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Joseph Cannon

Joseph J. Cannon (1877–1945), Utah politician, newspaper editor, and LDS Church leader


Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Brigham Young, Jr. (9 December 1899—10 October 1901) : When Lorenzo Snow became President of the Church, the next senior Apostles, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith, were asked by Snow to be counselors in the First Presidency.

Amalgamated Sugar Company

Directors included David Eccles, Thomas Duncombe Dee, George Q. Cannon, and John R. Winder, with Eccles as president, and Dee as vice president.

Camp Fremont

General John K. Cannon completed his initial military training at Camp Fremont.

Capell L. Weems

Weems was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph J. Gill.

Christopher Bollas

Those teachers and figures whom he knew and who helped diversify his thinking were Arnold Modell, John Bowlby, Andre Green, Herbert Rosenfeld, Joseph J. Sandler, J.

George Cannon

George Q. Cannon (1827–1901), early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

George I. Cannon (1920–2009), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

George H. Cannon

While at the University of Michigan he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Georgious Y. Cannon

Georgious was the youngest of 32 children born March 6, 1892 to LDS church leader George Q. Cannon.

Gerry Healy

In 1953, Healy joined the split in the Fourth International instigated by James P. Cannon and was soon nominal leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

Hillsboro Cemetery

Located in Hillsboro, Ohio, Hillsboro Cemetery is home to multiple notable interments, including baseball player Kirby White and politicians Joseph J. McDowell, John Armstrong Smith, Jacob J. Pugsley, Allen Trimble and Wilbur M. White.

Island Press

In addition to E.O. Wilson, Island Press has worked with a wide array of scientists, policymakers, and conservationists including Paul R. Ehrlich, Donald Kennedy, Joseph J. Romm, Jay Inslee, Peter Gleick, Jan Gehl, Peter Calthorpe, Bill McKibben, Allen Hershkowitz and Robert Glennon.

John K. Cannon

He served the infantry at Camp Fremont, California; Camp Mills, New York, the Presidio of San Francisco; and Camp Furlong, New Mexico, until taking pilot training at Kelly Field, Texas in 1921-22.

Joseph Cannon

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

Joseph J. Brandemuehl

He has accumulated more than 3,000 flying hours in a Cessna T-41 Mescalero, Cessna T-37 Tweet, Northrop T-38 Talon, the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, Fairchild C-26 Metroliner, and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Joseph J. Daniel

As a superior court judge, Daniel presided over North Carolina v. Mann, the case which provided a famous legal defense of the rights of slaveowners over their property.

Joseph J. Fern

During and after his tenure, Fern became one of the most beloved political figures in the Territory of Hawaii.

Joseph J. Kinyoun

The family moved to Johnson County, Missouri, in 1866, where the elder Kinyoun was a physician.

Joseph J. Kohn

Since 1966 he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1988 a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Joseph J. Lilley

He was nominated at the 32nd Academy Awards for Li'l Abner in Best Musical Score.

Joseph J. Little

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.

Joseph J. McDowell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

Joseph J. Rothrock

:Not to be confused with Joseph Rothrock, the "Father of Forestry."

Joseph J. Sisco

Joseph John Sisco (October 31, 1919 – November 23, 2004) was a diplomat who played a major role in then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and whose career in the State Department spanned five presidential administrations and numerous foreign-policy crises.

Shuttling between Athens and Ankara, he helped tamp down war rumblings between the two countries.

Joseph J. Taluto

After graduating from Air Defense Artillery basic course, Taluto served as a platoon leader for Headquarters Company, New York Army National Guard, then was then assigned to the Nike-Hercules Missile Program.

Joseph J. Thorndike

They enlarged it, turned it into a hardcover, profusely illustrated bimonthly with no advertisements, and hired popular American Civil War historian Bruce Catton as editor and writer.

Joseph J. Tyson

On April 12, 2011, Tyson was appointed the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Yakima in Washington State, replacing Carlos Arthur Sevilla, S.J.,

Joseph J. Went

He commanded Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 12, Marine Attack Squadron 214, Marine Aircraft Group 24, the 3rd Force Service Support Group, and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.

Joseph Little

Joseph J. Little (1841-1913), a U.S. Representative from New York

Joseph Mansfield

Joseph J. Mansfield (1861 - 1947), Congress representative from Texas

Joseph McDowell

Joseph J. McDowell (1800–1877), U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Joseph "Quaker Meadows" McDowell

Joseph O'Brien

Joseph J. O'Brien (1897–1953), former U.S. congressman from New York

Joseph Roberts

Joseph J. Roberts (b. 1952), Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly

Lewis T. Cannon

Lewis was born to LDS church leader George Q. Cannon and Martha Telle Cannon on April 22, 1872.

Philip Cannon

Philip L. Cannon (1850–1929), first Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

Philippe Cousteau

In the aftermath of aquanaut Berry L. Cannon's death while attempting to repair a leak in SEALAB III, Cousteau volunteered to dive down to SEALAB and help return it to the surface, although SEALAB was ultimately salvaged in a less hazardous way.

Prudence Bushnell

At the time of the bombing, Bushnell was attending a meeting with the Kenyan Trade Minister, Joseph J.Kamotho in the Cooperative Bank Building next to the embassy.

Reverse Underground Railroad

From 1811-1829, Martha "Patty" Cannon was the leader of a gang that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.

Richard O. Cowan

He also co-wrote a book about the international church with Donald Q. Cannon.

Richard P. Condie

Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, (Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, Richard O. Cowan, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, November 2000) ISBN 1-57345-822-8

Stephen W. Perkins

In 1866 he was re-elected to his former judicial post in Brazoria County, but the regional Union commander, Major General Joseph J. Reynolds removed him from office on April 25, 1869 as "an impediment to Reconstruction".

T. C. Cannon

On May 8 of that year, however, he died in an automobile accident, and after a delay, the show opened on December 10, 1979 as "T.C. Cannon: A Memorial Exhibition." Featuring 50 works by Cannon, it subsequently became a traveling exhibition, and went on display at locations such as the Heard Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

Virginia General Assembly, 1916

Senator G. Walter Mapp and temperance advocate James Cannon, Jr. (not to be confused with Senator James E. Cannon) drafted the final bill after voters endorsed a referendum in September 1914.

Walter Wyman

The Service first became involved in the situation in 1900 when MHS physician Joseph J. Kinyoun, stationed in San Francisco, confirmed by bacteriological analysis that the death of a laborer in the city's Chinatown section was due to bubonic plague.


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