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Charles Platt

Charles Z. Platt (1773–?), American politician, New York State Treasurer, 1813–1817


Archives of American Gardens

The Garden Club of America Collection, which was donated in 1992, includes documentation of landscape architects such as Marian Coffin, Lawrence Halprin, Beatrix Farrand, Hare & Hare, Gertrude Jekyll, Umberto Innocenti, Jens Jensen, Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Fletcher Steele.

Benjamin S. W. Clark

In March 1876, he was appointed by Governor Samuel J. Tilden an Inspector of State Prisons to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Moss K. Platt.

Bosquet

Bosquets, unfamiliar in American gardens, but introduced in the Beaux-Arts gardens of Charles A. Platt, were planted along the Fifth Avenue front of the Metropolitan Museum in 1969-70.

Charles A. Platt

In 1907 he designed a townhouse for Sara Delano Roosevelt on East 65th Street in New York, now a historic landmark, the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House.

The MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts is another Platt-designed mansion built for H. Wendell Endicott in 1934, in use today as a conference center for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Charles Platt

Charles A. Platt (1861–1933), American landscape gardener and architect of the "American Renaissance" movement

Charles Z. Wick

Prior to his entering into governmental affairs, he produced such films as Snow White and the Three Stooges.

Wick also established the Voice of America's Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba; created RIAS TV in Berlin; headed the International Youth Exchange Initiative; established an office within USIA to implement the General Exchanges Agreement between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union; and created the Artistic Ambassador Program with its international young artists' exchanges.

Dan Fishbach

Fishbach, who has several regional theatrical directing credits recently directed One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical, produced by Marc E. Platt, Executive Producer of Wicked (musical).

De Alva S. Alexander

It focused on prominent political leaders such as Grover Cleveland, Thomas C. Platt, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Edmund C. Weeks

A Massachusetts native, Weeks was born in the town of Tisbury, on Martha's Vineyard, to Captain Hiram Weeks and Margaret D. Cottle, a relative of New York Senator Thomas C. Platt.

Jennifer Murray

She is the daughter of Sir William Mather, the British industrialist who was chairman of Mather & Platt.

Joe Lovero

Marc Platt who produced the film Legally Blonde and the Broadway smash Wicked is producing Book of Leo for Universal Studios.

John Platt

John R. Platt (1918-1992), American physicist and biophysicist.

John R. Platt

For other people named John Platt, see John Platt.

John Teele Pratt

In 1910, Pratt and his wife had a brick neo-Georgian mansion, "The Manor", designed by architect Charles A. Platt built at their 55-acre Glen Cove estate.

Marc E. Platt

"Taking the Stage" (executive producer) (1 episode, 2009 - Dance Off)

Moss K. Platt

On October 14, 1830, he married Elizabeth S. Freligh (1810–1856), and they had four daughters, and one son: John Freligh Platt (1837–1858) who died while a senior at Williams College.

Orville H. Platt

On March 1, 1901, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Army Appropriation bill with the Platt Amendment as a rider which governed U.S. relations with Cuba from 1901 to 1934, and was named for Sen. Platt.

Thomas C. Platt

He became a member of the Forty-seventh Congress and the chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills.

Accordingly, the young Platt was prepared for college at the Owego Academy and attended Yale College (1850–1852), where he studied theology, but failed to earn a degree.

Wilo SE

2005 Acquisition of Mather & Platt Pumps Ltd. and Mather & Platt Fire Systems Ltd., Pune, India


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