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2 unusual facts about Frank S. Black


Frank S. Black

Black was elected as a Republican to the 54th United States Congress as the representative of New York's 19th congressional district, and served from March 4, 1895, to January 7, 1897, when he resigned.

Timothy L. Woodruff

In the process Woodruff became the only Lieutenant Governor in New York history to serve under three different Governors — Frank S. Black, Theodore Roosevelt, and Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. As Lieutenant Governor, Woodruff took a leadership role in the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, helping to protect the forests there from the devastation of clear cutting and large scale damming projects.


Alan W. Black

Black wrote the Festival Speech Synthesis System at Edinburgh, and continues to develop it at Carnegie Mellon.

American Monetary Institute

While 2013 speakers are still unconfirmed, past speakers have included: Michael Hudson, Richard C. Cook, William K. Black, Dennis Kucinich, and Elizabeth Kucinich.

Atlantic City Expressway

Plans resurfaced for the road in the 1950s when a group of officials led by State Senator Frank S. Farley pushed for a road to help the area economy.

Farley Service Plaza, the only service area on the route, has a building containing several fast food restaurants and a gas station.

Buckeye gasoline buggy

Charles H. Black reported that he completed and tested his first steam engine "chug buggy" in 1891.

Chevrolet El Camino

A 1970 model El Camino named "Brimstone" is the vehicle used by the character "Preacher" in the videogame Twisted Metal: Black.

Cimetidine

Cimetidine was the culmination of a project at Smith, Kline and French (SK&F; now GlaxoSmithKline) by James W. Black, C. Robin Ganellin, and others to develop a histamine receptor antagonist to suppress stomach acid secretion.

Derek Birnage

In 1954 Birnage launched a new sports-themed comic, Tiger, and asked writer Frank S. Pepper to create a more realistic football strip than The Champion's "Danny of the Dazzlers".

Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Pryde (Bernie Casey) is a noteworthy scientist who is working on an experimental remedy for liver damage.

Eugene Black

Eugene R. Black, Sr. (1898–1992), President of the World Bank, 1949–1963

Eugene F. Black (1903–1990), member of the Michigan Supreme Court, 1956–1972

Eugene R. Black, Sr.

In 1963, the United States was considering pursuing a program to create a supersonic transport (SST) to rival the British and French Concorde.

Francis Blair

Frank S. Blair (1839–1899), Virginia lawyer and Attorney General of Virginia

Frank Alexander

Frank S. Alexander, professor of law at the Emory University School of Law

Frank S. Dickson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

Frank S. Emi

In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Emi was forced to abandon his successful produce market at 11th and Alvarado Streets in Los Angeles.

Frank S. Land

He was honored with the Knight Commander of the Court of Honor of the Scottish Rite and coroneted a 33° in 1925.

He received the first International Gold Service Medal of the General Grand Chapter of York Rite Masons in 1951 for work in Humanities.

Land was selected to act as the director of the Masonic Relief and Employment Bureau of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

Frank S. Leffingwell

In November 1906 Leffingwell and his wife moved to Brunton, Alberta Canada known today as Warner, Alberta to take part in the great land rush.

Frank S. Petersen

He enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II, after which he received an associate degree from Santa Rosa Junior College in 1948 and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco in 1951.

Frank S. Reasoner

In his book A Rumor of War covering the 4th Marines tour of Vietnam the journalist Philip Caputo states that USS Reasoner (FF-1063) was named after Reasoner.

Frank S. Scott

Corporal Frank S. Scott (December 2, 1883 – September 28, 1912) was the first enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces to lose his life in an aircraft accident.

Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.

In 1938, he along with A.C. Buchanan were the choices of Virginia Senators Carter Glass and Harry Byrd, Sr., to a vacancy on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, to which Franklin D. Roosevelt named instead Floyd H. Roberts.

Following World War II he was assigned by the Department of the Army to be Counsel under Joseph B. Keenan and later Acting Chief of Counsel of the International Prosecution Section for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East from late 1945 to the end of the trial in 1948.

Frank S. Welsh

Since 1972, Welsh has consulted on the research and restoration of original finishes and colors on over 1,600 restoration projects, which include World Heritage Sites and many national landmarks such as Independence Hall, Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, and Grand Central Terminal.

Frank S. Williamson

Percival Serle considered him a strange case of an educated man writing a fair amount of verse of small merit until in middle life 'something blossomed in him and he wrote half a dozen quite beautiful poems'.

Henry M. Black

In February 1864, he was sent to Fort Humboldt with three companies of reinforcements ("C," "E" and "G"), to take command of the Humboldt Military District.

J. R. Black

The newspaper's in-house photographer was the Austrian, Michael Moser, but Black, an amateur photographer himself, supplemented Moser's images with his own.

The same year Black received authorisation to publish articles on government policy and the proceedings of the Daijō-kan (太政官), or Council of State.

James B. Black

In 2005 and 2006, Black was linked to a series of scandals involving, among other things, the party-switching Rep. Michael P. Decker, and the North Carolina lottery, established the previous year.

Jeremiah S. Black

Perhaps the most influential of President Buchanan's official advisers, he denied the constitutionality of secession, and urged that Fort Sumter be properly reinforced and defended.

Black was born on January 10, 1810 in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania near his Glades, the son of Representative Henry Black, and his wife Mary Black (Sullivan).

John D. F. Black

Black also was the executive producer of the detective movie Trouble Man (1972), which starred Robert Hooks and whose musical score was written by Marvin Gaye.

Justice Black

Charles C. Black, an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court

Jeremiah S. Black, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1854

Katzenbach

Frank S. Katzenbach (1868–1929), New Jersey Supreme Court justice

Lydia T. Black

In April 2001, she, along with fellow anthropologist and historian and close colleague Richard Pierce, historians Barbara Sweetland Smith, John Middleton-Tidwell, and Viktor Petrov (posthumous), was decorated by the Russian Federation with the Order of Friendship Medal, which they received at the Russian consulate in San Francisco.

Martha Black

In 1986 a Canadian Coast Guard high-endurance multi-tasked vessel was given the name "Martha L. Black" in her honour.

Reg Eves

Despite having no interest in science fiction, he was under orders from management to have a space hero to compete with Dan Dare, and commissioned "Captain Condor" from writer Frank S. Pepper.

Scott Black

Lieutenant General Scott C. Black, American military lawyer and former Judge Advocate General of the US Army

Scott M. Black, American investor, philanthropist and art collector

Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes

The owners of the Columbia Transportation Company brought in some bigger businessmen, J.A. Mara, Frank S. Barnard, and Captain John Irving, who formed the Columbia River and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company on January 21, 1890, with a capital of $100,000.

The Proud and Profane

It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head).

Where no man has gone before

It is the result of the combined input of several people, including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and producers John D. F. Black and Bob Justman.

William T. Culpepper, III

Considered the greatest Rules Chairman of all time, Culpepper will be remembered as one of the architects of the co-speakership (James B. Black and Richard T. Morgan) in 2003 and the driving force behind passage of the state's education lottery in 2005.


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