Question: From 1862 to 1874 George W. Hough was the director of an observatory chartered on February 11, 1852 by what group?

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George W. Hough: George Washington Hough (October 24, 1836 – January 1, 1909) was an American astronomer born in Montgomery, New York.  He discovered 627 double stars and made systematic studies of the surface of Jupiter.  He designed and constructed several instruments used in astronomy, meteorology, and physics.  From 1862 to 1874, Hough was director of Dudley Observatory, Albany, New York.  In 1879 he was appointed professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago.  He became the director of Dearborn Observatory when the observatory was moved to Evanston, Illinois.  He introduced original plans for the dome and electric control for the telescope.

James K. Glassman: James Kenneth Glassman (born January 1, 1947) is the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy development institution focused on creating independent, nonpartisan solutions to America's most pressing public policy problems through the principles that guided President George W. Bush and his wife Laura in public life.  The George W. Bush Institute is based within the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

John Rice Jones: John Rice Jones (February 11, 1759 – February 1, 1824) was a Welsh-born, American politician, jurist, and military officer.  He helped establish the territorial governments in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.  John Rice Jones was the father of U.S. Senator George W. Jones from Iowa.

SS George W. Elder: SS "George W. Elder" (1874–1935) was a passenger/cargo ship.  Originally a U.S. east coast steamer, she was built by John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania.  The "George W. Elder" became a west coast steamer in 1876 and served with the Oregon Steamship Company, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company and the North Pacific Steamship Company.  In 1907, the "George W. Elder" helped to rescue the survivors of her former running mate "Columbia".  The last owners of the "George W. Elder" were a Chilean firm which operated her under the name "America".  She operated the Chilean Coast under this guise until 1935, when she was finally scrapped.  The location of her scrapping remains unknown.

Loyal Blaine Aldrich: Loyal Blaine Aldrich (November 20, 1884 – February 11, 1965) was an American astrophysicist and astronomer of the Smithsonian Institution.  Upon graduation from the University of Wisconsin in 1907, Aldrich became a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory assistant to Charles Greeley Abbot.  The observatory conducted astrophysical research on solar radiation and the amount of energy from the sun that strikes the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere.  Abbot became director of the observatory in 1907 and established solar observing stations in the United States, South America, and Africa to carry out research on solar radiation.  Aldrich became director of the observatory from 1942 to 1955.  Harvard University astronomy department chairman Fred Lawrence Whipple became director of the observatory when Aldrich retired.

Jeannette Monument: The Jeannette Monument is the largest monument in the United States Naval Academy Cemetery.  It memorializes the 1881 loss of USS "Jeannette" while exploring the Arctic ice.  "Jeannette", with a crew of 33, collapsed and sank under surging ice in the summer of 1881.  Her crew, commanded by George W. DeLong, took to the ice dragging three small boats.  When open water was found, the boats were used to sail to the Lena Delta of Siberia, 700 miles distant.  DeLong commanded a boat of 14 total crew members, Executive Officer Charles W. Chipp's boat's crew was 8 total crew members, and Engineer Officer George W. Melville's boat had 11.  Chipp's boat was lost at sea with all hands.  Engineer Melville's boat landed in the southern delta, and DeLong's boat came ashore farther to the north on 17 September 1881.  Melville quickly found aid, as did the two hardiest sailors of DeLong's crew soon after.  The 12 remaining, including DeLong, perished from starvation or exposure.  Thus 20 of the original 33 did not survive the expedition.

Judson Welliver Society: The Judson Welliver Society is a bipartisan social club composed exclusively of former presidential speechwriters in the United States.  The group is named after Judson C. Welliver, the "literary clerk" to President Warren Harding, usually credited as being the first presidential speechwriter.  Group meetings are usually held after major presidential speeches, such as the State of the Union.  Active members have included William Safire (a Nixon writer who often hosted meetings), Jack Valenti who was a veteran of the Johnson administration, Pat Buchanan (Nixon and Reagan), David Gergen (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton), Tony Snow (speechwriter for George H. W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush), Michael Waldman (Clinton), George Stephanopoulos (Clinton), James Fallows (Carter), Chris Matthews (Carter), Hendrik Hertzberg (Carter), Anthony R. Dolan (Reagan), Michael Gerson (George W. Bush), and Clark Clifford, who wrote speeches for Harry Truman.

Wedding Cake House (Kennebunk, Maine): Called the "most photographed house in the state" of Maine, the Wedding Cake House, known formally as the George W. Bourne House, is a historic house located at 104 Summer Street in Kennebunk, Maine.  The home was built in 1825 by shipbuilder George W. Bourne (1801–1856), who later built a frame barn which he connected to the main house with a carriage house.  In 1852, the barn caught fire and the carriage house was demolished to keep the fire from spreading to the house.  Bourne, who during a European tour had been impressed by the Gothic beauty of the cathedral at Milan, rebuilt the carriage house and barn in what later came to be known as Carpenter Gothic style.  Using hand tools, he crafted five buttresses with pinnacles on top of each.  Then in order to tie the new structures in with the existing house, he added six buttresses with pinnacles to the house and then joined them together with intricate woodwork.  His only help in doing this was Thomas Durrell, an apprentice ship's carpenter.  Bourne spent the rest of his life adding to these embellishments.  It has been said of Bourne: "The highly skilled carpenter knew no limits to his skill."

Dudley Observatory: Dudley Observatory is an astronomical observatory originally located in Albany, New York, and now in Schenectady, New York.  The Observatory was chartered on February 11, 1852 by the New York State Senate, and by the New York State Assembly on April 3, 1852.  While Dudley no longer serves as an operating observatory, it remains the oldest non-academic institution of astronomical research in America.

Stephen Schneider: Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 – July 19, 2010) was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.  Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

Supporting paragraphs: George W. Hough Dudley Observatory
Answer: the New York State Senate