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Joseph W. Fisher

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.


Alice Fisher

Alice S. Fisher (born 1967), assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice

Anna S. Fisher

Fisher was a member of the American Watercolor Society; the National Academy Museum and School; the American Watercolor Society; the New York Society of Painters; Allied Artists of America; the National Arts Club and the National Association of Women Artists.

Anne B. Fisher

Her two most significant works were her novel Cathedral in the Sun (1940) and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, The Salinas: Upside Down River (1945).

Babcock-Macomb House

Construction of the house was ordered by Kate Woodman Babcock, widow of former Representative Joseph W. Babcock of Wisconsin.

Burl Barer

In 2012, Barer and Don Woldman, previously teamed on Outlaw Radio's True Crime Uncensored, reunited as contributors to various true crime-related specials and discussions on Hart D. Fisher's American Horrors channel, featured as part of the basic tier of channels offered on filmon.com.

Carl G. Fisher

Will Rogers remembered Fisher as a Florida pioneer with these words: Fisher was the first man to discover that there was sand under the water...sand that could hold up a real estate sign.

Charles W. Fisher

By way of fulfilling that promise, he built a mansion in Cochrane in 1908 (which became the Just Home Guest Ranch in 1931 and was donated to a Franciscan order in 1948).

Clokey

Joseph W. Clokey (1890–1960), American educator, organist and composer

Drexel Collection

Donated by Joseph W. Drexel in 1888 to the Lenox Library (which later became The New York Public Library), the collection, located today at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, is rich with materials on music theory and music history as well as other musical subjects.

Edmund Fisher

His siblings included: H. A. L. Fisher, historian and Minister of Education; Admiral Sir William Wordsworth Fisher, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet; Florence Henrietta, Lady Darwin, playwright and wife of Sir Francis Darwin (son of Charles Darwin); and Adeline Vaughan Williams, wife of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Embassy of Cape Verde in Washington, D.C.

The home was built in 1911 for Representative Joseph W. Babcock, chairman of the United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, by architect Arthur B. Heaton, who also built several distinguished residences in the area.

Fourth-generation warfare

The concept was first described by the authors William S. Lind, Colonel Keith Nightengale (US Army), Captain John F. Schmitt (USMC), Colonel Joseph W. Sutton (US Army), and Lieutenant Colonel Gary I. Wilson (USMCR) in a 1989 Marine Corps Gazette article entitled “The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation”.

George J. Fisher

Fisher served as deputy Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America from 1919 to 1943, and as National Scout Commissioner from 1943 until his death in 1960.

George P. Fisher

Born in Milford, Delaware, Fisher attended the public schools of Kent County and Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Governor of Illinois

Among his defense lawyers was former governor Joseph W. Fifer, who asserted, in pre-trial hearings, that the governorship has the divine right of kings.

Herbert O. Fisher

After test flights of a P-47C on November 13, 1942, Republic Aviation issued a press release on December 1, 1942, claiming that Lts.

HMS Incomparable

HMS Incomparable was the name given by Admiral "Jackie" Fisher to a proposal for a very large battlecruiser which was suggested in 1915.

John H. Edwards

Early in his career, he worked under Lancelot Hogben, and was sometimes distinguished from the brother as Hogben's Edwards.

Joseph Babcock

Joseph W. Babcock (1850–1909), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin

Joseph McIntosh

Joseph W. McIntosh, United States Comptroller of the Currency from 1924 to 1928

Joseph W. Alexander

As Secretary, Alexander has primary supervision over the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology.

Joseph W. Alton

He was sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison, of which he served seven months at Allenwood Federal Prison Camp, in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.

Joseph W. Babcock

He was a candidate for Speaker of the House in 1902, but lost to Joseph Cannon.

Joseph W. Boyle

Boyle was early to recognize the potential of large-scale gold mining in the Klondike gold fields, and as the initial placer mining operations waned after 1900, Boyle and other companies imported equipment to assemble enormous dredges, usually electric-powered, that took millions more ounces of gold from the creeks while turning the landscape upside-down, shifting creeks.

Joseph W. Brown

general Joseph W. Brown was the brother of major general Jacob Brown, the founder of Brownville, New York.

