," in an attempt to gain support for giving amnesty to people she identified as political prisoners, claiming that "These political prisoners of war are women and men incarcerated because of their involvement in political activities which challenged the unjust nature of the U.S socioeconomic system." In 2003, <mask> gave an interview in which she identified her sexuality as an influence for her political activities, stating that "Being a lesbian has always been an important part of the reasons why I am a revolutionary – even before I was self-conscious about how important this is to me" and "Because I experience real oppression as a lesbian and as a woman, I am personally committed from the very core of being to winning liberation for women, lesbians, and all oppressed people."See also
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Writings
 The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy, with Eve Goldberg
 Statement from Women Political Prisoners on the Takeover of KPFA'', July 14, 1999

Notes

References
Arm the Spirit. (November 30, 1995)
Joy James. "<mask>, Susan Rosenberg, and Laura Whitehorn, Biographies." In Imprisoned
Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion, (Lanham, 2003)
David Horowitz. Pardoned, but Unforgiving (September 6, 2001)
Prison Activist. <mask>, Anti-imperialist political prisoner
Harold Jacobs, "Weatherman", (Ramparts Press, 1970)
Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC). "Goldberg, Eve and <mask>.The prison industrial complex and the global economy," (California Agit Press, 1998)
Ron Jacobs, "The Way The Wind Blew; A History of the Weather Underground", (New York: Verso, 1997)
Dan Berger, "Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity," (Ak Press, 2006)
Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman)", (Illinois: Chicago Field Office, 1976)
 Staajabu. It’s About Time: A Visit with Political Prisoners <mask> and Marilyn Buck(2001)
 United States of America, Plaintiff. Appellee, <mask> <mask> (1988)
Jay Nordlinger, "Before We Move on." Clinton’s Rosenberg Case (March 19, 2001)
The Abilene Reporter News. "Agents Search for 10 Indicted Members of Group". (Texas: July 24, 1970)
Jacobin Books. "Hauling Up the Morning: Izango la Manana," (The Red Sea Press, 1990)

External links
 FBI files: Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman).1947 births
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<mask> (February 15, 1922 – December 3, 2017) was an American politician from Illinois. As a member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 16th congressional district from 1961 to 1981. In 1980, he ran an independent campaign for president, receiving 6.6% of the popular vote. Born in Rockford, Illinois, <mask> practiced law after serving in the Army during World War II. After a stint in the United States Foreign Service, he won election as the State's Attorney for Winnebago County, Illinois. He won election to the House of Representatives in 1960 in a strongly Republican district. Initially one of the most conservative members of the House, <mask>'s views moderated during the 1960s, particularly regarding social issues.He became Chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1969 and remained in that position until 1979. He strongly criticized the Vietnam War as well as President Richard Nixon's actions during the Watergate scandal. <mask> entered the 1980 Republican presidential primaries, introducing his signature campaign proposal of raising the gas tax while cutting social security taxes. He established himself as a contender for the nomination in the early primaries, but eventually dropped out of the Republican race, choosing to pursue an independent campaign for president. In the election, he finished third behind Republican nominee Ronald Reagan and Democratic President Jimmy Carter. He won support among Democrats who became disillusioned with Carter, as well as Rockefeller Republicans, independents, liberal intellectuals, and college students. After the election, he resumed his legal career and helped found FairVote, an organization that advocates electoral reforms such as instant-runoff voting.He also won a lawsuit against the state of Ohio, <mask> v. Celebrezze, in which the Supreme Court struck down early filing deadlines for independent candidates. <mask> served as a visiting professor at numerous universities and was on the boards of several organizations. He endorsed Ralph Nader in 2000 and helped found the Justice Party in 2012. Early life
<mask> was born in Rockford, Illinois, where he grew up, the son of Mabel Edna (née Ring) and E. Albin <mask>. His father was a Swedish immigrant, as were his maternal grandparents. In his youth, he worked in his family's grocery store. He graduated as the valedictorian of his class (1939) at Rockford Central High School.He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1942, and started law school, but his education was interrupted by World War II. He enlisted in the Army in 1943, and served as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Field Artillery in France and Germany until the end of the war, receiving four service stars. After the war, <mask> returned to complete his education, earning a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1946. Early career
<mask> was admitted to the Illinois bar the same year, and practiced law in Rockford. Soon after, he moved east to attend Harvard Law School, obtaining a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1949.While at Harvard, he served on the faculty of Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. In another brief return to Rockford, <mask> practiced at the law firm Large, Reno & Zahm (now Reno & Zahm LLP). Thereafter, <mask> joined the Foreign Service. From 1952 to 1955, he served in Berlin as the Economic Reporting Officer in the Eastern Affairs Division, as an adviser on the staff of the United States High Commissioner for Germany. At the end of his tour, he left the foreign service and once again returned to the practice of law in Rockford. Political career

Soon after his return, <mask> was approached about running for public office. In 1956, <mask> was elected State's Attorney in Winnebago County, Illinois, first winning a four-person race in the April primary by 1,330 votes and then the general election in November by 11,456 votes.After serving for one term, he was ready to leave that office when the local congressman, 28-year incumbent Leo E. Allen, announced his retirement. <mask> joined the Republican primary for Allen's 16th District seat—the real contest in this then-solidly Republican district—with four other contenders. He won first the primary (by 5,900 votes) in April and then the general election (by 45,000 votes) in November. He served in the United States House of Representatives for ten terms, from 1961 to 1981. Initially, <mask> was among the most conservative members of the Republican caucus. Three times (in 1961, 1963, and 1965) in his early terms as a Congressman, <mask> introduced a constitutional amendment to attempt to "recognize the law and authority of Jesus Christ" over the United States. The bills died quietly, but later came back to haunt <mask> in his presidential candidacy.As he continued to serve, the atmosphere of the 1960s weighed on <mask> and he began to re-think some of his beliefs. By the late 1960s, <mask>'s positions on social issues shifted to the left, though his fiscal philosophy remained largely conservative. At the same time, he was held in high esteem by his colleagues in the House. In 1964, he won appointment to a seat on the powerful Rules Committee. In 1969, he became Chairman of the House Republican Conference, the number three position in the House Republican hierarchy in what was (at that time) the minority party. <mask> increasingly found himself at odds with conservatives in his home district and other members of the House. He was not always a faithful supporter of the Republican agenda, despite his high rank in the Republican caucus.He was very critical of the Vietnam War, and was a very controversial critic of Richard Nixon during Watergate. In 1974, despite his criticism of Nixon, he was nearly swept out by the strong anti-Republican tide in that year's election. He was re-elected with 55 percent of the vote, what would be the lowest percentage of his career. His spot as the chairman of the House Republican Committee was challenged three times after his election and, when Gerald Ford was defeated in the 1976 Presidential campaign, <mask> lost a key ally in Washington. In 1970 and 1972, <mask> had a Democratic challenger in Rockford Professor <mask>. Devine. In both years, <mask> defeated Devine by a wide margin. In late 1977, a fundamentalist television minister from Rockford, Don Lyon, announced that he would challenge <mask> in the Republican primary.It was a contentious campaign, where Lyon, with his experience before the camera, proved to be a formidable candidate. Lyon raised a great deal of money, won backing from many conservatives in the community and party, and put quite a scare into the <mask> team. Though <mask> was a leader in the House and the campaign commanded national attention, <mask> won the primary by 16% of the vote. <mask> was aided in this campaign by strong newspaper endorsements and crossover support from independents and Democrats. 1980 presidential campaign
In 1978, <mask> formed a presidential campaign exploratory committee, finding little public or media interest. In late April 1979, <mask> made the decision to enter the Republican primary, joining a field that included Ronald Reagan, <mask>, <mask>, <mask>, George H. W<mask>, and the perennial candidate Harold Stassen. Within the last weeks of 1979, <mask> introduced his signature campaign proposal, advocating that a 50-cent a gallon gas tax be enacted with a corresponding 50% reduction in social security taxes.<mask> built state campaigns in four targeted states—New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Wisconsin. He won some political support among Republicans, picking up endorsements along the way that helped legitimize him in the race. He began to build support among media elites, who appreciated his articulateness, straightforward manner, moderate positions, and his refusal to walk down the conservative path that all of the other Republicans were traveling. Slogan and positions

