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Herbert John Webber

Webber was born in Lawton, Michigan on December 27, 1865 to John Milton Webber and Rebecca Ann Bradt.


Alexander Lawton Mackall

Alexander Lawton Mackall (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1888 — West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, 1968) was an author, journalist and gastronomy expert and critic.

Alison Lawton

Lawton currently sits on the advisory council for Richard Branson’s foundation, Virgin Unite Canada, whose mandate is to unite people to tackle tough social and environmental problems with an entrepreneurial approach.

Lawton also produced a 25-minute educational documentary for UNICEF; Hope in the Time of AIDS featured Stephen Lewis and was narrated by Pierce Brosnan.

April Lawton

April Lawton (July 30, 1948 – November 23, 2006) was a guitarist and composer who rose to some prominence in the early to mid-1970s as a member of the band Ramatam, which also included at one time former Iron Butterfly guitarist Mike Pinera and the former Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell, and Russ Smith (bass & vocals), and Tommy Sullivan (keyboards, reeds, vocals).

Barbara Lawton

Prior to being elected lieutenant governor in 2002, Lawton won the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor in 1998 and ran alongside the party's nominee for governor, attorney Ed Garvey.

On January 6, 2014 Lawton was named the President and CEO of Americans for Campaign Reform, an advocacy organization based in Washington D.C. chaired by former Senators Bill Bradley (D-NJ), Bob Kerrey (D-NE), and Alan Simpson (R-WY).

Bill Lawton

Lawton died in Brighton on 14 August 2008 following a battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Bryn Chapman

Bryn Lawton Chapman (born 1982) is a former beauty queen and young operatic soprano who is a former Miss Indiana representative and a top-ten finisher in the 2004 Miss America pageant.

Canada women's national ice hockey team

Nick Cerrone, 1990
Rick Polutnick, 1992
Les Lawton, 1994
Shannon Miller, 1997–1998
Danièle Sauvageau, 1999
Melody Davidson, 2000
Danièle Sauvageau, 2001–2002
Karen Hughes, 2004
Melody Davidson, 2005–2007
Peter Smith, 2008
Melody Davidson, 2010
Matt Perisa, 2011
Ryan Walter, 2012
Dan Church, 2012–2013

Donna Fargo

Additionally, almost everything Fargo recorded for years was self-penned, although by the latter half of the 1970s she was also recording covers of songs from writers as diverse as Stonewall Jackson, Vaughn Horton, Bill Enis and Lawton Williams, Paul Anka, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; those covers also became successful hits for Fargo.

Dunbar's Guerillas

They joined Nathan Bedford Forrest and served under Colonel Lawton who commanded a battalion of likewise independent companies.

Fort Lawton Riot

In 1986, journalist Jack Hamann found Guglielmo Olivotto's headstone in the Fort Lawton cemetery.

King County Executive Ron Sims and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels organized a tribute to the Fort Lawton defendants and surviving families, featuring a dinner, a parade, a formal military ceremony and a Catholic mass honoring the memory of Guglielmo Olivotto.

Frederick Lawton

Lawton called for reform within the Bureau of Internal Revenue, claiming that its "magnitude and complexity" required an overhaul.

Harold L. Runnels

Runnels attended Dallas public schools and Cameron State Agricultural College in Lawton, Oklahoma.

Harry Lawton

Harry Wilson Lawton (December 11, 1927 – November 20, 2005) was an American writer, journalist, editor and historian who wrote several books about Native Americans in California.

Henry Ware Lawton

In Manila in the Philippines, the plaza fronting the Manila Central Post Office building was named "Plaza Lawton" before it was renamed in 1963 as Liwasang Bonifacio after the Philippine hero Andrés Bonifacio.

During the Battle of Paye, Lawton, as usual, was in the midst of the fighting and was killed by a Filipino sharpshooter, ironically under the command of a general named Licerio Gerónimo.

History of Lawton, Oklahoma

Less than two hours after Lawton tornado, an even more destructive tornado occurred 50 miles to the south in Wichita Falls, Texas that left 42 dead, thousands injured and considerably more damage to homes and businesses over a much larger area of that city.

Jesse James Rides Again

Dale Van Sickel as Frank Lawton/James Clark (doubling Roy Barcroft & Tristram Coffin)

Jill Shumay

She won the semifinal against Amber Holland and defeated Lawton in the final to go to her first national championship, where she finished in fifth place with a 6–5 win-loss record.

Juaymah Maureen Transport

Juaymah Maureen Transport is the only bus company with air-conditioned units plying routes from Gen. Mariano Alvarez and Carmona, Cavite to Lawton, Quiapo and Ayala.

Kinematic Theatre

The company which was formed early in 2006 and was founded by Andy Sinclair-Harris, who is the artistic director along with Karl Lawton, Radica Anikpe and Antoinette Lester.

KSWO

KSWO-TV, a television station (channel 11) licensed to Lawton, Oklahoma, United States

KSWO-TV

The station's first transmitter was located at the studios east of Lawton, which was a relatively low-power unit that could reach viewers within a limited 55-mile radius that included Altus, Oklahoma to the west, Wichita Falls to the south, Anadarko, Oklahoma to the north and Ringling, Oklahoma to the east.

Lawton Avenue

West of the Nichols interchange, Lawton continues as Sales Road and Andrews Avenue heading to the Villamor Air Base and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport terminals.

Luke Lawton

Mel Kiper, Jr. also listed Lawton as the top fullback prospect in the country in 2004 in all divisions.

Mehan Garden

Inside the Garden are structures such as the Lawton Park n' Ride building and the Universidad de Manila.

S. E. Gontarski

He is presently Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University and edits the Journal of Beckett Studies.

Sidney Lawton Smith

Collections of bookplates designed, etched, and engraved by Sidney Lawton Smith are held in the Lewis Stark Bookplate Collection at the University of New Hampshire, and the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection at the University of Delaware.

Special Operations Response Team

Some of the lesser known operations that BOP SORTs have been involved in include the mass movement of inmates from FCI Miami, after the facility was damaged by Hurricane Andrew; and the resolution of inmate disturbances at FCI Oakdale, Louisiana, FCI Lawton, Oklahoma, and the USP Atlanta.

Swaption

Lawton was the Head Trader for Fixed Income Derivatives at First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles at that time.

White Parker

White Parker and his wife are buried in the Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma.


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