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unusual facts about J.D. Sumner



Charles A. Sumner

After an unsuccessful attempt in 1878, he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885).

He moved to Virginia City, Nevada where he served as member of the state senate 1865-1868 and served as president pro tempore for one session.

Charles K. Sumner

He received a traveling scholarship to Europe and the Middle East and was hired by McKim, Mead and White in New York, working for Charles Follen McKim.

Cid Ricketts Sumner

She only attended one year of medical school before marrying one of her professors, Nobel Prize winner James B. Sumner, on July 10, 1915.

Gangster Stories

Gangster Stories (and its companion, Racketeer Stories) quickly came under censorship pressure in New York state, instigated by John S. Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a state entity empowered to recommend obscenity cases to prosecutorial authorities.

J. D. Sumner

As of 2011, he has been surpassed only three times by the following vocalists: Dan Britton (1984), Tim Storms (2002 and once more in 2012), and Roger Menees (2011).

James B. Sumner

Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910 where he was acquainted with prominent chemists Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James Bryant Conant and Charles Loring Jackson.

Cid Ricketts Sumner went on to become an author, writing books that included Tammy Tell Me True, which was made into the movie Tammy and the Bachelor, and Quality, which became the movie Pinky.

James Sumner

James B. Sumner (1887–1955), American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

John Sumner

John S. Sumner (1876–1971), headed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice

J. D. Sumner (1924–1998), American gospel singer, songwriter and music promoter

L. W. Sumner

Sumner received his bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1962 and his doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1965, with a thesis supervised by Stuart Hampshire and Joel Feinberg.

Leroy Drumm

Leroy Maxey Drumm (September 26, 1936 – November 26, 2010) was born in Algonac, Michigan is an American and a bluegrass/country music songwriter who served in the United States Navy, in the 3rd Division as a sonar man aboard the USS Soley (DD-707), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer and deployed to the Mediterranean from July 1956 to February 1957.

Vocal fry register

Singers like Tim Storms, J.D. Sumner, Mike Holcomb and various other gospel basses use this technique to create sub harmonics the current record at G-7, or 0.189 Hz is held by Tim Storms which he achieved by amplified vocal fry.


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