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Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

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.

Augustine B. Kelley

Kelley was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served until his death in Bethesda, Maryland.

Bailar

Benjamin F. Bailar (b. 1934), United States Postmaster General from 1975 to 1978

Battle of Adairsville

The 44th Illinois and 24th Wisconsin infantry regiments led by Maj. Arthur MacArthur, Jr. (father of Douglas MacArthur) attacked Benjamin F. Cheatham's division and suffered heavy losses.

Battle of Brandy Station

They struck Buford's leading brigade, commanded by Col. Benjamin F. Davis, near a bend in the Beverly's Ford Road and temporarily checked its progress, and Davis was killed in the ensuing fighting.

Benjamin Baker

Benjamin F. Baker (1862–1927), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

Benjamin F. Angel

In 1857, Angel was appointed by President James Buchanan as Minister to Sweden and Norway, and remained in Stockholm until 1861.

Benjamin F. Church

He went first to Chicago, Illinois, and then in the fall of 1835 went north to the new settlements that would become Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Benjamin F. Goss

On January 21, 1851, he was married in Pewaukee to Abby B. Bradley, a native of Cayuga County, New York; they would have one child, Clara F. Goss.

Benjamin F. Isherwood

After the presidential inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, Isherwood's longtime patron, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, could no longer protect him.

Benjamin F. Newhall

In 1852, Newhall was also elected as a director of the Saugus Branch Railroad Co.

Benjamin F. Potts

In July 1862, he was temporarily detached from his infantry company and assigned command of an artillery battery in Winchester, Virginia.

Benjamin F. Rice

He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 19, 1905, and was buried Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

Benjamin F. Stapleton

He is the great-grandfather of Walker Stapleton, who was elected Colorado Treasurer in 2010, and the grandfather of Craig Roberts Stapleton, former U.S. ambassador to France and the Czech Republic.

Benjamin F. Welty

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

Welty was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1917 – March 4, 1921).

Benjamin James

Benjamin F. James (1885–1961), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Benjamin Wilson

Benjamin F. Wilson (1922–1988), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Black Donnellys

The publication of Thomas Kelley's The Black Donnellys in 1954 generated much interest in the case.

Charles Henry Butler

Born in New York City, he was the grandson of United States Attorney General Benjamin F. Butler.

Civil Rights Act of 1875

The bill was proposed by Senator Sumner and co-sponsored by Representative Benjamin F. Butler, both Republicans from Massachusetts, in the 43rd Congress of the United States in 1870.

Clarence M. Kelley

Kelley retired from the FBI February 15, 1978 and was temporarily succeeded by James B. Adams, who served as Acting Director until Webster's confirmation two weeks later.

Coal torpedo

Union Admiral Porter credited the coal torpedo with sinking the Greyhound, a private steamboat that had been commandeered by General Benjamin F. Butler for use as a floating headquarters on the James River.

Dean M. Kelley

In Why Conservative Churches are Growing, Kelley pointed out what he saw as the essential difference between liberal and conservative churches: conservative churches concentrated on spiritual needs, liberal churches on political causes, which causes were better promoted by political organizations such as the Democratic Party and the Americans for Democratic Action.

Dennis Port, Massachusetts

Famous residents of Dennis Port include U.S. military hero Benjamin F. Baker.

E. W. Kelley

He was founding partner of Kelley & Partners, Ltd. and taught at the Columbia Business School.

Ealhmund of Kent

Kelley, David H., "The House of Aethelred", in Brooks, Lindsay L., ed.

Fitch Senior High School

John J. Kelley (1930–2011), winner of the 1957 Boston Marathon, member of two U.S. Olympic Marathon teams and a coach at the school

Folck's Mill

It is historically significant for its association with the August 1, 1864, Civil War "Battle of Folck's Mill." In that battle, Union troops commanded by General Benjamin F. Kelley engaged General John McCausland’s Confederate forces as they advanced along the Baltimore Pike towards Cumberland after having burned the town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, two days previously.

Frank J. Kelley

Frank Joseph Kelley (born December 31, 1924), was the 50th Attorney General of the U.S. state of Michigan.

Houchens Industries

It had acquired the company from its founder Brad Kelley in 2001; it was the first time that Houchens had ever sold one of its acquisitions.

IDEO

IDEO was formed in 1991 by a merger of four established design firms: David Kelley Design (founded by Stanford University professor David Kelley), London-based Moggridge Associates and San Francisco's ID Two (both founded by British-born Bill Moggridge), and Matrix Product Design (founded by Mike Nuttall).

John L. Kelley

In 1960, he took a leave of absence to serve as the National Teacher on NBC's Continental Classroom television program.

Kaj-Erik Eriksen

In 2001 after returning to Los Angeles, Kaj landed the role of Jeremy Peters on David E. Kelley's Boston Public.

Mackinac Island State Park Commission

The chairman of the commission is the former Michigan House of Representatives Republican Leader Dennis O. Cawthorne. Other commission members include (youngest, oldest and longest serving) Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley; Barry J. Goodman; Karen Karam; Richard A. Manoogian; Chuck Yob and William K. Marvin.

Mike Nuttall

In 1991, his company merged with two other established design firms, David Kelley Design (founded by David Kelley) and ID Two (founded by Britain's Bill Moggridge) to form the designing giant IDEO.

Neosho Falls, Kansas

Neosho Falls was originally platted and extensively improved by a company led by Benjamin F. Goss and his brother N. S. Goss, who would later organize a company of cavalry in the area to fight for the Union in the American Civil War.

Paul X. Kelley

He is the recipient of the National Geographic Society’s Major General O.A. Anderson Award, the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ National Armed Forces Award, the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award, the Navy League’s Admiral John M. Will Award, the Ireland Fund’s Irishman of the Year for Southern California Award, the Reserve Officers Association’s Minuteman Hall of Fame Award, and the Marine Corps Scholarship Fund’s Semper Fidelis Award.

Robert P. Griffin

He was elected November 8, 1966, to a full six-year term, defeating former Governor Soapy Williams by a 56% to 44% margin, commencing January 3, 1967 and was reelected in 1972, winning a tough race against state Attorney General Frank J. Kelley, and served from May 11, 1966, to January 2, 1979.

Robert S. Kelley

In 1885 Kelley was appointed by President Grover Cleveland the 5th United States Marshal for Montana, and served in that office with official integrity until the day President Benjamin Harrison was inaugurated, when he resigned, believing that the party in power should have control of all the Federal patronage and be held responsible for it.

Shea Farrell

He started at David E. Kelley Productions working in various positions within the company and shows, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public and Boston Legal.

Spray and pray

Jack Lewis a former U.S. Marine veteran of World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam War and editor of Gun World magazine met the then Commandant of the Marine Corps Paul X. Kelley.

Susan Kelley

Susan J. Kelley, Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University

Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities

The Center hosts the Solomon Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities, which feature leading thinkers such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Robin D. G. Kelley, Wendy Brown, and Cathy Davidson in events that are free and open to the public.

William D. Kelley

He served as Chairman on the United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and on the Committee on Manufactures (51st United States Congress).

He spoke often on the justice and necessity of "impartial suffrage", or voting rights for African-Americans, introduced a bill (which passed into law) in the 39th United States Congress which gave the right to vote to African-Americans in the District of Columbia, and spoke in favor of impeaching President Johnson, who had vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Freedmen's Bureau Bill .

William Kelley

William D. Kelley (1814–1890), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania


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