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2 unusual facts about George E. Kimball


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.


Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Orson Hyde (27 December 1847—22 June 1868) : When senior Apostle Brigham Young was made President of the Church on 27 December 1847, the next senior Apostle, Heber C. Kimball, was asked by Young to be one of the counselors in the First Presidency.

Charles Kimball

Charles F. Kimball, 19th-century American pastoral landscape and marine painter

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.

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.

Francis Kimball

Francis D. Kimball (1820–1856), Republican politician from the state of Ohio

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. 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. 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. 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.

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.

Henry M. Kimball

Kimball was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 3rd congressional district to the 74th Congress serving from January 3, 1935 until his death in Kalamazoo.

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 F. Boynton

Boynton believed Smith to have become a "fallen prophet" and said to Heber C. Kimball, "if you are such a fool as to go at the call of the fallen prophet, Joseph Smith, I will not help you a dime, and if you are cast on Van Diemen's Land, I will not make an effort to help you."

Justin F. Kimball

Justin F. Kimball High School - a school in Dallas, Texas, administered by the Dallas Independent School District

L. Tom Perry

The death of church president Harold B. Lee created a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve when Spencer W. Kimball, who had been serving as quorum president, became church president.

Marion G. Romney

Lee's death the following year brought Spencer W. Kimball to the church presidency, who retained Romney and First Counselor Nathan Eldon Tanner in their positions.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Tanner remained in this position for the presidency of Joseph Fielding Smith (1970–1972), and then became first counselor to Smith's successor Harold B. Lee, remaining first counselor to Lee and Spencer W. Kimball until his own death.

Orson Hyde Memorial Garden

The park was inaugurated on October 24, 1979, by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spencer W. Kimball.

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

Spencer Kimball

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985), 12th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


see also

George Edward Kimball

George E. Kimball III (December 20, 1943 – July 6, 2011) was an American author and journalist who spent 25 years as a sports columnist for the Boston Herald before retiring in 2005.