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3 unusual facts about Albert W. Hawkes

Albert Hawkes

Albert W. Hawkes, a United States Senator from New Jersey in office from January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949.

Albert W. Hawkes

He was a trustee of the Freedoms Foundation, where the Hawkes Library (in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) was named after him.

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His daughter in law, Jane White Hawkes, was the second wife of Alistair Cooke, the British-American journalist and host of Masterpiece Theater.

Albert Grant

Albert W. Grant (1856–1930), admiral of the United States Navy during World War I

Albert W. Cretella

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress and for election in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress, after which he returned to the practice of law.

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Cretella was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959).

Albert W. Hicks

He was portrayed as a wax figure who apparently comes to life and commits a murder, in an episode of The Twilight Zone, The New Exhibit.

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There are several discrepancies between this account and that found in Herbert Asbury's classic crime history The Gangs of New York - an Informal History of the Underworld (1928, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Albert W. Sherer, Jr.

After that in 1949 to 1951, he was political officer in Budapest, Hungary.

Ernst Roth

Ernst Roth (1 June 1896 – 17 July 1971) was a music publisher for Universal Edition in Vienna and Boosey & Hawkes in London, and became the company's director in 1968.

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As a Jew, he emigrated in 1938 to London, where he worked for Boosey & Hawkes.

This was followed by acquiring the world's leading classical music publishing company Boosey & Hawkes (which includes the catalogues of Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, and Aaron Copland), and Rodgers & Hammerstein, containing the rights to stage and film musicals, and representing hundreds of works by writers including Irving Berlin.