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Henry Pierce

Henry L. Pierce (1825–1896), United States Representative from Massachusetts


American Standard Brands

The heritage of American Standard began in 1892, when industrialist John B. Pierce's business, Pierce Steam Heating Company, merged with independent manufacturers to form the American Radiator Company.

Aristes, Pennsylvania

Notable victims of the crash included Broadway theatre impresario Earl Carroll and his girlfriend, actress Beryl Wallace; Henry L. Jackson, men's fashion editor of Collier's Weekly magazine and co-founder of Esquire Magazine; and Venita Varden Oakie, the former wife of actor Jack Oakie.

Arthur Pierce

Arthur J. Pierce, head football coach for the Middlebury College Panthers football team, 1909

Boca Raton Army Airfield

Boca Raton AFAF was one of many research sites scattered around the country, including Immokalee, Belle Glade, and Ft. Pierce in Florida.

Ceresco, Michigan

Isaac E. Crary and John D. Pierce named the community by combining the name of Ceres, the Roman goddess of growing grains, with the first two letters "company".

Charles C. Painter

He also lobbied heavily for the institution of the Allotment policy introduced by Senator Henry L. Dawes, and passed in 1887 as the Dawes Act.

Donald M. Nelson

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson regularly criticized Nelson for his "inability to take charge".

Edward C. Pierce

In spring 1967, Pierce made his first bid for the mayoralty of Ann Arbor, winning the Democratic nomination but losing the general election to incumbent Republican mayor Wendell E. Hulcher.

Edward L. Pierce

He was a member of the Republican National Conventions of 1876 and 1884, and in December 1878, was appointed by President Hayes assistant Treasurer of the United States, but declined.

In December 1861, the United States Secretary of the Treasury dispatched Pierce to Port Royal, South Carolina to examine into the condition of the negroes on the Sea Islands.

The care of the negroes on the islands having been transferred to the war department, he was asked to continue in charge under its authority, but declined.

Elizabeth Selden Rogers

Her sister was Mabel Wellington White, wife of US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, she was also the maternal granddaughter of Union Major General Amos Beebe Eaton and a descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Elting E. Morison

1960 - Elting E. Morison - Turmoil and Tradition, a biography of Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration and later Secretary of War in the Roosevelt Administration, Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians.

Fernando Wood

This was followed by a motion by Henry L. Dawes to censure Wood, which passed by a vote of 114-39.

George Pierce

G. W. Pierce (George Washington Pierce, 1872–1956), American physicist

Henry Benson

Henry L. Benson (1854–1921), American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon

Henry Bowles

Henry L. Bowles (1866–1932), United States Representative from Massachusetts

Henry Dawes

Henry L. Dawes (1816–1903), U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative

Henry L. Dawes

In late 1871 and early 1872, Dawes became an ardent supporter of the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

The Dawes Commission, set up under an Indian Office appropriation bill in 1893, was created, not to administer the Act, but to attempt to persuade the tribes excluded under the Act to agree to the allotment plan.

Henry L. Dickey

He pursued the vocation of civil engineer, and in that capacity had charge of the construction of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad in Vinton County, Ohio.

Henry L. Eustis

In the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac preceding Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in 1864, Eustis’s brigade was moved to the 2nd Division of VI Corps under Brig. Gen. George Getty.

Henry L. Fuqua

The five included future Lieutenant Governor Coleman Lindsey of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, who was affiliated with the Long faction.

The original Fuqua family traces it ancestry back to William Fouquet, a Huguenot, who settled in Virginia in the 17th century to escape religious persecution.

Henry L. Marsh

In addition, he established the New Millennium Leadership Institute, founded the Unity Day Celebration Committee, and hosts Richmond's Annual Juneteenth Celebration.

Henry L. Pinckney

Pinckney was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837).

Henry L. Stimson Center

The Center draws inspiration from the life and work of Henry L. Stimson, whose bipartisan service to five presidents included appointments as Secretary of War for Presidents William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, and Secretary of State for President Herbert Hoover.

Henry Nichols

Henry L. Nichols (1823–1915), American physician and Democratic politician from California

Henry Pierce

Henry B. Pierce (1841–1898), Massachusetts insurance executive and politician

Inmate video visitation

The world's first inmate video visitation system was installed in late 1995 followed shortly thereafter with a similar installation at the St. Lucie County Jail in Ft. Pierce, Florida in early 1996.

John J. Pierce

He has written critical essays and book introductions on Cordwainer Smith, and essays on Twin Peaks and The X-Files for the fanzines Wrapped in Plastic and Spectrum and has had other articles published in The New York Review of Science Fiction and Science Fiction Studies.

John L. Pierce

For his service during World War II, general Pierce was awarded with Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster by the government of the United States and with Order of the White Lion and with War Cross by the government of the Czechoslovakia for his merits during liberation of Western Bohemia.

John M. Pierce

Pierce graduated in architectural engineering from Pratt Institute in 1910.

John R. Pierce

Here he was prominent in the research of computer music, as a Visiting Professor of Music, Emeritus (along with John Chowning and Max Mathews).

Jonathan Scoville

Scoville was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ray V. Pierce.

Lewis J. Clarke

Clarke is one of the last surviving faculty members appointed by the founding dean, Henry L. Kamphoefner, of the North Carolina State University School (now College) of Design.

Military history of the Philippines during World War II

On July 25, 1941, US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson requested that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issue orders calling the military forces of the Commonwealth into active service for the United States.

Munson Report

The Munson Report was circulated to several Cabinet officials, including Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Attorney General Francis Biddle, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

Orrington, Maine

Edward A. Pierce, Wall St. banker, one of founders of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith, Inc., now Merrill Lynch

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company

PLDT was established on November 28, 1928, by an act of the Philippine legislature and approved by then Governor-General Henry L. Stimson by means of a merger of four telephone companies under operation of the American telephone company GTE.

Ray V. Pierce

Pierce was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1879, to September 18, 1880, when he resigned.

Robert A. Maxwell

On December 28, 1885, he was appointed as Superintendent of Insurance by Governor David B. Hill to take office on January 1, 1886, and remained in this office until February 1891 when he was succeeded by James F. Pierce.

Robert E. Powell

In 1996, he was unseated by his former political ally, Abe E. Pierce, III, the president of the Ouachita Parish Police Jury and the first African American to fill the mayoralty in Monroe.

Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act

In Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit, 547 U.S. 71 (2006), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that SLUSA operated to preempt state law "holder" claims, which alleged injury based on the prolonged retention of stock due to fraud, as well as claims arising from the fraud-induced purchase or sale of securities.

Tarzan the Fearless

Lesser's contract included a clause that Tarzan must be played by "Big Jim" Pierce, Burroughs' son-in-law and the star of Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

Tipitapa

In 1929, the city's name was changed to "Villa Stimson" after the U.S. government sent Henry L. Stimson.

United Airlines Flight 624

Among the passengers were Broadway theatre impresario Earl Carroll and his girlfriend, actress Beryl Wallace; Henry L. Jackson, men's fashion editor of Collier's Weekly magazine and co-founder of Esquire Magazine; and Venita Varden Oakie, the former wife of actor Jack Oakie.

Walter M. Pierce

The Compulsory Education Act was later struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States in its 1925 Pierce v. Society of Sisters decision, on the grounds that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.


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