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unusual facts about Augustus G. Paine, Jr.



Anatoli Blagonravov

In April 1970, he held informal talks in New York City with NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, about the possibility of performing a rendezvous and docking of a US and Soviet spacecraft.

Augustus G. Paine, Jr.

Augustus G. Paine, Jr. was also the grandfather of the actress Molly McGreevey.

Augustus G. Paine, Sr.

Paine was a member of the Union League, the Merchants, and the New York Athletics Clubs.

Augustus G. Weissert

Weissert mustered out September 17, 1865 with the regiment and returned to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he continued to study law under Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice William P. Lyon.

Painesdale, Michigan

Painesdale was built by the Champion Mining Company between 1899 and 1917, and named after the Boston businessman William A. Paine, who was associated with many mines as well as the Paine Webber brokerage.

William W. Paine

Paine was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the House declaring Joseph W. Clift not entitled to the seat, and served from December 22, 1870, to March 3, 1871.


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