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91 unusual facts about John T.


Ambisagrus

John T. Koch has suggested that this Jovian epithet may originally have applied to Taranis, with allusion to the tendency of thunder near an observer to seem all-surrounding.

Auto-Ordnance Company

Auto-Ordnance Corporation was created by John T. Thompson in August 1916 with the backing of investor Thomas Ryan.

Auto-Ordnance was a U.S. arms development firm founded by retired Colonel John T. Thompson of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1916.

Carl Isett

Isett serves on the House Appropriations Committee and chairs Budget Oversight for the Insurance Committee, headed by his Republican colleague John T. Smithee of Amarillo.

Chromatin immunoprecipitation

In 1984 John T. Lis and David Gilmour, at the time a graduate student in the Lis lab, used UV irradiation to covalently cross-link proteins in contact with neighboring DNA in intact living bacterial cells.

Court-martial of Fitz John Porter

When construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, disturbed wetlands on the site, the Smithsonian and its funders paid to restore portions of the Battlefield Park that had been disrupted by construction during the 1980s by John T. "Til" Hazel to their 1862 conditions.

Craig Littlepage

On August 21, 2001, University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III announced Littlepage's appointment to be the ninth Virginia Athletics Director.

Dirk Andries Flentrop

In 1982 he was the subject of a book written by the American organist John T. Fesperman.

Fantasy Sports Writers Association

The current FSWA Board of Directors consists of: Pierre Becquey (ESPN, Ryan Bonini (KFFL), Scott Engel (RotoExperts), Michael Fabiano (NFL.com), Paul Forrester (Sprts Illustrated), Brandon Funston (Yahoo!), John T. Georgopoulos (Sports Grumblings), Kelly Grogan, Mike Harmon (FOX), Peter Madden (CBS), Lenny Pappano (Draft Sharks), Brad Pinkerton (The Sporting News), Peter Schoenke (RotoWire), Ron Shandler (Baseball HQ) and Brett Vandermark (RotoWorld).

Gérin

John T. Gerin, American physician at Auburn State Prison in Auburn, New York

Horizontal boring machine

The accuracy of this machine convinced the USAF to accept John Parson's idea for numerically controlled machine tools.

John Bird

John T. Bird (1829–1911), American Democratic Party politician and businessman

John Broderick

John T. Broderick, Jr., former Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court

John Chisholm

John T. Chisholm (born 1963), American prosecutor and current district attorney of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

John Clancy

John T. Clancy (1903-1985), U.S. politician from Brooklyn, New York City

John David

John T. David (1897–1974), Democratic mayor of Minden, 1946–-1955

John Downey

John T. Downey (born 1930), former CIA officer shot down over communist China and imprisoned for two decades

John Garner

John T. Garner (1809–1888), soldier in the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution

John Hayward

John T. Hayward (1908–1999), U.S. naval aviator and nuclear physicist

John Koehler

John T. Koehler (1904–1989), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy

John Lyle

John T. Lyle, professor of landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona

John Mather

John T. Mather (1854–1928), American industrialist and philanthropist

John McDonough

John T. McDonough (1843–?), Secretary of State of New York 1899–1902, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines 1903–1904

John Monroe

John T. Monroe (1822–1871), U.S. politician, mayor of New Orleans

John Rackham

John T. Phillifent (1916–1976), 20th century British science fiction writer, wrote under the pseudonym John Rackham

John Ralston

John T. Raulston (1868–1956), Tennessee judge who presided over the 1925 Scopes Trial

John T. Averill

He was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1868 through 1880; elected as a Republican to the 42nd and 43rd congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875); He was chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-third Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874.

On August 22, 1862, he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th Minnesota Infantry Regiment.

He was promoted to Colonel on November 22, 1864, and was assigned as Provost Marshal General for the District of Minnesota.

John T. Bambury

Seven surviving Munchkin actors attended the ceremony, including Mickey CarrollRuth Duccini, Jerry MarenMargaret PellegriniMeinhardt Raabe, Karl Slover and Clarence Swensen.

In 2007, all 124 Munchkin actors in Oz were honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Terror of Tiny Town as The Ranch Owner—Pop Lawson (1938); credited as just John Brambury

John T. Benson

Benson was director of education for the Marshall, Wisconsin school district and was assistant supervisor of Public Instruction of Wisconsin.

John T. Binkley

Managed by Nelson Rising, the executive producer of the Academy Award winning political drama 'The Candidate,' John ran unsuccessfully for congress in the Pasadena, CA.

John T. Brush

He built a ballpark in 1882, and it became home to the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the American Association for their only major league season in 1884; they played in the Western League before that circuit folded after the 1885 campaign.

In 1888 he offered a tryout to Bud Fowler, but ultimately decided not to challenge the sport's color line.

Brush also devised a salary scale system which was designed to curtail player salaries, a move which helped contribute to the breakaway Players' League in 1890.

