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unusual facts about Henry S. Geyer


Henry S. Geyer

He authored the Geyer Act of 1839 establishing public education in Missouri as well as the University of Missouri.


Caulfield, Missouri

The community was founded in 1930 and is named after Missouri governor Henry Stewart Caulfield, who took office in 1929.

Compromise of 1850

During the heated debates, Compromise floor leader Henry S. Foote of Mississippi drew a pistol on Senator Benton.

Harold A. Baker

Baker was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on August 9, 1978, to a seat vacated by Henry S. Wise on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

Henry Graves

Henry S. Graves (1871–1951), American conservationist and co-founder of the Yale School of Forestry

Henry Harris

Henry S. Harris (1850–1902), United States Representative from New Jersey

Henry Johnston

Henry S. Johnston (1867–1965), US politician and lawyer, 7th Governor of Oklahoma

Henry Jost

Henry S. Jost (1804–1889), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia

Henry S. Benedict

He was nominated by the Progressive Party for the Sixty-fifth Congress, but withdrew in behalf of the Republican nominee.

Benedict was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative William D. Stephens (November 7, 1916-March 3, 1917).

Henry S. Clark Stakes

The race was named in honor of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Henry S. Clark, the "dean of Maryland trainers," who spent 80 of his 95 years on the backstretch of Maryland's race tracks and remained active until his death in February 1999.

Henry S. De Forest

He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress and for election in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.

Henry S. Harris

Harris was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Henry S. Huidekoper

Huidekoper returned to service in September 1863 but because of the severity of his wounds, he was compelled to resign from the army in 1864 at Culpeper, Virginia.

Henry S. Jacobs Camp

In the early 1960s, Jacobs called upon Rudi Scheidt of Memphis, Tennessee for more help.

Henry S. Levy and Sons

The Levy's brand is now owned by Arnold Bread, a division of Bimbo Bakeries USA.

Henry S. Magoon

Born in Monticello, Wisconsin, Magoon attended the Rock River Seminary, Mount Morris, Illinois, and was graduated from the Western Military College, Drennon, Kentucky, in 1853.

Henry S. Miller Company

Without their stewardship, there would not have been a Dallas Opera.

The Dallas Morning Newss Rena Pederson described Henry and Juanita Miller as "stalwart" patrons of the arts in the community.

Henry S. Randall

In a letter to James Parton he relates that the family believed Jefferson's nephew Peter Carr was the father of Sally Hemings's children.

Randall wrote The Life of Thomas Jefferson, published in three volumes in 1858, considered the most complete and authoritative biography ever written on Jefferson, because he was the only biographer permitted to interview Jefferson’s immediate family.

J. P. Morgan, Jr.

The couple raised four children: Junius Spencer Morgan III; Henry Sturgis Morgan, a founding partner of Morgan Stanley; Jane Norton Morgan Nichols and Frances Tracy Pennoyer.

Juanita Miller

Meeting her husband, Henry S. Miller, Jr. (who later ran the successful Henry S. Miller Company) at a return center for World War II veterans in 1945, she stayed married until her death.

Lee E. Geyer

He was graduated from Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1922 and afterwards did post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

Geyer was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death.

Parkview, St. Louis

The list includes Missouri Governor Henry Caulfield; St. Louis mayor Bernard Dickmann; University City mayors Heman, Flynn and Cunningham; artists Bessie Lowenhaupt, Aimee Schweig, Jane Pettus, Edmund Wuerpel and Gustav Goetch; writers Stanley Elkin and William Gass; aviation great Col. James (Jimmy) Doolittle; baseball players George Sisler and Bob Gibson; and film maker Charles Guggenheim.

President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate

Henry S. Johnston, of Perry, was sworn into office as the first president pro tempore on November 16, 1907, the same day Oklahoma was admitted U.S. state.

Sequoyah Constitutional Convention

Henry S. Johnston (Constitution Convention President Pro Tempore, seventh Governor of Oklahoma, first President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate)

Tar River Poetry

Tar River Poetry has published many of the best-known American poets of the late 20th and early 21st century, including Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners Claudia Emerson, William Stafford, Louis Simpson, Carolyn Kizer, Henry Taylor, and A.R. Ammons, and many other well-known poets including Sharon Olds, Leslie Norris, William Matthews, Albert Goldbarth, and Patricia Goedicke.

TIAA–CREF

In 1918, Andrew Carnegie and his Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, under the leadership of Henry S. Pritchett, created the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), a fully funded system of pensions for professors.

W. T. Pfefferle

In 2004, Pfefferle published Poets on Place, the story of his year-long trip around America interviewing and photographing American poets: Mark Strand, Rita Dove, Denise Duhamel, Charles Wright, Mark Wunderlich, Henry Taylor, David St. John, and Nikki Giovanni.


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