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unusual facts about George D. Wise



Army of the Kanawha

Confederate units in the vital Kanawha River valley of western Virginia were styled the "Army of the Kanawha" after they were put under the command of former Virginia governor Henry A. Wise on June 6, 1861.

Cutty

Dennis "Cutty" Wise, a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire

Elijah Dukes

Dukes attended Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida his junior and senior years, after spending his first two years of high school at Jefferson High School, C. Leon King High School, and George D. Chamberlain High School.

George D. Behrakis

In 1959 Behrakis became a salesperson for major pharmacy company Johnson and Johnson, where he created the drug known as Tylenol.

George D. Birkhoff House

The house is notable for its associations with former resident Dr. George David Birkhoff, an eminent mathematician and Harvard University professor.

George D. Grundy, Jr.

Grundy was born June 21, 1898 in Southampton, New York to Florence Reeves and he was raised in Richmond Hill, Queens.

George D. Herron

In 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson campaigned successfully for re-election under the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War."

George D. Miller III

During his administration the school has celebrated its centennial birthday, in 2000; the name of the college was changed to Davis College in honor of its founder Dr. John Adelbert Davis, in 2004; the college received Middle States Accreditation, in 2005; and two old buildings were taken down to pave the way for the Ministry Center to be built in the future, in 2006.

George Daniel Miller III (March 27, 1951) was the eighth president of Davis College in Johnson City, New York.

George D. Oakley House

The family also started a business to promote musical concerts, Artists' Services of Honolulu, which between the 1930s and early 1960s brought famous talents to perform in Honolulu, including Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Rubenstein, and

George D. Pyper

In 1911, Pyper managed a 6000-mile American tour for the choir, wherein they performed in Madison Square Gardens and at the White House for U.S. President William Howard Taft.

When the Juvenile Instructor folded and was replaced by The Instructor, Pyper became the first editor of the new publication, a position he held until his death.

George D. Ruggles

His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his uncle, Charles H. Ruggles, who was Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals.

George D. Schwab

He then attended Columbia University, where he earned a M.A. in 1955 and a Ph.D. in 1968.

George D. Wagner

George Day Wagner (September 22, 1829 – February 13, 1869) was an Indiana politician, farmer, and soldier, serving as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

George D. Wallace

Wallace died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from injuries he sustained during a fall while on vacation in Pisa, Italy.

In 1952 Wallace auditioned for a character part in Radar Men from the Moon and landed the starring role of Commando Cody.

George D. Watt

Fielding's brother Joseph had joined the Latter Day Saint church in Upper Canada and had written to James about the new church.

George D. Zamka

In March 2008, Zamka visited Colombia's Planetarium of Bogotá with the crew of mission STS-120 to share their experience as NASA astronauts with 200 students, 50 teachers, and 20 science major experts.

George Dunton Widener

They had two sons, Harry Elkins Widener (1885-1912), George Dunton Widener, Jr. (1889-1971), and a daughter, Eleanor Widener Dixon (1891-1953).

George Herron

George D. Herron (1862–1925), American clergyman, writer and Christian socialist activist

George Lamont

:For the 19th-century New York state senator, see George D. Lamont.

George Nye

George D. Nye (1898–1969), American politician of the Democratic party

George Pope

George D. Pope (1867–1927), political figure on Prince Edward Island.

George S. Wise

The Wise Observatory and the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University is named after Wise.

Harold A. Baker

Baker was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on August 9, 1978, to a seat vacated by Henry S. Wise on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

Harold F. Dodge

From 1917 to 1958 worked at quality assurance department at Bell Laboratories with Walter Shewhart, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson, and Mary N. Torrey.

Henry A. Wise

In 1865 he was unable to reclaim Rolleston, his plantation outside Norfolk, before he received pardon from the president.

Homer L. Wise

On that day, in Magliano, Italy, Wise carried a wounded man to safety and repeatedly went ahead of his unit to engage the German forces alone.

He was removed from combat in November and formally presented with the Medal of Honor by General Alexander Patch, commander of the Seventh Army, in Épinal, France.

James B. Terrill

Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise appointed Terrill a major of cavalry in the state militia in 1859.

James W. Wise

Due to a prolonged illness, he was unable to qualify for or attend the 68th Congress.

Wise was elected as a Democrat to the 64th and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1925).

Jefferson County, West Virginia

Among those attending the Brown execution was a contingent of 1500 cadets from Virginia Military Institute sent by the Governor of Virginia Henry A. Wise under the supervision of Major William Gilham and Major Thomas J. Jackson.

John A. Wise

NAI manufactures a nutritional supplement known as Juice Plus+ for National Safety Associates.

John Ambler Smith

Smith was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875) with 51.11% of the vote, defeating Democrat George Douglas Wise.

John Anthony Copeland, Jr.

Copeland's parents appealed to Gov. Henry Wise of Virginia to claim their son's body, but he refused.

Katharine Lane Weems

In 1926 she won two medals: a Bronze Medal at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition, and the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Keith Bilbrey

In 1982, Bilbrey began announcing on the Grand Ole Opry, joining a long tradition of legendary Opry announcers, including George D. Hay, Grant Turner, Ralph Emery, and Hairl Hensley.

Marcus Jastrow

The problem under discussion at the time was organization, urged in the Eastern States by the Orthodox Isaac Leeser, and in the Western by the Reform Isaac M. Wise.

Massillon Tigers

J.J. Wise, who was the Massillon Clerk of City Council, led a committee to secure the necessary funds for a new football and jerseys that were nearly the same color.

Pyper

George D. Pyper (1860–1943), the fifth general superintendent of the Sunday School of The LDS Church)

Rocky Mount, Virginia

Among these were the immediate past governor, Henry Wise, who settled his family here before he served in the military.

The Jockey Club

Created in 1984, The Jockey Club Research Foundation was joined along with the Grayson Foundation, established in 1940 by George D. Widener, Jr., William Woodward, Sr. and John Hay Whitney, amongst others.

William Albin Young

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, to April 26, 1898, when he was succeeded by Richard A. Wise, who contested his election.


see also

Edmund Waddill, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress, but he successfully contested the election of George D. Wise to the Fifty-first Congress, serving as U.S. Representative from Virginia from April 12, 1890 to March 3, 1891.