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4 unusual facts about Henry D. Flood


Federal Employers Liability Act

In discussing the need for legislation to address the railroad worker's exposure to harm, U.S. Representative Henry D. Flood, a strong advocate for the passage of the FELA, referred to alarming statistics about the injuries and deaths associated with work on the railroad.

Henry D. Flood

He served as chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Territories (Sixty-second Congress).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

Flood was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served until his death (March 4, 1901-December 8, 1921).


Barron County, Wisconsin

The county had taken the name of Barron in the honor of Wisconsin lawyer and politician, Henry D. Barron, who served as Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

Daly's Club

This was once "Daly's Club-house," where all the noblemen and gentlemen of both Houses would adjourn to dine and drink; where were seen Mr. Grattan, and Mr. Flood with "his broken beak," and Mr. Curran, and those brilliant but guerilla debaters, whose encounters both of wit and logic make our modern parliamentary contests sound tame and languid.

Daniel J. Flood

He persuaded his friend James Karen to begin his acting career, recruiting him into a production at the Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre.

Edward J. Bonin

Bonin was elected in 1952 as a Republican to the 83rd United States Congress, defeating incumbent Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood but he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 in a re-match against Flood.

Henry Barron

Henry D. Barron (1833–1922), United States politician in Wisconsin

Henry Cooke

Henry D. Cooke (1825–1881), first territorial governor of the District of Columbia

Henry D. Cooke

He was detained after the wreck at St. Thomas, where he conceived the idea of a steamship line from New York to San Francisco via the isthmus of Panama, and wrote about his idea to the Philadelphia United States Gazette and the New York Courier and Enquirer.

Cooke returned to his duties as bank president and financier, suffering serious setbacks when Jay Cooke & Co. failed in the Panic of 1873 but continuing as the president of the First Washington National Bank until his death in 1881.

He was the first to announce to the authorities at Washington, through a despatch from the military governor of California, the discovery of gold in the Sacramento valley.

Henry D. Hatfield

He graduated from Franklin College in New Athens, Ohio.

Henry D. Lindsley

His father was a judge and his maternal uncle, Jacob M. Dickinson, was a judge and the Secretary of War in President Taft's Cabinet.

Henry D. Miller

From the years of 1917 to 1926 Miller's business required him to live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Henry D. Miller (born near Morley, Iowa in 1867, date of death unknown) was a member of the Iowa State Senate and a democrat from the twenty-fourth district first elected in 1932.

Henry D. Moorman

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress.

Henry D. Sokolski

He currently serves as an adjunct professor at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., and has taught courses at the University of Chicago, Rosary College, and Loyola University.

Henry D. Washburn

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress.

He was reelected to the Fortieth Congress and served from February 23, 1866, to March 3, 1869.

Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid

In memory of her, Sir Henry commissioned a series of stained glass windows at All Saints' Church, Tudeley, which were designed by the famous artist Marc Chagall, installed between 1967 and 1985.

Henry D'Esterre Taylor

His address, "Three Great Federations: Australasian, National and Racial" (London, 1890), delivered to the A.N.A. at Ballarat, met with approval insofar as he urged Australian Federation; but his advocacy of Imperial Federation and, ultimately, a federation of the British races aroused heated opposition.

Henry St. George Tucker III

He returned to Congress in 1922, after a hiatus of nearly 25 years, when he was elected to the 67th Congress upon the death of Henry D. Flood in 1921.

John Flood

John J. Flood Retired police officer and labor relations organizer

John H. Flood, Jr. (d. 1959) Mining engineer and unpublished Wyatt Earp biographer

John J. Flood

This strike was historic because it was the first real strike by American police officers in fifty years following the famous Boston Police Strike of 1919.

In the Spring of 1994 the famous police organization Emerald Society awarded John Flood its first ever Police Officer of the Year award at its annual affair.

League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry

Cuellar, Doggett, Hinojosa, and Smith were all reelected, while Henry Bonilla, the Republican representative for the 23rd District, was defeated by Democrat Ciro Rodriguez in a newly 61% Latino district.

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1990

Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Murphy, Boston University president John Silber, former Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti, and State Representative John H. Flood ran for the Democratic nomination.

Merrill M. Flood

Flood received an MA in mathematics at the University of Nebraska, and a PhD at Princeton University in 1935 under the supervision of Joseph Wedderburn, for the dissertation Division by Non-singular Matric Polynomials.

Slater Park

Its shaft of polished gray granite once bore aloft a bronze stork while pure water gushed from the carved figures at each side of its triangular base, the fountain was presented to the citizens of Pawtucket and Central Falls by Dr. Henry D. Cogswell in 1880, and was originally set up in front of the Miller Block at the corner of Main and Mill Streets, (now Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue).

Solomon G. Brown

He was the first member to be certified by the governor of Washington D.C., Henry D. Cooke.

Systems science

Robert L. Flood, Ewart R Carson, Dealing with Complexity: An Introduction to the Theory and Application of Systems Science, 1988.

Systems theory

Important names in contemporary systems science include Russell Ackoff, Béla H. Bánáthy, Anthony Stafford Beer, Peter Checkland, Robert L. Flood, Fritjof Capra, Michael C. Jackson, Edgar Morin and Werner Ulrich, among others.

William Oscar Mulkey

Mulkey was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry D. Clayton and served from June 29, 1914, to March 3, 1915.

William S. O'Brien

William S. O'Brien (1825 – May 2, 1878) was an American businessman who formed a business partnership with fellow Irishmen James Graham Fair, James C. Flood, and John William Mackay, the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company.


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