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4 unusual facts about Harry E. T. Thayer


Harry E. T. Thayer

He entered the State Department's service in 1956, and until 1971 worked in Hongkong, Taipei, and China.

He attended Yale University and graduated in 1951, and worked for Newsweek from 1952 to 1954, followed by two years with the Philadelphia Bulletin.

Harry E. T. Thayer (born 10 September 1927) is an American who served as the sixth United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1980–85.

His son, Nate, became a journalist, and gained recognition after he interviewed Pol Pot in 1997.


Art-O-Graf

Board of Directors: Alden Van Epps Wessels (Owner of the Steamboat Springs Orphium Theatre), Clay Henry Monson, M. Jay Casey, Otis B. Thayer, Gretchen Wood, Lucius Alfred Dick (son of Ohio Senator Charles William Frederick Dick), and David Townsend.

Francis S. Thayer

Francis Samuel Thayer (September 11, 1822 Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont – November 26, 1880 Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

Harry E. Atkinson

Also completed during Atkinson's term was the first span of the four-lane James River Bridge that would eventually replace the original two-lane bridge.

Harry E. Donnell

Donnell attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, entering in 1893 and returning to the United States in 1894.

Harry E. Rodenhizer, Jr

In his second term, he laid the financial groundwork for what would become Durham Bulls Athletic Park, persuading the owner of the minor league team to keep the Bulls in Durham.

During Rodenhizer's first term as mayor, he was instrumental in getting the Durham Freeway extended along its modern route.

Harry E. Rowbottom

He was unsuccessful for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and became engaged as a commercial agent for a truck line.

Harry E. Sloan

Sloan was a California state financial chair for the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012.

Harry E. Soyster

The end of the Cold War resulted in a reevaluation of the intelligence mission throughout the Intelligence Community as a new era began with the fall of the Communist Party in many East European countries, the reunification of Germany, and ongoing economic reforms in the region.

Harry E. Yarnell

Admiral Yarnell was elected an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution on February 22, 1940.

Harry Hull

Harry E. Hull (1864–1938), Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa

Harry Trout

Harry E. Trout, head college football coach for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, 1903

Harry Turner

Harry E. Turner (1927–2004), member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Henry Vollmer

In a special election held in February 1914, Vollmer defeated Republican Harry E. Hull, succeeding Pepper in the Sixty-third Congress.

John Thayer

John A. Thayer (1857–1917), former member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts

John R. Thayer (1845–1916), former member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts

Narey

Harry E. Narey (1885–1962), Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa

Red team

Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell demonstrated in 1932 the effectiveness of an attack on Pearl Harbor almost exactly showing how the tactics of the Japanese would destroy the fleet in harbor nine years later.

Robert H. Thayer

In 1945, he was an assistant to John Foster Dulles, who became secretary of state in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, at the organizing conference of the United Nations at San Francisco.

Thayer assisted Charles Lindbergh's lead lawyer, Henry Skillman Breckinridge on the famous Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1932, staying at the Charles A Lindbergh residence in Hopewell, New Jersey, until the body of the child was found on 12 May 1932.

Thayer was appointed a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1966 and was vice-chairman from 1975 to 1977.

Samuel R. Thayer

He then relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, studied law with Francis R. E. Cornell, attained admission to the bar, and established a practice in Minneapolis.

Stella F. Thayer

She is the former chairman of the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority, the governing board of Tampa International Airport and is the former chairman of the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority.

The daughter of Chester Howell Ferguson, for whom the University of South Florida’s College of Business Administration building is named, Thayer has been active in thoroughbred racing and has been in ownership with her brother, Howell Ferguson, of Tampa Bay Downs since 1986.

She is also a member of the Lykes Family of Florida that wholly owns Lykes Bros. Inc with 337000 acres of land holdings (526 sq miles)including cattle ranching, forestry, sod, sugarcane farms, insurance, and ecoassets.

Stella F. Thayer (born December 27, 1940 in Tampa, Florida) is president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

William Thayer

W. W. Thayer (1827-1899), American politician, sixth Governor of Oregon, and Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court


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