Citing "voter confusion", Willis then appealed that decision to the South Carolina Democratic Party, who ruled in favor of Wukela, and denied the mayor's request for another primary election.
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The mayor then appealed the circuit court's decision to the South Carolina Supreme Court, but the case was similarly dismissed.
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Moore, in turn, was later defeated in the general election by Republican Governor Mark Sanford.
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In 2004, the progressive Wukela unsuccessfully challenged Florence's senior Republican state senator, Hugh K. Leatherman, Sr.
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The mayor was very successful in attracting new businesses to Florence County, but his initiatives to curb crime, drug use and urban sprawl were met with mixed results.
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During the turbulent, riot-torn '60s, in one of the most racially polarized cities in the country, this same parcel witnessed the creation and rise of an urban paradise; imagined, engineered, owned and operated by a young African-American entrepreneur, Winston E. Willis.
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Although scores of other African-American property owners were driven out of the 105th and Euclid area and defeated under dubious land-grab tactics, one man, Winston E. Willis, has continued his decades-long struggle to defend his property rights.
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Shortly thereafter, seizing the moment and purchasing commercial properties one after another, Winston E. Willis set about cleaning up the financially devastated corner block.
Willis was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).
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He served as chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors during the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.
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An elaborate state funeral was held for him in the ʻIolani Palace (temporarily renamed the Executive Building).
Frank E. Midkiff, High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific, born in Anna
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.
It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Greer Garson), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Picture.
Willis's official papers were donated to and are open for research at the Ohio Historical Society.
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During his Senate tenure, Willis served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions, which had jurisdiction over territories including Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, from 1923 to 1928.
Shore duty at the Washington Navy Yard preceded a tour in charge of the Department of Yards and Docks in the Navy Department from 13 February 1901 to 21 January 1902.
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Two commands followed in succession: first, the nautical school ship Saratoga and then Gloucester, before he became Commander, Naval Base, Culebra, Puerto Rico, in February 1904, with additional duty commanding Gloucester.
Evans was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1979).
During this time, he also served as an ordained deacon and presbyter at the Reformed Episcopal Church.
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Gaebelein’s studies were interrupted briefly in 1918 to serve in the U.S. Army, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant.
For several years Grizzard hosted radio programs at WTJU in Charlottesville, including "The Old Home Place" (a traditional and gospel Bluegrass show), and "Just 'Nuther" (a 3-hour artist showcase of various genres).
Guernsey was reelected to the Sixty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 3, 1908, to March 3, 1917.
He then worked at the Kimberly Gold Mines, Jardine, Montana before taking a position as instructor of English and coach for baseball and football at Peddie Institute, Hightstown, New Jersey.
Peretti also took the characters from his first work The Door in the Dragon's Throat and used them to write The Cooper Kids Adventure Series, releasing three more titles that contained the same Indiana Jones-style adventures similar to The Door in the Dragon's Throat.
In January 1991, after 38 years with Philip Morris, Resnik retired and moved to Jupiter, Florida.
He was unsuccessful for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress.
Francis (Frank) Edward Weiss (born May 14, 1951) is a former career officer in the United States Army and collegiate basketball player.
Frank E. Mann, (1920–2007), American politician from the state of Virginia
He also gave art lessons, established a small art school in his studio, designed stain glass windows, and dabbled in science fiction art (illustrating Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars), he was known locally as the “Dean of Delaware Artists.”
Frank E. Woods (1860–1939), screenwriter and one of the 36 founders of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Gary R. Mormino is a historian, author, columnist at the Tampa Tribune and Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History and co-director (with Raymond Arsenault) of the Florida Studies Program at University of South Florida St. Petersburg.
Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. (born 1954), American historian, writer, and documentary editor
Although no Republican had won that office since the height of national Republican strength in 1927, before the Great Depression, Donaldson lost the general election to Republican Simeon S. Willis, 279,144 to 270,525, with 3,239 votes going to the Prohibition Party candidate.
Domengeaux did not seek reelection to Congress in 1948; instead he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in a race ultimately won by Russell B. Long, son of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. He was succeeded in the House by the freshman State Senator Edwin Edward Willis of St. Martinville, the seat of St. Martin Parish.
Theatre World, founded in 1945, covers the complete statistical and photographic Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and regional theatre seasons, major theatrical awards, obituaries, and the longest Broadway and Off-Broadway runs, among other categories.
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The awards are currently chosen by a committee of New York Drama Critics and hosted by Peter Filichia.
Mark W. Willis, chief executive officer (CEO) of Keller Williams Realty, Inc.
More recently, Willis has turned his attention to the Gupta dynasty, publishing a monograph on Hindu ritual and the development of temples as land-holding institutions, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (2009).
Piercing the Darkness, which was published in 1988, is a sequel to Frank E. Peretti's novel This Present Darkness.
Infighting among the state's Democrats combined with Willis's popular proposal to eliminate the state income tax carried him to a narrow victory over J. Lyter Donaldson.
Howard Willis: Manhunt: The Story of Stanley Graham: Christchurch: Whitcoulls: 1979: ISBN 0-7233-0629-X
In 1951, he was co-founder (with Charles F. Willis) of the Citizens for Eisenhower movement, which helped develop grass roots support for the presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
He was candidate for Governor of South Dakota in the 2006 election on the Constitution Party ticket, receiving 4,006 votes for 1.2% of the total.
Opened in 1960, the Jazz Temple was the creation of 19-year-old Winston E. Willis, an African-American entrepreneur who was also a jazz enthusiast.
Theatre World is the recipient of a 2001 Tony Honor for Excellence in Theatre, presented by the American Theatre Wing, and on behalf of the publication, longtime editor-in-chief John Willis (1916-2010) accepted honors including the first Special Lucille Lortel Award, a Special Drama Desk Award, and the Broadway Theatre Institute (now The Theatre Museum) Lifetime Achievement Award.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore).
Archaeologist Michael D. Willis argued that Candragupta II did so in order to reflect a new concept of Hindu kingship, in which the monarch was seen as both the paramount sovereign (cakravartin) and the supreme devotee of the god Vișņu (paramabhāgavata).