He often referred to his candidacy as "a campaign of ideas." He supported tax credits for businesses' research-and-development budgets, which he believed would increase American productivity; he also supported increasing funding for research at universities. He supported conservation and environmental protection. He opposed Ronald Reagan's proposal to cut taxes broadly, which he feared would increase the national debt and the inflation rate (which was very high at the time of the campaign).He also supported a tax on gasoline to reduce dependence on foreign oil. He supported the Equal Rights Amendment, gay rights and abortion rights generally; he also touted his perfect record of having supported all civil rights legislation since 1960. He opposed the requirement for registration for the military draft, which Jimmy Carter had reinstated. This made him appealing to many liberal college students who were dissatisfied with Carter. However, he also voiced support for a strong, flexible military and support for NATO against USSR, as well as several other positions associated with Republicans, including deregulation of some industries such as natural gas and oil prices, and a balanced budget to be achieved mainly by reductions in government spending. Rise

On January 5, 1980, in the Republican candidates' debate in Des Moines, Iowa, unlike the other candidates, <mask> said lowering taxes, increasing defense spending, and balancing the budget were an impossible combination. In a stirring summation, <mask> invoked his father's immigration to the United States and said that American would have to make sacrifices "for a better tomorrow."For the next week, <mask>'s name and face were all over the national news programs, in newspapers, and in national news magazines. <mask> spent less than $2000 in Iowa, but he finished with 4.3% of the vote. The television networks were covering the event, portraying <mask> to a national audience as a man of character and principle. When the voters in New Hampshire went to the polls, <mask> again exceeded the expectations, finishing fourth with just under 10% of the vote. <mask> was declared the winner in both Massachusetts and Vermont by the Associated Press, but the following morning ended up losing both primaries by a slim margin. In Massachusetts, he lost to <mask> by 0.3% and in Vermont he lost to Reagan by 690 votes. <mask> arrived in Illinois following the New England primaries and had a lead in the state polls, but his Illinois campaign struggled despite endorsements from the state's two largest newspapers.Reagan defeated him, 48% to 37%. <mask> carried Chicago and Rockford, the state's two largest cities at the time, but he lost in the more conservative southern section of the state. The next week, there was a primary in Connecticut, which (while <mask> was on the ballot) his team had chosen not to campaign actively in. He finished third in Connecticut with 22% of the vote, and it seemed too most like any other loss, whether <mask> said he was competing or not. Next was Wisconsin, and this was thought to be <mask>'s best chance for victory, but he again finished third, winning 27% of the vote. Run as an independent

The Republican platform failed to endorse the Equal Rights Amendment or support extension of time for its ratification. <mask> was a strong supporter of both.Pollsters were finding that <mask> was much more popular across the country with all voters than he was in the Republican primary states. Without any campaigning, he was running at 22% nationally in a three-way race. <mask>'s personal aide and confidant, Tom Wartowski, encouraged him to remain in the Republican Party. <mask> faced a huge number of obstacles as a non-major party candidate: having to qualify for 51 ballots (which the major parties appeared on automatically), having to raise money to run a campaign (the major parties received close to $30 million in government money for their campaigns), having to win national coverage, having to build a campaign overnight, and having to find a suitable running mate among them. He built a new campaign team, qualified for every ballot, raised a great deal of money, and rose in the polls to as high as 26% in one Gallup poll. However, in the summer of 1980, he had an overseas campaign tour to show his foreign policy credentials and it took a drubbing on national television. The major parties, particularly the Republicans, basked in the spotlight of their national conventions where <mask> was left out of the coverage.<mask> made an appearance with Ted Kennedy and it, too, was a huge error. By the third week of August he was in the 13–15% range in the polls. A critical issue for <mask> was appearing in the fall presidential debates after the League of Women Voters invited him to appear due to popular interest in his candidacy, although he was only polling 12% at that time. In late August, he named Patrick Lucey, the former two-term Democratic Governor of Wisconsin and Ambassador to Mexico as his running mate. Late in August, <mask> released a 317-page comprehensive platform, under the banner of the National Unity Party, that was very well received. In early September, a court challenge to Federal Election Campaign Act was successful and <mask> qualified for post-election public funding. Also, <mask> submitted his petitions for his fifty-first ballot.Then, the League ruled that the polls showed that he had met the qualification threshold and said he would appear in the debates. Fall campaign
Carter said that he would not appear on stage with <mask>, and sat out the debate, which hurt the President in the eyes of voters. Reagan and <mask> had a debate in Baltimore on September 21, 1980. <mask> did well, and polls showed he won a modest debate victory over Reagan, but Reagan, who had been portrayed by Carter throughout the campaign as something of a warmonger, proved to be a reasonable candidate and carried himself well in the debate. The debate was <mask>'s big opportunity as he needed a break-out performance, but what he got was a modest victory. In the following weeks, <mask> slowly faded out of the picture with his support dropping from 16% to 10–12% in the first half of October. By the end of the month, Reagan debated Carter alone, but CNN attempted to let <mask> participate in the 2nd debate by tape delay.Daniel Schorr asked <mask> the questions from the Carter-Reagan debate, and then CNN interspersed <mask>'s live answers with tape delayed responses from Carter and Reagan. <mask>'s support continued to fade down to 5%, although rose up to 8% just before election day. Although Reagan would win a sizable victory, the polls showed the two major party candidates closer (Gallup's final poll was 47–44–8) going into the election and it was clear that many would-be <mask> supporters had been pulled away by Carter and Reagan. In the end, <mask> finished with 6.6% of the vote. Most of <mask>'s support came from those Liberal Republicans who were suspicious of, or even hostile to, Reagan's conservative wing. Many prominent intellectuals, including All in the Family creator Norman Lear, and the editors of the liberal magazine The New Republic, also endorsed the <mask> campaign. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury ran several strips sympathetic to the <mask> campaign.Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, actor Paul Newman and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. have also been reported as having supported <mask>. Although the Carter campaign feared <mask> could be a spoiler, <mask>'s campaign turned out to be "simply another option" for frustrated voters who had already decided not to back Carter for another term. Polls found that around 37% of <mask> voters favored Reagan as their second choice over Carter. <mask> did not carry a single precinct in the country. <mask>'s finish was still the best showing for a third-party candidate since George Wallace's 14 percent in 1968 and stands as the seventh best for any such candidate since the Civil War (trailing James B. Weaver's 8.5 percent in 1892, Theodore Roosevelt's 27 percent in 1912, Robert La Follette's 17 percent in 1924, Wallace, and Ross Perot's 19 percent and 8 percent in 1992 and 1996, respectively). He pursued Ohio's refusal to provide ballot access to the U.S. Supreme Court and won 5–4 in Anderson v. Celebrezze. His inability to make headway against the de facto two-party system as an independent in that election would later lead him to become an advocate for instant-runoff voting, helping to found FairVote in 1992.Later career

