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James J. White

He has published the most widely recognized treatise on commercial law, Uniform Commercial Code with Robert S. Summers.


Alexander Saunderson

In 1947, Saunderson's great-grandson, also named Alexander, married Louise Astor Van Alen, granddaughter of James John Van Alen and grandniece of RMS Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV, and the ex-wife of two different Georgian Mdivani princes.

Benjamin Harris Babbidge

Benjamin Harris Babbidge was a blacksmith, having completed an apprenticeship with the shipbuilders J. & W. White of Cowes.

Blazer's Scouts

Colonel Carr B. White organized the original cavalry company (initially known as the Brigade Scouts or Spencer's Scouts) at Fayetteville, West Virginia, in mid-September 1863.

Campbell P. White

White was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, to October 2, 1835, when he resigned before the 24th United States Congress met.

Charles E. Roberts Stable

The building was eventually converted into a residence by architect Charles E. White, Jr., Roberts' son-in-law and an employee in Wright's studio in the years 1903-1905.

Compton I. White, Jr.

A Democrat, he was elected to the open seat in the first district in 1962 and re-elected in 1964.

White was re-elected in the Democratic landslide of 1964, but was defeated for a third term in 1966 by Republican state senator Jim McClure of Payette.

Daniel R. White

founded by former television gag writer and presidential speechwriter Robert Orben.

Davis–Bacon Act

The act is named after its sponsors, James J. Davis, a Senator from Pennsylvania and a former Secretary of Labor under three presidents, and Representative Robert L. Bacon of Long Island, New York.

Demographics of Denver

The current Denver mayor, Michael Hancock, elected in 2011, is also African-American, as are city councilwoman Allegra "Happy" Haynes and Denver police chief Robert C. White.

Dick Waterman

In 1963, he began to promote local shows with blues artists including Mississippi John Hurt and Booker "Bukka" White.

Edwin Q. White

He was sent to Seoul to help the AP's South Korean staff, who were dealing with increasing restriction on the media from the government of former President Chun Doo-hwan.

Externalism

More recently, James J. Gibson defended an ecological view of perception and thus of many aspects of the mind.

Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) is a representative of the early medieval grammarian movement, termed preceptive grammar by James J. Murphy for its interest in teaching ars poetria (1971, vii ff.).

George E. White

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Gilbert F. White

White worked under President Johnson in committees that advised the establishment of the National Flood Insurance Program – although he was not happy when his cautions were ignored and the NFIP was rolled out too quickly.

Herbert White

Herbert S. White (born 1927), American professor of library science

Hillsboro Cemetery

Located in Hillsboro, Ohio, Hillsboro Cemetery is home to multiple notable interments, including baseball player Kirby White and politicians Joseph J. McDowell, John Armstrong Smith, Jacob J. Pugsley, Allen Trimble and Wilbur M. White.

Hugh L. White

The vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and an NAACP worker, Lee had been urging African-Americans in the Mississippi Delta to register and vote.

Interference theory

In 1924, James J. Jenkins and Karl Dallenbach showed that everyday experiences can interfere with memory with an experiment that resulted in retention being better over a period of sleep than over the same amount of time devoted to activity.

James J. Archer

Archer was born at Stafford, near Havre de Grace, Maryland, to John and Ann Stump Archer, a wealthy military family.

James J. Devine

In 1980, Devine volunteered on the unsuccessful mayoral campaign of Raymond Lesniak, who challenged Elizabeth, New Jersey Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, Jr.

James J. Howard

On May 23, 1967, Howard created a public controversy over the M16, the basic combat rifle in Vietnam, beginning after he read a letter to the House of Representatives in which a Marine in Vietnam claims that almost all Americans killed in the Battle of Hill 881 died as a result of their new M16 rifles jamming.

James J. Leisenring

He was one of three individuals inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2003.

James J. McGovern

The five additional schools are: the Arizona School of Health Sciences (1999), the School of Health Management (2000), the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health (2001), the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (2006), and the Postgraduate School of Osteopathic Clinic Research (2007).

