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Frederick Crane

Frederick E. Crane (1869–1947), American lawyer and politician from New York


Active transport

In August 1960, in Prague, Robert K. Crane presented for the first time his discovery of the sodium-glucose cotransport as the mechanism for intestinal glucose absorption.

Frederick E. Humphreys

He was called up with his regiment for Mexican Border service after Pancho Villa's raids in 1916, he served as an aide to Major General John F. O'Ryan, Commanding General of the New York (later 27th) Division.

2nd Lt. Humphreys deployed to Cuba during the Pacification Expedition, and a year later, returned to attend the Engineer Officer Basic Course.

After graduation and commissioning, he was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers and sent to Fort Riley, Kansas where he worked in bridge construction.

Frederick E. Toy

Toy's status as an MOH recipient, as well as the others awarded at Wounded Knee, was brought up during a congressional hearing on July 29, 1993, by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell who suggested their medals be rescinded given the controversial nature of the battle.

Frederick Humphreys

Frederick E. Humphreys (1883–1941), one of the original three military pilots trained by the Wright brothers

Frederick Woodbridge

Frederick E. Woodbridge (1818–1888), American polician and lawyer from Vermont

George Crane

George W. Crane (1901–1995), psychologist, physician and syndicated newspaper columnist

George W. Crane

He was the father of Republican U.S. congressmen Phil and Dan Crane.

John Whipple House

With its original location threatened by the railroad, the house was moved in 1927 to its present location, on land donated by philanthropist Richard T. Crane.

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement (also JA or JA Worldwide) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane.

Minaret of Freedom Institute

Its early board of advisers included former Richard Nixon advisor Robert D. Crane, a convert to Islam, and Charles Butterworth, a University of Maryland Islamic scholar.

Robert D. Crane

From the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the beginning of Richard Nixon’s victorious campaign for the presidency in 1967, Dr. Crane was a foreign policy adviser, responsible for preparing a “reader's digest” of professional articles for him on the key foreign policy issues.

In 1966, he left to become Director of Third World Studies at the first professional futures forecasting center, The Hudson Institute, led by Herman Kahn.

Robert K. Crane

After that, he was professor and chairman of the department of Biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School until 1966 and then became professor and chairman of the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Rutgers Medical School (now known as Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey until 1986.

Crane's discovery is also used in blockbuster drugs, such as the SSRI Prozac, which treat depression by inhibiting the Na/serotonin cotransporters in the brain.

Tanny

Tanny B. Crane (living), the President and CEO of Crane Group, Chair of the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Tanny B. Crane

She is also a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, sits on the Board of the United Way of Central Ohio, is a member of the Columbus Partnership and the Columbus Foundation, and sits on the Board of the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce.

Turnage

Frederick E. Turnage, North Carolina city councillor and former mayor of Rocky Mount

William M. Crane

The Naval Ammunition Depot in Burns City, Indiana was renamed US Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane, in honor of Commodore Crane.

Winthrop M. Crane

Born into the Dalton, Massachusetts family that owned the papermaking Crane & Co., he successfully expanded the company during the 1880s after securing an exclusive government contract to supply the paper for United States currency (a monopoly the company continues to hold).

He was hosting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on September 3, 1902 when a speeding trolley car rammed into the open-air horse carriage carrying Roosevelt.

In 1906, Crane married Josephine Porter Boardman, 20 years his junior, from a politically well-connected family.


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