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James W. Gerard

Gerard's wife, Mary, was the daughter of copper magnate Marcus Daly, head of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company that developed the mines of Butte, Montana.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania with many United States residents on board, on May 7, 1915, the United States ambassador's position became more difficult.


Boys and Girls High School

A new building was planned on the east side of Nostrand Avenue between from Halsey and Macon Streets, designed by Superintendent of Buildings James W. Naughton, but by the time it opened in 1886, enrollment had increased to the point where it was decided to use this building as the girls' high school and to and build a separate building for the boys.

Cimetidine

Cimetidine was the culmination of a project at Smith, Kline and French (SK&F; now GlaxoSmithKline) by James W. Black, C. Robin Ganellin, and others to develop a histamine receptor antagonist to suppress stomach acid secretion.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term

The necessity of such a boundary term was first realised by York and later refined in a minor way by Gibbons and Hawking.

James Hubbard

James W. Hubbard (born 1948), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

James Marshall House

James W. Marshall House, Lambertville, New Jersey, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

James McMillan

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

James Robinson, Jr.

James W. Robinson, Jr., United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam War

James Rutherford

James W. Rutherford (1925–2010), American politician; former mayor of Flint, Michigan

James W. Adams

James W. Adams of Southville, Kentucky was a carpenter, builder, and designer in south central Shelby County, Kentucky.

James W. Borden

His brother, physician Joseph Borden (1806–1875) and his family moved to California and named the town of Borden, California.

There was a minor territorial dispute over the remote Johnston Atoll.

James W. Brown

Brown was elected as an Independent Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

James W. Bryan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Bryan was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915).

James W. Bryce

In 1937 Bryce was approached by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, who persuaded IBM to fund a programmable calculator which became the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), better known as the Harvard Mark I.

James W. Covert

He was elected to the 51st, 52nd and 53rd United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1889 to March 3, 1895.

James W. Davidson

Leaving in 1914, he spent CAN$250,000 of his own money to establish branches of Rotary International in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, Burma, Siam (Thailand), Java, and in several of the Malay states including Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Penang, Ipoh, Klang and Singapore.

In June 1897, he was appointed by President Cleveland consular agent for the island of Formosa, where he remained nine years, during which time he wrote numerous monographs on Formosan affairs.

James W. Duckett

Major General James W. Duckett, (July 8, 1911 – January 21, 1991) South Carolina Unorganized Militia, succeeded Gen Hugh P. Harris as President of The Citadel in 1970.

James W. Dunbar

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress.

James W. Faulkner

His pallbearers were: William F. Wiley, Herbert R. Mengert, Jasper C. Muma, Robert F. Wolfe, Judson Harmon, James M. Cox, William A. Stewart, Bayard L. Kilgour, William Alexander Julian, Russell A. Wilson, W. F. Burdell and Nicholas Longworth.

James W. Forsyth

He died on October 24, 1906 in Columbus, Ohio, and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery.

James W. Hennigan, Jr.

Hennigan is the Hennigan referred to in Morgan v. Hennigan since he was head of the Boston School Committee at the time.

James W. Kelly, Jr.

In 1965, Kelly, a widower, married Essex County Freeholder Margaret G. Marucci, a widow.

James W. Maloney

Jim Maloney died at age 74 on March 10, 1984 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

James W. Nichol

His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

James W. Prescott

Inspired by Harry Harlow's famous experiments on rhesus monkeys, which established a link between neurotic behavior and isolation from a care-giving mother, Prescott further proposed that a key component to development comes from the somesthetic processes (body touch) and vestibular-cerebellar processes (body movement) induced by mother-child interactions, and that deprivation of this stimulation causes brain abnormalities.

James W. Pumphrey

Pumphrey's stable was located near the National Hotel, which was Booth's Washington residence at the time.

James W. Reid

James William Reid (1859–1933), physician and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

James W. Smith

A few years later he trained for the renowned owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm, Edward R. Bradley, for whom he

James W. Stone

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress.

James W. Walter, Sr.

His wife, Monica Walter, died in 1982, leaving two sons, James W. Walter Jr. and Robert Walter.

James W. Wise

Due to a prolonged illness, he was unable to qualify for or attend the 68th Congress.

Wise was elected as a Democrat to the 64th and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1925).

James W. Wood

After the Dyna-Soar program was cancelled on December 10th,1963, he remained with the U.S. Air Force and served as Commander of Test Operations at Edwards Air Force Base.

James W. York

In any physical theory, it is important to understand when solutions to the fundamental field equation exist, and answering this question has been the central theme of York's scientific work, culminating in the achievement, with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, of formulating the Einstein field equation as a well-posed system in the sense of the theory of partial differential equations.

Jim Crawford

James W. Crawford, Jr. (born 1937), known as Jim, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Mount Marcus Baker

Mount Marcus Baker was originally called "Mount Saint Agnes"; according to Bradford Washburn, James W. Bagley of the USGS named it after his wife Agnes, adding the "Saint" in hopes of making the name stick.

Nossaman

James Symington is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Oregon Trail II

Also, the player has no option to prospect for gold before 1848 because nobody knew that California had gold until James Marshall discovered it in the American River in Coloma.

Owl Woman

It was while at the fort in 1845 that topographical engineer Lieutenant James W. Abert asked Owl Woman to sit for him as the subject of a watercolor painting.

Pete Peterson

He defeated James W. Grant, a politician who grew unpopular after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the middle of his second term.

Rose Eytinge

Among her principal later parts were Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist, Gervaise in Drink, Ophelia to the Hamlet of E. L. Davenport, and Desdemona with James W. Wallack as Othello and Davenport as Iago.

Susan L. M. Aumann

Prior to 2002, District 42 was represented by Democrats James W. Campbell, Maggie McIntosh, and Samuel I. Rosenberg.

Symington family

James W. Symington (b. 1927), U.S. Representative from Missouri 1969–1977.

USS Pontoosuc

Seven of Pontoosucs sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during this campaign: Cabin Boy John Anglin, Coxswain Asa Betham, Boatswain's Mate Robert M. Blair, Captain of the Forecastle John P. Erickson, Landsman George W. McWilliams, Chief Quartermaster James W. Verney, and Sailmaker's Mate Anthony Williams.

William Reese

James W. Reese, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, went by his middle name "William"


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