By the end of the campaign, much of <mask>'s support came from college students. He capitalized on that by becoming a visiting professor at a series of universities: Stanford University, University of Southern California, Duke University, University of Illinois College of Law, Brandeis University, Bryn Mawr College, Oregon State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Nova Southeastern University and delivered the lecture at the 1988 Waldo Family Lecture Series on International Relations at Old Dominion University. He was chair of FairVote from 1996 to 2008, after helping to found the organization in 1992, and continued to serve on its board until 2014. He also served as president of the World Federalist Association and on the advisory board of Public Campaign and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and was of counsel to the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC. He was the first executive director of the Council for the National Interest, founded in 1989 by former Congressmen Paul Findley (R-IL) and Pete McCloskey (R-CA) to promote American interests in the Middle East. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, he was briefly considered as possible candidate for the Reform Party nomination, but instead endorsed Ralph Nader, who was nominated by the Green Party. In January 2008, <mask> indicated strong support for the candidacy of a fellow Illinoisan, Democratic contender <mask>.In 2012, he played a role in the creation of the Justice Party, a progressive, social-democratic party organized to support the candidacy of former Salt Lake City mayor <mask> (no relation) for the 2012 U.S. presidential election. On August 6, 2014, he endorsed the campaign for the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA), one of only six persons who served in the United States Congress ever to do so. He was a member of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute's International Council. Death
<mask> died in Washington, D.C. on December 3, 2017, at the age of 95. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery on June 22, 2018. See also
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<mask> (; born 27 May 1986) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for Eredivisie club NEC and the Denmark national team. He is known for his set piece abilities. Schöne spent his entire professional career in the Netherlands, with Heerenveen, De Graafschap, NEC and Ajax, before moving to Genoa in Italy in 2019. During his time in the Netherlands, he scored 85 league goals. Schöne scored on his full international debut in 2009 and was part of the Danish squad at UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Club career

De Graafschap
Born in Glostrup, Schöne began playing youth football with Himmelev-Veddelev BK and moved on to Tåstrup B.70 and then Lyngby. In 2002, he moved to the youth team of Eredivisie club Heerenveen.He spent four years with the team without playing any league matches then moved to Eerste Divisie club De Graafschap in 2006. In his first season, he helped De Graafschap win promotion to the Eredivisie. In his two seasons with De Graafschap, he scored 12 goals in 70 matches. NEC
Schöne signed for NEC in summer 2008. He scored the winning goal for NEC away at Spartak Moscow in December 2008, which sent the team through to the next round of the UEFA Cup. The club and the fans picked him as NEC's player of the year, a title he also won at his previous club, De Graafschap. Ajax
On 18 April 2012, Schöne joined Ajax on a contract valid until 2015.A number of other Danish players had played for Ajax, including Michael Laudrup, who had been a role model for him throughout his career. The club and the fans picked him as the player of the year in 2014. On 2 March 2015, he signed a new contract lasting until summer 2017, and on 22 February 2017, he signed a new contract lasting until summer 2019. On 27 February 2019, he became the international player with the most games played for Ajax, by surpassing Søren Lerby's 269 games. On 5 March 2019, in the UEFA Champions League, Schöne scored Ajax's final goal of the Round of 16-second leg against Real Madrid, by converting a direct free kick that went past the Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. The victory completed a surprise comeback, the Dutch side winning 4–1 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and 5–3 on aggregate to knock the European Champions out of the Champions League. Genoa
On 9 August 2019, Schöne joined Serie A club Genoa on a two-year contract.The reported fee was €1.5 million. He scored his first goal giving the lead in an eventual 2–1 loss against Milan. In the same match, he also missed a 90th-minute penalty kick. In October, 2020, the former Ajax star discovered he was effectively frozen out of the first Genoa team, as he cannot be selected for Serie A football without being named on their list of eligible players. His agent was not happy with this and plans to take legal action, saying that, cases similar to this have already been analyzed by FIFA and the CAS. He was not part of new coach Rolando Maran’s plans and was told he could terminate his contract early by mutual consent to leave as a free agent. Schone was one of the 17 Genoa players who was diagnosed with COVID-19 and a transfer seemed a far away option in the final days of the window due to his COVID status, as well as the fact that both he and his agent did not know that he was left off the list of eligible players for the first Genoa team.On 7 January 2021, his contract was terminated. Heerenveen
On 11 February 2021, it was announced that Schöne had signed with SC Heerenveen on a six-month contract, returning to the club where he played between 2002 and 2006. Schöne hopes to get back into the Denmark national team to play at UEFA Euro 2020. Return to NEC
On 9 June 2021, it was announced that Schöne had returned to NEC, signing a two-year contract, until the summer of 2023.

