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Charles H. Winfield

Winfield was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867) but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1866 and resumed his legal practice.


1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak

Senator Charles Percy and Illinois Governor Otto Kerner visited to speak with victims and thank the recovery volunteers.

Alex Seith

A complete newcomer to electoral politics, he nearly pulled off one of the greatest upsets in Senate history when he narrowly lost to nationally renowned incumbent Republican Charles Percy by eight percentage points.

Alfred De Sève

His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H. Ditson.

Buckeye gasoline buggy

Charles H. Black reported that he completed and tested his first steam engine "chug buggy" in 1891.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne’s The Face in the Moonlight opposite Robert B. Mantell and the following season as Ruth Hardman, in Charles H. Hoyt's satiric comedy A Temperance Town, that opened on the 17th of September, 1893 at Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre and ran for 125 performances.

Center for Women in Government and Civil Society

CWGCS research has been supported through grants by the United States Department of Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of State (DoS), the Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, and other government agencies, private foundations, and non-profit organizations.

Charles Brower

Charles H. Brower (1901 - 1984) American advertising executive, copywriter, and author

Charles Crawford

Charles H. Crawford (1879–1931), Los Angeles criminal and political figure

Charles Ewing

Charles H. Ewing (c. 1866–1935), president of the Reading Company, 1932–1935

Charles H. Carroll

He was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

Charles H. DuPont

Nevertheless, he traveled to the Midwest to recruit immigrant labor to Florida, and became seriously ill in Minneapolis.

Charles H. Gerhardt

The division's most famous combat operations were the Omaha Beach landings of June 6, 1944 (his 49th birthday), D-Day and the taking of the French crossroads town of Saint-Lô in July 1944.

Charles H. Griffin

Griffin was elected as a Democrat to the Ninetieth Congress in a special election triggered by Williams' successful bid for governor of Mississippi.

Charles H. Henry

Henry's entire professional career was spent in the research area of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Charles H. Larkin

Feeling too old to engage in warfare, instead he assisted his son, Courtland P. Larkin, to enlist a company of the 38th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Charles H. Marsh

Marsh protested to Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon, arguing that the area where he was captured was Union-held, and he should thus be considered a prisoner of war rather than a spy.

Charles H. Mason

:For the founder of the Church of God in Christ, see Charles Harrison Mason.

Charles H. Porter

He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Ashland, New York.

Charles H. Prisk

His parents were from Camborne, Cornwall, England, and they settled in Grass Valley where his father worked as a miner.

Charles H. Purcell

When the commission finished its work, Purcell was appointed by Governor Jim Rolph as the Chief Engineer responsible for the design and construction of the bridge.

Charles H. Ruggles

Ruggles was elected as a Federalist to the 17th United States Congress, and served from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823.

Charles H. Schneer

Together they made It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), about a giant octopus that wreaks havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law

In 1967, the Secretary of the Navy officially designated the academic post as the Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law in honor of Rear Admiral Charles Stockton, a former faculty member and President of the Naval War College, who had been the U.S. Navy's first uniformed expert in International Law.

Charles H. Treat

In 1896 President William McKinley appointed him the collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall Street District, Elihu Root and Cornelius N. Bliss being his sponsors.

Charles H. Wacker

His father was Frederick Wacker, a brewer, who was born in Württemberg Germany.

Charles H. Wesley

In 1965, Wesley became the Director of Research and Publications for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

In 1978, the city of Detroit leased the museum a plot of land in Midtown near the Detroit Public Library, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Detroit Science Center.

Charles Hook Tompkins

Charles Hook Tompkins (November 30, 1883 – December 12, 1956) was president and co-founder with his wife of the Charles H. Tompkins Construction Company, which built the United States Courthouse, the West Wing and East Wing of the White House, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and the National Guard Armory.

Charles Nesbitt

Charles H. Nesbitt, former Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly

Charles Pinkham

Charles H. Pinkham (1844–1920), Medal of Honor recipient in the American Civil War

Charles Upton

Charles H. Upton (1812–1877), politician and statesman from Massachusetts and Virginia

Claude Crépeau

In 1993, together with Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Richard Jozsa, Asher Peres, and William Wootters, Prof. Crépeau invented quantum teleportation.

Cross Gates

The bus manufacturer Optare, formerly "Charles H. Roe Ltd", also had a factory on Manston Lane before it also closed in 2011 when they moved to Sherburn in Elmet, and the haulage company J Long & Sons are based on Sandleas Way.

David Maister

He is best known for writing Managing the Professional Service Firm and co-writing The Trusted Advisor with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford.

Flying Hawk

Three years later, U.S. Commissioner for Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke was asked to resign for the Oklahoma scandal.

Fort Walton Mound

The Fort Walton Mound was probably built around 800 CE, although Charles H. Fairbanks who excavated the mound in 1960 believed it was built between 1500 and 1650 based on pottery sherds he uncovered and analyzed.

George D. Ruggles

His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his uncle, Charles H. Ruggles, who was Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals.

Hadoard

Charles H. Beeson, The Collectaneum of Hadoard, Classical Philology, Vol.

Honeywell 316

The H-316 was used by Charles H. Moore to develop the first complete, stand-alone implementation of Forth at NRAO.

Malcolm F. Marsh

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner.

Man or boy test

The survey paper by Charles H. Lindsey mentioned in the references contains a table for different starting values.

Oregon Executive MBA

Formerly a partnership of Oregon State University, Portland State University, and University of Oregon, Oregon Executive MBA is now solely a program of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business.

Reginald Stoneham

F.F.F., styled as a "mystery musical comedy", underwritten by Hugh D. McIntosh and devised by promoter-businessman C. J. De Garis who also wrote the lyrics to music by Stoneham, starring Maggie Moore, Rex London, Minnie Love, Billy Rego, Hugh Steyne, Marie Le Varre and Charles H. Workman.

Sister Parish

In addition to the White House, Parish's clients included the philanthropist Jane Engelhard and the socialite and art collector Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, Annette de la Renta, Alice Rogers, Mrs. Charles Percy, were also clients.

United States Senate election in Illinois, 1966

Incumbent Democratic United States Senator Paul Douglas, seeking a fourth term in the United States Senate, faced off against Republican Charles H. Percy, a businessman and the 1964 Republican nominee for Governor of Illinois.

William Strauss

Strauss later worked at the U.S. Department of Energy and as a committee staffer for Senator Charles Percy, and in 1980 he became chief counsel and staff director of the Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes.


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