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unusual facts about A.C. Wharton



Charles S. Wharton

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

Gabriel C. Wharton

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and United States Courthouse

Ministers of Houston's first cabinet are pictured, including Austin, David Burnett, Lorenzo de Zavala, Mirabeau Lamar, Thomas Rusk, Juan Seguin, Smith, and William Wharton.

John Wharton

John F. Wharton (1894–1977), American lawyer and founding partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

John A. Wharton (1828–1865), lawyer, plantation owner and Confederate general during the American Civil War

Nolensville, Tennessee

Gen. John Wharton's Confederate cavalry unit was stationed in town briefly and Gen. Joseph Wheeler's command captured a Union supply train here on December 30, 1862.

Second Battle of Kernstown

Brig. Gen. Gabriel C. Wharton's division, led by Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, formed the Confederate right, with its flank screened by Brig. Gen. John C. Vaughn's cavalry.

Shelby Farms

In 2007, an agreement was signed between the Shelby County Mayor A.C. Wharton and the SFPA, forming the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy (SFPC), a public and private non-profit partnership established by Shelby County government to help provide day-to-day operations of the park and to develop a planning process for the future of Shelby Farms park.

Teresa A. Sullivan

Sullivan received her undergraduate degree from Michigan State University's James Madison College, where she was asked to stay on as an intern in the office of the president by Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., then the president.


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