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Darrough

John S. Darrough (1841–1920), a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War


Arline Friscia

Democrats statewide saw a net gain of three seats in the Assembly in the 1995 elections, with two of the pickups coming in the 19th District where Friscia and John S. Wisniewski knocked off the Republican incumbents Stephen A. Mikulak and Ernest L. Oros.

Charles Navarro

Navarro announced in December 1960 his determination to unseat 70-year-old Dan O. Hoye, who had been city controller for 24 years and who said that his ambition was to equal the 28-year record of his predecessor in office, John Myers.

China Hands

Colonel David Barrett and John S. Service reported favorably on the strength and capabilities of the Chinese Communist Party compared with the Chinese Nationalists.

Citibank Argentina

The president of Citicorp Argentina during the 1990s, H. Richard Handley, had been raised in Argentina with the chairman of Citigroup at the time, John S. Reed, and obtained his support for the bank's lucrative participation in the 1990 sale of the state telephone concern ENTel.

Erstwhile Susan

Erstwhile Susan is a 1919 American silent film drama directed by John S. Robertson, produced and distributed by Realart Pictures.

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

Gangster Stories

Gangster Stories (and its companion, Racketeer Stories) quickly came under censorship pressure in New York state, instigated by John S. Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a state entity empowered to recommend obscenity cases to prosecutorial authorities.

Harry S. Hammond

His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation.

Her Right to Live

Polly Biggs (Peggy Hyland) is the eldest of a family of orphaned children who are taken in by their uncle, Mayor Hoadley (John S. Robertson).

John Beckett

John S. Beckett (1927–2007), Irish musician, composer, and conductor

John Dickerson

John S. Dickerson (born 1982), American evangelical Christian pastor and journalist

John S. Armstrong

John S. Armstrong (b. November 18, 1850, d. April 26, 1908) was the co-founder (along with Thomas Marsalis) of the former City of Oak Cliff (now incorporated into Dallas) and founder of the town of Highland Park, Texas.

John S. Barry

In 1834, Barry moved to Constantine, Michigan and opened a general store in that village's first frame-built building.

In 1831, he moved to White Pigeon, Michigan where he became a merchant and was active in politics.

John S. Bigby

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress.

John S. Darling

John S. Darling (August 17, 1911 – August 23, 2007), was a prominent Virginia based artist was born in McLean, Virginia.

John S. Foster, Jr.

In 1952, Foster was recruited to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory by founder Edward Teller, and became a division leader in experimental physics.

John S. Fullmer

Fullmer spent his childhood and early adult years on his family's farm in Huntington, Pennsylvania.

"He laid his right arm out for me to lay my head upon it..... After the brethren were all quiet and seemed asleep, excepting myself, he talked with me a little about the prospects of his deliverance. He did not say he knew that he had to die, but he inferred as much, and finally said he 'would like to see his family again,” and he 'would to God that he could preach to the saints once more in Nauvoo".

John S. Grinalds

He was later promoted to major general and, in 1989, became the commanding general of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California, a position he held until his retirement in 1991.

John S. Hager

Hager died in San Francisco on March 19, 1890 and was interred at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.

John S. Knight

During the latter part of World War II, Knight took a leave from the newspaper business, serving as Director of the US Office of Censorship, in London.

John S. Marmaduke

Undeterred, Marmaduke campaigned four years later for Governor of Missouri at a time when public opinion had changed, and railroad reform and regulation became more in vogue.

John S. Mayo

Following this, Mayo joined Bell Labs, now Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, (1955) where he first worked on early computers as the Triadic and Leprechaun, the Telstar satellite, ocean sonar systems and various switching systems.

John S. Monagan

Monagan graduated from Dartmouth College in 1933, where he majored in French literature and was the editor of the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern.

John S. Rumsfeld

In 2005, he was named the Chief Science Officer for the American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) Program.

He is a member of the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees, and is the current Chair of the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Council.

John S. Ruskay

Prior to coming to UJA-Federation, he served as a senior consultant to the Wexner Foundation and the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Foundation.