International career

<mask> began his international career with the Denmark national under-16 team, scoring a goal on his debut in August 2001. He played a total of ten matches and scored one goal for the under-17 and under-18 teams from July 2002 to March 2004. After joining De Graafschap, Schöne made his debut for the under-21 team in March 2007. He played a total of nine matches and scored one goal for the under-21s until October 2008.Senior
On 12 August 2009, on his debut for the Denmark senior team in a friendly against Chile, Schöne scored less than a minute after being put into action in the second half. The goal was the equalizer in an eventual 1–2 loss at the Brøndby Stadium. He was unable to play in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa because of a knee injury. In 2018 he was named in Denmark's squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. He played in three matches, starting in one, but did not score. Personal life
On 30 September 2020, Schöne tested positive for COVID-19 amid its pandemic in Italy. Career statistics

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Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Schöne goal.Honours

Club
De Graafschap
 Eerste Divisie: 2006–07

Ajax
 Eredivisie: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2018–19
 KNVB Cup: 2018–19
 Johan Cruyff Shield: 2013, 2019
 UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2016–17

Individual
 De Graafschap Player of the Year: 2007–08
 NEC Player of the Year: 2008–09
 AFC Ajax Player of the Year: 2014
 AFC Ajax Goal of the Decade: 2020
 Eredivisie Team of the Year: 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19

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National team profile at dbu.dk
<mask> Schöne at Voetbal International

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<mask> (September 10, 1736October 10, 1797) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, a merchant, planter, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia politician. A grandson of Robert "King" <mask>, one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners and slaveholders in the Old Dominion, <mask> was active in Virginia's legislature for more than 25 years, generally allied with <mask>, Benjamin Harrison V, Edmund Pendleton and other conservative planters. Early life

<mask> was born on Newington Plantation in King and Queen County, Virginia, on September 10, 1736, but wrongly reported as dead along with his mother, <mask>, who "unhappily catching a Common Cold," died shortly after his birth. His maternal grandfather, <mask>, possibly the wealthiest man as well as the largest landowner in Virginia at the time of his death, had bequeathed £2,000 to his youngest daughter, who became bethrothed to <mask>. five months after her father's death (although her brother had not paid that full amount to her new husband by the time of her death). His paternal grandfather, <mask>, Sr. by 1704 (before western lands were opened to European settlement) had also become one of the 100 largest landowners in Virginia's Northern Neck. <mask>. had been elected for the first time to the House of Burgesses in 1718 and was re-elected nine years later with John Robinson, Jr., who would become the powerful Speaker of the House of Burgesses and benefactor of the <mask> family. The elder <mask> owned at least one ship, the Braxton that traded with the West Indies and elsewhere, and was commission agent for cargoes of enslaved blacks sold to Virginia planters.He died, aged 71, when <mask> was twelve; his eldest son (<mask>'s father) George Jr. had succeeded him as delegate for King and Queen County in 1742 but died not long thereafter in 1749. Speaker Robinson and neighbor Humphrey Hill served as guardians for <mask> and his slightly (3 year) elder brother George (who inherited Newington and various land in King and Queen and Essex County). Educated at the College of William & Mary like his father and brother, <mask> followed family tradition at age 19 by marrying Judith Robinson, a wealthy heiress and the Speaker's niece. However, she died giving birth to their daughter, leaving Braxton two daughters, Mary and Judith. The young widower soon journeyed to England for two years. Upon returning to the colonies in 1760, <mask> sold Elsing Green, where he had lived with Judith, and married again, this time to Elizabeth Corbin, eldest daughter of Richard Corbin, deputy receiver general for his majesty's revenues in Virginia, who brought a £1000 dowry. Career as merchant and plantation owner

<mask> purchased a small schooner shortly after his second marriage and turned his energies to trade.<mask> traded between the West Indies and American colonies, establishing relationships with Bayard & Son of New York and Willing & Morris of Philadelphia. He also urged the Brown brothers of Providence, Rhode Island, who had abandoned the slave trade during the French and Indian War, to sell him African people, but such transactions may not have completed. Whether or not <mask>'s mercantile enterprises included slave trading, he and his brother were accompanied by a black slave at the College of William & Mary. <mask> later owned many more slaves on his various plantations, and there are no records of manumissions or a will. His biographer notes that at the end of the Revolutionary War, despite selling off some properties after his father's and brother's deaths and for his own debts, Braxton owned at least 12,000 acres and 165 slaves. The biographer Alonzo T. Dill states that before his death, Braxton sold off or gave to his kinsmen all but 42 of his blacks and probably could only have farmed fewer than half of the remaining 3,900 acres. <mask>'s racial attitudes, while common to his class, contrasted with those of another of King <mask>'s grandsons, <mask> III, and of George Mason IV, who fought against the slave trade during their legislative careers.Most persons with the name <mask> since the end of the Civil War have been, and are, African-American, presumably descendants of slaves on Braxton's plantations. Early political career

<mask> began his long career representing King William County in the Virginia House of Burgesses, taking his seat in 1761. However, his brother George died on October 3, 1761, leaving an insolvent estate, so the family lost Newington (which burned down, under other owners, in 1800). Although both high-living Braxtons had been considered wealthy, as well as political allies of Speaker John Robinson, when the John Robinson estate scandal broke in 1766, they turned out to be among the largest beneficiaries of the late speaker's interest-free loans of redeemed paper money supposed to have been burned. In addition to his duties as a Burgess, Braxton served as sheriff of King William County (a lucrative position for which he briefly resigned his position as Burgess), colonel of its militia, and vestryman of the troubled St. John's Church about ten miles east of his Chericoke plantation. Factional disputes within the parish (which assessed members to support not only the rector but the parish poor) grew so severe that the House of Burgesses held hearings and ultimately passed a special bill dissolving the vestry, as <mask> had wished. Although always considered a moderate or conservative politician, <mask> signed the First Virginia Association intended to protest the Townshend duties on tea and other products, but like his ally <mask>, not the Second Association which set up boycott compliance mechanism, nor the Third Virginia Association pledging not to purchase various East Indian commodities.However, in 1774 <mask> returned to Williamsburg as King William County's delegate (with William Aylett), and joined 108 others in the Fourth Virginia Association, which authorized local committees of safety as well as volunteer militia. When Lord Dunmore seized the colony's gunpowder and flintlocks for their rifles, <mask> helped negotiate a compromise between fellow legislator Patrick Henry and his own father-in-law Corbin that averted a crisis. Reluctant revolutionary and Virginia moderate

