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2 unusual facts about H. L. Richardson


Doug Richardson

He is the son of California Republican politician H. L. Richardson.

H. L. Richardson

He ran for Congress in 1962 and again in 1992, having lost 51-40 percent to the Democrat Vic Fazio, member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 3rd congressional district.


Albert D. Richardson

In August 2013, a new book about Junius Henri Browne and Richardson, Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy by journalist and author Peter Carlson, was published by PublicAffairs.

Richardson and Browne were imprisoned for 20 months in seven different prisons, confined successively at Vicksburg, Jackson, Atlanta, Richmond, and Salisbury, North Carolina, prisons.

Richardson wrote for the New York Tribune owned by Horace Greeley, and traveled to battlefields during the American Civil War to report on the war, often with fellow journalist Junius Henri Browne.

They traveled together more than 400 miles through hostile country, and reached the Union lines on January 14, 1865.

Albion River

The name was originally applied to a land grant in 1884 by William A. Richardson, and the river inherited the name of the grant.

Arthur Richardson

Arthur R. Richardson (1862–1936), pilot, farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

Buckingham, Richardson, Texas

In the early 1980s, real estate speculators bought most of the land, intending to create a planned development similar to the Las Colinas planned development in north Irving.

Carmel Valley, San Diego

Companies with offices in this neighborhood include Oracle Corporation, US Bank, Scripps Health, Opera Solutions, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Fish & Richardson, Morrison & Foerster, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and The Allen Group.

Chinatown, Las Vegas

Huffington Post classifies Las Vegas Chinatown along with Atlanta-Chamblee, Dallas-Richardson, and North Miami Beach as a "modern" styled Chinatown, that contrasts with the historic core Chinatowns like New York and San Francisco.

Cliff Ammons

Norman L. Richardson, then the state editor of Shreveport Times, questioned the project from an historic perspective: the Sabine Breastworks from the Civil War would yield to the water of the reservoir.

Curtis B. Richardson

His wife is the daughter of the Ethiopian composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, Dr. Ashenafi Kebede and sister of the actress Senait Ashenafi.

D. J. Richardson

Once he got on campus he was immediately brought on by County Market as an official spokesman and enjoys the plethora of deals they have there.

Andy Katz of ESPN called Richardson and Paul "the best freshman backcourt not at Kentucky John Wall and Eric Bledsoe".

Daniel Harford

He began by hosting a Sunday afternoon sports show with Robert Shaw, in 2006 he hosted On the Rise, a morning weekend program, with Jason Richardson.

Darrell Awards

The awards are named after Dr. Darrell C. Richardson, founding member of Memphis Science Fiction Association (MSFA).

Darrell C. Richardson

He served as Director of the National Fantasy Fan Federation and was involved in the Cincinnati Fantasy Group and the Memphis Science Fiction Association.

Dick Anthony

James T. Richardson, Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-0-306-47887-1: 127–149 (with Thomas Robbins)

Francis Kowsky

He has published on nineteenth-century American architects and architecture including Frederick Withers, Calvert Vaux, and H. H. Richardson, as well as the architecture and landscape of Buffalo and northwestern New York State.

Frank Richardson

Frank K. Richardson (1914–1999), former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

Harry Richardson

Harry A. Richardson (1853–1928), American businessman and politician in Delaware

Highlight Towers

The best known tenants of the buildings are the consulting firm Roland Berger in the Tower I, and Fujitsu Technology Solutions and Fish & Richardson in the smaller Tower II.

Holden C. Richardson

On October 4, 1918, Richardson performed the crucial test flight of the NC-1 flying boat from Jamaica Bay.

Israel B. Richardson

Nicknamed "Fighting Dick" for his prowess on the battlefield, he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Jean Jacques Vioget

Vioget first arrived in San Francisco, then known as Yerba Buena, in 1837, when only two homes stood in the village - those of Jacob P. Leese and William A. Richardson.

John M. Jones

Nineteen of his classmates would become Civil War generals, including John F. Reynolds, Nathaniel Lyon, Robert S. Garnett, Richard B. Garnett, Amiel W. Whipple, and Israel B. Richardson, all of whom would also die in combat.

Justice Richardson

Frank K. Richardson (1914-1999), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California

William S. Richardson (1919–2010), Chief Justice of the Hawaiʻi State Supreme Court

Robert A. Richardson (died 1895), Associate Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Norman L. Richardson

At one point be became interested in the legendary "Fouke Monster" of Fouke in Miller County in southwestern Arkansas, a variation of Bigfoot.

Reuben Gaylord

O. D. Richardson, former governor of Michigan and Congregationalist, invited Gaylord to come and work in Omaha, Nebraska.

Robert C. Richardson, Jr.

By now a temporary Lt Colonel, Richardson was Liaison Officer with Headquarters, 1st Army for the opening of Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the Operations Officer Representative at Advance G.H.Q. With the end of hostilities, now a temporary colonel, Richardson joined the Reparations Board, Peace Commission, Paris from January 28 to February 28, 1919.

Robert V. Richardson

Robert Vinkler Richardson (November 4, 1820 – January 6, 1870) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

After stopping at a tavern in Clarkton, Missouri, on January 5, 1870, he was shot by an unknown assailant who fired a shotgun at him from behind a wagon in the tavern yard.

Samuel Dana

He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, attorney for Middlesex County from 1807 to 1811, and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William M. Richardson.

Sid W. Richardson

He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

Sid Richardson Hall, an academic building at the University of Texas, Austin, which houses the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection, the UT Center for American History, and the Benson Latin American Collection.

Simeon R. Acoba, Jr.

In 1969, Acoba returned to Honolulu to become a law clerk for Hawaii State Supreme Court Chief Justice William S. Richardson.

Temple Daily Telegram

Norman L. Richardson, an award-winning journalist originally from Louisiana who was known for his coverage of hurricanes, was the executive editor of the Daily Telegram from 1974 to 1979.

Virginia Dale, Colorado

The Virginia Dale stage station hosted many famous travelers such as author Albert D. Richardson ("Beyond the Mississippi") and an Illinois governor, probably Richard Yates.

Wilds P. Richardson

The Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, surveyed under his supervision in 1904, was named the Richardson Trail to honor him.

Richardson was born on 20 March 1861 to Oliver P. and Hester F. (Wingo) Richardson in Hunt County, Texas.

William M. Richardson

He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph B. Varnum; and was reelected to the Thirteenth Congress and served from November 4, 1811, to April 18, 1814, when he resigned.

William N. Richardson

He escaped from prison, was caught, and about to be shot as a spy at Murfreesboro when "on the morning air there came to our ears with heartfelt welcome the famous rebel yell," and General Forrest with his "critter company" rescued him.

William P. Richardson

His granddaughter, Rhea, was the mother of the famous American film director John Huston and grandmother of the actors Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston.

Winston Science Fiction

Five Against Venus by Philip Latham (Robert S. Richardson), cover by Virgil Finlay (1952)


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