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2 unusual facts about Harry R. Sheppard


Harry R. Sheppard

Sheppard was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1965).

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress.


Anna B. Sheppard

A sister to fellow costume designer Magdalena Biedrzycka, Sheppard made many films with directing masters like Steven Spielberg or Roman Polański.

Augustus V. Long

On May 26, 1934, Long was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida vacated by William B. Sheppard.

Australian Society of Authors

The treasurer was bookseller A.W. Sheppard and printer Walter Stone was the editor of the new society's journal Broadside.

Buddy Killen

During his early career he worked with artists such as Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Diana Trask, Exile, Roger Miller, Joe Tex, Ronnie McDowell and T. G. Sheppard.

Charles Landon

Born in Bromley, Kent, England, the son of the chaplain at Bromley College, he was educated at Bromsgrove School and appeared for their first XI in 1866 and 1867.

Delmar Watson

He had five brothers and three sisters who also acted in films, including Billy, Coy Jr., Garry, Harry, Bobs, and Louise Watson Roberts.

Excellence Without a Soul

Excellence Without a Soul is a book by Harry R. Lewis, the former Dean of Harvard College, that examines the state of America's universities and colleges with particular reference to Harvard.

Franklin L. Sheppard

In 1915 Shepard set to music, "This is My Father's World," a poem written by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a minister from New York, who had been a close friend of Sheppard's.

He event­u­al­ly joined the Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and be­came pres­i­dent of the Pres­by­ter­i­an Board of Pub­li­ca­tions and Sab­bath-School Work.

Harry R. Jackson, Jr.

Jackson's family moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1973, eventually settling in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Harry R. Lewis

and Mark Zuckerberg, whose website "Six Degrees to Harry Lewis" was a precursor to Facebook.

Harry R. Wellman

Harry and his siblings initially moved to his maternal grandparents' ranch in Montana, and then to a family wheat farm in Umapine, Oregon.

Henry Cadwallader Adams

After some time as a Commoner Tutor at Winchester, in 1855 he became chaplain of Bromley College, an almshouse for the widows of clergy.

Jonathan E. Sheppard

In both venues, he has had a long working relationship with stable owner, George W. Strawbridge, Jr. and in 2008 he conditioned Strawbridge's filly Forever Together to victory in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Justice Sunday

Speakers included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Robert H. Bork, Tom DeLay, Zell Miller, Chuck Colson, Phyllis Schlafly, William A. Donohue, Harry R. Jackson, Jr., and Dr. Jerry Sutton.

Same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia

Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr., the pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, sued the District after the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics refused to approve a ballot initiative on the issue of same-sex marriage.

Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet

In 1695, after serving two years as Treasurer of Bromley College, a home for clergy widows, he resigned to establish - at a cost of £10,000 - his own hospice or almshouse for 'poor Merchants...and such as have lost their Estates by accidents, dangers and perils of the seas or by any other accidents ways or means in their honest endeavours to get their living by means of Merchandizing'.

Watson family

Family members included Coy Watson Jr., Bobs, Delmar, Harry, Garry Watson, Billy Watson, Vivian, Gloria, and Louise Watson, all of whom acted in motion pictures.


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