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You Cant Print That Nickname Bill and Nicknames
Essay on Mississippi Senate Bill No 189 and the clash over nom de plumes and nicknames. Notes how public figures long used nicknames from Johnny Appleseed to Old Hickory and how banning nom de plumes would affect editors and readers across literature sports and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Senate
State OF
Mr. Webster
Frank Harper
Peachtree
Harper
Jonathan Chapman
Johnny Appleseed
Henry Clay
Miller
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
James A. Garfield
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Andrew Jackson
Congress
White House
Rutherford B. Hayes
Tilden
Electoral Commission
James E. Polk
Chester A. Arthur
Chet
Benjamin Harrison
Tippecanoe
Little Ben
Harry
James G. Blaine
William Jennings Bryan
Platte
Stephen A. Douglas
John C. Fremont
Daniel Webster
Eixpounder
Winfield Scott
George. B. McClellan
Little Mac
Napoleon
Teddy” Roosevelt
The
Jerry’ Simpson
Kansas
Peoples
Ben” Tillman
South Carolina
Bilbo
Huey Long
Louisiana
William H. Murray
Oklahoma
William Sidney Porter
Agarn
O. Henry
Willard Huntington Wright
George S. Chappell
Dickran Kouyoumjian