John S. Saul

He has also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, alongside activist-academics such as Giovanni Arrighi (with whom he wrote Essays on the Political Economy of Africa) and Walter Rodney; at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique, alongside activist-academics such as Ruth First; and at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa.

John S. Toll

While he was there, SUNY@Stony Brook, one of four SUNY centers created by then-governor Nelson Rockefeller (briefly Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford), and, until recently, the only four allowed to call themselves "universities", grew to more than 17,000 students from a handful who started their academic careers before the campus was even finished, at the now-defunct State University of New York on Long Island (SUCOLI).

John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy

The Institute is named after New Jersey Assemblyman John S. Watson, the first African American to serve as the state's Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

John Spence

John S. Spence (1788–1880), American Senator from Maryland

John Sumner

John S. Sumner (1876–1971), headed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice

Karel Husa

Composers who studied with Mr. Husa include Steven Stucky, Christopher Rouse, John S. Hilliard, David Conte, and Byron Adams.

King Field, Minneapolis

Pillsbury Ave. named in honor of Gov. John Pillsbury, Governor in 1875, who served for three 2-year terms.

Martin Legassick

Together with Giovanni Arrighi, John S. Saul and others he developed an influential politico-economic analysis focusing on the contradictions engendered by the proletarianization and dispossession of the Southern African peasantry.

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

John S. Meyer (-2011) is called the "founder of neurology in Japan".

Onest Conley

A few of his most recognizable roles were as George Harris in the 1933 Cecil B. DeMille-directed crime-drama This Day and Age, as Neptune in the 1935 John S. Robertson-directed romantic drama Grand Old Girl and as Mose in the 1935 Sam Newfield-directed adventure film Racing Luck.

Rippon, West Virginia

On November 18, 1864, Union Captain Richard Blazer and his Independent Scouts were searching for Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's Partisan Rangers.

Roberta McCain

She became the daughter-in-law of Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., a noted World War II carrier admiral, under Fleet Admiral William Halsey.

Ryan FR Fireball

Design of the FR-1 began in 1943 to a proposal instigated by Admiral John S. McCain, Sr. for a mixed-powered fighter because early jet engines had sluggish acceleration that was considered unsafe and unsuitable for carrier operations.

Social bandit

Historians and anthropologists such as John S. Koliopoulos and Paul Sant Cassia have criticised the social bandit theory, emphasising the frequent use of bandits as armatoloi by Ottoman authorities in suppressing the peasantry in defence of the central state.

Stephen Fincher

Fincher announced his candidacy for the 8th District before 11-term Democratic incumbent John S. Tanner announced his retirement.

Stuckless Glacier

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) after John S. Stuckless, Department of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (later U.S. Geological Survey), who, in several seasons from 1972–73, investigated the geochemistry of McMurdo volcanic rocks, correlating samples from several Ross Island sites with DVDP core samples obtained in McMurdo Dry Valleys.

Theophilus H. Holmes

He planned a coordinated attack in conjunction with Sterling Price, John S. Marmaduke, James Fleming Fagan, and, Governor of Arkansas, Harris Flanagin.

Uniforms of the Confederate States military forces

Two examples of CSA Cavalry officer's famous for wearing these hats are Colonel John S. Mosby and General J.E.B. Stuart.

Vermont Republican Party

In October 1854 Republican Steven Royce defeated incumbent Democratic governor John S. Robinson, Robinson would be the first and final Democratic Governor of Vermont for 108 years.

Waalbrug

Unlike many other bridges from the same period and with the same construction, like the IJsselbrug near Zwolle, the Graafsebrug and the bridge near Arnhem, the Waalbrug is an arch bridge in the literal sense: all forces truly work on the two pylons.

Water Resources Collections and Archives

Some highlights include the papers of engineers and attorneys such as Joseph B. Lippincott, Hans Albert Einstein, Frank Adams, Charles Derleth, John S. Eastwood, John D. Galloway, Sidney T. Harding, Walter L. Huber, Edward Hyatt, Joe W. Johnson, Robert Kelley, Bernard Etcheverry, Harvey Oren Banks, Milton N. Nathanson, Luna Leopold and Murrough P. O'Brien, amongst others.


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