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unusual facts about Albert F. Dawson


Albert Dawson

Albert F. Dawson (1872–1949), Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa


A. J. W. Dawson

J.P. M.I.M.E. to the retired officials and engine drivers of the N.E.R. Co., in Gateshead, on 11 February 1910

Albert F. Canwell

He is best remembered as the namesake of the legislature's Canwell Committee to investigate communist influence in Washington state, patterned after the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) of the United States Congress.

Albert F. Mummery

He became a friend of J. A. Hobson, and they collaborated on The Physiology of Industry (1889), which argued that because of economies' tendencies towards over-saving - and this being a cause of depressions – the economy required intervention to achieve stability.

Albert F. Pratt

Pratt served with the 14th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry as a first lieutenant in the Spanish–American War and was a major in the Minnesota National Guard, 3rd Infantry for 28 years.

Albert F. Schoepper

His first White House appearance as conductor in 1942 before King George II of Greece.

Albert Pratt

Albert F. Pratt (1872–1928), American lawyer and politician, Attorneys General of Minnesota

Albert Woller

Albert F. Woller (1886–?), machinist, auto mechanic and Socialist politician from Milwaukee

Bill Dawson

William "Red" Dawson (born 1942), former American football player and assistant coach for Marshall University

Dole Air Race

On 28 June, about a month after Dole posted the prizes, Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger flew a three-engine Atlantic-Fokker C-2 military aircraft from Oakland Municipal Airport to Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Ian Shelton

As Shelton was among the first to report, he is credited as the discoverer, along with Oscar Duhalde and Albert Jones.

Joseph Dawson

Joseph T. Dawson (1914–1998), officer in the U.S. 1st Infantry Division during World War II

Joseph T. Dawson

Once at the top, he led his men to his objective at Colleville-sur-Mer, where he was wounded.

In June 1994, Dawson revisited Normandy to introduce President Bill Clinton during ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the invasion.

Kilauea Light

On June 29, 1927, the United States Army Air Corps pilots of the airplane Bird of Paradise, Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, were attempting the first transpacific flight from California to Hawaii.

Mummery Cliff

In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 after Albert F. Mummery (1855–95), English mountaineer and designer of the Mummery tent.

Old Dawson Trail

In 1857, the Canadian government commissioned engineer Simon J. Dawson to survey a route from Lake Superior to the Red River Colony, thereby allowing travel from the east without having to take the existing routes through the United States Dawson surveyed the route in 1858 and construction of the roads began in 1868.

Particle-in-cell

The method gained popularity for plasma simulation in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Buneman, Dawson, Hockney, Birdsall, Morse and others.

Vincennes Lincoln High School

Albert K. Dawson, class of 1904, photographer/film correspondent in the First World War


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