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unusual facts about Francis H. Rankin, Sr.



Francis H. Dodds

Dodds was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the 61st and 62nd Congresses, serving from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1913.

Francis H. Fassett

In 1895, Fassett redesigned the Mount Pleasant House, a hotel at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in the White Mountains.

Francis H. Harlow

He is known for his fundamental contributions to the development of several CFD algorithms for computer simulation of fluid flows, including Particle-In-Cell (PIC), Fluid-In-Cell (FLIC), and Marker-and-Cell (MAC) methods.

Francis H. McAdams

He joined the board on July 31, 1967, having been nominated a few months earlier by President Lyndon Johnson, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 20, 1978.

Francis H. Rankin, Sr.

He was a member of and Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in 1873 was the Sovereign Lodge's Grand Representative.

Francis H. Snow

Francis Huntington Snow (June 29, 1840–September 21, 1908) was an American professor and chancellor of the University of Kansas (KU), and he became prominent through the discovery of a fungus fatal to chinch bugs and its propagation and distribution.

Francis H. Wilson

Wilson was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, to September 30, 1897, when he resigned to become postmaster.

H. W. Derby Building

Hamilton & Rankin (John R. Hamilton's firm) designed the H. W. Derby Building on Third Street.

Jeannette Rankin

Rankin's brother Wellington D. Rankin, a power in the Montana Republican Party, financed and managed her first campaign for the Congressional election of 1916.

John Rankin

John E. Rankin (1882–1960), United States Representative from Mississippi

John W. Rankin, captain of the USS Phoenix cruiser at Pearl Harbor

Reading Viaduct

The Italianate headhouse was designed by New York architect Francis H. Kimball.


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