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        "title": "Wilson Cary Nicholas",
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                    "title": "Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary",
                    "description": "<i>Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993).",
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                "description": "family of the sitter, to Mrs. Leonard Hewett, Louisville, Kentucky (1926).  Emeline Brownlee, Fairfield, Connecticut (1966).  Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Moseley.",
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        "description": "Wilson Cary Nicholas was born January 31, 1761, into a politically powerful family from Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1781, he left William and Mary College to join the Continental Army, in which he commanded George Washington\u2019s lifeguard until it was disbanded in 1783. As a member of the Constitutional Convention, he returned to Virginia to campaign for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in that state, where it passed by a margin of only ten votes. He then served several terms in the House of Delegates before being elected to the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. He became the governor of Virginia in 1814, retiring in 1819 due to poor health and spending his remaining days in the home of his son-in-law, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, President Thomas Jefferson\u2019s grandson. He died on October 20, 1820, and is buried at Monticello, the president\u2019s former estate.",
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                "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"The Year in Review for 1992.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.",
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