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unusual facts about Lewis B. Parsons, Sr.



Chris Godsil

Krantz, and T. D. Parsons, "Intersection graphs for families of balls in $R\sp n$.

Claude V. Parsons

He was reelected to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 4, 1930, to January 3, 1941.

Parsons was elected on November 4, 1930, as a Democrat to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas S. Williams and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-second Congress.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Daniel Ustian

Lewis B. Campbell immediately stepped in to replace him as Chairman and interim CEO.

David Parsons

David "Skippy" Parsons (born 1959), racing driver from Tasmania, Australia

Edward Y. Parsons

Parsons was elected as a Democrat to the 44th United States Congress and served from March 4, 1875, until his death in Washington, D.C., July 8, 1876.

George Parsons

George W. Parsons (1850-1933), attorney turned banker during the 19th century Old West

George W. Parsons

George Whitwell Parsons (August 26, 1850 - January 5, 1933) was a licensed attorney turned banker during the 19th century Old West.

Horizontal boring machine

The accuracy of this machine convinced the USAF to accept John Parson's idea for numerically controlled machine tools.

John T. Parsons

(Bendix Corporation was an initial license taker of the patent, in 1955, and eventually bought all the rights to it.)

These developments were done in collaboration with his employee Frank L. Stulen, who Parsons hired when he was head of the Rotary Wing Branch of the Propeller Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in April 1946.

Lewis B. Campbell

After Daniel Ustian abruptly retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Navistar International Corporation on August 27th, 2012, Campbell was named interim Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the truck and engine manufacturer.

Lewis B. Gunckel

He was a delegate from the Ohio state bar to the newly formed National Bar Association from 1888 to 1890, also serving as treasurer and member of the executive committee of the latter.

He voted to repeal the bill known as the "salary grab," and always refused to accept the salary due him under the retroactive clause of that law.

Lewis B. Parsons, Jr.

(Perry, New York, April 5, 1818 - Flora, Illinois, March 16, 1907) was one of the last officers who was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers during the American Civil War.

Parsons College was named after his father Lewis B. Parsons, Sr. His grandfather, Charles Parsons, had been an officer in the American Revolutionary War.

In 1854, he moved to St. Louis, where he became president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway.

Lewis B. Schwellenbach

He changed the labor department from a department primarily interested in statistical information gathering to a policy-making department, actively trying to conciliate labor with management and promote a high-wage economy based on unionized labor.

Schwellenbach was born in Superior, Wisconsin, and when he was eight years old, his family moved to Spokane, Washington.

Lewis B. Stillwell

His papers (1886-1939) are held in the Manuscript Division of the Princeton University Library.

Lewis B. Sturges

Sturges was elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of Calvin Goddard and Roger Griswold.

He was reelected to the Tenth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from September 16, 1805, to March 3, 1817.

New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments

Votes against conviction: Judges Ward Hunt (Rep.), Lewis B. Woodruff (Rep.), Charles Mason (Rep.), William J. Bacon (Rep.), Thomas W. Clerke and Charles C. Dwight; State Senators Chapman, Banks, Campbell, Hubbard, Humphrey, Kennedy, Mattoon, Morgan, Wicks, Palmer, Parker, Thayer, Van Patten - 19

New York, Westchester and Boston Railway

The principal rolling stock for the NYW&B was 95 motorized coaches, designed by L. B. Stillwell and built by the Pressed Steel Car Company, with center doors for high-platform use only and end doors that could accommodate low platforms.

Richard C. Parsons

He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress.

William W. Parsons

In 1883, Parsons was promoted to Vice-President of Indiana State Normal School.

William Woods Parsons (May 18, 1850 – September 28, 1925) is best known as being the former president of Indiana State University and its Eastern Division, later known as Ball State University.


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