James J. Rowley Training Center

The site is adjacent to the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center and the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.

James J. Storrow

With police Commissioner Edwin U. Curtis at odds with the rank and file police, Boston Mayor Andrew J. Peters appointed Storrow to chair an ad hoc Citizen's Committee to review the matter.

Jesse White

Jesse J. White, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Jo Jo White

Additionally, he appeared in two movies with diminutive roles: 1980's Inside Moves and 2007's The Game Plan, in which his son, actor Brian J. White, also starred.

Michael L. White

Behind the scenes, he was a co-writer and producer on the 1992-1993 TV Series, Computer Doctor and executive producer for the 1993 series, Spirit of Television.

Michael R. White

He also declared October 30, 1994 "Bone Thugs~N~Harmony Day" in the city of Cleveland to honor the hometown rappers.

Passive voice

Many commentators, notably George Orwell in his essay "Politics and the English Language" and Strunk & White in The Elements of Style, have urged minimizing use of the passive voice.

Pat Conway

In 1955 and 1956, Conway was cast in two historic roles on Walter Cronkite's CBS series You Are There, first as young boxer James J. Corbett, fighting the champion John L. Sullivan, in the segment "The Birth of Modern Boxing: John L. Sullivan—James J. Corbett Battle (September 7, 1892)" and then in the American Revolution segment "Benedict Arnold's Plot Against West Point (September 23, 1780)".

Patricia Breckenridge

Breckenridge was one of three candidates Missouri's Appellate Judicial Commission proposed to governor Matt Blunt to replace retiring Judge Ronnie White on the Missouri Supreme Court.

Philip White

Philip L. White (1923–2009), American historian and civic activist

R. J. Cutler

Black. White. was a television series on FX television and featured two families—one white, the other black—who traded places and races.

Septimus Norris

He worked for the Norris firm under William's management, but did not continue under Richard's; railway historian John H. White, Jr. believes animosity existed between Septimus and Richard.

Shiva Naipaul

He then decided to concentrate on journalism, and wrote two non-fiction works, North of South (1978) and Black & White (1980), before returning to the novel form in the 1980s with Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983), a departure from his two earlier comic novels set in Trinidad, as well as a collection of fiction and non-fiction, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984).

Stanley H. Fuld

Fuld's specialty was developing new theories to prosecute racketeers, including Charles "Lucky" Luciano and James J. Hines, the Tammany Hall district leader.

Stylez

Stylez G. White (born 1979), American football defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League

Terri L. White

In 2007, while White was serving as the Department's Director of Communications and Public Policy, then Commissioner Terry Cline resigned after being nominated by (then) President of the United States George W. Bush to become the administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Theodore H. White

White graduated from Harvard in 1938 summa cum laude (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was a classmate), with a degree in Chinese history and studies, the first student of John K. Fairbank.

Thomas G. Dunn

His staunch conservative ideology, dubious ethical standing and irascible personality earned Dunn a spirited primary election challenge from progressive Democrat James J. Devine when he ran for the General Assembly in 1991.

Tim D. White

White was born in Los Angeles County, California and raised in Lake Arrowhead in neighboring San Bernardino County.

William H. White

The keeping of the Register of Architects is now governed by the Architects Act 1997, and the name of the body responsible for the Register has been changed from the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) to the Architects Registration Board (ARB).

William Hunter Campbell

James J. Andrews, also a civilian, recruited Campbell and 22 soldiers from three Ohio regiments, the 2nd, 21st and 33rd Ohio Infantry.

Woodland Opera House

Some notable performers on the WOH stage in the late 19th and early 20th century include Nance O'Neil, James A. Herne, Harry Davenport Madame Helena Modjeska, John Philip Sousa and his band, comics Weber and Fields, George M. Cohan's troupe, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, John L. Sullivan as well as rising motion picture stars Sydney Greenstreet, Walter Huston and Verna Felton.


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