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unusual facts about Francis M. Rotch


Francis M. Rotch

While on official business with the New York regiments of the Army of the Potomac, he contracted a fever in the swamps near Yorktown, Virginia.


Francis M. Gibbons

Gibbons served as secretary to the First Presidency until March 1986, when he retired and was succeeded by F. Michael Watson.

Francis M. Griffith

He was reelected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from December 6, 1897, to March 3, 1905.

Griffith was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Holman.

Francis M. Ssekandi

He negotiated several technical cooperations agreements with governments and initiated many innovative institutional legal models for the delivery of UN programmes, including the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the African Management Services Company (AMSCO), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and United Nations Compensation Commission after the 1991 Iraq war.

In 1997 he was appointed General Counsel of the African Development Bank where he was the anchor for the institutional reforms carried out by President Omar Kabbaj, including revision of the Bank's Charter to incorporate new voting rights for shareholders, and establishment of an Administrative Tribunal to judge staff disputes.

Francis M. Wilcox

In 1909 he became associate editor of the Review and Herald, and two years later became editor (a post he would hold until his retirement in 1944).

John C. Lawn

On 1 March 1985, Lawn, who had served as Deputy Administrator since 1982, was designated Acting Administrator following the retirement of Francis M. Mullen.

Pottenger

Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., conducted what became known as the Pottenger Cat Study

University of Tennessee College of Medicine

Francis M. Fesmire, Clinical Research Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the College of Medicine in Chattanooga, received the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on unorthodox treatment of intractable hiccups.


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