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unusual facts about Frank W. Higgins


Harry K. Knapp

In 1906, New York Governor Frank W. Higgins appointed him Chairman of the New York State Racing Commission.


1 Pace Plaza

The architect designers of One Pace Plaza were Otto R. Eggers and Daniel P. Higgins firm Eggers & Higgins of New York, architects of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry

Jacob C. Higgins was selected to serve as colonel, A. J. Greenfield as lieutenant colonel, and George T. Work, Elias S. Troxell, and Henry A. Myers as majors.

Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur

and to have been instrumental in the killing of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, the American Chief of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization's (UNTSO) observer group in Lebanon who was taken hostage on 17 February 1988 by Lebanese pro-Iranian Shia radicals.

Battle of Agua Dulce

The General Council alternately gave command of the expedition to James Fannin and Frank W. Johnson.

Bay Island

Children in the neighborhood attend three schools depending on grade level: John B. Dey Elementary School, Great Neck Middle School, and Frank W. Cox High School.

Carlisle W. Higgins

In 1946 he became a prosecutor for the war crimes trials in Japan.

Chris Higgins

Christopher P. Higgins (1830–1889), American army captain and businessman

Donegall Road

Snooker player Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins also grew up on the road, having been born on Abingdon Drive.

FAI President's Cup

The competition was founded in 2014, with the trophy to be awarded to the winning side by President of Ireland and League of Ireland fan, Michael D. Higgins.

Frank King

Frank W. King (1912–1988), Democratic leader and member of the Ohio Senate

Frank Lewis

Frank W. Lewis (1912–2010), cryptographer and crossword compiler

Frank W. Bubb, Sr.

He was a part of the team that developed the cyclotron that produced the first batch of plutonium for the then secret program only referred to as the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb.

Frank W. Fries

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Frank W. Lewis

Frank Waring Lewis (August 25, 1912 – November 18, 2010) was an American cryptographer and cryptic crossword compiler.

Frank W. Milburn

He retired from military service in April 1952 and worked briefly as the athletic director at Montana State University.

Frank W. Parker

The paper's editor and publisher, Carl Magee, was subsequently tried and convicted of criminal libel.

Frank W. Warner

In 1914–1915 and again in 1917 Warner served as a missionary among the Sioux and Assiniboine at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Frank W. Wheeler

In 1864, he moved with his parents to East Saginaw, Michigan and attended the Saginaw High School and the Ypsilanti State Normal School (now (Eastern Michigan University).

George G. Higgins

He was the author of the syndicated column "The Yardstick," and was the author of numerous other writings on worker justice in light of Catholic social teaching.

George Higgins

George W. Higgins, American minister of the Holy Ghost and Us Society

Goliad massacre

On February 27, 1836, Urrea's advance patrol surprised Frank W. Johnson and about 34 men, initiating the Battle of San Patricio, where they killed about 10 and took 18 prisoners.

H. B. Higgins

Further, Higgins is commemorated by the federal electorate of Higgins in Melbourne, and by the Canberra suburb of Higgins, Australian Capital Territory.

After his son Mervyn's death, Higgins effectively adopted his nephew Esmonde Higgins and his niece Nettie Palmer, paying for their education at universities in Europe.

Isaac Selby

He ran for the House of Representatives seat of Northern Melbourne in the 1901 federal election against H. B. Higgins, blaming "the sinister hand of Rome" for his defeat.

James H. Higgins

In 1912, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate in the United States Senate election in Rhode Island.

John H. Hoffecker

However, enough votes went to the Regular Republican candidate, John C. Higgins, that the Democrat, Ebe W. Tunnell was elected.

John M. Higgins

The award, part of the school's annual Mirror Awards for media industry reporting, was co-sponsored by Discovery Communications and Time-Warner Cable.

Jon B. Higgins

He later continued his studies under the renowned dancer T. Balasaraswati, and wrote his dissertation on the dance music of bharatanatyam.

Michael W. Higgins

Higgins was the main consultant for John McGreevy's six-hour television series, Sir Peter Ustinov's 'Inside the Vatican, and for John Bailey's film version of Ron Hansen's novel, Mariette in Ecstasy.

Naval Submarine Base New London

The Navy Yard was spared permanent closure in 1912 by an impassioned plea from local Congressman Edwin W. Higgins of Norwich, who was worried about the loss of Federal spending in the region.

Richard Beere

He appears as a character in Monk and Knight (1891) by Frank W. Gunsaulus.

Richard W. Higgins

He is depicted as one of four examples in bravery in the history of the German Air Force.

In 1957 Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base became a joint-use facility with the new West German Air Force.

Robert Higgins

Robert P. Higgins (born 1932), systematic invertebrate zoologist and ecologist

Robert J. Higgins (born c. 1934), judge and politician in New Brunswick

Robin L. Higgins

Higgins is a 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

Higgins is the widow of Colonel William R. (Rich) Higgins, a Marine officer taken captive by terrorists in Lebanon in 1988, and later murdered.

Taylor Daily Press

Earlier called the Taylor Press, it was published from 1959-1974 by Frank W. Mayborn, the late publisher of the Temple Daily Telegram and the Killeen Daily Herald.

Temple Daily Telegram

The Telegram is locally owned and operated by Frank Mayborn Enterprises, under editor and publisher Anyse Sue Mayborn, the widow of Frank Mayborn.

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep (1956) is an American black-and-white horror film, scripted by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams developed for producers Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, who had a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists.

Thomas Built Buses

In 1939, Dr. Frank W. Cyr of New York, who became known as "The Father of the Yellow School Bus", hosted a 7 day long national conference of industry and school leaders which established 44 important safety standards and the yellow color for school buses all across the United States.

Thomas Higgins

Thomas J. Higgins (1831–1917), American Civil War soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor

Thomas M. Hatfield

His current scholarship includes writing the biography of James Earl Rudder, war hero and president of Texas A&M University (1958–1970) to be published by the Texas A&M Press in 2011 and the memoir of Frank W. Denius, war hero and philanthropist.

United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge

More than five hundred new buildings were built, some designed by Eggers & Higgins.

Wallace Stroby

The reviewer for the Chicago Tribune wrote that the novel “moves at a breakneck speed ... Stroby's sturdy plot is augmented by his intriguing look at how money corrupts and how even a crook can have a moral compass. Fans of Elmore Leonard and George V. Higgins' 'THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE' will find much to like.”

William L. Higgins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

William R. Higgins

As a lieutenant, he participated in combat operations during 1968 with C Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in the Republic of Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander and rifle company executive officer, and was aide-de-camp to the Assistant 3rd Marine Division Commander.

Returning to the Fleet Marine Force in 1977, Capt. Higgins was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he again served as a rifle company commander with A Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines.


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