A native of Virginia, he was the founder of East Portland and Stephens Street in Portland, Oregon is named in his honor.
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Stephens refused Overton's offer to sell him his Portland land claim for 300 new salmon barrels because he planned to bid for another claim, which he secured in 1845 and on which East Portland was founded.
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He started a cooper shop in Oregon City and got his barrel-making stock from William Overton, one of the founders of Portland.
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A cooper by trade, he operated one of the first ferries across the Willamette River at what was East Portland, Oregon.
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The named defendants include Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, NSA Director Keith B. Alexander, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, and FBI director James B. Comey.
James B. Potter, Jr. (born 1931), Los Angeles City Council member, 1963–71
U.S. Representative James B. Aswell of Natchitoches worked with Dormon to bring to fruition the Kisatchie National Forest, which was designated in 1930 during the administration of President Herbert C. Hoover.
The translation was made by A. Leo Oppenheim and is copied from James B. Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 1950 Princeton.
In 1952, he retired from the Assembly, and the seat was taken over by his son Willis H. Stephens.
(It was first printed in R. Stephens' edition of Dionysius (Paris, 1547, 4to.), and later in that of H. Stephens (Paris, 1577, 4to., and 1697, 8vo.), in Hudson's Geograph. Minor, vol.
Blair graduated from Dudley High School, where his father taught, and was awarded a B.S. in sociology from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1963.
On December 3, 1913, Dominion Parks Commissioner James B. Harkin wrote to Deputy Minister of the Interior William Cory, arguing for the creation of a nation-wide system of parks, the first of which was to be Gatineau Park.
On February 20, 1990, Mullen was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina vacated by James B. McMillan.
Hard to Die (also known as Tower of Terror) is a 1990 action comedy film written by Mark Thomas McGee and James B. Rogers, directed by Jim Wynorski, and starring Gail Harris and Melissa Moore.
Through the powers granted to FHFA, created by the Act, on September 7, 2008, FHFA director James B. Lockhart III announced he had put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the conservatorship of the FHFA.
James Benjamin Martel (born October 15, 1955, in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a physician, surgeon and scientist.
Allardice is best known for his collaborations with writing partner Tom Adair on a number of highly successful American 1960s TV sitcoms including The Munsters, F Troop, My Three Sons, Gomer Pyle, USMC and Hogan's Heroes.
Elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses Belford was United States Representative for the first district from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1885.
In 2005 and 2006, Black was linked to a series of scandals involving, among other things, the party-switching Rep. Michael P. Decker, and the North Carolina lottery, established the previous year.
When the Sanctuary movement started in the 1980s, he became a supporter and even helped to transport and house Central American political refugees.
Construction was completed in 1912, and the three members of the Duke family—James B., his wife Nanaline, and their daughter Doris—lived there with their staff part of the year.
He ran for the Democratic nomination for the 2006 gubernatorial election, but lost in the primary to State Senator Dina Titus.
In 1842, Hunt was elected as a Democrat to the 28th United States Congress, and was re-elected to the 29th Congress, serving from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1847, the first person to represent Michigan's 3rd congressional district.
He has served as Senior Vice President, Finance, at National Reinsurance(1996) which was acquired by General Reinsurance; Managing Director in Smith Barney's Investment Banking Group for financial institutions and Co-Head of its Private Equity Group (1993–1995); Vice President and Treasurer of Alexander & Alexander(1981–1989); and Assistant Treasurer of Gulf Oil in Europe and the U.S. (1974–1981).
In 1998, the U.S. Geographic Board named McClintock Point on the north side of New Harbor, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in recognition of his contributions to Antarctic marine biology.
Gingrich, Newt, and Forstchen, William R., Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory, Thomas Dunne Books, 2005, ISBN 0-312-34298-5.
As a young man, Nutter got to know President Harry S. Truman, fostering a lifelong interest in local, state and national politics.
Following his reelection in 1972, Pearson was appointed by Nixon as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.
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Pearson and Democrat Fred Harris of Oklahoma introduced the first major legislation with economic incentives for rural development.
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.
He also helped the besieged Marines at Khe Sanh until the North Vietnamese Army retreated after failed attempts to take the base.
He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1878 on the Greenback ticket and served in the Forty-sixth Congress from 1879 to 1881, but in 1880 was nominated for the presidency instead of re-election to Congress.
He was a business partner with his brother-in-law J. Shannon Clift in a commission merchant and ship brokerage business in St. John's.
James B. Baker House, Aberdeen, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in Maryland
James B. Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
James B. Hagan (1923–1988), member of the Ohio House of Representatives
James B. Jordan (born 1949), American Calvinist theologian and author
James B. Lynch (died 1954), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD and Senator
:For the Civil War General of a similar name see James B. McPherson
James B. Simpson (died 2002), American journalist and Episcopal priest, known for Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
James B. Weaver (1833–1912), United States Representative from Iowa and Presidential candidate
James B. Whitfield (1860–1948), Florida lawyer and justice of the Florida Supreme Court
He is a recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and a fellow of the Union, a designation conferred upon not more than 0.1% of all AGU members in any given year.
James B. Jordan suggests that this incident is portrayed as being a type of resurrection for Peter.
As the advertising scholar James B. Twitchell writes, "Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis."
Hairston attended Dudley High School in Greensboro for his first three years of high school.
He was the brother of Richard Waring, the US-based actor, and son of Thomas E. Stephens, whose portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Gallery of Presidents and Evelyn Mary Waring.
Immediately after the Olympics, Ralph Craig retired from the sport, although his brother, Jimmy, became an All American footballer in 1913.
Since April 2012, the General Relief Society Presidency has been composed of Linda K. Burton, President; Carole M. Stephens, First Counselor; and Linda S. Reeves, Second Counselor.
In 1998, Pulitzer Prize investigative journalists Donald Barlett and James Steele published a Time Magazine investigative article, "The Empire of the Pigs," which chronicled "how an extremely resourceful corporation plays the welfare game, maximizing the benefits to itself, often to the detriment of those who provide them."
Considered the greatest Rules Chairman of all time, Culpepper will be remembered as one of the architects of the co-speakership (James B. Black and Richard T. Morgan) in 2003 and the driving force behind passage of the state's education lottery in 2005.
As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Stephens was considered one of the most powerful and influential men in New York State.