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unusual facts about Benjamin A. Shepherd



A. J. Shepherd

He drove in the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1960–1961 seasons with 7 starts, including the 1961 Indianapolis 500.

Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

The first Marine to hold the billet as "Assistant to the Commandant" was Eli K. Cole (Allen H. Turnage being the last), while Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. was the first to hold it as the "Assistant Commandant".

Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. was the first to hold the billet and went on to become Commandant, as well as five others: Randolph M. Pate, Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., Robert H. Barrow, Paul X. Kelley and James F. Amos.

Barnsbury

Thomas H. Shepherd, artist and printmaker lived in Batchelor Street.

Benjamin A. Botkin

At a panel of the 1939 Writers' Congress, which also included Aunt Molly Jackson, Earl Robinson, and Alan Lomax, Botkin spoke of what writers had to gain from folklore: "He gains a point of view. The satisfying completeness and integrity of folk art derives from its nature as a direct response of the artist to a group and group experience with which he identifies himself and for which he speaks."

Benjamin A. Rogge

Rogge helped produce, and narrated, a documentary on Adam Smith that was funded by Liberty Fund.

Benjamin A. Smith II

While at Harvard, Smith played fullback on the football team under coach Dick Harlow.

Benjamin A. Willis

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Billingbear House

An English translation of this manuscript was published in London in 1821; Indian ink copies of the original 17th-century paintings, by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, were reproduced as scaled-down engravings for inclusion in this publication.

Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway

Jonathan F. Barrett was the company's first president, and the company included some of the leading men of the state: General Sherman himself, Hugh McLeod, John G. Tod, John Angier, William Rice, Ebenezer A. Allen, William A. van Alstyne, James H. Stevens, Benjamin A. Shepherd, and William J. Hutchins.

Edward J. McCormack, Jr.

Critics said the current (appointed) senator, Ben Smith who was a close friend of the Kennedy family, was intended all along to simply be a "seat-warmer" until Ted Kennedy turned thirty (the minimum age provided by the U.S. Constitution for eligibility to serve in the Senate).

Esplanade, Kolkata

Bourne & Shepherd, photographic studio was established here in 1867 by British photographers, Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd, and still exist here.

Gary Windass

Gary and Len steal and burn out a sports car that David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd) and his friend Graeme Proctor (Craig Gazey) had been driving.

Gordon Shepherd

Gordon M. Shepherd (born 1933), Yale University professor of neuroscience and neurobiology

Harry Hill's TV Burp

Series 10: In the final episode, the fight was between David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd), his mother Gail (Helen Worth), Becky McDonald (Katherine Kelly) and her sister Kylie (Paula Lane), as they were all involved in a fight during that week's Coronation Street.

James Shepherd

James E. Shepherd (1847–1910), lawyer and jurist who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court

John Lomax

Upon Lomax's departure this work was continued by Benjamin A. Botkin, who succeeded Lomax as the Project's folklore editor in 1938, and at the Library in 1939, resulting in the invaluable compendium of authentic slave narratives: Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B. A. Botkin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945).

Mark Shepherd

Mark R. Shepherd (1953–2011), American environmental consultant, politician, strategist and radio personality

Paul J. Feiner

In 1998 and 2000 Feiner ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for New York's 20th congressional district, losing to the long-time incumbent Congressman, Benjamin A. Gilman.

Thomas Ormson

In 2000 Jack P. Shepherd took over the role, as Ormson left the role of David Platt.

Thomas Shepherd

Thomas H. Shepherd, water colour artist well known for his architectural works


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