<mask> was "a moderate politician during the Revolution—often viewed as sympathetic to the British (but not a Loyalist)." Although absent at some sessions, he had represented his county sixteen times between 1761 and Lord Dunmore's dissolution of the House of Burgesses; <mask> also served as the county delegate to all five sessions of the Virginia Convention. In 1774, <mask> joined the patriots' Committee of Safety in Virginia, as well as chaired the legislative committee considering legal penalties for Tories. When Peyton Randolph died unexpectedly in Philadelphia in October 1775, fellow Virginia legislators elected <mask> to take his place in the Continental Congress. He served in the Congress from February 1776 until August, when Virginia reduced its delegation to five members.In that capacity <mask> signed the Declaration of Independence, although he had previously opposed it as premature in Committee of the Whole, and explained his stance in several letters to his uncle <mask>. <mask> also drew revolutionaries' criticism for his pamphlet, Address to the Convention, which he had printed in reply to the proposals of John Adams's Thoughts on Government. Afterwards <mask> returned to the House of Burgesses, which thanked him and Thomas Jefferson for their service, although King William voters failed to re-elect the absent <mask> as one of their delegates (so he missed the two sessions in 1778). Moreover, his house at Chericoke burned down shortly before Christmas in 1776, so <mask> moved his family to Grove House near West Point, Virginia. Through most of his legislative career, <mask> was a political opponent of the Lee family (since its involvement in the Robinson estate scandal), and he also became involved in a press quarrel with anti-slavery activist and diplomat Arthur Lee, supposedly concerning Silas Deane's mercantile and diplomatic activities. Between 1776 and 1785, Braxton served in 8 of the 11 legislative assemblies and attended 14 of 21 sessions, with a special concern for debt and tax moratoriums or other relief. Financial speculation and troubles

<mask> invested a great deal of his wealth in the American Revolution.Like Robert Morris, <mask> loaned money to the cause, as well as funded shipping and privateering (and lost about half of the 14 ships in which he held interests). <mask> (with fellow businessmen including Morris and Benjamin Harrison) sold Virginia and Carolina tobacco and corned meat abroad, and secured arms and ammunition (unsuccessfully, most colonies preferring arms supplied by foreign governments on favorable terms), as well as wheat and salt, and cloth and other trade goods. In 1780, the Continental Congress censured <mask> for his role in the Phoenix affair of 1777, in which his privateer seized a neutral Portuguese vessel from Brazil, prompting diplomatic protests. The British also destroyed some of Braxton's plantations during the war. In addition to the indebtedness incurred after the deaths of his father and brother, and through his own relatively poor agricultural business practices, <mask> accumulated war debts of the Continental Congress and also of Robert Morris, both of which proved slow to repay. In 1786 <mask> sold a plantation and rented a smaller residence ("row-house") in Richmond, which (with the depreciated paper currency) allowed him to repay his own indebtedness to the Robinson estate in 1787. In 1787, <mask> sued Robert Morris in Henrico County court for £28,257, but the lawsuit continued for eight years before commissioners were appointed, then Morris appealed.Finally, Virginia's Court of Appeals led by Edmund Pendleton decided mostly in favor of <mask> before Morris was forced into bankruptcy by his own continued land speculations (although Morris as late as 1800 believed he should have won £20,000). In 1791, <mask> also purchased Strawberry Hill outside Richmond for his wife (who had received nothing upon her father's death, all his property being given to his sons), and conveyed it to his sons <mask>. and Corbin to hold for their mother's benefit. <mask>'s biographer does not believe that Braxton hid assets from his creditors by placing them in relatives' names, although his widow later attempted to recover dower rights in land and slaves that her husband sold in his last years. His sons in law, Robert Page and John White (husbands of Molly and Judith, his daughters by his first wife) paid creditors more than £2,000 on <mask>'s behalf. On November 15, 1785, fellow delegates elected <mask> to the Council of State (which handled the executive functions formerly performed by the Privy Council). Receiving the paid position vacated by William Nelson, Jr., Braxton moved to Richmond, which had become the capital in 1780. Ineligible for re-election for three years, <mask> was elected a second time in 1794.Death and legacy
<mask> died, aged 61, in his Richmond home on October 10, 1797. Family tradition maintains Henrico County sheriff Samuel Mosby was at Braxton's door attempting to collect debts lest he have to pay them himself. His widow survived until July 5, 1814, and was praised in an obituary for the assistance and comfort she had offered <mask> during his final years (during which he suffered two or more strokes during Council meetings). A biographer speculated that <mask> may be the Founding Father with the most descendants, since he and his second wife may have had as many as sixteen children, in addition to his two daughters with his first wife. Although none of <mask>'s sons (George, Corbin, <mask>., John Tayloe, William) lived as long as their father, they and their sisters had numerous children, many of whom fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, including grandsons (all achieving the rank of Major) <mask> <mask> of the Fredericksburg Artillery, Tomlinson <mask>, M.D. and Elliott Muse <mask> (who was later elected to the Forty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873). Confederate General <mask> Bragg was named for the signer, but not apparently a descendant.Another great-grandson, John W. Stevenson of Kentucky, served two terms as U.S. Representative before the Civil War, and later won election as governor in 1868 and U.S. Senator in 1871, before retiring to his law practice and becoming president of the American Bar Association. Virginia lawyer Allen Caperton <mask>, who led efforts to limit blacks' access to education and voting, particularly during Virginia's Constitutional Convention in 1902, proclaimed his descent from <mask>. <mask> may have been buried at Chericoke, which remains in the family's possession today. Although it burned in 1776, <mask> rebuilt it and gave to his eldest son George on his marriage to Mary Walker <mask> (daughter of <mask> of Shirley) in 1781 (which transfer survived despite legal attacks by his creditors). However, when the family graves there were moved to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond in 1910, his could not be located; a monument was erected for him nonetheless. Nearby Elsing Green also survives and is available for tourism.Braxton County, West Virginia, was named in his honor. The World War II Liberty Ship  was named in his honor. For a brief time during the 1960s to the early 1980s, the Waterman Steamship Company owned a break bulk freighter, SS Carter Braxton, which was named in his honor. The Newington Archaeological Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. See also
 Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence

References

Other sources
Charles Rappleye, Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2006)
Biographical sketch at the National Park Service

External links

<mask> at Ushistory.org

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<mask>, OMRI (born 1942, in Campi Bisenzio) is an American-Italian painter. He moved to Florence in 1954, where his interest in painting began. He studied architectural drafting at the Istituto Galileo Galilei, and sold his first works, watercolor sketches, to tourists. Sassone studied with painter Silvio Loffredo, who had been a pupil of the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka. These artists formed Sassone's early influences. In November 1967, after the destructive flood that had devastated Florence, Sassone traveled to the United States where he settled in California. He moved to Laguna Beach, where he exhibited at the annual Festival of the Arts.In the early 1980s Sassone moved his studio to San Francisco, where he encountered homelessness. He spent several years sketching the homeless people he met while observing life on the streets. This work formed the exhibition "Home on the Streets" which opened in 1994, at the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco, and traveled to Los Angeles and Florence, Italy. In 1982 <mask> was Knighted by president of Italy, Sandro Pertini, into the Order to the Merit of the Italian Republic and received a gold medal award from the Italian Academy of Arts, Literature and Science. In 2005, <mask> relocated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life and Career

