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2 unusual facts about Edwin H. Whitehead


Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

Whitehead was one of five children born to Douglas and Edith Whitehead in Burns, a small community in Laramie County near Cheyenne, the Wyoming state capital.


Andrew Szanton

During his career he has worked with a wide range of subjects including civil rights pioneer Charles Evers, Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene Wigner, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs John Whitehead, former United States Senator Edward Brooke, founding director of Xerox PARC George Pake, eminent surgeon Dr. Charles Epps, and head of the Missouri Botanical Garden Peter Raven.

Colpitts

Edwin H. Colpitts (1872–1949), communications pioneer best known for his invention of the Colpitts oscillator

Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy

Founded in 1999 by Paul Newman, Peter Malkin and John C. Whitehead, CECP's mission is to draw together and empower senior executives of the world’s leading companies to achieve unprecedented progress on societal challenges while driving business performance.

Dicynodont

Colbert, E. H., (1969), Evolution of the Vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons Inc (2nd ed.)

Edwin H. May, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958.

May was the co-chairman of the inaugural Insurance City Open (now the Travelers Championship) at the Wethersfield Country Club.

Edwin H. McConkey

His contributions to taxonomy include classification of the Northern subspecies of Northern Mole Skink, Eumeces egregius similis.

Edwin H. Stoughton

Stoughton was an attorney in New York City after the war, practicing with his father and with his uncle, Edwin W. Stoughton.

Edwin May

Edwin H. May, Jr. (1924–2002), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Edwin Stoughton

Edwin H. Stoughton (1838-1868), American Civil War general and lawyer

Edwin Wilson

Edwin H. Wilson (1898–1993), American Unitarian and humanist leader

Ella van Heemstra

When she visit Los Angeles she was entertained by friends like George Cukor, Mrs. Mildred Knopf (wife of Edwin H. Knopf) and Veronique Peck.

Hewitt House

Edwin H. Hewitt House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Hennepin County, Minnesota

John B. Whitehead

John Boswell Whitehead (August 18, 1872 in Norfolk, Virginia - November 16, 1954 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American electrical engineer and a professor at Johns Hopkins University as well as the dean of the School of Engineering.

John C. Whitehead

In 1987, he was awarded the IRC's Freedom Award, along with Elie Wiesel.

Nikola Tesla Museum

A series of selected letters, placed on both sides of the photograph, witnesses the highest acknowledgements expressed to Tesla by the greatest scientists of his time: Albert Einstein, William Crookes, Lord Kelvin, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Robert A. Millikan, Lee de Forest, Edwin H. Armstrong, Arthur H. Compton, Arthur E. Kennelly, Popov and Pupin.

O. Z. Whitehead

Along with John Carradine, Donald Meek, Ward Bond, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr. et al., Whitehead was one of the many actors regularly employed by Ford to breathe life into even the smallest roles in his films.

Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball

His flamboyant personality made him extremely popular; his teams adopted McFadden & Whitehead's "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" as their theme song during the Richardson years.


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