As chairman of the NL's executive committee, Brush took a lead role in combating the AL, joining with Giants majority owner Andrew Freedman to sabotage the AL's Baltimore club by offering the managing jobs of the New York and Cincinnati teams to John McGraw and Joe Kelley respectively; Baltimore was forced to relocate to New York after 1902, eventually becoming the New York Yankees.

John Tomlinson Brush (June 15, 1845 – November 26, 1912) was an American sports executive who was the owner of the New York Giants franchise in Major League Baseball from 1890 until his death.

John T. Bush

In 1864, he bought the Zimmerman estate in Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, built the "Clifton Place" mansion, and went to live there.

John T. Coffee

Coffee returned to Missouri in 1849, where he was elected as the circuit attorney for Dade County.

John T. Cutting

Born in Westport, New York, Cutting was left an orphan at ten years of age, when he journeyed westward.

John T. Darragh

Darragh's book, The Resurrection of the Flesh was published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in London in 1921.

John T. Dunn

Born in Tipperary, Ireland, Dunn immigrated to the United States with his father, who settled in New Jersey in 1845.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

John T. Edge

Edge has been a regular contributor for the weekend edition of NPR's All Things Considered and has appeared on a number of television shows from CBS Sunday Morning to Iron Chef.

John T. Elson

He attended St. Anselm's Abbey School (then known as the Priory School) in Washington, D.C. and received an undergraduate degree from Notre Dame in 1953.

John T. Fey

Before coming to the Supreme Court, Fey (pronounced "Fie") was a professor of tax law and the dean of the George Washington University Law School.

John T. Fey served as Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1958, during the Chief Justiceship of Earl Warren.

John T. Ford

He was president of the Union Railroad Company, member of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, vice president of the West Baltimore Improvement Association, and trustee of numerous philanthropic institutions.

John T. Graves

Born in Dublin 4 December 1806, he was son of John Crosbie Graves, barrister, grandnephew of Richard Graves, D.D., and cousin of Robert James Graves, M.D. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin, where he distinguished himself in both science and classics, and was a class-fellow and friend of William Rowan Hamilton, graduating B.A. in 1827.

John T. Hamilton

From 1985 to 1996 Hamilton was the guitarist and principal songwriter, together with Donna Croughn, for the band Tiny Lights, based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

John T. Hoffman

In the movie version of the musical Up in Central Park, the character of Hoffman appears, but the name is changed to "Governor Motley" and is played by actor Thurston Hall.

As it turned out, the Tweed scandals wrecked Hoffman's chances and the nomination eventually was split between those Democrats supporting liberal Republican Horace Greeley and those supporting the "pure" Democrat, New York attorney Charles O'Conor.

John T. Hudson

:For persons with a similar name, see John Hudson.

John T. Koch

His works include The Celtic Heroic Age (first published in 1994, 4th edition in 2003), in collaboration with John Carey; The Gododdin of Aneirin (1997), an edition, translation and discussion of the early Welsh poem Y Gododdin; and numerous articles published in books and journals.

John T. Lesley

Lesley's son William T. Lesley was Sheriff and a member of the Florida Constitutional Convention of 1885.

John T. Mather

Mather's great grandfather was Captain John Wilsie, who built a sailing vessel in Port Jefferson as early as 1797.

John T. McCutcheon

McCutcheon introduced Carl Sandburg to the Bahamian song The John B. Sails which subsequently became a standard.

McCutcheon was born near South Raub, Tippecanoe County, Indiana to Captain John Barr McCutcheon and Clara Glick McCutcheon.

John T. Moore

Moore attempted to run for a second term in office but was defeated in the 1909 Alberta general election by Independent candidate Edward Michener.

Moore was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1905 Alberta general election defeating high profile Conservative candidate and the founder of Red Deer Leonard Gaetz.

John T. Parsons

(Bendix Corporation was an initial license taker of the patent, in 1955, and eventually bought all the rights to it.)

These developments were done in collaboration with his employee Frank L. Stulen, who Parsons hired when he was head of the Rotary Wing Branch of the Propeller Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in April 1946.

John T. Pawlikowski

Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award for Distinguished Contributions to Religion

John T. Phillifent

Most of his novels were issued together with the works of other authors as Ace Doubles.

John T. Raulston

In the film, the character of the judge was played by Harry Morgan.

John T. Robinson

In 1956 he published what is arguably his most important work, a monograph titled The Dentition of the Australopithecinae after which the University of Cape Town awarded him a Doctor of Science degree.

John T. Scopes

After the trial Scopes admitted to reporter William Kinsey Hutchinson "I didn't violate the law," (DeCamp p. 435) explaining that he had skipped the evolution lesson, and that his lawyers had coached his students to go on the stand; the Dayton businessmen had assumed he had violated the law.

Scopes also stated that he had not violated the law to the wife of the Universalist minister Charles Francis Potter.

John T. Sheridan

He completed the university's Air Force ROTC program as a distinguished graduate.

His previous duties include being Deputy Director, National Reconnaissance Office, and Program Executive Officer and System Program Director for Space Radar, Chantilly, Virginia.

John T. Spriggs

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress and afterward resumed the practice of law.

John T. Stuart

He was, however, elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1843), winning over Stephen A. Douglas in 1838.

