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unusual facts about D. W. Mooney


Havasu Creek

It is named after D. W. "James" Mooney, a miner, who in 1882 (according to his companions) decided to mine the area near Havasu Falls for minerals.


Beecraft

The Honeybee escaped the fire as it was still operating out of Montgomery Field at the time, owned by Walt Mooney.

Charles A. Mooney

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

Mooney was elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 29, 1931.

John J. Mooney

He retired from Engelhard in 2003, having spent 43 years working for the firm.

While serving in the United States Army from 1955 to 1956, Mooney was assigned to a series of nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, which included 17 atom bomb and two hydrogen bomb tests.

Mooney came to Engelhard in 1960, after graduate school, as a result of a connection made in an electrochemical engineering course.

John Mooney

John J. Mooney, American chemical engineer who was co-inventor of the three-way catalytic converter

Martin L. Sweeney

Sweeney was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles A. Mooney.

Walter E. Mooney

Walter E. Mooney (1926 - March 1, 1990) was a pilot and model aircraft designer who lived in San Diego, California.

He was once featured as a daredevil glider pilot on the 1973 TV series Thrill Seekers.

Designer of the ROHR Two-175 Experimental Aircraft almost put in production to compete against the Cessna 172 in 1971.

The Aero Aces model club, of Seattle, Washington holds a Walt Mooney Memorial model airplane meet named in his honor.

William C. Mooney

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress.

He worked at that position for two years when, in 1894 he engaged in banking at Monroe Bank, which was chartered by his father.


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