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unusual facts about Albert W. Sherer, Jr.



Albert Grant

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

Albert Hawkes

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

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.

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

Albert W. Hawkes

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

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

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.

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.

Kinjiro Okabe

He had become very interested in the magnetron, built and named by Albert W. Hull at General Electric in 1921.

State v. Elliott

, and Albert W. Barney, C.J. (ret.) and Peck, J. (ret.), specially assigned

The New Exhibit

The dispirited Martin asks one request; to spare the wax figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke and William Hare.

William Ellsworth Kepner

On 29 July, the balloon ascended with himself and two fellow US Army Air Force officers, Capt. Albert W. Stevens and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson as crew.


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