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3 unusual facts about J.D. Strong


J.D. Strong

Strong has worked with northern Ottawa County officials on a massive buyout assistance program to relocate families and businesses from the nation’s most hazardous Superfund Site—the Tar Creek Superfund Site in Picher, Oklahoma.

A fifth generation Oklahoman, Strong graduated as valedictorian from Weatherford High School in Weatherford, Oklahoma.

Miles Tolbert

Governor Henry appointed J.D. Strong, longtime staffer in the Office of the Secretary and Tolbert's then chief of staff, to serve as Tolbert's successor.


Abraham B. Tappen

He was a New York City Park Commissioner from 1891 to 1895, appointed by Mayor Hugh J. Grant to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Waldo Hutchins, and re-appointed to a full five-year term, but removed from office by Mayor William L. Strong.

Beggars Banquet

According to Martin C. Strong, Beggars Banquet was the first album in "a staggering burst of creativity" in a five-year period that ultimately comprised four of the best rock albums of all time.

Empire Poetry League

Initially having a patriotic impetus, and counting a number of leading literary figures among its supporters (G. K. Chesterton, Humbert Wolfe, L. A. G. Strong and the novelists H. E. Bates and A. G. Street 1892–1966) as members, it shortly became a vehicle for Sydney Fowler Wright (1874–1965), now remembered mainly for

Henry Strong

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

James G. Strong

Strong was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933).

He served as chairman of the Committee on War Claims (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses).

Born in Dwight, Illinois, Strong attended the public schools of Dwight, Illinois from 1876 to 1879, the Episcopal Mission of Greenwood Agency, S.Dak.

James Strong

James G. Strong (1870–1938), United States Representative from Kansas

Julius L. Strong

Strong was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1869, until his death in Hartford, Connecticut, September 7, 1872.

June Thunder

The poem was anthologised in A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920-1940 (1941), edited by Cecil Day-Lewis and L.A.G. Strong, and Penguin New Writing No. 2 (January 1941).

Luther M. Strong

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

Martin C. Strong

His books include The Great Rock Discography (7 editions), The Essential Rock Discography (the condensed "8th edition"), The Great Metal Discography (2 editions), The Great Psychedelic, The Great Alternative & Indie (2 volumes) and Lights, Camera, Soundtracks (with Brendon Griffin); all published by Canongate Books.

For a history of Scottish contemporary music and more, Mercat Press published The Great Scots Musicography, in 2002 - subsequently pulped by Birlinn (publisher).

Moses M. Strong

When in Wisconsin, he secured an investment of $33,000 for land speculation from three New Hampshire financiers: Senator Henry Hubbard, Horace Hall, and George Olcott.

Mrs. John L. Strong

From her locations Mrs. Strong created papers for the Duke of Windsor and Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor, Barbara Hutton, the Rockefeller, Astor, Vanderbilt, and DuPont families, as well as Bette Davis, Diana Vreeland, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Barbara Paley, and other icons of style.

Plandome, New York

Genesta M. Strong (1885-1972), first woman from Nassau County to be elected to New York State Legislature (1944)

Selah B. Strong

He was elected as a Democrat to the 28th United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845.

She was also a descendant of Elder William Brewster, (c. 1567 – April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower, through his son Jonathan Brewster.

He was also a descendant of Lion Gardiner, an early English settler and soldier in the New World, founded the first English settlement in what became the state of New York.

Theron R. Strong

Strong was elected as a Democrat to the 26th United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841.


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