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2 unusual facts about Lawrence H. Cooke


Bernard S. Meyer

In 1979, he was appointed by Governor Hugh L. Carey to the Court of Appeals, to the seat vacated by the appointment of Lawrence H. Cooke as Chief Judge.

Lawrence H. Cooke

Tribute to Chief Judge Lawrence H. Cooke, 1914-2000, by Vincent Martin Bonventre, Albany Law Review, vol.


American Expeditionary Forces

James J. Cooke, The Rainbow Division in the Great War, 1917–1919 Praeger Publishers, (1994)

Anna Rice Cooke

Other children were Clarence H. Cooke, George P. Cooke, Richard A. Cooke, Alice T. Cooke and Theodore A. Cooke.

Baskerville House

As a result, the city engineer was asked to work with the architects of the Hall of Memory, S. N. Cooke, to create a better design.

C. R. Cooke-Taylor

He was an active member of Liberal Party organisations and the British Legion and for a long time was honorary secretary of the Irish Literary Society.

Having obtained a Diploma in Psychological Medicine, he worked at the Ex-Servicemen's Welfare Hospital in Beckenham, The British Hospital for Mental Disorders and Brain Diseases in Camden Town, and the Maudsley Hospital.

City Architect of Birmingham

Collectively known as the Duddeston Four, the 12-storey High, Queens, Home and South Towers, were all completed between 1954 and 1955 to a design by S. N. Cooke and Partners.

David H. Cooke

David made his international debut on 17 January 1981 at Cardiff Arms Park in the Wales vs England 5 Nations match.

David played his final match for England on 8 June 1985 at Athletic Park, Wellington in the New Zealand vs England 2nd Test on that tour.

Edmund F. Cooke

He was elected as a Republican to the 71st and 72nd United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1929, to March 3, 1933.

During World War I he was Secretary for the YMCA in Europe and laid plans to pursue a political career when he returned home.

Edward D. Cooke

He was admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced practice in Chicago, Illinois.

Cooke was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 24, 1897.

Born in Cascade, Iowa, Cooke attended the common schools, the local academy, and the high school at Dubuque.

Harold Agnew

With Alvarez and Lawrence H. Johnson, Agnew had devised a method for measuring the yield of the nuclear blast by dropping pressure gauges on parachutes and telemetering the readings back to the plane.

Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr.

His paternal grandparents were Edward Griffin Hitchcock (1837–1898), son of Reverend Harvey Rexford Hitchcock (1800–1855), and Mary Tenney Castle (1838–1926), daughter of Castle & Cooke founder Samuel Northrup Castle (1808–1894).

Henry Cooke

Henry D. Cooke (1825–1881), first territorial governor of the District of Columbia

Henry D. Cooke

He was detained after the wreck at St. Thomas, where he conceived the idea of a steamship line from New York to San Francisco via the isthmus of Panama, and wrote about his idea to the Philadelphia United States Gazette and the New York Courier and Enquirer.

Cooke returned to his duties as bank president and financier, suffering serious setbacks when Jay Cooke & Co. failed in the Panic of 1873 but continuing as the president of the First Washington National Bank until his death in 1881.

He was the first to announce to the authorities at Washington, through a despatch from the military governor of California, the discovery of gold in the Sacramento valley.

History of Adjara

The divisional headquarters at Batum left for Constantinople, handing over to the military governor of Batum—Br.-Gen. W. J. N. Cooke-Collis.

James J. Cooke

This association with the British scholars, Peter Liddle, Hugh Cecil, and Ian Whitehead, resulted in the publication of a number of co-authored books.

While there he began research on the founding fathers of American air power during World War I. This research led to the publication in 2002 of a biography, Billy Mitchell (Lynne Reinner Press).

While doing research in Paris on the French administration of Morocco he worked with the papers of General Henri Gouraud, who served in Morocco and on the Western Front during World War I.

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.

Keuffel and Esser

A special slide rule was designed in the mid-1930s by Nelson M. Cooke of the Navy's Radio Materiel School; many thousands of the 4139 Cooke Radio Slide Rule were made by K&E.

L. J. Cooke

Cooke came to Minnesota in 1895 to be the director of physical education for the YMCA in Minneapolis after completing his M.D. at the University of Vermont.

Lanai City, Hawaii

The corporation Castle & Cooke, which owns the Dole Food Company had intended in 2009 to demolish much of what remains of the historic district, including homes, a laundromat, and a jailhouse all dating back to the 1920s, in order to build new commercial structures.

Lawrence H. Brown

During his five years at Cisco, he also spearheaded the creation of a fully equipped computer lab for Costano Elementary School, part of the Ravenswood City School District, and other computer-related charitable projects.

Over the years he has founded two Amiga Users groups; TAG (Tulsa Amiga Group) and TOGA (The Other Group of Amigoids).

Lawrence H. Cohn

He received his graduate medical training from 1962 to 1971 at Boston City Hospital/Harvard, the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, the University of California at San Francisco and the Stanford University School of Medicine.

He was awarded an honorary Masters of Medicine from Harvard in 1989 and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris in 1992.

Lawrence H. Fountain

Fountain was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as a United States Delegate to the 22nd Session in 1967 of the United Nations General Assembly.

Fountain was educated in the public schools of Edgecombe County and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received his A. B. degree in 1934 and his Juris Doctor degree.

Lawrence H. Levy

Lawrence H. Levy is an American writer and producer on Savannah, Fantasy Island, Family Ties, Trapper John, M.D., Saved by the Bell, Who's the Boss?, 7th Heaven, Roseanne, Seinfeld.

Lawrence H. Livingston

Lawrence Livingston was born on November 5, 1940, in Defiance, Ohio, he attended Defiance College prior to enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1960 and was initially assigned to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Nelson M. Cooke

To identify personnel potentially capable of being successful in such intensive training, a selection test (commonly called the Eddy Test) was devised.

Postage stamp booklet

Booklets of telegraph stamps are known to have been issued by the California State Telegraph Company in 1870, and by Western Union in 1871, and on 14 October 1884 an A.W. Cooke of Boston received Patent 306,674 from the United States Patent Office for the idea of putting postage stamps into booklets.

Samuel Gardner Wilder

In 1870, sister Harriet Emily Wilder (1842–1904) married Joseph Platt Cooke (1869–1904), great-grandson of Joseph Platt Cooke (1730–1816) and son of Castle & Cooke founder Amos Starr Cooke (1810–1871).

Solomon G. Brown

He was the first member to be certified by the governor of Washington D.C., Henry D. Cooke.

William Leigh Williamson Eyre

His collections of new and interesting fungal species, mostly made in the Swarraton area, were for the most part passed on to and described by contemporary mycologists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, namely M.C. Cooke, George Massee, and E.M. Wakefield.


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