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unusual facts about John W. Foster



Alcock Island

Alcock Island is for Sir John W. Alcock (1892–1919), who, with Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, made the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight on June 14–15, 1919.

Fred J. Shields

He was acting as president of the college there when he left for North Scituate, Rhode Island to replace President J.E.L. Moore at the Eastern Nazarene College on the advice of John W. Goodwin.

Garrett, Pennsylvania

Garrett is named for the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad John Work Garrett.

James Foster

James C. Foster, chairman and chief executive officer of Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

John Boehne

John W. Boehne (1856–1946), U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1909 to 1913

John Joseph Mitchell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress, but was elected to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John W. Weeks and served from April 15, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

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 Sanford

John W. A. Sanford (1798 - 1870), United States Congressional Representative from the state of Georgia

John Skinner

John W. Skinner (1890–1955), headmaster of Culford School, 1924–1951

John Snow

John W. Snow (born 1939), American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

John Stanton

John W. Stanton, founder and former CEO of Western Wireless Corporation

John W. Aldridge

Aldridge’s work includes one of the first favorable notices of Joseph Heller’s novel Something Happened and several essays on the creative strengths of Norman Mailer.

John W. Bowen

He is the paternal grandson of John W.E. Bowen, Sr., former President of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen, former Professor of Music at Clark College in Atlanta.

John W. Cassingham

He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress.

John W. Coe

He was for many years an active Republican, but joined the Liberal Republican Party in 1872, and was a delegate to the Liberal Republican National Convention in Cincinnati which nominated Horace Greeley for President.

John W. Cranford

Cranford was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 3, 1899.

John W. Crisfield

He was instrumental in building the Eastern Shore Railroad and served as president, connecting it to the fishing town of Somers Cove which was growing rapidly due to the seafood industry there.

John W. Daniel

His birthplace, the John Marshall Warwick House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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.

John W. Gallivan

In 1970 Gallivan was a key figure in the effort to push through the U.S. Congress, The Newspaper Preservation Act, legislation intended to protect papers with joint operating agreements from anti-trust laws that might have forced some competing papers out of business.

John W. Greer, Jr.

Greer authored legislation prohibiting members of the Ku Klux Klan from wearing masks and legislation authorizing a 1% sales tax for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.

John W. Langley

Langley was elected in March 4, 1907 as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses where he became known as "Pork Barrel John." He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).

John W. Maddox

Maddox was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1905).

John W. Meldrum

John W. Meldrum did not travel to Yellowstone until July 1894 making his way via train, coach, wagon and horseback from Laramie via Salt Lake City, Henry's Lake and the Madison River.

John W. N. Watkins

The Unity of Popper's Thought. In Paul A. Schilpp (ed.): The Philosophy of Karl Popper, Book I. La Salle, Illinois 1974 (Open Court), ISBN 0-87548-141-8, pp.

John W. North

When John North suffered financial failure in the Panic of 1857, his business interests were purchased in 1859 by his friend, Charles Augustus Wheaton, who had moved to Northfield from Syracuse on the advice of the Norths after the death of Wheaton's first wife.

He is the founder of the cities of Northfield, Minnesota, and of Riverside, California, where John W. North High School and the John W. North Water Treatment Plant are named after him.

John W. Rainey

He was reelected to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth Congresses and served from April 2, 1918, until his death in Chicago, Illinois, on May 4, 1923.

Rainey was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Martin.

John W. Rhodes

A successful real estate broker from Huntersville, North Carolina, Rhodes represented North Carolina's Ninety-Eighth House district (northern Mecklenburg County) for two terms (2003–2007).

John W. Rollins

He was married three times, to Kitty, Linda Kuechler, and Michele Metrinko, and had ten children including John W., Jr., James, Catherine, Patrick, Ted, Jeff, Michele, Monique, Michael and Marc, as well as eleven grandchildren, John III, Jamie, Fontayne, Charlie, Rachel, Katie, Sarah, Emma, Kaitlyn, William, and Morgan.

John W. Rosa

Rosa is a pilot with more than 3,600 flying hours in the A-7, A-10, the Hunter and Jaguar aircraft, F-16, F-117A, HH-60G and HC-130.

John W. Sexton

His fiction has also appeared in The Stinging Fly, Books Ireland and The Journal of Irish Literature.

John W. Woolley

Woolley was born to Edwin D. and Mary W. Woolley, the first of Edwin's seven wives, in Newlin, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

John Weeks

John W. Weeks (1860–1926), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and Secretary of War

John Woolley

John W. Woolley (1831–1928), American Latter Day Saint and one of the founders of the Mormon fundamentalism movement

K. M. Cherian

He worked as a Special Fellow in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery in Birmingham, Alabama under John W. Kirklin and in the University of Oregon under Albert Starr.

Katharine Lee Bates

A lifelong, active Republican, Bates broke with the party to endorse Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis in 1924 because of Republican opposition to American participation in the League of Nations.

M. A. Foster

He spent over sixteen years as a Captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force.

Martha Kaplan

Contents: Preface by Marshall Sahlins, Introduction by Martha Kaplan; Original papers by John D Kelly, Andrew Lattas, Deborah McDougall, Martha Kaplan, Daniel Rosenblatt, and Margaret Jolly, with Comments by Robert J. Foster and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.

Martha M. Foster

Foster's continuing relationship with Chinese documentary television professionals began in 1997, when professor Ren Yuan of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now the Communication University of China) brought Chinese documentaries to show at the Windy City International Documentary Festival in Chicago, which Foster founded and directed.

Martin D. Foster

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses).

Mount Sheridan

Also in 1871, Captain John W. Barlow, a military member of the Hayden expedition ascended the peak on August 10, 1871 and named it Mount Sheridan to honor the general.

Murphy J. Foster

Foster appointed another Tensas Parish legislator, Thomas M. Wade of Newellton to the state board of education; Wade was later the long-term Tensas Parish school superintendent.

Paul L. Foster

During college Paul was inducted into the Texas Theta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Baylor University.

Rippon, West Virginia

In one of these, on November 9, 1862, Union General John W. Geary undertook a reconnaissance mission from Harpers Ferry.

Ruffin Pleasant

He was also a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1924, which took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as the party's compromise presidential nominee.

T. O'Conor Sloane

Nevertheless, he published first stories by luminaries such as Jack Williamson, John W. Campbell, Jr., Clifford D. Simak, and E.E. "Doc" Smith.

William E. Jordan

Jordan sought re-election in the new 10th Milwaukee County district (16th and 23rd wards), and was defeated by Republican John W. Eber, who received 3829 votes to Jordan's 2618.


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