Sassone was born in Campi Bisenzio (Florence), Italy on July 27, 1942 during World War II. A childhood encounter with a homeless man in Campi Bisenzio first inspired the artist's lifelong interest in marginalized people and places in society.In 1950 he moved to Florence and attended the school Niccolò Machiavelli where he studied life drawings under professor Ugo Maturo; he attended then the Instituto Galileo Galilei where he met Silvio Loffredo, an important figurative painter, himself the pupil of Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka. He began exhibiting his work in numerous exhibitions in Italy including Galleria Mentana and Lo Sprone Art Centre in Florence. His personal experience of the destruction of the city of Florence during the flood of 1966 left a lasting impression that can be seen in his work, throughout his career. Work

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"Sassone is a Florentine by birth, ancestry and temperament. But his training and experience have combined to give him a view of the world that is truly international - spiritually as well as geographically. He has remained faithful to his innate genius and deeply-held convictions as an artist." (Charles Speroni, Dean, College of Fine Arts, UCLA)

<mask> was born in Campi Bisenzio, a Tuscan village, in 1942.His family moved to Florence in 1954, and there he met painters Ottone Rosai and Ugo Maturo, who encouraged him to follow his interest in art. He enrolled at the Istituto Galileo Galilei, where he studied architectural drafting for several years. During this period he supported himself by selling watercolour sketches of Florence to tourists, many of whom were Americans, which increased his fluency in English. Later, he studied with painter Silvio Loffredo, professor of art at the Accademia in Florence, a pupil himself of the Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka. Loffredo encouraged him to develop his own style and vision. For inspiration, Sassone studied the works of the 19th-century Italian impressionists, the Macchiaioli - Giovanni Fattori, Vito D’Ancona and Silvestro Lega. He began exhibiting his first works at this time.At the age of 25, he was selected to exhibit at Lo Sprone Cultural Center in Florence. In November 1967, soon after the painful experience of the Florentine flood, Sassone traveled to the United States and settled in California. He later moved to Laguna Beach, a small seaside community, Mediterranean in geography and climate, with its own commitment to the arts. He became a regular exhibitor at the annual Festival of the Arts. Throughout the seventies, he participated in a variety of exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. Of his work then, the art critic for the Los Angeles Times, William Wilson, wrote:  "Sassone is impressively gifted as a colorist and skilled in rendering reflections and color in light." (Wilson was reviewing a one-person show of his work at the Haggenmaker Galleries in Los Angeles, 11/14/75.)In 1982 <mask> was knighted by president of Italy, Sandro Pertini, into the "Order to the Merit of the Italian Republic" and received a gold medal award from the Italian Academy of Arts, Literature and Science. In the early 1980s Sassone moved his studio to San Francisco. In March 1988, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery hosted the American Preview for his one-person exhibition to be held at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in Paris that April. Art historian Donelson Hoopes published Sassone, a monograph, in concurrence with the artist's exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum (November - December 1979). With prescience, Hoopes had observed: "Sassone’s art has evolved from within, and such an organic, psychological and spiritual process may take his work along new and unforeseen paths." By the late eighties, Sassone had become increasingly concerned with social themes. He started working with the InterAid organization, donating paintings to raise money for the group's work with children in crisis.He also donated works to a non-profit group called Another Planet, based in Los Angeles, supporting that group's work with the homeless. He began extensive - and personal - research on the homeless and painted a series of large canvasses and charcoal drawings portraying the life he observed on the streets. A number of these works have been exhibited at the Chicago International Art Exposition, the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland and the Jan Baum Gallery in Los Angeles, as well as in the exhibition Body Politic at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Issue of Choice at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE). In March 1994, his exhibition Home on the Streets opened at the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco later traveling to Los Angeles and Florence, Italy. Kenneth Baker, art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about his work: "There is true technical brilliance here…In the drawings, his technique seems to discover fresh descriptive possibilities each time out." Home on the Streets traveled to Los Angeles in 1996 and Florence, Italy in 1997, where the exhibition was mounted in the Cloisters of the Santa Croce Church. Paola Bortolotti, art critic for La Nazione, writes: "The persistent theme does not carry a denunciation of a social problem, but it is rather the pretext to pour forth onto canvas the urgency of the brush strokes."In 1997 <mask> received a commission to create a 200 square foot mural in downtown San Francisco. The finished work is composed of five canvasses dedicated to the theme of Il Palio, and is presently in the collection of Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. In May, 2001, the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco inaugurated the exhibition, Master and Pupil, works by Oskar Kokoschka, Silvio Loffredo, and Sassone. Author Peter Selz, writing in the catalog about the artist's work, described the link between the three artists:  "A canvas like Chinese Reds (1990) in scarlet color relates to the chromatic scheme of his teacher’s Angel of Death (1998), while alarming paintings like Marlboro Country (1990) with its human skulls spread in the foreground, or Coit Tower Night (1988) – a painting of deep blue water, a brown hill and a violent purple sky – all done with an agitated brush, elicit a fervent emotion, comparable to the sensations evoked by the canvases of Kokoschka himself." The Palazzo Ducale Museum in Massa-Carrara, Italy presented his retrospective exhibition in March–April, 2002 with the publication of a catalog written by Massimo Bertozzi. The exhibition was reviewed by La Nazione, Florence and La Repubblica, Rome. Ilaria Bonuccelli writes for La Repubblica, "The man with blue eyes stares out at you.No concessions made. He offers you – perhaps forces upon you – a magnified view of trashed humanity. The kind that rummages around along the sidewalks of San Francisco. His pupils gape at an interior world which he invites you to enter, without knocking. The brush-strokes are merciless. As a man and as a painter, Sassone, sucked up onto the world of the homeless from the time he was a child, at Campi Bisenzio. The exhibition Master and Pupil held in San Francisco in 2001 was installed in the Cloister of Sant’ Agostino in Pietrasanta, Italy in 2003.The museum published a catalog with an essay by the art writer Domenico Pugliese. Milly Mostardini wrote in a review for Il Tirreno: "From Kokoschka to Loffredo and Sassone: The lessons are passed on from master and pupil. Sassone’s expressionism leads to visionary transformations, in an intense dance of chromatic impastos, with furious, explosive strokes of pigment." In 2005 <mask> relocated his studio to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2008 his exhibition entitled <mask>e: Toronto, opened on April 3 at the Odon Wagner Contemporary. Jonathan Goodman, art critic for Art in America, wrote in the exhibition catalog, "Sassone’s audience approaches his work knowing that the paintings are in dialogue with a tradition going back to the early twentieth century. His expressionism escapes the epithet of anachronistic, however, by being so sharply lived.While his works are not overly emotional, they gain success because they relate to a complete life of the imagination in which feelings and intellect combine. " Deirdre Kelly wrote in the Globe and Mail: "With gestural brush strokes and an expressionistic use of color, Mr. Sassone romanticizes such banal views as a Carlaw parking lot and the westbound Gardiner Expressway." He received a commission to create a mural for the lobby of the Bellagio, a glass tower in downtown Toronto. The artist prepared drawings and a final study in pastel, in scale for the space. The completed work, composed of three panels and titled Waterfront, was installed in late October. In the following year Sassone participated at the International Art Fair, Palm Beach 3 in Florida and in the Group exhibition Summerset at David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York. The artist lectured at Seaton House, the largest homeless shelter in Toronto.In 2010, he returned to San Francisco to attend the October 1st inauguration of his one-man show installed in the splendid space of the Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi. He traveled to Rome for his premiere exhibition Santuario at the Palazzo dell’ Informazione. The exhibition was composed of thirty works featured urban landscapes from his Toronto series. The Adnkronos news agency produced a video-interview titled <mask>e - Quando l'anima resta inchiodata alla tela. (<mask>e – When the Soul is Nailed to the Canvas). In 2012 the exhibition <mask>e: Watercolours opened at Berenson Fine Art, Toronto. Peter Clothier wrote in the Huffington Post: "These dark paintings are, after all, not primarily about the darkness that pervades them, but about the light that manages to shine through."In October he traveled to Bartlesville, Oklahoma to attend the opening of his exhibition Architecture and Nature installed at the Price Tower Art Center, a museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In 2014 his exhibition Oil and Water was inaugurated at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art in Texas. In 2016 the Bata Museum in Toronto, Canada opened the exhibition <mask>e: His Boots and Other Works accompanied by a catalogue written by Deirdre Kelly. CBC National Television, Canada broadcast a feature profile of the artist with an interview at the museum and at his studio in Toronto. In 2017, Berenson Fine Art mounted the exhibition <mask>e: Viaticus, a body of work representing "a microcosm of collective memory, giving expression to historical

