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James S. Johnston

Johnston was born in Church Hill, Mississippi in 1843, the son of a local attorney and cotton planter.


43rd Sustainment Brigade

Operation Restore Hope was declared a success in May 1993 and President Clinton celebrated on the White House lawn with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert B. Johnston and other Somalia veterans.

5th United States Colored Cavalry

Lieutenant Colonel James S. Brisbin and his second in command, Carpenter, led their dismounted soldiers forward toward the Confederate defensive works.

Albanians in Ukraine

Olson, James S., An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires.

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

Alexander Porter

He was elected as a Whig to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Josiah S. Johnston, and served from December 19, 1833, until January 5, 1837, when he resigned due to ill health.

Ashbel Green

They had three children: Robert Stockton Green (1787–1813), Jacob Green (1790–1842), and James Sproat Green (1792–1862), the latter of whom served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and was the father of Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895), Governor of New Jersey.

Basil H. Johnston

He attended elementary school at the Cape Croker Indian Reserve school until the age of 10, after which he attended St. Peter Claver's Indian Residential School in Spanish, Ontario.

By Reingard M. Nischik; Sam Shepard; Basil Johnston; Tom Clark; Richard Brautigan; Jayne Anne Phillips; T Coraghessan Boyle; Ray Bradbury; William Saroyan; Charles Johnson

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

C.W. Johnston

Clarence Woods Johnston, M.C., M.D. (November 19, 1888 - October 13, 1949) was the fourteenth mayor of the Canadian Village of Elkhorn.

Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.

Gilbert wrote to Johnston urging him to make a similar trip, but around that time, Johnston received a job offer from Herter Brothers in New York.

Culp's Hill

He sent a small party to reconnoiter, and they encountered the 7th Indiana Infantry of the I Corps, part of Brig. Gen. James S. Wadsworth's division, which had been in the rear guarding the corps trains and was now linked up with the Iron Brigade, digging in following their fierce battle on Seminary Ridge.

Delia Bacon

James Shapiro interprets her theory both in terms of the cultural tensions of her historical milieu, and as consequential on an intellectual and emotional crisis that unfolded as she both broke with her Puritan upbringing and developed a deep confidential relationship with a fellow lodger, Alexander MacWhorter, a young theology graduate from Yale, which was subsequently interrupted by her brother.

Elaine Chao

The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born to Ruth Mulan Chu Chao (趙朱木蘭 Zhào Zhū Mùlán), a historian, and Dr. James S.C. Chao (趙錫成博士 Zhào Xīchéng), who began his career as a merchant mariner and later, after getting established in New York, built a successful shipping company (Foremost Shipping Co.).

Heldref Publications

In January 2010, the Heldref board transferred publishing rights for the foundation’s two remaining publications (World Affairs and Demokratizatsiya) to the independent World Affairs Institute headed by Heldref’s former executive director, James S. Denton.

Henry Johnston

Henry S. Johnston (1867–1965), US politician and lawyer, 7th Governor of Oklahoma

Ian Johnston

Ian R. Johnston (born 1949), Australian human factors engineer and road safety advocate

James Carson

James S. Carson (1874–1960), American corporate executive and Spanish–American War veteran

James Lynch

James S. Lynch (1841–1894), Manitoba physician and political figure

James S. Albus

From June 2008 to 2009 he was a Senior Fellow of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, where he worked toward advancing the understanding of the computational and representational mechanisms of the human brain.

James S. Clarkson

James S. Clarkson (May 17, 1842 – May 30, 1918) was born in Brookville, Indiana, but raised a native of Polk County, Iowa.

James S. Economou

He is currently the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is also a surgical oncologist and tumor immunologist.

James S. Free

Free was chairman of the Standing Committee of Correspondents of the Congressional Press Galleries and was president of the Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as a member of its hall of fame.

James S. Green

While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Territories (35th and 36th Congresses).

James S. Hirsch

James S. Hirsch is an American journalist and best-selling author who has written extensively about sports, race, and American culture and whose most recent book is the first authorized biography of Willie Mays.

He was a reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his first book was the best-selling Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter.

James S. Mitchell

Mitchell was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress.

James S. Moody, Jr.

He was elected circuit judge of Florida's Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (Hillsborough County), serving from 1995 to 2000.

James S. Pula

James S. Pula (born 18 February 1946, Utica, New York) is an award-winning Polish-American historian, professor, author, and Polonia activist.

James S. Rains

After the war Rains settled in Wood County, Texas and later Kaufman County, Texas where he became a farmer, railroad promoter, lawyer, and political organizer/candidate.

He died on May 19, 1880 at his home and is buried at Lee Cemetery in Seagoville, Dallas County.

James S. Robinson

Robinson was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1881, to January 12, 1885, when he resigned.

James S. Sherman

James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States (1909–1912), under President William Howard Taft.

James S.C. Chao

Chao was born in a small, rural farming village in Jiading District outside Shanghai, China.

James Wall

James S. Wall (born 1964), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Jeremy Francis Gilmer

He soon became chief engineer on the staff of General A. S. Johnston as a lieutenant colonel.

Joseph E. Johnston

The 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory by Robert Skimin imagines a scenario in which Johnston is left in command during the Atlanta Campaign.

He served in the 46th Congress from 1879 to 1881 as a Democratic congressman, having been elected with 58.11% of the vote over Greenback William W. Newman; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.

Joseph Johnston

Joseph F. Johnston (1843–1913), governor of Alabama, 1896–1900

Joseph E. Johnston (1807–1891), United States and Confederate Army general

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Directors of the KITP since its beginning have been Walter Kohn (1979–1984), Robert Schrieffer (1984–1989), James S. Langer (1989–1995), James Hartle (1995–1997), David Gross (1997–2012), and Lars Bildsten (2012–present).

President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate

Henry S. Johnston, of Perry, was sworn into office as the first president pro tempore on November 16, 1907, the same day Oklahoma was admitted U.S. state.

San Diego Free Press

The paper made powerful enemies in San Diego by running a series of investigative exposés, largely based on rumor, on the corruption of San Diego's richest and most powerful, including tycoon C. Arnholdt Smith, publisher James S. Copley, and race track owner John Alessio.

Thomas L. Johnston

Thomas Lothian Johnston FRSE (9 March 1927 in Whitburn, West Lothian – 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish economist.

Thomas Mellon

On August 22, 1843, he married Sarah Jane Negley, daughter of Jacob and Barbara and sister of James S. Negley, after a long—and frustrating—courtship.

William H. Loucks

Additionally, he was present for the surrender of the Army of Tennessee by Joseph E. Johnston at Bennett Place.

William J. Johnston

A section of Connecticut Route 16 between Colchester and Lebanon is named in his honor, as is Colchester's public middle school.

William Pope McArthur

Among the passengers was future American Civil War General Joseph E. Johnston who accompanied the vessel as a civilian topographical engineer.


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