William Thornton

Tim Harrison for The Wall Street Journal George Washington wrote this check to William Thornton, the architect of the U.S. Capitol, who was overseeing the building of investment properties for him in the then-Federal City.

Checking the Vaults 2011

The census has always had critics: as recorded in an exhibition which opened at the British Library yesterday, William Thornton, MP for York, called the 1753 proposal "totally subversive of the last remains of English liberty".

In praise of... William Farr | Editorial 2011

Letter to William Thornton, June 20, 1804, from Ulrike Moheit, ed., Alexander von Humboldt: Briefe aus Amerika.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

Letter to William Thornton, June 20, 1804, from Ulrike Moheit, ed., Alexander von Humboldt: Briefe aus Amerika.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

Letter to William Thornton, June 20, 1804, from Ulrike Moheit, ed., Alexander von Humboldt: Briefe aus Amerika.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

In January 1943, the assistant under secretary in the Air Department, Clement Caines, a sixty-one-year-old career public servant, wrote to Air Attaché William Thornton, requesting him to draft a deed of assignment between Dahl and the RAF.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

The Patent Office had been set up and then run on a shoestring by William Thornton.

American Connections James Burke 2007

The Patent Office had been set up and then run on a shoestring by William Thornton.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Then Washington encountered William Thornton and quickly perceived that this commissioner was inimicable towards Johnson.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Then Washington encountered William Thornton and quickly perceived that this commissioner was inimicable towards Johnson.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968