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unusual facts about Alan L. Hoffman


Alan L. Hoffman

Hoffman is credited with helping Biden secure passage of numerous pieces of legislation including the criminal provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley and legislation closing the gap in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine.


Alan L. Boeckmann

In addition to his service with Fluor, he also serves as a director of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation and BHP Billiton.

Barbara G. Adams

Her activities as the pottery and objects expert for Michael A.Hoffman's re-established excavations of 1979-80 assisting at a cemetery of a predynastic elite group continuing with this until 1986.

Darleane C. Hoffman

Darleane Christian was born at home in the small town of Terril, Iowa, daughter of Carl B. and Elverna Clute Christian.

David H. Hoffman

In January 2009, Governor Pat Quinn appointed Hoffman to the 15-member Illinois Reform Commission, chaired by former U.S. Assistant Attorney Patrick M. Collins, which was charged with recommending anti-corruption and ethics reforms in the wake of former Governor Rod Blagojevich’s arrest.

After his graduation from Law School, Hoffman served as a law clerk for Judge Dennis G. Jacobs, Hoffman also clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Elmer J. Hoffman

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1965).

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress.

Energy Star

The Energy Star program was developed by John S. Hoffman, inventor of the Green Programs at EPA, working closely with the IT industry, and implemented by Cathy Zoi and Brian Johnson.

Gulfstream Polo Club

In 1941, John H. H. Phipps, Michael Grace Phipps (1910–1973), Charles Skiddy von Stade and Alan L. Corey, Jr., all players in residence at the Gulfstream Polo Club, won the U.S. Open Polo Championship at the Meadow Brook Polo Club.

J. C. Thom

Ada married Frank Hoffman of New Jersey and had two sons; the future Governor of New Jersey Harold G. Hoffman and Donald Hoffman.

John Cridland Latham

On that day, near Le Catelet in northeastern France, he and two other soldiers, Sergeant Alan L. Eggers and Corporal Thomas E. O'Shea, left cover to rescue the crew of a disabled American tank.

John H. Hoffman

John Hoffman received his bachelor's degree from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota and continued his education at the University of Minnesota under the mentorship of Professor A. O. C. Nier who pioneered the field of mass spectrometry.

John T. Hoffman

In the movie version of the musical Up in Central Park, the character of Hoffman appears, but the name is changed to "Governor Motley" and is played by actor Thurston Hall.

As it turned out, the Tweed scandals wrecked Hoffman's chances and the nomination eventually was split between those Democrats supporting liberal Republican Horace Greeley and those supporting the "pure" Democrat, New York attorney Charles O'Conor.

Lawrence A. Hoffman

The meeting, co-organized by Hoffman's Synagogue 3000 colleague Shawn Landres and Emergent church leader Tony Jones, led to the launch of Synagogue 3000's Jewish Emergent Initiative.

Michael A. Hoffman

Hoffman was the director of the Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1972 to 1979 and was an associate professor in sociology and anthropology at Western Illinois University.

On an excavation in 1984, he used sludge pumps to keep the site dry which paid off because he found a stratigraphic link from Dynasty 1 to Naqada 1.

Michael Hoffman

Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990), archaeologist and specialist in predynastic Egypt

Nellie May Naylor

Nuclear chemist Darleane C. Hoffman credited a freshman-year course taught by Nellie May Naylor with inspiring her pursuit of a scientific career.

Paul F. Bradshaw

He has collaborated with Lawrence A. Hoffman on several essay collections about the evolution of worship in Christian and Jewish communities in North America.

Paul F. Hoffman

He specializes in the Precambrian era and is widely known for the theory of the Snowball Earth about phenomena that occurred in the Neoproterozoic era, co-published with Daniel P. Schrag.

Paul G. Hoffman

Paul Gray Hoffman (26 April 1891 – 8 October 1974, New York City) was an American automobile company executive, statesman and global development aid administrator.

Paul Hoffman

Paul G. Hoffman (1891–1974), president of Studebaker and Economic Cooperation Administrator

Richard W. Hoffman

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1957).

Salvatore Di Giacomo

He even wrote a series of youthful stories à la E.T.A. Hoffman and Edgar Allan Poe set in an imaginary German town inhabited by sinister students and mad doctors.

Small Astronomy Satellite 3

Other major contributors were Profs Claude Canizares and Saul A. Rappaport, and Drs Jeffrey A. Hoffman, George Ricker, Jeff McClintock, Rodger E. Doxsey, Garrett Jernigan, John Doty, and many others, including numerous graduate students.

The Dead Hand

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy is the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction written by Washington Post contributing editor David E. Hoffman.

William M. Hoffman

In 1991, Hoffman was commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera Company to write the libretto for The Ghosts of Versailles first produced in celebration of the company's centennial.


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