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unusual facts about Joseph H. Harper


Joseph H. Harper

Harper remained in the Army, reaching the rank of Major General and serving as Commandant of the United States Army Infantry School.


16th Street Baptist Church

Michael S. Harper's poem American History talks about the church bombing

Alexander Kummant

Upon his resignation, Amtrak COO William Crosbie assumed the role of interim CEO, but was succeeded on November 25 by former FRA administrator Joseph H. Boardman.

Antony Fisher

Cockett wrote, "In 1981, to co-ordinate and establish a central focus for these institutes that Fisher found himself start up all over the world, he created the Atlas Economic Research Foundation which in 1987 joined up with the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) founded by the Mont Pelerin member F. A. Harper in 1961) to provide a central institutional structure for what quickly became an ever-expanding number of international free-market think-tanks or research institutes".

F. A. Harper of the FEE introduced Fisher to former colleagues from the Agriculture Department of Cornell University, who showed him intensive chicken farming techniques with which Fisher was very impressed.

Arthur E. Nelson

Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead (receiving 33.4% of the vote), but was elected fourteen years later, in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball (who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949).

David Harper

David M. Harper (born 1953), American architect and design/build entrepreneur

David M. Harper

Upon his graduation from the University of Miami in 1975, Harper was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal.

David Harper's firm, HKS, Inc., is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Deckman

Joseph H. Deckman (born 1969), American businessman and lacrosse player and coach

Don L. Harper

Harper’s first CD, Dream and Variations, is a hybrid of jazz, Americana, rock, spirituals, blues, and bluegrass.

He has also recorded the soundtrack for Tokyo DisneySea's version of Fantasmic, which is scheduled to premiere on April 28, 2011.

The production included a 32-member choir, session musician Dan Higgins on soprano saxophone, jazz pianist Russell Ferrante of The Yellowjackets, notable string players Dave Stone (upright bass), Sid Page (violin), and Steve Erdody (cello).

First Church of Windsor

Joseph H. Rainey (1832-1877) was the first African American person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person to serve in the United States Congress.

Gary Darnell

Several of Darnell's assistant coaches have gone on to be head coaches, including Dennis Franchione, Gary Patterson, Bill Cubit, Jim Knowles, Dan Enos, and J. C. Harper.

Herb Cornuelle

With F. A. "Baldy" Harper, Cornuelle helped found the Foundation for Economic Education in New York in 1946, and later became head of the William Volker Fund (where he hired Murray Rothbard as an academic consultant).

James C. Harper

In 1870, Harper was elected to the 42nd United States Congress as a Democrat or "Conservative," as some North Carolina Democrats were calling themselves at the time.

Joseph H. Allen

The factory was closed in 1861, not only due to poor sales, but because Allen enlisted in the Union Army.

In early 1862, the 125th Volunteer Infantry Regiment had been put together in Brunswick and a call by President Lincoln for more troops was answered by Allen that September.

Allen died on April 24, 1884, and is buried in Eagle Mills Cemetery on Brunswick Road in Eagle Mills; his wife died in 1907 and is buried next to him.

Joseph H. Ball

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Minnesotans came to appreciate their foresighted senator.

When Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on August 31, 1940, Ball was the surprise appointment to fill the unexpired term.

Ball was elected to the Senate in the 1942 election, receiving 47% of the vote against Farmer-Labour, Independent and Democratic opposition.

Joseph H. Beeman

Beeman connected with the Farmers' Alliance and served as chairman of its executive committee.

Joseph H. Casey

The ferry MV Joe Casey, named in his honour, operates on the Bay of Fundy between East Ferry and Tiverton in Digby County.

Joseph H. Denny

After graduating from college Denny operated a Northfield grocery store and worked as a salesman for Fairbanks Scales.

Joseph H. Flom

Malcolm Gladwell devoted a chapter to Flom in his book Outliers, crediting him with building out and diversifying the firm and anticipating the rise of mergers and acquisitions as a specialty.

Joseph H. Gale

After five years in private practice, he became an adviser to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and later held several positions in service to the United States Senate Committee on Finance until 1996.

Joseph H. Himes

He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1922 for reelection to the Sixty-eighth Congress.

Joseph H. Howard

He had a particular interest in the musical heritage of the Djuka people of Surinam and not only collected their instruments, but also acquired elaborately hand-carved furniture, including the double doors to his home.

Joseph H. Jackson

A group led by Gardner C. Taylor including Martin Luther King, Sr and Jr.; Ralph David Abernathy Sr., Benjamin Mays, and L. Venchael Booth (a Cincinnati, Ohio pastor) filed suit against Jackson, accusing him of violating the denomination's constitution.

Joseph H. Outhwaite

He served as chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fiftieth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses).

Joseph H. Stotler

Hired in 1925, the operation was owned by Margaret Emerson, heiress to the Bromo-Seltzer fortune and widow of the also wealthy Alfred G. Vanderbilt who lost his life when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.

Joseph H. Thompson

Entitled "Joe Thompson" it was sung to the tune of the American folk song "Old Black Joe" by Stephen Foster.

:For other persons named Joseph Thompson, see Joseph Thompson

Joseph H. Tuthill

In 1870 he ran successfully for a seat in the Forty-second Congress and served one term, March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873.

Joseph H. Wales

After a diving trip to Devils Hole he wrote the scientific description to the previously unrecognized Devil's Hole pupfish.

Joseph McDermott

Joseph H. McDermott, former U.S. politician from the state of West Virginia

Joseph Potter

Joseph H. Potter (1822–1892), general in the Union Army during the American Civil War

Richard Toensing

Toensing has received numerous awards for composition most notably from Columbia University (Joseph H. Bearns Prize), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and BMI.

Romig

Joseph H. Romig (1872-1951), frontier physician in Alaska and Moravian Church missionary

The Joseph Smith Papers

Mark Ashurst-McGee, Ronald O. Barney, Alexander L. Baugh, Joseph I. Bentley, Joseph F. Darowski, Kay Darowski, Karen Lynn Davidson, Steven C. Harper, William G. Hartley, Andrew H. Hedges, Robin Scott Jensen, Gordon A. Madsen, Max H. Parkin, Alex D. Smith, Steven R. Sorensen, Morris A. Thurston, Grant Underwood, Jeffrey N. Walker, David J. Whittaker, Robert J. Woodford.

Upper division college

In the late 19th and early 20th century, educational leaders such as William R. Harper and David Starr Jordan sought to separate the preparatory portion of college studies from "real" university work undertaken in the third and fourth years of study.

Wasagamack First Nation

J.J. Harper former Chief of Wasagamack and current head of the Island Lake Tribal Council.


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