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unusual facts about Francis G. Slack



2016 Democratic National Convention

Louis Mayor Francis G. Slay and other city organizers have confirmed plans to submit a bid for the Democratic Convention, after having lost the 2012 convention to Charlotte.

Chevy Chase, Maryland

Chevy Chase was unincorporated farmland in the years before 1890, during which time Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada and his partners began the aggressive acquisition of land in northwestern Washington, D.C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland, for the purpose of developing a residential streetcar suburb for Washington, D.C..

Clayton K. Slack

In 1963 president John F Kennedy hosted a reunion of Medal of Honor recipients at the White House for the 100th anniversary of the first presentation of the Medal.

Eugene T. Booth

During the Manhattan Project, Dunning conducted pioneering work at Columbia University on gaseous diffusion to separate uranium isotopes; others working on the project included Booth, Henry A. Boorse, Willard F. Libby, Alfred O. C. Nier, and Francis G. Slack.

Francis G. Rayer

Francis George Rayer (1921-1981) was a British science fiction writer and technical journalist.

Francis G. Slay

Also in his first term, Slay was successful in negotiating the construction of Busch Stadium, the new St. Louis Cardinals baseball stadium in downtown St. Louis, and the re-districting of aldermanic wards required after the 2000 census.

John G. Hutchinson

When longtime Representative and fellow Democrat John M. Slack, Jr. died in office on March 17, 1980, Hutchison won the special election to fill Slack's vacancy in Congress.

Mick Staton

He was unsuccessful in his first bid for Congress, in 1978, when he lost to longtime 3rd Congressional District incumbent John M. Slack, Jr..


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