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Edgard, Louisiana

George E. Burch, Medical school professor and cardiologist of international repute.


Covenant theology

Meredith G. Kline did pioneering work in the field of Biblical studies, in the 1960s and 1970s, building on prior work by George E. Mendenhall, by identifying the form of the covenant with the common SuzerainVassal treaties of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium BC.

Dan Lipinski

He served in that same capacity for U.S. Congressman George E. Sangmeister from 1993 to 1995.

David Hittner

Hittner was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the bench of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on April 22, 1986, to a seat vacated by George E. Cire.

Desmond Lorenz de Silva

He is the son of Fredrick de Silva, MBE, formerly Ceylon's ambassador to France and Switzerland, and the grandson of The Honorable George E. de Silva.

Dingiri Banda Wijetunga

He closely associated with veteran politicians like George E. de Silva and A. Ratnayaka.

George Dewar

George E. Dewar (1895–1969), New Zealand poet, writer, teacher, farmer, worker and First World War soldier

George E. Coghill

Born in Beaucoup, Illinois, to John Waller and Elisabeth Tucker Coghill, George started college at Shurtleff College in Alton, Illinois.

George E. Edwards

George E. Edwards was the 11th head college football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for six seasons, from 1951 until 1956.

George E. Hibbard

Hibbard befriended the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama, Thubten Norbu, and traveled with him to India, where he was allowed in temples that would have been off-limits had it not been for his escort.

However, much of Tibetan culture can be observed in the immediate border areas of India and Nepal.

George E. Hibbard (1924–1991) was a Saint Louis-born American art collector, and renowned expert on Tibetan art and culture.

George E. Hinman

Hinman graduated from high school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1888, and became a newspaperman, working at the Berkshire Courier, published in Great Barrington, as reporter and advertising manager and later as local editor.

George E. Hood

March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919 - elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1918

George E. Hyde

George E. Hyde (1882–1968) was the "Dean of American Indian Historians." He wrote many books about Indian tribes, especially the Sioux and Pawnee plus a life of the Cheyenne warrior and historian, George Bent.

George E. Johnson, Sr.

In 1964, Johnson founded Independence Bank, and during the 1970s he became the exclusive sponsor behind the nationally syndicated dance show Soul Train.

George E. Killian

George E. Killian, born on April 6, 1924 in Valley Stream, New York, U.S. is a sports administrator and currently the president of the International University Sports Federation (FISU).

George E. Kimball

During the war, there was liaison between US and UK analysts in service of RAF Coastal Command.

He returned to Princeton's chemistry department to be a graduate student on a graduate fellowship and worked under Hugh Taylor.

George E. M. Kelly

The flying section, now led by Capt. Beck and including the repaired S.C. No. 2, was shipped to College Park, Maryland in June–July 1911 where the Army opened its own Flying School in June.

Kelly is interred in at San Antonio National Cemetery San Antonio National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas .

George E. Mahoney

He had previously been a justice of the peace and a member of the Kenosha County, Wisconsin School Board.

George E. Mayer

He would later fly with other NAS Lemoore-based squadrons, the “Fist of the Fleet” of Attack Squadron 25 (VA-25) and the "Flying Eagles" of VA-122, the latter as an A-7 instructor pilot.

He then transitioned to the F/A-18 Hornet for his command tour with the “Rampagers” of Strike Fighter Squadron 83 (VFA-83), also based at NAS Cecil Field.

Mayer served in the following shore duty assignments: Executive Assistant to the Chief of Legislative Affairs; Light Attack/Strike Fighter Junior Officer Detailer with the Navy's Bureau of Personnel (BUPERS) in Washington, D.C.; Spanish Command and Staff College in Madrid, Spain; the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he obtained a Master’s degree in National Security and Strategic Studies.

George E. Nowotny

In 1967, Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives Sterling R. Cockrill of Little Rock appointed Nowotny the first ever Minority Leader of the state House because Nowotny's name was the first alphabetically among the three Republican House members.

George E. Pugh

After serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1848 to 1850, he served as State Attorney General from 1852 to 1854.

George E. Royce

His great grandfather Adonijah Rice, was a member of Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War, and his great, great grandfather Jonas Rice was the original European settler of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Rice's father Captain Alpheus Royce (who was born Alpheus Rice and changed his name in middle age) led a company of Vermont militia in the War of 1812 at the Battle of Plattsburgh.

George E. Spencer

Born in Champion, New York, Spencer was the son of Gordon Percival and Deborah Mallory Spencer.

George E. Stratemeyer

One of Stratemeyer's favorite cartoons showed him sitting at his desk surrounded by pictures of his eight bosses (Stillwell, Mountbatten, Gen. George C. Marshall, Chiang, Arnold, Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Major General Daniel I. Sultan, and FDR), all of whom could give him orders in one or another of his capacities.

George E. White

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

George Hood

George E. Hood (1875–1960), U.S. Representative from North Carolina

George Hunt

George E. Hunt (1896–1959), medium-pace bowler who made over 200 appearances for Somerset

George Hyde

George E. Hyde (1882–1968), U.S. historian of the American Indians

George Kent

George E. Kent (1920–1982), African-American professor of literature

George Mayer

George E. Mayer (born 1952), United States Naval officer and aviator

George McInerney

George E. McInerney (1915–1972), lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick

George Merrick

George E. Merrick (1886–1942), real estate developer in Coral Gables, Florida

George Nixon

George E. Nixon (1898–1981), Canadian Member of Parliament for Algoma West, 1940–1968

George Shipley

George E. Shipley (1927–2003), U.S. Representative from Illinois

H. L. Hunley JROTC Award

While the award does have a strong naval theme, it is suitable for award to cadets of other branches due to the fact that the commander of the Hunley, Lt. George E. Dixon, was a serving Army officer.

Isaac F. Hughes

Known as a defender of Mayor George E. Cryer and political figure Kent Kane Parrot, Hughes was defeated in the 1927 election by Ernest L. Webster.

John A. Kay

He became involved with the construction of the South Carolina State House in 1854, first as Peter H. Hammarskold's project superintendent, and later as assistant architect under George E. Walker.

John P. Cahill

John P. Cahill was the Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York Governor George E. Pataki and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan.

Monera

In 1977, a PNAS paper by Carl Woese and George Fox demonstrated that the archaea (initially called archaebacteria) are not significantly closer in relationship to the bacteria than they are to eukaryotes.

Pace University School of Law

John P. Cahill '85 - Senior Policy Advisor & Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York State Governor George E. Pataki, and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan; former Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Counsel at Chadbourne & Parke

Victoria A. Graffeo

On January 1, 1995, she was appointed Solicitor General for the State of New York by Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco and served in that capacity until appointed, in September 1996, by Governor George E. Pataki to fill a vacancy in the State Supreme Court, Third Judicial District.


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