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4 unusual facts about Henry A. Peirce


Henry A. Peirce

He then went around Cape Horn to Peru, where he was employed as Peruvian Consul to Hawaii.

The popular King Lunalilo then died on February 3, 1874, again with no successor, and the crisis deepened when King Kalākaua was elected by the legislature.

Some time around 1828 he took a common-law wife (before marriages were legally required to be recorded) named Kahoa, or Virginia Rives, whose mother was a Hawaiian noble and father was Jean-Baptiste Rives, the French former Secretary of Kamehameha II.

He helped provide transportation for troops, and was meeting at Port Royal, South Carolina with Admiral William Reynolds whom he had known in Hawaii in 1840, when he heard Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated.


Alfredo M. Santos

He received the Certificate of Honor from US Ambassador Henry A. Byroade in simple ceremonies held at the US Embassy, Roxas Boulevard, Manila on April 14, 1973.

Arlington Farms

In late 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a law to move the Department of Agriculture's Experimental Farm from Arlington, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, to its current location in Beltsville, Maryland to allow for an expansion of the military cantonment at Fort Myer.

Army of the Kanawha

Confederate units in the vital Kanawha River valley of western Virginia were styled the "Army of the Kanawha" after they were put under the command of former Virginia governor Henry A. Wise on June 6, 1861.

Bayless W. Hanna

He lost to fellow Wabash alum and Crawfordsville lawyer Robert B. F. Peirce having only earned 43% of the vote to Peirce's 49%.

Bush White House email controversy

The "gwb43.com" domain name was publicized by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who sent a letter to Oversight and Government Reform Committee committee chairman Henry A. Waxman requesting an investigation.

Choose the right

Henry A. Tuckett, author of the music for Choose the Right, hymn 239 in the 1985 LDS Hymnal

Ellis Arnall

Arnall stood behind Henry A. Wallace's efforts to remain Vice President in 1944, when the former United States Secretary of Agriculture was instead replaced by U.S. Senator Harry Truman of Missouri.

Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg

Muhlenberg was the brother of Frederick and Peter Muhlenberg, father of Henry A. P. Muhlenberg and Frederick Augustus Hall Muhlenberg, a physician, who was the father of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, the first president of Muhlenberg College.

Henry A. Barnhart

Barnhart was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Abram L. Brick.

He was reelected to the Sixty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (November 3, 1908-March 3, 1919).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-sixth Congress in 1918.

Henry A. Barnum

Not being able to assume immediate command, he joined the regiment in the field on the eve of its departure from Fairfax Station, Virginia, January 18, 1863.

At Savannah, Georgia, Barnum led his brigade, first in Sherman's command, into the captured city, and under Brig. Gen. John W. Geary had charge of its western portion during the occupancy by General Sherman.

Henry A. Commiskey, Sr.

Following hospitalization at the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, 1stLt Commiskey served at the Naval Air Rocket Test Station, Lake Denmark, Morris County, New Jersey.

Henry A. Fischel

Under his direction, the Lilly Endowment gave the university a grant in 1972-73 to develop a Jewish Studies Program.

Henry A. Foster

Foster was elected as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1839.

Henry A. G. Lee

In December 1847 when word of the attack reached the Willamette Valley, the Provisional Government and Gov. George Abernethy called for volunteers to fight against the Cayuse, with Lee volunteering and being selected as captain of a 50 man unit to be dispatched immediately to The Dalles.

Henry A. Hunt

They also acted as Roosevelt's informal advisers on national issues related to African Americans and the New Deal.

Henry A. Miley, Jr.

In 1950, Miley was transferred to Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia, where he served as comptroller and then as Works Manager.

Henry A. P. Carter

His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863).

Also during this time, the free trade treaty was renewed, with a controversial clause that guaranteed the use of Pearl Harbor as a US Navy base.

Henry A. Papprill

The most notable of these are: "The North West Angle of Fort Columbus, Governor's Island" (the Catherwood-Papprill view) and New York from the Steeple of St. Paul's Church, Looking East, South & West.

Henry A. Schade

Additionally, the Government of Great Britain made Schade an Honorary Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Henry A. Van Alstyne

In 1898, he resigned this position to accept one with the Union Bridge Company, at Athens, Pennsylvania.

Henry A. Wiley

Admiral Wiley retired once more 2 January 1943 and died 20 May 1943 at Palm Beach, Florida.

Henry A. Wise

In 1865 he was unable to reclaim Rolleston, his plantation outside Norfolk, before he received pardon from the president.

Henry Austin

Henry A. Austin (1833–1911), merchant and political figure in New Brunswick

Henry Carter

Henry A. P. Carter (1837–1891), American diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Henry Houston

Henry A. Houston (1847–1925), American teacher, businessman and politician

Henry Marsh

Henry A. Marsh (1836–?), American banker and mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts

Henry Strong

Henry A. Strong (1838–1919), first president of Eastman Kodak Company

Impeachment investigations of United States federal officials

On March 22, 1867, three resolutions were introduced calling for various types of action against the allegedly corrupt Henry A. Smythe.

J. Edward Addicks

His struggle with Henry A. du Pont for control of the state government led to Delaware having both of its Senate seats vacant for a time and was one of the factors which led to election reform and the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913.

James B. Terrill

Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise appointed Terrill a major of cavalry in the state militia in 1859.

James J. Rowley Training Center

The site is adjacent to the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center and the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.

Jefferson County, West Virginia

Among those attending the Brown execution was a contingent of 1500 cadets from Virginia Military Institute sent by the Governor of Virginia Henry A. Wise under the supervision of Major William Gilham and Major Thomas J. Jackson.

John Carter Vincent

When Vincent and other China Hands, including John Service accompanied Vice-President Henry Wallace on a state visit to the Soviet Union and Chongqing in June, 1944, he helped to persuade the Generalissimo to finally grant permission for the Dixie Mission, which opened contact with the Communist base areas.

Richard Maunsell

After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, he began an apprenticeship at the Inchicore works of the Great Southern and Western Railway (GSWR) under H. A. Ivatt in 1886, completing his training at Horwich Works on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (as Nigel Gresley had done before him).

Robert B. F. Peirce

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Rocky Mount, Virginia

Among these were the immediate past governor, Henry Wise, who settled his family here before he served in the military.

Roy Vernon Scott

In 1973, Scott and Jimmy G. Shoalmire, historian and archivist at Mississippi State, co-authored The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership. based on papers from the Henry A. Wallace Collection at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

San Antonio National Cemetery

Corporal Henry A. McMasters, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars.

South Salem, New York

Notable residents have included the 33rd Vice President of the United States Henry A. Wallace, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, the photographer O. Winston Link, the artist Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965), the pianist Hélène Grimaud, the composer and arranger Clare Grundman, the artist and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, the singer and musical stage headliner Sally Ann Howes, and the actress Colleen Dewhurst.

T. A. Goudge

He was a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Mind Association and the Humanities Association of Canada; he also served as President of the Canadian Philosophy Association in 1964 and as President of the Charles S. Peirce Society from 1957 to 1959.

Thomas Ryum Amlie

He was elected as the representative of Wisconsin's 1st congressional district's to the 72nd United States Congress to replace Henry A. Cooper who had died in office serving from October 13, 1931 till March 3, 1933.

Washington's Birthday Marathon

The Greenbelt course started and finished at the recreation center of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and consisted of three loops around the Beltsville Agricultural Research Farm.


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