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Sassone began his career as a draftsman in Florence where he studied life drawing and the art of chiaroscuro with professor Ugo Maturo.Throughout his career his employment of charcoal and pastel has been ever present. 1994 he presented a series of charcoal portraits for his exhibition Home on the Streets at Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco reviewed by art critic Kenneth Baker who wrote: "There is true technical brilliance here... In the drawings, his technique seems to discover fresh descriptive possibilities each time out." And again in 2002, for his retrospective exhibition in Italy, the Palazzo Ducale Museum selected a series of charcoals and pastels depicting homeless portraits. Ilaria Bonuccelli wrote for La Repubblica: "The man with blue eyes stares out at you. No concessions made. His pupils gape at an interior world which he invites you to enter, without knocking."Studios

Sassone first made art at home in Florence. He painted on location in Italy, Greece, England and departed for California in 1967 where he established his studio in Laguna Beach at the top of a 4-story home overlooking the Pacific. In 1981 he moved to San Francisco and converted a large loft with sky lights and enormous industrial windows facing north. It was here that he painted his entire series for Home on the Streets from 1990 to 1994, which included all of his charcoal portraits and his large-scale canvases of the homeless, which he painted on an enormous, specially constructed wood easel. In 2005 he moved to Toronto Canada and reconstructed an old loft in a former Colgate factory in the east side of town; most of his work dealing with railroad tracks and urban industrial sites were produced in this studio for the Toronto exhibition of 2008 and the 2011 exhibition in Oklahoma at Price Tower Art Centre. Social Commitment

On November 23, 1980, an earthquake struck the Irpinia region of Italy, and 500 000 families were made homeless. <mask>e quickly organized an auction with Sotheby Park Bernet, "Sassone Earthquake Benefit" to raise funds for the victims made homeless by the earthquake.The artist donated 18 original works which raised $17 000. These funds contributed to the reconstruction of a family farm house destroyed in the Valva region. In the following years, the artist has organized other auctions of his work, donating the proceeds to charity, including the Inter-Aid organization. In 1984, Sassone's work was auctioned to raise $28 000 to provide medical attention and food to impoverished children. From 1990 to present the artist has donated artwork to the annual Oziku Foundation auction in California for aid to children with cancer. Exhibitions

In 1967 <mask>, along with Pietro Annigoni and Silvio Loffredo was invited to participate at the Lo Sprone Centro di Cultura for the exhibition Perchè non si Dimentichi, commemorating the flood of Florence. His work was selected in 1977 for the annual exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York.He participated in 1990 at the Chicago International Art Exposition and Basel Art Fair. The Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) presented his work in the show Issue of Choice in 1992. In 2001 Sassone was a part of the exhibition Master and Pupil at the Museo-Italo Americano, San Francisco with Oskar Kokoschka ad Silvio Loffredo. He was also featured in the exhibition Sommerset at David Findlay Jr, New York in 2009 and 2010. Comprehensive solo exhibitions of Sassone's work have been organized by the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California (1979); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1988); Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco (1989); Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (1990); Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco (1994); Pasquale Iannetti Gallery, San Francisco (1996); Cloisters of Santa Croce, Florence (1997); MB Modern, New York and Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto (2000); Isetan Gallery, Tokyo (2001); Palazzo Ducale, Massa-Carrara, Italy (2002); Cloister of Sant'Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy (2003); SCAPE, Corona del Mar, California (2007); National Shrine of S. Francis, San Francisco (2010); Palazzo dell'Informazione, Rome, Italy (2010); Price Tower Arts Center, Oklahoma (2012); Berenson Fine Art, Toronto (2012); San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, Texas (2014); Bata Museum, Toronto (2016); Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California (2016). Home on the Streets

Sassone's encounter with a homeless man named Willie in San Francisco lead to an exhaustive personal research by the artist. Sassone lived and worked among the homeless of that city, sketching and talking with the people he met.These sketches resulted in the exhibition, Home on the Streets, which consisted of large-scale oil paintings and intimate pastel portraits depicting life on the streets. This exhibition has helped to raise awareness and funds for various homeless organizations in the United States. The artist has donated his work to benefit numerous charities, including Inter-Aid and Another Planet. Reviews

