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4 unusual facts about Ernest L. Webster


Ernest L. Webster

It included the Los Angeles Country Club and the Sawtelle district, and all the Santa Monica Mountains west of Sawtelle to the Ventura County line, including Pacific Palisades and Topanga Canyon.

As a youth he worked for the Youngstown Sheet and Tubing Company as a pattern maker.

Webster was born in 1889 in Youngstown, Ohio, to Warren Webster, originally from Pennsylvania, and Jane William Webster, from South Wales.

Youngstown Sheet and Tube

Ernest L. Webster, Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1927–31


Aly Hindy

He worked for Stone & Webster for two years, before starting his 21-year career as a safety engineer for Ontario Hydro.

Arline Friscia

Democrats statewide saw a net gain of three seats in the Assembly in the 1995 elections, with two of the pickups coming in the 19th District where Friscia and John S. Wisniewski knocked off the Republican incumbents Stephen A. Mikulak and Ernest L. Oros.

Bethuel M. Webster

With Webster & Sheffield, Webster represented a number of high-profile clients including Goldman Sachs, Consolidated Edison, the Ford Foundation, the New York City Public Library, and Carnegie Hall.

From 1959 to 1965, he served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and from 1965 to 1968 he mediated the international territorial dispute between Great Britain and Guatemala over British Honduras.

BYU Division of Continuing Education

In establishing the center, Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of BYU, and Joseph Fielding Smith, chairman of the executive committee of the BYU Board of Trustees, sent a letter in which they emphasized that the institution was geared toward adult continuing education programs and not meant at all to compete with Weber Junior College.

Cosmo the Cougar

Cosmo became immediately popular, and since Gallego many people have been Cosmo, including BYU president Ernest L. Wilkinson, who once put on the costume at a pep rally.

David Webster

David L. Webster (1888–1976), American physicist in early X-ray theory

Ernest L. Blumenschein

While in Cincinnati, he also attended an illustration course from Fernand Lungren at the Cincinnati Art Academy, causing him to change his studies from music to art.

Ernest L. Ransome

His techniques were vindicated when his 1897 Pacific Coast Borax Refinery in Bayonne, NJ in 1902 went through a massive building fire hot enough to melt brass; the concrete frame was only slightly damaged and thereby concrete framed industrial architecture was shown to have a key superiority over competing steel and iron framed structures.

Ford Motor Company Lamp Factory

The factory, built by Stone & Webster, Inc., was one of several similar appearing factories built for Ford, including others in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Green Island (New York), and Iron Mountain (Michigan).

H. T. Webster

Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1885, Webster grew up in the small town (pop. 3,365) of Tomahawk, Wisconsin where his father was a druggist.

Isaac F. Hughes

Known as a defender of Mayor George E. Cryer and political figure Kent Kane Parrot, Hughes was defeated in the 1927 election by Ernest L. Webster.

John E. Otto

He became acting director of the FBI when director William H. Webster was appointed to Director of Central Intelligence, and stepped down when William Sessions gained Senate approval.

John Wisniewski

Democrats statewide saw a net gain of three seats in the Assembly in the 1995 elections, with two of the pickups coming in the 19th District where Arline Friscia and Wisniewski knocked off the Republican incumbents Stephen A. Mikulak and Ernest L. Oros.

Martin B. Hickman

Hickman first became dean of the College of Social Sciences at BYU in 1970, not long before the end of the Ernest L. Wilkinson administration.

National Council of American Indians

The organization's records, which were discovered in the papers of Attorney Ernest L. Wilkinson, are held by the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.

Randy Corman

As part of the Republican landslide that year in the New Jersey Legislature in the wake of Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase package, Corman was elected to the Senate together with running mates Stephen A. Mikulak and Ernest L. Oros in the New Jersey General Assembly, defeating Laurence S. Weiss in the Senate and incumbent Democrat Thomas J. Deverin and his running mate Jay Ziznewski in the Assembly.

Short Crusader

S.N. Webster, who reported its flight characteristics to be pleasant, although the engine still tended to cut out: this led to some alarming episodes when the aircraft was later flown by Flying Officer H.M. Schofield.

Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The "William Webster Award" (named after a former Director of the FBI) is given annually to an active duty FBI Special Agent for exemplary public or humanitarian service performed outside official employment duties as an agent.

Wendell Bailey

In 1992 Bailey made an unsuccessful bid for Governor of Missouri, finishing third in the Republican primary behind then-Attorney General William L. Webster (who won the nomination) and then-Secretary of State Roy Blunt.

William H. Webster

In 2009, he was named to head an independent investigation of the FBI's actions surrounding the Fort Hood shooting.

William L. Webster

In 1992 Webster was the Republican nominee for Governor of Missouri, after defeating Roy Blunt and Wendell Bailey in the Republican Primary.


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