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2 unusual facts about John B. Bennett


John B. Bennett

In 1942, Bennett defeated Hook and was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 12th congressional district to the 78th Congress, serving from January 3, 1943 to January 3, 1945.

In 1944, Bennett lost the election to Hook, but defeated Hook again in 1946 for election to the 80th Congress.


12th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

For much of the first half of 1864, the regiment served at Winchester, Virginia, under Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy, and were defeated in their first significant combat action during the Second Battle of Winchester, being pushed off a wooded ridgeline near Kernstown, Virginia, by elements of the Confederate brigade of John B. Gordon on June 13.

40-Mile Loop

In 1912, another city planner, Edward H. Bennett, also recommended developing a ridgetop park long the West Hills.

Boathouse Row

Each of the boathouses has its own history, and all have addresses on both Boathouse Row and Kelly Drive (named after famous Philadelphia oarsman John B. Kelly, Jr.).

Charles Fickert

A 1919 grand jury exonerated Fickert from charges made by John B. Densmore, investigator from Washington, Director General of Employment, in the framing of Mooney and Billings and for his having conspired with Pete McDonough in the freeing of wealthy defendants.

Civic Center, Denver

When Speer was reelected in 1916, he re-pursued his ideas about the Civic Center, hiring Chicago planner and architect Edward H. Bennett, a protégé of Daniel Burnham.

Claude Crépeau

In 1993, together with Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Richard Jozsa, Asher Peres, and William Wootters, Prof. Crépeau invented quantum teleportation.

Commonwealth free trade

Commentators such as James C. Bennett and Brent Cameron have expressed the view that support for either the Anglosphere or the Commonwealth are not incompatible.

David Spergel

shared the 2010 Shaw Prize in astronomy with Charles L. Bennett and Lyman A. Page,Jr. for their work on WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe).

Dennis Mikolay

The column has featured interviews with Congressman John B. Anderson, Governor Dick Lamm, Pat Choate, and numerous other high-profile politicians.

Every Vote Equal

It includes forwards by John B. Anderson, Birch Bayh, John Buchanan and Tom Campbell.

Federal Trade Commission Building

Edward H. Bennett of the Chicago firm Bennett, Parsons and Frost oversaw the project and designed the final building, which would become the headquarters for the FTC.

Fred Luthans

A recent quantitative analysis published in the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal on the importance, scientific validity, and practical usefulness of all theories in the field found Luthans’ Organizational Behavior Modification Theory among the eight highest rated (along with those by Kurt Lewin, David McClelland, J. Richard Hackman, Edwin A. Locke, John B. Miner, Victor Vroom, and Bernard Bass).

Hobo's Taunt

Hobo's Taunt was the second album released by Canadian singer-songwriter Willie P. Bennett and was released as an LP album by Woodshed Records in 1977 (WS-007).

James C. Bennett

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James St. Clair Morton

He would write essays to Secretary of War John B. Floyd regarding Mahan's principals, and on request from Floyd, evaulated Colonel Joseph Totten's plans to defend New York.

John B. Alley

He served as chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses).

John B. Bachelder

From his brief association with military topics, he retained a lifelong interest in them, and when the Civil War began in 1861, he was already collecting notes on Bunker Hill, planning to paint an accurate rendition of the battle.

John B. Chapin

After a year, he transferred to Williams College (Massachusetts) and received the A.B. degree in 1850.

John B. Felton

In 1854, Felton moved to San Francisco to open a law practice with Harvard classmate, E.J. Pringle.

Felton was the first President of the Board of Trustees of Toland Medical College (Now University of California, San Francisco) and was tasked with obtaining the school's charter, which he failed to do.

John B. Gambling

He was a member of the The Gambling family, 3 generations of whom - John B., John A. and John R. - were hosts of WOR Radio's (New York City, 710 AM) morning show Rambling with Gambling (now known as The John Gambling Show) over the course of over 75 years (1925–2000 and 2008–present).

John B. Haberlen

He studied choral music and opera in Ludwigsburg, Germany and completed a year of choral study in London with the London Bach Society.

Haberlen has participated as a jury member and auditor in major choral festivals worldwide, including the St. Petersburg Choral Festival, the World Choir in Cardiff, Wales; Marktoberdorf, Germany; Riva del Garda, Italy; Budapest, Hungary; Denmark and Sydney, Australia.

For three summers he conducted choruses and orchestras in England's Wells Cathedral.