Stuart was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress.

Stuart was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1865), and served there while Lincoln was president.

John T. Wait

He was reelected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from April 12, 1876, to March 3, 1887.

John T. Walton

In 1998, as part of the Philanthropy Roundtable, Walton and friend Ted Forstmann established the Children's Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools.

John T. White

His poem "Maryland, My Maryland," written in 1894 as an alternate set of lyrics for the Maryland state song has recently seen renewed attention as it has been considered by the Maryland House of Delegates in 2009 to officially replace the existing lyrics by James Ryder Randall, which have been criticized for their Confederate sympathies and martial tone.

John T. Wilder

In 1867, he founded an ironworks in the Chattanooga region, then built and operated the first two blast furnaces in the South at Rockwood, Tennessee.

John Towers

John T. Towers (1809–1855), mayor of Washington, D.C from 1854 to 1856

Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline

The park is named for former state senator George Miller, Jr. and former State Assembly member and Point Richmond resident John T. Knox.

Mullock

John T. Mullock (1807–1869), Roman Catholic bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland

New York state election, 1958

The "United Independent Socialist Campaign Committee" met on July 17 and selected John T. McManus for Governor; and Dr. Annette T. Rubinstein for Lieutenant Governor.

Pediatric ophthalmology

Other notable pediatric ophthalmologists have included: Jack Crawford, John T. Flynn, David S. Friendly, Eugene R. Folk David Guyton, Eugene Helveston, Arthur Jampolsky, Barrie Jay, Phillip Knapp, Burton J. Kushner, Henry Metz, Marilyn T. Miller, John Pratt-Johnson, Arthur Rosenbaum, William E. Scott, Gunter K. von Noorden, and Mette Warburg.

Perseverance School

Fr John Darragh, who later founded St John's College in Johannesburg, taught at the Mission School in 1883.

Philip E. Smith

Most of his captivity was spent in solitary confinement, however he did meet John T. Downey and Richard Fecteau both of whom were CIA agents captured in 1952.

Pickens County, Alabama

The first courthouse in Carrollton was burned on April 5, 1865, by troops of Union General John T. Croxton.

Roane County, Tennessee

In the years following the Civil War, Rockwood grew into a major iron and coal mining center with the establishment of the Roane Iron Company by General John T. Wilder.

Rockwood, Tennessee

Union general John T. Wilder, who in the 1850s had managed a foundry in Indiana, noted the iron ore and coal deposits of the Cumberland Plateau region while operating in the area during the Civil War.

Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador

Bishop John T. Mullock established the first church of the Roman Catholic faith at Sandy Point in 1848 when the population of the area was about 2000.


Alforsite

It was discovered in 1981, and named to honor geologist John T. Alfors (1930–2005) of the California Geological Survey for his work in the area where it was discovered.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

By 1950, the success of these efforts allowed the Museum to build of a small, professionally equipped facility where ambitious exhibitions of the work of Vincent van Gogh, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, and John T. Biggers and his students from the then-fledgling Texas Negro College (now Texas Southern University).

Dominic Salvatore Gentile

Winston Churchill called Gentile and his wingman, Captain John T. Godfrey, Damon and Pythias, after the legendary characters from Greek mythology.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh made contributions in the application of symmetries in theoretical particle physics and John T. Lewis had interests including Bose-Einstein condensation and Large deviations theory.

Edward T. Green

On October 24, 1889, Green received a recess appointment from President Benjamin Harrison to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by John T. Nixon.

Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Members of the Faraday Institute's Advisory Board include Brian Heap, R.J. Berry, Sarah Coakley, Martin Evans, John T. Houghton, Alister McGrath, John Polkinghorne, and Eric Priest.

Flint Island

It was leased by the British to Houlder Brothers and Co. of London who carried out guano digging in the central part of the island from 1875 to 1880 under field manager John T. Arundel.

Labor and Employment Relations Association

Past presidents of LERA include John T. Dunlop, Shultz, and Ray Marshall, all of whom went on to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor.

Leonard Whibley

Leonard was a half-brother of Fred Whibley, copra trader, on Niutao, Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu); and his half-sister was Eliza Eleanor (Lillie), wife of John T. Arundel, owner of J. T. Arundel and Company which evolved into the Pacific Islands Company, and later the Pacific Phosphate Company, which commenced phosphate mining in Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island).

Leonty Ramensky

This was long before Correspondence analysis was first used (1952), the now classic applications of ordination to plant communities by J. Roger Bray and John T. Curtis and David W. Goodall and the theoretical foundations of gradient analysis was developed by Whittaker and others (1970s onwards).

Longitudinal Video Recording

Developed by John T. Mullin and Wayne R. Johnson since 1950, the device gave what were described as "blurred and indistinct" images, using a modified Ampex 200 tape recorder and standard quarter-inch (0.6 cm) audio tape moving at 360 inches (9.1 m) per second.

Piedmont Airlines Flight 22

John T. McNaughton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Robert McNamara's closest advisor, was a passenger on Flight 22, along with his wife and son.