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unusual facts about Fred L. Blackmon


Fred L. Blackmon

Blackmon was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1911.


Douglas A. Blackmon

He revealed the stories of tens of thousands of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude, which lasted into the 20th century.

Douglas A. Blackmon (born 1964) is an American writer, journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

Fred L. Crawford

Crawford was the ranking minority member on the Committee on Public Lands in the 81st and 82nd Congresses (1950–1952).

Crawford served in the 74th Congress and the eight succeeding Congresses, from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1953.

Fred L. Lowery

On the occasion of Lowery's announcement of retirement, Louisiana State Representative Jeff R. Thompson of Bossier City introduced a unanimously-approved House resolution praising Lowery for his 30-year ministry at First Baptist Bossier.

Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker presented Lowery, who in youth had aspirations of flying, with United States Air Force command pilot wings which Walker, a retired Air Force colonel had once worn.

Fred Lynn Lowery (born March 16, 1943) is the retired former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, whose Sunday sermons under the title The First Word were broadcast between 1983 and 2013 on KTBS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, and on several cable television outlets.

He won the position by a four-vote margin, 723 to 719, over Dr. Sid Young (died 1999), the pastor from 1988 to 1991 of the First Baptist Church of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish.

Fred L. Walker

Major Walker commanded the battalion of his regiment during the Second Battle of the Marne in the summer of 1918 and distinguished himself during the heavy combats.

Walker commanded the division in training operations near Rabat and Arzew.

Fred Peterson

Fred L. Peterson (1896–1985), American politician and businessman in the state of Oregon

Teterboro Airport

The Port Authority of NY & NJ purchased it on April 1, 1949, from Fred L. Wehran, a private owner, and later leased it to Pan American World Airways (and its successor organization Johnson Controls) for 30 years until December 1, 2000, when the Port Authority assumed full responsibility for the operation of Teterboro.


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