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Edward A. Burke

In 1886 as an inducement to Burke, Bográn offered two large mining concessions along the Jalán and Guayape rivers in return for Burke’s promise to help build an industrial school in Tegucigalpa, Honduras’ capital city.


66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Colonel Patrick E. Burke - mortally wounded at the Battle of Rome Cross Roads on May 16, 1864 while commanding 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee.

Andrew Burke

Andrew H. Burke (1850–1918), American politician who served as governor of North Dakota

Andrew H. Burke

He next became a cashier of the First National Bank of Casselton and then, for six years, the Treasurer of Cass County.

The state participated in the 1892 U.S. presidential election, when Grover Cleveland was elected to a second term as President of the United States.

Anthony Burke

Anthony Burke, Australian international relations scholar and political theorist

Brielle, New Jersey

Edward A. Flynn (born c. 1948), law enforcement official who has been Chief of the Milwaukee Police Department.

Central Asian studies

Contemporary Central Asian studies have been developed by pioneers such as Denis Sinor, Alexandre Bennigsen, Edward Allworth and Yuri Bregel among others.

Charles Eric Maine

He published three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke.

Charles Viner

In 1865 Viner became compiler of Edward Oppen's Postage Stamp Album and Catalogue and produced 24 editions up to 1891.

Daniel Burke

Daniel J. Burke (born 1951), Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives

David Burke

David J. Burke (born 1948), producer, screenwriter and film and television director

Digital art

Leading art theorists and historians in this field include Oliver Grau, Christiane Paul, Frank Popper, Mario Costa, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Dominique Moulon, Robert C. Morgan, Roy Ascott, Catherine Perret, Margot Lovejoy, Edmond Couchot, Fred Forest and Edward A. Shanken.

Edward A. Bacon

Bacon began his foray into public life in 1940 as the Republican National Committee representative from Wisconsin (a position he held until 1944).

Edward A. Bond

:For the English academic, see Edward Augustus Bond

In 1886, he was appointed Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Carthage and Adirondack Railroad from Carthage, New York to Benson Mines and the Oswegatchie River.

Edward A. Clampitt

He was survived by his parents, living in Los Angeles, and his wife, Margaret M. Clampitt, and two daughters, Leah and Barbara, as well as a brother, L.A. Clampitt of San Fernando, and two sisters, Mrs. A.P. McBride of Independence, Kansas, and Mrs. R. Raskin of Los Angeles.

Edward A. Gisburne

The older son, Edward Jr., fought in the Pacific theater with the 40th Bombardment Group and earned the Air Medal for his actions in aerial combat with the Japanese; he was killed in action at age 29 on May 26, 1945, when his B-29 Superfortress went down.

Edward A. Kawānanakoa

On July 29, 1997, Kawānanakoa died and was survived by his wife, eight children and his two sisters, Virginia Poomaikelani Kawānanakoa and Esther Kapiolani Kawānanakoa and cousin Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa.

Edward A. Lacey

Throughout his career he worked as a translator and taught literature and English as a second language in Mexico, Trinidad, Brazil, Greece and Thailand, including a stint as a private tutor to former Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek.

Edward A. Silk

1st Lt. Edward A. Silk commanded the weapons platoon of Company E, 398th Infantry, on 23 November 1944, when the end battalion was assigned the mission of seizing high ground overlooking Moyenmoutier, France, prior to an attack on the city itself.

Edward A'Beckett

Edward à Beckett (1844–1932), Australian portrait painter, brother of Thomas à Beckett

Ted a'Beckett (1907–1989), or Edward Lambert a'Beckett, Australian cricketer

Edward Bacon

Edward A. Bacon (1897–1968), US businessman and Republican politician

Edward Flynn

Edward A. Flynn (born c. 1948), chief of the Milwaukee Police Department

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.

Flying Hawk

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

Frank Burke

Frank G. Burke (born 1927), Acting Archivist of the United States

Gray Victory

Edward A. Pollard, the editor of the Richmond Examiner is one of them, blaming J.E.B. Stuart for having caused the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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 F. Burke

At one point the United States Golf Association asked him to prepare a set of rules which was ultimately presented to the international committee at St Andrews in Scotland.

Jicarilla language

Axelrod, Melissa; Gómez de García, Jule; Lachler, Jordan; & Burke, Sean M. (Eds.).

Justice Burke

Edward T. Burke (1870–1935), American judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota

Anne M. Burke (born 1944), Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the First Judicial District

Kevin Burke

Kevin M. Burke (born 1946), American attorney and politician in the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Marquette Sports Law Review

Anne M. Burke, justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, "2008 Joseph E. O’Neil Award Acceptance Speech," 19 Marq. L. Rev. 339 (2008).

National Catholic Welfare Council

In June, two months after America's entry into the European war, Paulist Father and Catholic World editor John J. Burke, Catholic University sociology professor William Kerby, Paulist Father Lewis O'Hern, and the former Secretary of Labor, Charles O'Neill, met in Washington, D.C. to formulate an official Catholic response to the war.

Orrington, Maine

Edward A. Pierce, Wall St. banker, one of founders of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith, Inc., now Merrill Lynch

Parnell Commission

On 6 May 1882 two leading members of the British Government in Ireland, Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland T.H. Burke were stabbed to death in Phoenix Park, Dublin by the Irish National Invincibles (see Phoenix Park Murders).

Patrick Burke

Patrick E. Burke (1830–1864), lawyer, Missouri state legislator, and Civil War officer

Raymond H. Burke

Raymond Burke was personnel and employment manager for The Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company tool works, a major Hamilton, Ohio employer, from 1918 to 1923.

Richard J. Burke

He was married on October 19, 1940 to Josephina Battaglia the daughter of Carmelo Battaglia of Monte Maggiore Belsito, Palermo, Sicily, and Antonia Fasulo of Burgio, Agrigento, Sicily.

Susan L. Burke

The lawsuit, which stemmed from the firefight in Nisoor Square in Baghdad, alleged Blackwater had violated the federal Alien Tort Statute by committing extrajudicial killing and war crimes, and that the company was liable for assault and battery, wrongful death, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and negligent hiring, training and supervision.

T. J. Burke

On January 22, 2010, Burke performed a rendition of Larry Platt's "Pants on the Ground" when criticizing conservative opposition leader David Alward during a session of the New Brunswick provincial legislature, garnering international attention.

The Prosecution of an American President

The Prosecution of an American President is a 2012 American documentary film about the Iraq War directed by Dave Hagen and David J. Burke.

Tichnor, Arkansas

Lloyd L. Burke, awarded a Medal of Honor for this actions in the Korean War, was born in Tichnor.

Vigo County Courthouse

Numerous notable lawyers from the region began their careers at the first Vigo County Courthouse, including Thomas H. Blake, James Whitcomb, Elisha Mills Huntington and Edward A. Hannegan.

William H. Burke, Jr.

Burke began his political involvement in 1934 when he assisted James Michael Curley during his successful run for Governor of Massachusetts.


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