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Joseph Mackey Brown

Smith left before the end of his second term to assume the United States Senate seat that became vacant upon the death of Alexander S. Clay, and Brown ran unopposed to become Governor again for the rest of Smith's original term.


1952 Republican National Convention

Eisenhower was so unfamiliar with politics that even after his nomination he believed that the delegates would choose the vice-presidential nominee, surprising his advisors Lucius D. Clay and Herbert Brownell.

A Report on Germany

After World War II, at the request of General Lucius D. Clay, Lewis H. Brown wrote A Report on Germany, which served as a detailed recommendation for the reconstruction of post-war Germany, and served as a basis for the Marshall Plan.

Alexander Heard

Alexander S. Heard, editorial director of Outside magazine and author

Alexander S. Bermange

He has written numerous musicals since leaving university, one of which, Shadowless, won two Frank Wildhorn Awards (the Audience Award and the Second Jury Award) at the Musical Festival Graz in Austria in 2007.

Alexander S. Diven

Diven was elected as a Republican to the 37th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863.

Alexander S. Foxhall

Foxhall was born to Peter Christopher Foxhall and Glenda Jill "Jill" Foxhall née Pender in 1969, the eldest of four children of that marriage, his father having a son by his first wife.

Alexander S. Gross

Rabbi Alexander S. Gross (1917 – March 10, 1980), was an American Orthodox rabbi who established the Hebrew Academy of Greater Miami, the first Jewish day school in the south.

Alexander S. Johnson

In October 1875, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant Circuit Judge of the Second U. S. Judicial Circuit.

In 1864, he was appointed United States Commissioner for the settlement of the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound Companies under the Oregon Treaty, Great Britain being represented by Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet.

Alexander S. McDill

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Alexander S. Wallace

He engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death near York, South Carolina, June 27, 1893.

Born near York, South Carolina, the son of an American colonial immigrant, McCasland Wallace (born at sea on the Atlantic Ocean to a Scots-Irish family on their way to the port of Charleston, South Carolina), Wallace received a limited schooling.

Alexander S. Webb

The brigade repulsed the assault of Brig. Gen. Ambrose R. Wright's brigade of Georgians as it topped the ridge late in the afternoon, chasing the Confederates back as far as the Emmitsburg Road, where they captured about 300 men and reclaimed a Union battery.

General Webb was a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and a founder and first Commander General of the Military Order of Foreign Wars.

Alexander S. Wiener

In recognition of his contribution to forensic medicine he was awarded an honorary membership of the Mystery Writers of America.

Since the 1930s he co-operated with the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City.

Alexander S. Williams

He, along with William "Big Bill" Devery and Thomas F. Byrnes, were among several senior NYPD officials implicated by the Lexow Committee during the 1890s.

Alexander Wallace

Alexander S. Wallace (1810-1893), members of House of Representatives from South Carolina

Alexander Webb

Alexander S. Webb (1835–1911), Major General in the American Civil War, defended the famous "Copse of Trees" during Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863

Beetroot Design Group

Clients include cultural institutions such as the Benaki Museum, the Onassis Cultural Centre and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, as well as multinational corporations such as Lidl, Microsoft, Corbis and Nestlé.

Brutus J. Clay

Brutus Junius Clay (July 1, 1808 – October 11, 1878) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, and a son of Green Clay.

Clay was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865).

Clarence S. Clay, Jr.

In 1993, the Acoustical Society of America recognized Clay’s preeminence by awarding him its Silver Medal, “for contributions to understanding acoustic propagation in layered waveguides, scattering from the ocean's boundaries and marine life, and ocean parameters and processes”.

Gadsden Purchase

Prominent attendees included John C. Calhoun, Clement C. Clay, Sr., John Bell, William Gwin, and Edmund P. Gaines, but it was James Gadsden of South Carolina who was influential in the convention’s recommending a southern route for the proposed railroad, beginning in Texas and ending in San Diego or Mazatlán.

General Webb

Alexander S. Webb (1835–1911), Union general in the American Civil War

George Clay

George H. Clay (1911–1995), president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1961–1976

George Mackey

He joined the Harvard University Mathematics Department in 1943, was appointed Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science in 1969 and remained there until he retired in 1985.

German submarine U-501

Blair, Clay, Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters 1939-41 (1999), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York.

Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia

Blair, Clay, Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942.

Gustav Adolf Nosske

He was the only accused who did not seek clemency from General Lucius D. Clay in the American sector of occupation.

Invisible College

Shirky, Clay: Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.

Jean Edward Smith

Lucius D. Clay: An American Life, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990 (ISBN 080500999X).

Landon T. Clay

Landon T. Clay is an American businessman and founder of the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Lucius Clay

Lucius D. Clay, Jr. (1919–1994), American commander of the Air Defense Command

Lucius D. Clay (1897–1978), American military governor of Germany after World War II

Lucius D. Clay, Jr.

Following World War II, Clay remained in Germany and served as deputy commander and deputy for base services with the European Air Depot, Erding, Germany.

Magellan Telescopes

The two telescopes are named after the astronomer Walter Baade and the philanthropist Landon T. Clay.

Moscow Country Club

The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., and built by Antti Peltoniemi under the guidance of the Russian government department, GlavUpDK, headed by Ivan Sergeyev and Alexander Zinovyev.

Paul Philippoteaux

Philippoteaux also interviewed several survivors of the battle, including Union generals Winfield S. Hancock, Abner Doubleday, Oliver O. Howard, and Alexander S. Webb, and based his work partly on their recollections.

Pridgeon

Pridgeon & Clay, a metal stamping and fine-blank components provider

SantaLand Diaries

In 2007, writing for The New Republic, Alexander S. Heard fact-checked various aspects of Sedaris's stories, including SantaLand Diaries, and found that several aspects were exaggerated and manufactured, although Sedaris did work in Macy's during the time period represented.

Susan McFadden

In 2008, McFadden recorded two songs for the CD Act One - Songs From The Musicals Of Alexander S. Bermange, an album of 20 brand new recordings by 26 West End stars, released in November 2008 on Dress Circle Records.

Youghiogheny River

In Chabon's 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, an expert or experts on Yuggogheny cannibal cults are present at the party where Joe Kavalier saves Salvador Dalí from drowning.


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