Joseph W. Cullen

Joseph Cullen grew up in the Boston area attending Boston Latin School where he developed his strong debate and speaking skills which he displayed throughout his professional career.

Joseph W. Frazer

Frazer then announced Graham-Paige would return to car manufacturing after the end of World War II with an entirely new model named the "Frazer".

He is notable as having been the chief executive of Willys when that company won the U.S. Government contract for design of the Jeep ("General Purpose" - ("G.P.") military utility vehicle, which began coming out in 1940-1941 after testing at Fort Hollibird, in East Baltimore, Maryland.

Joseph W. Hatchett

On September 2, 1975, Hatchett was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court by governor Reubin Askew.

Joseph W. Kirwan

The institutions became known as the 'Godless Colleges', and Kirwan's position came under severe pressure from several leading bishops, including his own metropolitan bishop, John McHale, the Archbishop of Tuam.

Joseph W. Morris

Morris was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Campbell Cantrill and served from November 30, 1923, to March 3, 1925.

Joseph W. Noseworthy

Conversely, the Ontario Liberal Party and Premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn, was opposed to King's conscription stance, and decided to put their support behind Meighen in the by-election.

Joseph W. White

He was an unsuccessful for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

Julian Corbett

Corbett was a good friend and ally of naval reformer Admiral John "Jackie" Fisher, the First Sea Lord.

Larry Shay

In 1929 he co-authored his most famous song, "When You're Smiling" (As with many other of his songs, this was a collaboration with Joe Goodwin and Mark Fisher; see Shay, Fisher, and Goodwin).

Marie Liljedahl

Marie Liljedahl (born 15 February 1950) is a Swedish actress who had a short-lived film career in the late-1960s and early-1970s, in the films of Joseph W. Sarno and Jesus Franco.

Missouri gubernatorial election, 1904

The election was held on November 8, 1904 and resulted in a victory for the Democratic nominee, Joseph W. Folk, over the Republican candidate, former Mayor of St. Louis Cyrus Walbridge, and several other candidates representing minor parties.

Paul Fisher

Paul C. Fisher (1913–2006), American industrialist and inventor of the Fisher Space Pen

Promises to Keep

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment is a book written by William Fisher, the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School and the faculty director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It was released by Stanford University Press in August 2004.

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Richard B. Fisher namesake of the hall, chairman emeritus of Morgan Stanley.

Robert F. Fisher

Robert F. Fisher, (February 18, 1879 Plymouth, England - July 20, 1969 Carlotta, California) served in the California legislature and during the Spanish-American War he served in the United States Army.

Scarlet tiger moth

The three morphs occurring in the population at the Cothill reserve in Oxfordshire, Britain, have been the subject of considerable genetic study (McNamara 1998), including research by E.B. Ford, R.A. Fisher and Denis Owen.

Schlesinger Library

This collection also includes the papers of several famous chefs and foodwriters such as M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Elizabeth David.

Smithfield Foods

A grandson, Joseph W. Luter III, joined the company the same year, and in 1966 became chairman and CEO until Smithfield was taken over by Liberty Equities in 1969.

Smithfield Packing Company

In 1962, with Smithfield already on its way to becoming the "Ham Capital of the World", Joseph W. Luter III became the company's leader.

Ustinov College

In 1965, W. B. Fisher, a professor in Durham University's geography department, founded the Graduate Society and in its inaugural year,the total membership was 94 students: 86 men and 8 women.

Violet L. Fisher

Violet L. Fisher is a retired Bishop in The United Methodist Church, elected and consecrated to the Episcopacy in 2000.

Walter Fisher

Walter L. Fisher (1862–1935), United States Secretary of the Interior

Walter H. Fisher

He was soon playing other baritone roles, Captain Corcoran in H.M.S. Pinafore and Samuel in The Pirates of Penzance, on tour until June 1888.

William W. Fisher

Fisher was among the lawyers, along with his colleague John Palfrey and the law firm of Jones Day, who represented Shepard Fairey, pro bono, in his lawsuit against the Associated Press related to the iconic Hope poster.


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