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2 unusual facts about Augustus C. Hand


Augustus C. Hand

Hand was elected as a Democrat to the 26th United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841.

Augustus Hand

Augustus C. Hand (1803–1878), U.S. Congressman from New York, grandfather of Augustus Noble Hand


Augustus C. Baldwin

Baldwin was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives for the 38th Congress, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1865, becoming the first person to represent Michigan's 5th congressional district.

Bubby Lyons

Victory went instead to another Democrat, later lieutenant governor and then Governor Kathleen Blanco, who defeated a Republican, Kernan "Skip" Hand in the general election for the position held in conjunction with the 1988 U.S. presidential contest.

E.M.G. Hand-Made Gramophones

Following these Tests, Compton Mackenzie, editor of the Gramophone Magazine wrote that "it is an instrument with a very big future before it".

E.M.G.'s first model was the Magnaphone, demonstrated and sold in Brighton in March 1924.

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

Kernan "Skip" Hand, former state representative and Jefferson Parish district court judge

John M. Woolsey

This decision, which came about in a test case engineered by Bennett Cerf of Random House, was affirmed by a 2-1 vote of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in an opinion by Judge Augustus N. Hand.

Tracey K

In 2004 "Lil' Hand" was released on Canadian label, Ultrasound Recordings, the album from which the house anthem, "The Cure and The Cause" was born.


see also

Augustus Hand

Augustus Noble Hand (1869–1954), U.S. federal judge from New York, grandson of Augustus C. Hand