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unusual facts about Joseph S. Murdock


Joseph Murdock

Joseph S. Murdock (1822–1899), American colonizer, leader, and Mormon hymn writer


Clark A. Murdock

Murdock has served in many roles in the defense world, including as a senior policy adviser to House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin, as an analyst and Africa issues manager in the CIA, and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Iseman

Joseph S. Iseman (1916 – 2006), American lawyer and educator

Island Air

On January 18, 2013, Oracle Corporation CEO Larry Ellison, who had recently acquired most of the island of Lanai from David H. Murdock, was reported to be the buyer, though this was not confirmed by the airline at the time.

John F. Melby

Appeals to State Department officials responsible for administrative matters failed, as did the advocacy of Pennsylvania Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. on Melby's behalf.

Joseph B. Murdock

After an education in public schools in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts on 26 July 1866.

In mid-1911, Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson was chosen to succeed Murdock as commander-in-chief of the fleet as of November 1911, but Murdock had gained distinction in his handling of unrest in China related to the Xinhai Revolution of that year, and United States Secretary of State Philander C. Knox requested that Murdock be kept on as fleet commander-in-chief to allow continuity until the situation in China stabilized.

Joseph Fowler

Joseph S. Fowler (1820–1902), United States Senator from Tennessee

Joseph Freeman

Joseph S. Freedman (born 1946), professor of education at Alabama State University

Joseph P. Fyffe

Rear Admiral Joseph S. Skerrett was due to retire upon reaching the age of 62 on 18 January 1895, but in order to make room for Fyffe to be promoted, Skerrett voluntarily requested an earlier retirement based on time in service.

Joseph S. Forte

The rest may have been lost in trading in futures contracts on the S&P 500 index, foreign currencies, or metals.

Joseph S. Fowler

Most of the state was under the control of the Union military government of Abraham Lincoln's appointed governor, Andrew Johnson, for most of the duration of the American Civil War; his government was fairly functional and it is likely that Fowler served this regime as Comptroller and that the Blue Book records his name erroneously.

He also served as president of Howard Female College in Gallatin, Tennessee from 1856 to 1861.

During President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, Fowler broke party ranks, along with six other Republican senators, and in a courageous act of political suicide, voted for acquittal.

The official Tennessee Blue Book states that the holder of that office during this period was "Joseph S. Foster".

Joseph S. Freedman

He was a fellow at the University of Leiden from 2003 to 2004 and at the Johannes a Lasko Bibliothek in Emden in 2005.

Joseph S. Gitt

The major feature of Gitt's proposed route was that from Woodsboro south into Frederick, it was located between the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike, now Maryland Route 194 and Israel creek.

Joseph S. Manasse

While on the board he voted for Ephraim Morse's proposal in 1868 to set aside a large track of land for a public park, which eventually became Balboa Park.

Manasse was born in 1831 in Filehne, Prussia and came to San Diego in 1853 with his brother Heyman and cousin Moses.

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

He was also the co-editor for Crypt of Cthulhu, published by Mythos Books LLC working alongside Robert M. Price, Michael Cisco and David Wynn.

Robert M. Price: "Pulver's genius in his ability to shape-shift stylistically

Pulver started his publishing career in the early 1990s with a number of short stories published in various American small press magazines, foremost among them Robert M. Price’s Crypt of Cthulhu.

Robert M. Price: "In an earlier day I feel sure Joe Pulver would have been arrested for writing some of the stuff in this collection. Maybe he will be yet! How can he write, with such intricate delicacy, thunderous prose that fairly rips up the pages it is printed on? I wish I knew!"

Kannapolis, North Carolina

David H. Murdock, owner of real estate company Castle & Cooke, Inc. and former CEO of Dole Food Company, Inc., and Molly Corbett Broad, President of the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, unveiled plans on September 12, 2005 for the North Carolina Research Campus, an economic revitalization project that encompasses the site of the former Cannon Mills plant and entire downtown area of Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Madison Avenue Baptist Church

In 1930 the parish leased its property to be developed into the Roger Williams Hotel at 131 Madison Avenue, designed by Jardine, Hill & Murdock and named for the Baptist founder of Rhode Island, with the church sanctuary to be included in the 15-story building.

Oregon Portage Railroad

In 1861, John W. Brazee of the Oregon Portage Company started to build a railroad out of a mule and wagon road that had been constructed by Col. Joseph S. Ruckle and Harrison Olmstead in 1856 but had been out of service since around 1858.

Petrus Ramus

Freedman, Joseph S. Philosophy and the Arts in Central Europe, 1500-1700: Teaching and Texts at Schools and Universities (Ashgate, 1999).

Shannon Powell

In high school Powell was a member of the well-respected concert band at Joseph S. Clark High School and member of trumpeter Leroy Jones' first band, New Orleans Finest.

William Meehan

The Philadelphia Republican Party, in the wake of the political realignmemt in Philadelphia politics starting with the Home Rule Charter in 1951 and the election of "reform" Democrats, Richardson Dilworth and Joseph S. Clark as Mayor of Philadelphia, entered a period of gradual and persistent decline, after having dominated the city's politics for a century prior to home rule.


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