Excerpts from selected reviews and catalog essays

". . .Evolving a vision and style of painting distinctly his own. . ."
- FRIDOLF JOHNSON, American Artist, New York (July 1980)

"One of the foremost colorists working in America today, Sassone is a gestural painter, an artist who becomes totally absorbed in the act of painting. The result is work powerfully expressive, evocative, and sometimes haunting in its beauty." - JANET DOMINIK, Sassone, Bernheim-Jeune, exhibition catalog, Paris, France (April 13 - May 4, 1988)

"The persistent theme does not carry a denunciation of a social problem, but it is rather the pretext to pour forth onto canvas the urgency of the brush strokes…Here it is the water that becomes the turbulent element, troubled by vestiges and shadows resulting from distant echoes of Sassone’s teacher, Silvio Loffredo, who paints with similar, quick brush strokes, trailing onto the canvas a wake of vibrant color."- PAOLA BORTOLOTTI, La Nazione, Florence, Italy (May 16, 1997)

"These places are seen from the distance of affection mixed with longing, of memory mixed with the immediacy of everyday experience. Through Sassone’s vision of the two worlds in which he will always live, we can experience what it is like to find ourselves far from where we started, yet be at home wherever we are." - MARIA PORGES, MB Modern, <mask>e exhibition catalog, New York (December 7 – 22, 2000)

"Sassone’s paintings explode with color and light. His passion for architecture and water is obvious. From his scenes of Venice canals to the streets of San Francisco, Sassone uses his cities not as a subject but rather as the canvas. He paints over the city with his interpretation of the pace and mood he sees." - FRANCIS MILL, NY Arts, New York, (May 2001)

"A canvas like Chinese Reds (1990) in its scarlet color relates to the chromatic scheme of his teacher’s Angel of Death (1998), while alarming paintings like Marlboro Country (1990) with its human skulls spread in the foreground, or Coit Tower Night (1988) – a painting of deep blue water, a brown hill and a violent purple sky – all done with an agitated brush, elicit a fervent emotion, comparable to the sensations evoked by the canvases of Kokoschka himself."- PETER SELZ, Museo ItaloAmericano, Master and Pupil exhibition catalog, San Francisco (May 10 – July 8, 2001)

"In these persuasively lonely and poignant paintings, the grey-blue tracks, which invariably look like tracks that have borne no trains for decades, begin in the foreground and wander off into the distance. They thread this way and that through foggy grey middle grounds and out into oblivion, the flecking and dabbing of Sassone’s brush reading now as the rusting, flaking and slow ruin that comes with abandonment." - GARY MICHAEL DAULT, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (April 12, 2008)

"As products of Sassone’s hand, even such unsightly things as expressways and parking lots become magical, not only because they are cast in an ethereal, post-impressionistic glow, but also because the artist sees them as dynamic, muscular roots into the heart of a vibrant city." - DAVID BALZER, Toronto Life, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (April 2008)

"These dark paintings are, after all, not primarily about the darkness that pervades them, but about the light that manages to shine through." - PETER CLOTHIER, The Huffington Post, Canada (March 2012)

Catalogues, monographs, documentaries, interviews

BERTOZZI, MASSIMO. <mask>e. Exhibition catalogue.Essays by Peter Clothier, Tomasso Paloscia, Peter Selz. Massa, Italy. Palazzo Ducale Museum, 2002, 134 pp., Ill. (Italian /English text). CLOTHIER, PETER. <mask>. Close to the Bone. Exhibition catalogue.San Francisco, Italian Cultural Institute, 1991, 24 pp., ill.

CLOTHIER, PETER. <mask>. Home on the Streets. Exhibition catalogue. Foreword by Tom Bradley, Robert A. Whyte. San Francisco, Museo ItaloAmericano, 1994, 64 pp., ill. (English/Italian text). DOMINIK, JANET B. <mask>.Exhibition catalogue. Foreword by Louis Stern. Paris, France, Bernheim-Jeune, 1988, 108 pp., ill. (French/English/Italian text). GOODMAN, JONATHAN. <mask>. The Toronto Series. Exhibition catalogue.Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2008. GLADYSZ, THOMAS. <mask>: New Paintings. Diane Nelson Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1989. HOOPES, DONELSON F. Sassone. Introduction by Dean Charles Speroni, U.C.L.A., Florence, Italy, Arti Grafiche Il Torchio, 1979, 302 pp., ill.

MARVIN, MARIAH. <mask>e Body of Water.Exhibition catalogue. San Francisco, Pasquale Iannetti Galleries, 1993, 48 pp., ill.

PALOSCIA, TOMMASO. <mask>. The Roots of <mask>. Exhibition catalogue. Florence, Italy, Galleria d’Arte Mentana, 1997, 76 pp., ill. (Italian/English text). PORGES, MARIA.<mask>. Exhibition catalogue. New York, MB Modern, 2000, 20 pp., ill.

SELZ, PETER. Il Maestro e l’allievo / Master and Pupil – Oskar Kokoschka, Silvio Loffredo, <mask>. Exhibition catalogue. San Francisco, Museo Italo Americano, 2001, 64 pp., ill. (English/Italian text). BOTTO, DANIELA.Viva Domenica. Toronto, Telelatino, April 12, 2008. Interview. D’APRILE, LAURA. Arts and Entertainment, Toronto, Omni 1-TV Channel 47, May 17, 2012. Interview. GUILBAULT, ROSE.Sunday on 7. San Francisco, KGO-TV, May 1, 1994. Interview. HOWARD, DAVID. <mask>e. San Francisco, 1990, 25 minutes, color and sound. Video documentary.WILSON, JOHN. <mask>. Los Angeles, Fine Arts Films, Inc., 1976, 20 min., color and sound. KELLY, DEIRDRE. <mask>: His Boots and Other Works. Exhibition Catalogue, Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2016, 36 pp., ill.

FERNANDEZ, MERELLA.Italian Painter <mask> discusses Da Vinci on CTV News Channel. CTV News, November 17, 2017. LIGHTLE-QUAN, DEBBIE. Our Toronto. CBC, June 18, 2016. KELLY, DEIRDRE. The Urban Made Poetic: In Conversation with <mask>.Critics at Large, 2012. Personal life

<mask> was married in 1972 to Diane Nelson in Florence, Italy, with whom he has one son, Nicola. They divorced in 1983. Sassone was remarried in 2006 to Russian writer Emilia Ianeva, in Toronto. Notes

External links
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Pasqualeart.com
SCAPEsite.com
FolkLib Index - List of Paintings by <mask>e

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