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John S. Harris

Born in Truxton, New York, Harris was a delegate to the Louisiana state constitutional convention in 1868.


Andrew Harris

Andrew P. Harris (born 1957), American physician and politician from Maryland

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.

Berliner Helicopter

There it was flown by Air Service test pilot Harold R. Harris among others, achieving stable hovers of up to 15 feet.

Charles K. Harris

His father was a fur trader and moved the family to Saginaw, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

Charles M. Harris

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

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.

Elsie Ferguson

She also may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her beloved Broadway employers Henry B. Harris, who died on the Titanic and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in May 1915.

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.

James Scheibel

A graduate of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, he worked as a community organizer, as aide to former mayor Lawrence D. Cohen, as national organizer for the Fred R. Harris Presidential campaign in 1976 and as deputy director for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

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.

Jeffrey Harris

Jeffrey K. Harris (born 1953), American director of the National Reconnaissance Office

Jim Hightower

After managing the presidential campaign of former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976, he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer.

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. 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. 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. Rumsfeld

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

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.

Karel Husa

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

Kerry S. Harris

Harris' innovations are currently being used by the Departments of Defense of several countries to include impact attenuation (helmets), electronics, optical technology, and human-mechanical interface technology.

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.

Morgan Park, Chicago

Rotary International was formed in Morgan Park at the home of Paul P. Harris at 10856 Longwood Drive, and today the house is owned and maintained by that organization as a memorial to him.

Oklahoma Republican Party

Bud Wilkinson, legendary University of Oklahoma football coach (lost 1964 U.S. Senate election to Fred R. Harris)

Paul Harris

Paul P. Harris (1868–1947), lawyer who founded the Rotary Club in 1905

Peter R. Harris

Although no documentation suggests any link between Compass Group or its subsidiary Eurest Support Services (ESS) (sometimes referred to as Eurest or Eurest Support Services, or even ESS Support Services Worldwide) to the Oil-for-Food Programme scandal, Fox News in particular alleged questionable conduct by Harris.

R. J. Harris

He was a candidate for the Libertarian Party's 2012 nomination for President of the United States.

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.

Shirley Owens

As well as Owens, the Shirelles consisted of classmates of hers from Passaic High School, New Jersey: Addie "Micki" Harris, Doris Kenner Jackson, and Beverly Lee.

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.

Stephen Siegel

Throughout his career, he has arranged transactions for some of the US's most prominent corporate clients including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Amerada Hess Corp., Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Swiss Reinsurance, MetLife, Cerberus Capital Management and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP.

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.

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.

VideoWriter

Although the VideoWRITER has the capability to accept program disks, none were ever sold, although game designer Bob Harris designed several entertaining apps, such as an acrostic solver.

Vincent Coleman

Coleman was eventually groomed by the studios to become a leading man and had starring roles in the 1921 George Fawcett directed remake of the 1914 Mary Pickford comedy film Such A Little Queen and The Magic Cup, released the same year before returning to Broadway in July 1921 to star in the Sam H. Harris produced play

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.

William C. Harris

William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter


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