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2 unusual facts about James McMillan


James McMillan

James W. McMillan (1825–1903), Union officer during the American Civil War

Jimmy McMillan (born 1946), U.S. fringe politician, founder of The Rent Is Too Damn High Party


John Stoughton Newberry

In the early 1860s, Newberry joined the railroad car manufacturing firm of Dean and Eaton, renaming it Newberry, Dean and Eaton Manufacturing Co. When James McMillan joined the firm in 1864, the company was reorganized as the Michigan Car Company.

Michigan Car Company

The Michigan Car Company was organized in 1864 by John S. Newberry (b. 1826) and James McMillan (b. 1838) to manufacture railroad cars for the Union Army.


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Moulin Rouge Hotel

In 1960, under threat of a protest march down the Las Vegas Strip against racial discrimination by Las Vegas casinos, a meeting was hurriedly arranged by then-Governor Grant Sawyer between hotel owners, city and state officials, local black leaders, and then-NAACP president Dr. James McMillan.