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2 unusual facts about Frank C. Matthews


Frank C. Matthews

In September 2010, critically acclaimed Hollywood director F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job, Set It Off, Friday, Law Abiding Citizen) bought the TV and film rights to Respect The Jux.

Frank Matthews

Frank C. Matthews (born 1972), African-American writer of urban fiction


Alden E. Matthews

At first he worked in Changle, where his job was to help strengthen the churches in that area.

Barkly West

Z.K. Matthews (1901 - May 1968), prominent black academic who became a president of the African National Congress and assisted in the drafting of the Freedom Charter, was born at Winters Rush outside Barkly West.

Damrell

Frank C. Damrell Jr. (born 1938), United States federal judge in the Eastern District of California

Francis Matthews

Francis P. Matthews, 49th United States Secretary of the Navy and the 8th Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus

Frank Baxter

Frank C. Baxter (1896–1982), American educator and television personality

Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History

The curator of Mystic Seaport, Edouard A. Stackpole, originated the idea for the institute and turned to Professor Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University to join with him in creating the Institute and to serve as its first director.

Frank C. Osmers, Jr.

Born in Leonia, New Jersey on December 30, 1907, Osmers attended the local public schools and Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1935–1937, and was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the Seventy-seventh Congress, serving in office from January 3, 1939-January 3, 1943.

Frank C. Papé

He also created dust jacket illustrations for the first editions of several Wheatley novels, including The Devil Rides Out (1935), Strange Conflict (1941), The Haunting of Toby Jugg (1948), and To the Devil a Daughter (1953).

These books from Biography of the Life of Manuel, issued by the London publishing house The Bodley Head, included Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1921, originally in a limited edition), The High Place, Something about Eve and The Cream of the Jest.

Frank C. Penfold

He settled in Pont-Aven, Brittany, where he taught some of those who belonged to the growing colony of artists.

Frank (Francis) Crawford Penfold (1849-1921) was an American artist and teacher, remembered for his genre, landscape and portrait paintings, many of which he completed while living in Pont-Aven in Brittany.

Frank C. Rathje

These achievements led Rathje to be elected President of the American Bankers Association in 1945 succeeding Warren Randolph Burgess of New York City.

He attended St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in 1903 but was forced to drop out due to a lack of funding.

Frank Newman

Frank C. Newman (1917–1996), US law school dean, state supreme court judge, and scholar and reformer in international human rights law

J. B. Matthews

In 1964, with his health in decline, Matthews left the employ of the Hearst organization and sold a substantial part of his files to the Church League of America based in Wheaton, Illinois, before passing to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

James B. Sumner

Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910 where he was acquainted with prominent chemists Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James Bryant Conant and Charles Loring Jackson.

James L. Usry

A Republican, Usry served as mayor from 1984 to 1990, after defeating Mayor Michael J. Matthews in a recall election.

James M. Matthews

At the public meeting, held at the New York Historical Society in January 1830, Jonathan M. Wainwright of Grace Episcopal Church, echoing the thinking of the group, proposed a curriculum based on "useful instruction".

John H. Kemble

A close associate of Professor Robert G. Albion, Kemble was one of the original faculty members of the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History at Mystic Seaport, where Kemble House is named for him.

Joseph Matthews

J. B. Matthews (1894 – 1966), former Methodist churchman, chief investigator for the Martin Dies, Jr.

Joseph W. Matthews (1812–1862), American politician who served as Governor of Mississippi

Joseph W. Matthews

Joseph Warren Matthews (1812–1862) was an American politician who served as Governor of Mississippi from 1848 to 1850.

Lynch-Staunton

Frank C. Lynch-Staunton, AOE (1905–1990), the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1979 to 1985

Mall St. Matthews

The mall expanded again in 1995 with a new wing and the addition of Dillard's, and in 1997 Lord & Taylor followed suit.

Mark A. Matthews

Born in Calhoun, Georgia in a family beset by post Civil War poverty, Matthews grew up in the environment of Southern revivalism and, later, post-Reconstruction radical agrarian politics.

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Frank C. Hibben was the first director of the museum and expanded its holdings by collecting archaeological materials from around the world and in trade with other museums.

Mystic Seaport

In addition, it supports research via an extensive library; runs the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, a summer graduate-level academic program, established in 1955 by maritime historian Professor Robert G. Albion of Harvard University; and, in conjunction with Williams College, hosts Williams–Mystic, an undergraduate program in maritime studies.

Nelson E. Matthews

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress.

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish

At the suggestion of big-game hunter Frank C. Hibben, between 1969 and 1977 the Department of Game and Fish introduced 93 captive bred Oryx into the White Sands Missile Range, intending them to be hunted for sport.

Newport Networks

Founder, Sir Terence H. Matthews has a history of naming companies after places in South Wales, from where he originates.

Orangeburg–Calhoun Technical College

In January 1993, the Industrial/Technology, Business/Computer Technology and Faculty Administration buildings were named in honor of Joe K. Fairey II (the Fairey family owns the St. Matthews Chevrolet dealership since 1926, which is now located across the street on the other side of US 601), John O. Wesner, Jr. and Ben R. Wetenhall, respectively.

Peter Matthews

Peter H. Matthews (1873–1916), American operator of policy gambling

Rube Ferns

He defeated such men as "Mysterious" Billy Smith, Eddie Connolly, Bobby Dobbs, William "Matty" Matthews, Frank Erne, Owen Zeigler, "Scaldy" Bill Quinn, Harry Pigeon, Frank "Dutch" Neal, Paddy Purtell and Shorty Ahearn.

St. Matthews, South Carolina

The Calhoun Academy is the private co-educational college preparatory school that is located in St. Matthews.

Thomas Matthews

Thomas Stanley Matthews, better known T. S. Matthews and also Tom Matthews, (1901-1991), American editor for Time Magazine (1929-1953) (and Stanley Matthews' grandson)

Vladimir Peniakoff

He married Pamela Firth on 2 April 1948 (she went on to marry T. S. Matthews, former editor of Time magazine, after Popski's death).

William M. Fowler

Fowler also teaches at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History at Mystic Seaport Museum and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Naval War College, St. John's Preparatory School, and the Sea Education Association.


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