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Joseph A. Burke

At age 76, Burke died in Rome during the first week of the Second Vatican Council.


66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Colonel Patrick E. Burke - mortally wounded at the Battle of Rome Cross Roads on May 16, 1864 while commanding 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee.

Andrew Burke

Andrew H. Burke (1850–1918), American politician who served as governor of North Dakota

Andrew H. Burke

He next became a cashier of the First National Bank of Casselton and then, for six years, the Treasurer of Cass County.

The state participated in the 1892 U.S. presidential election, when Grover Cleveland was elected to a second term as President of the United States.

Anthony Burke

Anthony Burke, Australian international relations scholar and political theorist

Benjamin Civiletti

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr. and Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal also resigned the same day.

Brinkman, Oklahoma

Brinkman was named after a resident John Brinkman, a business associate of railroad builders Joseph A. Kemp and Frank Kell, who paid the expenses of platting.

Charles Eric Maine

He published three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke.

Douglas X-3 Stiletto

NACA pilot Joseph A. Walker made his pilot checkout flight in the X-3 on 23 August 1954, then conducted eight research flights in September and October.

Elmer J. Holland

He was elected as a Democrat to the 77th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph A. McArdle and served from May 19, 1942, to January 3, 1943.

Fizz keeper

As Joseph A. Schwarcz, Brian Rohrig (of Eastmoor Academy), John P. Williams (of Miami University Hamilton), Sandy Van Natta, Rebecca Knipp, and Reed A. Howald all explain, the mechanism does not, in fact, operate in this fashion because of Henry's Law and Dalton's Law.

Fly in the ointment

This idiom has been used in the title of some books: The Fly in the Ointment: 70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life by Joseph A. Schwarcz and The Fly in the Ointment by Alice Thomas Ellis.

Flying Hawk

Three years later, U.S. Commissioner for Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke was asked to resign for the Oklahoma scandal.

Forgan, Oklahoma

From 1912 to 1973, Forgan was the northern terminus of the defunct Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, one of the Frank Kell and Joseph A. Kemp properties which linked Wichita Falls, Texas, with the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Hostages Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska.

James F. Burke

At one point the United States Golf Association asked him to prepare a set of rules which was ultimately presented to the international committee at St Andrews in Scotland.

Jicarilla language

Axelrod, Melissa; Gómez de García, Jule; Lachler, Jordan; & Burke, Sean M. (Eds.).

Joseph A. Ball

Joseph Arthur Ball (August 16, 1894-August 27, 1951) was an American inventor, physicist, and executive at Technicolor.

Joseph A. Bonanno

Currently he is a fellow at the American Academy of Optometry and a member at both the Association for Research in vision and ophthalmology and the American Physiological Society.

Joseph A. Boyd, Jr.

He served as chairman of the commission and vice mayor of Dade County.

Joseph A. Dandurand

Joseph A. Dandurand is a Kwantlen Indian (Xalatsep) from Kwantlen First Nation in British Columbia.

Joseph A. Day

Day's wife, Georgie Day, was elected to the legislature, on her first attempt in electoral politics, in 1991, and was re-elected in 1995.

Joseph A. Dixon

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Joseph A. Gavagan

Gavagan was elected as a Democrat to the 71st United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Royal H. Weller; he was re-elected to the 72nd and to the six succeeding Congresses and held office from November 5, 1929, to December 30, 1943, when he resigned, having been elected a justice of the New York Supreme Court.

Joseph A. Goulden

In 1912 Goulden was elected to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death.

Joseph A. Hardy III

The resort is also home to the Mystic Rock golf course, designed by Pete Dye, and was home to the PGA Tour's 84 Lumber Classic from 2002-2006.

Joseph A. Maturo, Jr.

He has served on the Public Relations Committee of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games held in New Haven.

Joseph A. Maynard

He worked as a manufacturer of plumbing supplies and was a director of the F.W. Webb Company, Fidelity Trust Company, Hibernia Savings Bank, and the McAuliffe Company.

Joseph A. McArdle

McArdle was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served until his resignation on January 5, 1942, to become a member of the Pittsburgh City Council.

Joseph A. O'Hare

He trained for the priesthood at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, where he was ordained in 1961.

Joseph A. Redding

He was Commander of the Bad Neustadt area during the post-war occupation of Germany.

Joseph A. Rochford

Most recently, he presented at the Kisubi Brothers University Centre of Uganda’s Martyrs University on collaboration and at the University of London on introducing pre-service teaching into global virtual communities.

He worked with administrative preparation programs in both the Cleveland Municipal and Canton City School District.

Joseph A. Schwarcz

Uri Geller, the mentalist, is a common target for debunking.

Joseph A. Suozzi

After attending Harvard Law School, Suozzi was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York, where he joined with Glen Cove Mayor Luke Mercadante as a law partner, with an office in Glen Cove.

Joseph Cannon

Joseph A. Cannon (born 1949), former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and former chairman of Geneva Steel

Joseph McDonald

Joseph A. McDonald (1866–1930), American businessman influential in the steel industry

Joseph Meyer

Joseph A. Meyer (c. 1895–1970), American football and basketball coach

Justice Burke

Edward T. Burke (1870–1935), American judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota

Parkway Place

Parkway Place offers shoppers of the Tennessee Valley several stores that were new to the Huntsville market, including, Ann Taylor, Brookstone, Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, and Joseph A. Bank.

Parnell Commission

On 6 May 1882 two leading members of the British Government in Ireland, Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland T.H. Burke were stabbed to death in Phoenix Park, Dublin by the Irish National Invincibles (see Phoenix Park Murders).

Paula Jean Welden

Due to the strangeness of these events, Vermont broadcaster and author Joseph A. Citro dubbed the wilderness area northeast of Bennington "the Bennington Triangle" – a reference to unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.

Raymond H. Burke

Raymond Burke was personnel and employment manager for The Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company tool works, a major Hamilton, Ohio employer, from 1918 to 1923.

Richard J. Burke

He was married on October 19, 1940 to Josephina Battaglia the daughter of Carmelo Battaglia of Monte Maggiore Belsito, Palermo, Sicily, and Antonia Fasulo of Burgio, Agrigento, Sicily.

Susan L. Burke

The lawsuit, which stemmed from the firefight in Nisoor Square in Baghdad, alleged Blackwater had violated the federal Alien Tort Statute by committing extrajudicial killing and war crimes, and that the company was liable for assault and battery, wrongful death, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and negligent hiring, training and supervision.

The Prosecution of an American President

The Prosecution of an American President is a 2012 American documentary film about the Iraq War directed by Dave Hagen and David J. Burke.

Tichnor, Arkansas

Lloyd L. Burke, awarded a Medal of Honor for this actions in the Korean War, was born in Tichnor.

Tomato soup

The first noted tomato soup was made by Maria Parloa in 1872, and Joseph A. Campbell's recipe for condensed tomato soup in 1897 further increased its popularity.

Warburton Ledge

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Joseph A. Warburton, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) scientist in charge of the RISP meteorological program, 1974-75 field season.

William H. Burke, Jr.

Burke began his political involvement in 1934 when he assisted James Michael Curley during his successful run for Governor of Massachusetts.


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