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2 unusual facts about Bessie A. Buchanan


Bessie A. Buchanan

Buchanan was in Josephine Baker's party at the Stork Club in 1951 when Baker was dissatisfied with her service and stormed out of the nightclub.

Charles and Evelyn Allison moved to New York City from Petersburg, Virginia around the turn of the 20th Century.


Angus Buchanan

Angus A. Buchanan (1881–1914), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

Archibald Buchanan

Archibald C. Buchanan (1890–1979), Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia

Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.

In 1938, he along with A.C. Buchanan were the choices of Virginia Senators Carter Glass and Harry Byrd, Sr., to a vacancy on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, to which Franklin D. Roosevelt named instead Floyd H. Roberts.

James M. Buchanan

He spent the war years on the staff of Admiral Nimitz in Honolulu, and it was during that time he met and married Anne Bakke on 5 October 1945; Anne, of Norwegian descent, was working as a nurse at the military base in Hawaii.

James S. Buchanan

Because of this, he was one of the few who survived the cuts the newly elected Democratic governor of Oklahoma, Charles N. Haskell, made to the University; cuts which included the first president of Oklahoma, David Ross Boyd.

Simone Awards

Junious "Buck" Buchanan Memorial Award - Outstanding big class lineman/linebacker


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