John B. Hawley

He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice at Rock Island, Illinois.

John B. Hayes

Under Hayes' leadership, the Coast Guard accomplished a number of firsts for women in the military, including the assignment of Lieutenant (junior grade) Beverly Kelley as the first female commanding officer of a U.S. military vessel, and Lieutenant Kay Hartzell as the first female to command an isolated U.S. military unit.

John B. McClelland

He was captured by American Indians during the Crawford Expedition and tortured to death at the Shawnee town of Wakatomika, which is currently located in Logan County, Ohio, about halfway between West Liberty, Ohio and Zanesfield, Ohio.

John B. Michel

Michel was a member of the Young Communist League, and later joined the CPUSA, although he was asked to leave in 1949 for absenteeism.

John B. Owens

John Byron Owens (born 1971) is a California attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

John B. Sanborn, Jr.

Sanborn's judicial career began in 1922, when he was appointed to the Ramsey County District Court.

John B. Snook

Snook's 620 Broadway (1858) – called the "Little Cary Building" for its resemblance to the Cary Building by Gamaliel King and John Kellum (1856) – was fronted with cast iron from Badger's Architectural Iron Works.

John B. Tabb

Father John Banister Tabb (March 22, 1845 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English.

John B. Timberlake

Their action brought widespread criticism, leading to what was called the Petticoat affair in President Andrew Jackson's administration.

They moved into a house in Washington, D.C. provided by her father, across the street from his hotel and tavern called the Franklin House.

John B. Van Petten

From 1885 to 1900, he was Professor of History, Latin and Elocution at Claverack College where his pupil Stephen Crane heard Van Petten's Civil War reminiscences which became the base for The Red Badge of Courage.

John Dickson

John B. Dickson (born 1943), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

John McDiarmid

John B. McDiarmid, Canadian academic and University of Washington Professor of Classics

John W. F. Bennett

During this time, he supervised the construction of the Ritz Hotel, the Waldorf Hotel, the Morning Post Building, three London Underground stations, the Liverpool Cotton Exchange and the Lancaster Town Hall.

Lee's Mill Earthworks

Confederate Major General John B. Magruder's extensive defensives beginning at Lee's Mill and extending to Yorktown along the Warwick River caused the Union Army of the Potomac Commander Major General George B. McClellan to initiate a month-long siege of the Warwick-Yorktown Line which lasted until May 3, 1862 and contributed to the eventual failure of McClellan's campaign.

Masao Abe

He has been perennially involved with: the East-West Philosophers' Conference at the University of Hawaii; and the International Buddhist-Christian Theological Encounter (the "Abe-Cobb group") which, along with Professor John B. Cobb, Jr., Abe directed.

New England National Scenic Trail

Co-sponsors were the Democratic representatives Richard Neal (D-MA), John B. Larson (D-CT), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT); a companion bill was introduced by Senator John Kerry.

Peter Bennett

Peter B. Bennett (born 1932), American doctor and founder of the Divers Alert Network

Refco

Refco Inc. entered crisis on Monday, October 10, 2005, when it announced that its chief executive officer and chairman, Phillip R. Bennett had hidden $430 million in bad debts from the company's auditors and investors, and had agreed to take a leave of absence.

Robert G. Jones

In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee.

Robert S. Bennett

Bennett is also famous for representing Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation case, Caspar Weinberger, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal, and Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank Scandal.

San Elizario Salt War

In response to pleas from a frightened Anglo community (numbering fewer than 100 residents out of 5,000 in the county), Governor Richard B. Hubbard answered by sending to El Paso Major John B. Jones, commander of the Texas Rangers' Frontier Battalion.

Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District

Sixteen years later, Jacob ceded a portion of his land to John B. Jervis of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, allowing it to be built across the property with the condition that the company build him a slip so he could use it to ship his produce to market, and a bridge to reach his mill.

Somerset Collection

2012 saw the opening of several designer boutiques including Emporio Armani, L.K. Bennett, and Hugo Boss.

Suzy Snowflake

"Suzy Snowflake" is a song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, made famous by Rosemary Clooney in 1951 and released as a 78 RPM record by Columbia Records, MJV-123.

United States federal government credit-rating downgrades

August 7, 2011, video with David T. Beers, Standard & Poor's Global Head of Sovereign Ratings, and John B. Chambers, Chairman of the Sovereign Ratings Committee


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