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Charles F. McLaughlin

He was a member of the Indian Claims Commission from April 5, 1947 until November 14, 1949 when he took the oath of office a day later as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia.


BJC HealthCare

The current facility houses the Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center, which is a 52,000-square-foot, 61-bed Level I trauma center that includes two full-body CT scanners and six trauma/critical care rooms.

Cash register

In 1906, while working at the National Cash Register company, inventor Charles F. Kettering designed a cash register with an electric motor.

Casque and Gauntlet

Notable members of past delegations include Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Nelson Rockefeller, David T. McLaughlin, James Nachtwey, and Robert Reich.

Charles Baird

Charles F. Baird (1923-2010), United States Under Secretary of the Navy and CEO of Inco Ltd.

Charles Carey

Charles F. Carey, Jr. (died 1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Charles Chandler

Charles F. Chandler (1836–1925), American chemist and public-health reformer

Charles Curry

Charles F. Curry, Jr. (1893–1972), U.S. Representative from California, member of the Seventy-second Congress of U.S.

Charles F. Adams-class destroyer

Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.

Four ships of this class were transferred to the Hellenic Navy in 1992, but those have also been decommissioned.

Charles F. Brush

In 1882 the Brush Electric Company supplied generating equipment for a hydroelectric power plant at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, among the first to generate electricity from water power in the United States.

Between 1910 and 1929 he wrote several papers on his version of a kinetic theory of gravitation, based on some sort of electromagnetic waves.

Charles F. Buck

He graduated from the high school of New Orleans in 1861, and then attended Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy near Pineville, Louisiana.

Charles F. Chandler

In 1870 he and his brother William Henry Chandler, a chemistry professor at Lehigh University, started the journal The American Chemist, the first chemical journal in America.

Upon retirement he and his second wife Augusta Berard Chandler continued to reside in New York City, but spent more and more time at their summer home in Westhampton and at her family's home in New Hartford, Connecticut, where Chandler died in 1925.

Charles F. Curry, Jr.

As he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, he engaged in the practice of law and in mining and other business enterprises.

Charles F. Haas

Ultimately, however, he settled in television, directing episodes of such popular series as Bonanza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Charles F. Howard

In 1994, Charlie Howard ran in the Republican primary for District 26 in the Texas House of Representatives, which is demographically dominated by Sugar Land, against incumbent Republican Jim Tallas, who succeeded Tom DeLay in 1984 after DeLay made a successful run for Congress.

Additionally, he has also been recognized by various publications, including the Houston Chronicle for his efforts in securing funds for the expansion of U.S. Highway 59, which runs through Sugar Land, and by the Republican Party of Texas for Howard's strong recognition of the party's values.

Charles F. Knight

A Republican, he has supported John Ashcroft, Bush Cheney '04, Rudy Giuliani, Roy Blunt, John McCain, Mitt Romney.

Charles F. Masterson

Thus, shortly after Inauguration Day, Val Peterson (former Governor of Nebraska) was appointed to a position as an Administrative Assistant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Upon his leaving in March of that same year to assume the post of Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, Walter Williams and his (acting) special assistant, Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr. assumed the task of liaison between the White House, the cabinet departments and independent agencies.

Charles F. Newcombe

In the process he became very interested in the Haida and started to collect their artifacts to "preserve" them from, what was then thought to be, the demise of the native culture.

Charles F. Sprague

He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

Charles F. Urschel

Charles F. Urschel was born in Washington Township, Hancock County, Ohio in 1890 to Daniel Urschel and Emma (Anna) M Bangert.

Charles F. West

West was nominated, and elected as a Democrat to the seventy second and seventy third congresses, he took up this role between March 4, 1931 and January 3, 1935.

Charles F. Wishart

Charles Frederick Wishart (1870–1960) was a United States Presbyterian churchman who was President of the College of Wooster from 1919 to 1944 and who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1923 at the height of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy.

Charles Kimball

Charles F. Kimball, 19th-century American pastoral landscape and marine painter

Charles Sprague

Charles F. Sprague (1857–1902), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Charles Stein

Charles F. Stein II (1900–1979), Baltimore historian and heraldist

Charles Walcott

Charles F. Walcott (1836–1887), American Union brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War

Charlie Howard

Charles F. Howard (born 1942), known as Charlie, Texas state representative, 1995–present

Chester B. McLaughlin

In November 1917, he was elected on the Republican and Democratic tickets to a full term on the Court of Appeals, and remained on the bench until the end of 1926 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.

Dean A. Hrbacek

He decided that he would run at that time only if the incumbent Republican, Charlie Howard, chose not to run.

Engineers Club of Dayton

The Engineers Club of Dayton was founded by Colonel Edward A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering in Dayton, Ohio in 1914.

Gutenberg Glacier

The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after German-born seismologist Beno Gutenberg, director of the California Institute of Technology seismology laboratory in the 1930s, and collaborator with Charles F. Richter in developing the Richter Scale, 1935, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.

Hostages Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska.

James W. McLaughlin

In 1870 he helped organize the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and in the same year he was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects serving on its board.

John J. Valentine, Sr.

Upon the resignation of Charles F. Crocker in August 1882, Valentine was elected vice president and a director of Wells Fargo.

John Patrick Higgins

He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress, was unopposed in his re-election to the Seventy-fifth Congress and served from January 3, 1935 until his resignation on September 30, 1937, having been appointed by Gov. Charles F. Hurley on October 1, 1937 as chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, in which capacity he served until his death in 1955.

Joseph McLaughlin

Joseph M. McLaughlin (b. 1933), American academic and U.S. federal appellate court judge

Manderson, Wyoming

The town was originally called Alamo, but it was renamed in 1889 in honor of Charles F. Manderson, chief counsel for Burlington Railroad.

Mansukh C. Wani

In 2000, Dr. Wani received an award for applied research in medicine, the Charles F. Kettering Prize, from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.

Moses A. McLaughlin

As Captain, 2nd Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry, he is best known for his role in the 1863 Keyesville Massacre, and subsequent campaign that forced the capitulation of the Owens Valley Paiute in the Owens Valley Indian War and their removal to Fort Tejon.

Mount Richter

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Richter, American physicist, California Institute of Technology, 1930–70; in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, 1935, he developed the Richter Scale which bears his name, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.

Orville Redenbacher's

Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn is a brand of popcorn made originally by Chester Inc. which was owned by Charles F. Bowman and Orville Redenbacher (who starred in nearly all the commercials the most exceptional being its Reden-Budders products up to his death in 1995).

Public Square

While it initially served as a common pasture for settlers' animals, less than a century later Public Square was the height of modernity, when in 1879 it became the first street in the world to be lit with electric street lights, arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush.

Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that VASIMR technology could be the breakthrough technology that would reduce the travel time on a Mars mission from 2.5 years to 5 months.

W. Winfred Moore

In 1985, Moore, as the moderate candidate, lost the SBC presidential contest in a challenge to the fundamental-conservative incumbent, Charles F. Stanley, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia.

William Carlos Ives

Ives moved to the town of Lethbridge in 1901 and joined a legal firm partnering with established lawyer Charles Conybeare.


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