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Francis Blair

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


Anita K. Blair

Blair and two other women involved in this organization, Rosalie (Ricky) Gaull Silberman and Barbara Olson, subsequently co-founded the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) in 1992, serving as the organization's first General Counsel and as executive vice-president.

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.

Cecil R. Blair

The book Easter Pony received international acclaim and was listed as one of the year's best books by the American Library Association in the year it was published.

Blair was never reconciled to the election of Randolph, who had been a Bolton High School classmate of Blair's two older children.

Charles A. Blair

Blair held several public offices including serving as prosecuting attorney for Jackson County.

Clarence Harris

On February 1, 1960, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later Jimbaeel Khazan), Frank McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, four young African-American students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), entered the downtown Greensboro Woolworth's and sat at the "whites only" lunch counter.

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".

Ezell A. Blair, Jr.

Blair graduated from Dudley High School, where his father taught, and was awarded a B.S. in sociology from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1963.

Frank Alexander

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

Frank S. Besson, Jr.

On July 15, 1985, General Besson died of cancer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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.

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'.

George A. Blair

Cypress Gardens A special tribute was held at Cypress Gardens on March 30, 2008

George Blair

George A. Blair (born 1915), businessman, entrepreneur, and waterskier

Henry Blair

Henry W. Blair (1834–1920), U.S. Representative and Senator from New Hampshire

Henry W. Blair

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Jacob B. Blair

He was a probate judge for Salt Lake County, Utah from 1892 to 1895, and surveyor general of Utah from 1897 to 1901.

James B. Dudley High School

Ezell A. Blair, Jr., African American civil rights activist, graduated from Dudley High School.

James T. Blair, Jr.

He received the Air Medal, Legion of Merit, and Bronze Star among other awards as he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Joe F. Blair

He persuaded senior quarterback John Kaleo to speak to the media for the first time a week before the season.

John H. Blair

The Blair Islands, in Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica, were named after him by AAE Commander Douglas Mawson.

Katzenbach

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

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.

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.

Steven W. Plattner

Plattner conducted oral history interviews with the project's key photographers—Clyde Hare, Harold Corsini, Esther Bubley, Russell Lee, James P. Blair, Richard Saunders, Elliott Erwitt, Sol Libsohn, and Arnold S. Eagle—and co-authored and edited Witness to the Fifties, published in 1999 with the help of a grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment.

Thom Bierdz

In the mid and late 1980s, Phillip Chancellor III is involved in a "love triangle" with Christine "Cricket" Blair and Nina Webster.

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.

USS Pontoosuc

Seven of Pontoosucs sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during this campaign: Cabin Boy John Anglin, Coxswain Asa Betham, Boatswain's Mate Robert M. Blair, Captain of the Forecastle John P. Erickson, Landsman George W. McWilliams, Chief Quartermaster James W. Verney, and Sailmaker's Mate Anthony Williams.

William Price Williamson

Another descendant of Confederate Chief Engineer William Price Williamson is Admiral Dennis C. Blair, United States Navy (Ret.), nominated for the post of Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration.

William R. Blair

In 1917, the Army established the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail, in eastern New Jersey.

William W. Blair

The following day, he was ordained as a high priest and on October 7, 1858 at a church conference in Zarahemla, Wisconsin, Blair was ordained an apostle of the reorganization and he became a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles.


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