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Isaac H. Ferguson

Isaac H. Ferguson - (About 1776 - January 1, 1848) was the first settler of Marine Township, Illinois, Ferguson moved to Texas in 1846 and at the age of 70 became a company commander of Rusk County, Texas to fight in the Mexican-American War.


Brian: Portrait of a Dog

During his parole hearing, he references the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, but unfortunately for him, the council believe that it's stupid to listen to a dog.

While arguing his case before the city council, Brian tries to reference the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, before being cut off.

Bronson-Mulholland House

Judge Isaac H. Bronson probably first considered moving to Palatka, Florida in 1852 when the "Palatka Tract" of about 1,220 acres was conveyed in trust to him by three prominent Palatka families - the Reids, the Carrs, and the Burts.

The Bronson-Mulholland House, (also known as the Judge Isaac H. Bronson House and as Sunny Point), is an historic site located at 100 Madison Street, in Palatka, Florida.

Caesar Antoine

Plessy's action ultimately led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision by the United States Supreme Court, which affirmed the legality of "separate-but-equal" facilities.

Charles A. Ferguson

Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998) was a U.S. linguist who taught at Stanford University.

Daniel C. Ferguson

Ferguson then attempted a 14 billion dollar merger with Rubbermaid to try to restore confidence of others which failed to produced the expected results.

In 1950 after earning an MBA from Stanford University he began his business carrier with Newell Rubbermaid and beginning in 1962, the affiliated Newell Companies, including Western Newell, Newell Window Furnishings and Newell Manufacturing were consolidated into a single corporation and was headquartered in Freeport, Illinois.

David Ferguson

David R. Ferguson (born 1962), American sound engineer and record producer

Detroit Historical Museum

In attendance were such dignitaries as Governor G. Mennen Williams, Mayor Albert E. Cobo, U.S. Senator Homer S. Ferguson, the French and British ambassadors and Detroit native and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche of the United Nations.

Emory C. Ferguson

Along with Edson F. Cady, he was a founder of Snohomish, which would become the county seat from 1862 until 1896.

In March 1860 Ferguson arrived at Cadyville, the town having been established by and named after Edson Cady.

Eugene Ferguson

Eugene S. Ferguson (1916–2004), engineer and historian of technology

G. E. Ferguson

Upon reaching Atebubu, Ferguson negotiated a treaty with the local chiefs, who feared aggression from Asante, which they had seceded from in 1875.

General Duval

Isaac H. Duval, an American general during the American Civil War

George Ferguson

G. E. Ferguson (1864–1897), Fante government official in the British colony Gold Coast

Grutter v. Bollinger

"Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 527, 559, ... (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting).

Herbert M. Allison

Allison retired from TIAA-CREF in 2008, and was succeeded by Roger W. Ferguson, Jr..

Homer Plessy

Homer Adolph Plessy (March 17, 1862 – March 1, 1925) was the American Creole plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.

Isaac H. Bromley

He served for most of his time as Provost Marshal of the Third District of Connecticut until his resignation in March 1964.

Isaac H. Bronson

Bronson was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839), where he served as chairman of the Committee on Territories in the Twenty-fifth Congress.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.

Isaac H. Brown

Isaac H. Brown (1812-1880) was the sexton at Grace Episcopal Church in Greenwich Village, and arbiter of style in Manhattan where he planned weddings, arranged soirées and funerals for the wealthy of New York City.

Isaac H. Duval

He was a member of the Lopez expedition to Cuba that sought to aid the Cuban national independence movement.

He was a postbellum U.S. Representative from West Virginia in the 41st United States Congress.

Isaac H. Lionberger House

The Isaac H. Lionberger House at 3630 Grandel Square in Midtown St. Louis, Missouri is the last private residence designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.

Isaac H. Snowden

Snowden then studied with a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and unsuccessfully tried to re-enter Harvard in 1853.

James E. Ferguson

He entered Salado College at age twelve but was eventually expelled for disobedience.

James H. Williams, Jr.

Furthermore, in 1963 the Shipyard chose to award him a four-year full Homer L. Ferguson Scholarship to MIT.

Jay R. Ferguson

His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade, Dr. Todd Hooper on Judging Amy, Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface, Agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell and most recently Stan Rizzo on the AMC series Mad Men.

Joseph Dippolito

On April 16, 1971, his sentence was reduced from ten to five years by Judge Warren J. Ferguson and he started serving his sentence.

Kate Ferguson

She married the Civil War hero General Samuel W. Ferguson (1834-1917), and their house became a social center in Greenville, Mississippi.

Lanercost Priory

In the 1870s, there was further restoration by the Carlisle architect C. J. Ferguson.

Miriam A. Ferguson

After her victory in the Democratic primary, she defeated George C. Butte, a prominent lawyer and University of Texas dean who emerged as the strongest Republican gubernatorial nominee in Texas since Reconstruction in 1869.

Pat Morris Neff

Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, wife of controversial former Governor James E. Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.

PublicAffairs

In early 2008 PublicAffairs published a book version of Charles Ferguson's documentary film No End in Sight, nominated for a 2007 Academy Award.

R. G. Ferguson

Furthermore, Dr. Ferguson was a pioneer in long-term BCG (Bacillus Calmette Guėrin) research, quite controversial at the time.

R. v. Stevens

On this issue, Wilson gave extensive consideration to the majority decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in R. v. Ferguson, 1987 6 W.W.R. 481.

Separate Car Act

Finally, the case ended in the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson with the judgment being upheld, leading to the judicial sanction of "separate but equal".

Short title catalogue

STC: A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, editors: A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640. Second edition, revised and enlarged, begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson, completed by K. F. Pantzer.

Stephen of Perm

(Originally published in 1967, in To Honor Roman Jakobson, ed. by Morris Halle, pp. 643–653. The Hague: Mouton. Also reprinted in 1968 Language Problems of Developing Nations, ed. by Joshua Fishman, Charles Ferguson, and J. Das Gupta, pp. 27–35. New York Wiley and Sons.) Language Structure and Language Use: Essays by Charles Ferguson, ed.

Thomas A. Ferguson

Since retiring from government service, Ferguson has run a consulting business based out of Howard County, Maryland.

Thomas C. Ferguson

From 1984 to 1987 Mr. Ferguson was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC.

On April 8, 1987 he was nominated to be the ambassador Ambassador of the United States to Brunei Darussalam.

Warren J. Ferguson

Upon return, he earned his J.D. from University of Southern California in 1949.

Wilkie D. Ferguson

Ferguson was a member of the panel that investigated the 1968 Liberty City riots.

William R. Reed

Reed first joined the Big Ten in 1939 before leaving for a six-year period to serve in the United States Navy during World War II and then as an assistant to Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator from Michigan.


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