George N. Bliss (1837–1928), American soldier in the American Civil War
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George Gillett, owner of the NHL's Montréal Canadiens and part owner of the English Premier League's Liverpool Football Club, bought the majority share of Ray Evernham's team and has renamed the three-car operation (#9 of Kasey Kahne, #10 of Scott Riggs and #19 of Elliott Sadler) Gillett Evernham Motorsports (or "GEM" for short).
Then he was captured on General Wilson’s raid near Richmond.
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He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1890 to the 52nd Congress, being defeated by Democrat Henry M. Youmans.
He did not stand in 1882 but was elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth Congresses for the fifth district of New York and served from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889.
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Elected as a Democrat, Bliss was a United States Representative for the fourth district of New York in the forty-fourth Congress and was re-elected three times, serving from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1883.
Excavations by the English archeologists Frederick J. Bliss and R. A. Stewart Macalister in the period 1898-1900 at Tel Azekah revealed a fortress, water systems, hideout caves used during Bar Kokhba revolt and other antiquities, such as LMLK seals.
In 1896 President William McKinley appointed him the collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall Street District, Elihu Root and Cornelius N. Bliss being his sponsors.
Even as Farragut was moving his ships across the bar, President Davis and Navy Secretary Mallory were promising Flag Officer George N. Hollins, commanding the Confederate States Navy forces on the Mississippi, that Louisiana would be sent up to Memphis as soon as she could be finished (expected to be within days), and Mississippi would follow shortly thereafter.
In the 1950s, he was an administrative assistant to Indiana Governor George N. Craig.
A formal "call" for this convention was published in Coming Nation July 11 and 18, and was endorsed by Henry Demarest Lloyd, Eugene Debs, Frank Parsons, William D. P. Bliss and Eltweed Pomeroy.
The earliest published account of Erromangan languages is Gordon (1889), whose notes, which he took on the island, were published posthumously.
George N. Briggs (1796–1861), seven-term Governor of Massachusetts
George N. Dale (1834–1903), American lawyer and politician in Vermont
George N. Fuller, secretary of the Michigan Historical Commission and the Michigan Pioneer Historical Society
George N. Gillett, Jr. (born 1938), American businessman, professional sports franchise owner
George N. Atiyeh (1923 – April 21, 2008) was a Lebanese librarian and scholar.
During World War II, Crocker was an officer in the largest and longest Army court-martial resulting from the Fort Lawton Riot.
On August 6, 2007, Gillett bought a controlling interest of the NASCAR team Evernham Motorsports from founder Ray Evernham, thereby forming Gillett Evernham Motorsports.
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It has been reported that former manager Rafael Benítez's relationship with Hicks and Gillett had become increasingly strained and he was fired on June 2, 2010, after a poor season which saw the club finish seventh in the Premier League, missing out on UEFA Champions League football next term.
George Nathaniel Henry Peters was born on November 30, 1825 in New Berlin, Pennsylvania to Isaac Cyrus Peters and Magdalene Miller.
He has a bowling center named after him, George Pappas Victory Lanes in Mooresville, North Carolina.
He was a member of the Republican party and was an abolitionist, taking an active part in the celebrated Jerry Rescue case in Syracuse, although he always refused to serve in any public office.
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She was the daughter of George Taylor and Jane Rite of Millville, Pennsylvania and was born on February 22, 1816.
George N. Parks (1953–2010), University of Massachusetts band director
George N. Peterson, Jr, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
George N. Southwick (1863–1912), American politician in New York state
George N. Stearns (1812–1882), tool designer and founder of the George N. Stearns Company
Bliss was born to Rev. James Bliss in 1840 and was educated at the Merton College, Oxford.
A major Broadway revival was mounted in 1984, with an all star cast headed by Sir Rex Harrison as Shotover (a role for which he was nominated for a Tony), and featuring Amy Irving, Rosemary Harris, Dana Ivey, George N. Martin, and Tom Aldredge.
Henry H. Bliss (1830–1899), first person killed by an automobile in the US
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Henry E. Bliss (1870–1955), librarian and creator of the Bliss bibliographic classification
In the general election of 1890, Youmans ran as the candidate of the Democratic Party and defeated incumbent Republican Aaron T. Bliss to be elected from Michigan's 8th congressional district to the 52nd United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1893.
In 1970 he, Jim Bliss, and others from Stanford and SRI co-founded Telesensory Systems (TSI) to manufacture and distribute the Optacon.
Ex-U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton (in office 1889-1893) was nominated for Governor on the first ballot (vote: Morton 532½, J. Sloat Fassett 69, Cornelius N. Bliss 40½, Stewart L. Woodford 40, Daniel Butterfield 29, Leslie W. Russell 20, James Arkell 1).
George Pappas was the winner of the Firestone Tournament of Champions.
The Bliss Institute, founded in 1986, is named for Ray C. Bliss, University of Akron alumnus, university trustee and former chair of the Republican National Committee.
His daughter Eleanor, born in 1885, attended Bryn Mawr College where she became the first women to gain a doctorate in geology.
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Lieutenant Colonel Bliss was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Regular Army by an Act of Congress under direction of the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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On 15 August 1903 Brigadier General Bliss was appointed a member of the General Staff, Chief, 3rd Division and President of the Army War College.
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Tasker Howard Bliss was born on 31 December 1853 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania to George Ripley Bliss and Mary Ann (née Raymond) Bliss.
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While serving as Chief, Collector of Customs for the Island of Cuba and the Port of Havana he was also the President of the Commission to Revise the Cuban Tariff Treaty in 1901 and was appointed to the Army War College Board as Special Envoy to Cuba to negotiate the treaty ratification in November and December 1902.
He served in the militia, first as a Judge Advocate with the rank of Major and later as an aide to Governor George N. Briggs with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.