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unusual facts about Harry F. Sinclair House


Harry F. Sinclair House

In 1996 architectural historian Christopher Gray quoted an anonymous critic writing for the Real Estate Record & Guide in 1899, who in praising the design noted that much of the ornament was ecclesiastical in origin rather than domestic.


Armistead Mason Dobie

A dispute between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Virginia's senators Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd, Sr., resulted in the rejection of Roosevelt's recess appointment of Floyd H. Roberts to a newly created seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

Byrd Road Act

Named for former Governor Harry F. Byrd, the legislation was originally presented as measure to relieve the financial pressures of the Great Depression upon the counties, as the state offered to take over responsibility and control of most county roads, creating the Virginia Secondary Roads System.

E. Harold Munn

Harry Byrd/Strom Thurmond/Barry Goldwater (I) - 15 electoral votes (unpledged electors from Mississippi, half of unpledged electors from Alabama and faithless elector from Oklahoma; Thurmond won 14 electoral votes for V.P., Goldwater one. Byrd all 15 for President)

Harry Byrd

Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (1914–2013), U.S. politician, son of Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

Harry F. Byrd

They lived with her parents in Winchester until 1916, when he built a log cabin, named Westwood, in Berryville at a family-owned orchard, and they moved there.

led to closure of some public school systems in Virginia between 1959 and 1964, most notably a five-year gap in public education in Prince Edward County, Virginia.

Harry F. Millarde

In 1916, he directed the first of his thirty-two films the most notable of which was If Winter Comes (1923) for Fox Film Corporation that was based on the books of author A. S. M. Hutchinson.

Harry F. Olson

Harry F. Olson, a pioneer in the field of 20th century acoustical engineering, was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa to Swedish immigrant parents.

Harry F. Ward

Ward is best remembered as the first national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), leading the group from its creation in 1920 until his resignation in protest of the organization's decision to bar Communists in 1940.

Harry F. Weyher Jr.

Born in Wilson, North Carolina, Weyher attended the University of North Carolina.

He became an adjunct associate professor at New York University School of Law and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

Harry Ward

Harry F. Ward (1873–1966), first national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union

Hawksbill Mountain

Byrd's Nest No. 2, one of a series of shelters built in the park by Senator Harry Byrd, is nearby.

Laura Devon

In 1962, she married Brian Kelly, son of Justice Harry F. Kelly, then a member of the Michigan Supreme Court and a former Michigan governor.

Mary Lou Forbes

Werner covered the "massive resistance" program of opposition to school integration that had been undertaken by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd and followed by Governor of Virginia James Lindsay Almond, Jr., who had proclaimed in his 1958 inaugural address that "integration anywhere means destruction everywhere".

Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.

One of his sons, Richard, became famous as a naval aviator who led an expedition to the South Pole; another, Harry, would serve as Governor of Virginia and in the United States Senate.

Toni Seven

Born June Elizabeth Millarde on July 6, 1922 in New York City, she was the only child of actress June Caprice and film director Harry F. Millarde.


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