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unusual facts about Lewis B. Woodruff



Amalgamated Sugar Company

Directors included Charles Nibley, William Lewis, Abraham O. Woodruff, Rudger Clawson, William B. Preston, and Joseph Howell, with Charles Nibley as president, Lewis as vice president, and Charles W. Nibley Jr. as secretary.

Daniel Ustian

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

George W. Woodruff

He bequeathed the university's law school a $15 million endowment; the Woodruff Curriculum at Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law is named in his honor.

George Woodruff

George W. Woodruff (1895–1987), American businessman and philanthropist

Jonathan Simons

At 41 years old, Simons was recruited by the Georgia governor Roy Barnes and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation of Atlanta to be the Founding Director of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University.

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.

Quapaw Quarter

Another landmark of the area is Mount Holly Cemetery, at the intersection of 12th and Broadway streets, with one of the largest collections of gravesites of notable Arkansans, ranging from past governors, senators and mayors to Confederate spy David Owen Dodd and Arkansas Gazette founder William E. Woodruff.

Robert Woodruff

Robert W. Woodruff (1889–1985), philanthropist and long-time president of The Coca-Cola Company

Roy O. Woodruff

In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party from Michigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

In 1920, Woodruff returned to Congress, elected as a Republican from the same district to the 67th Congress.

Thomas M. Woodruff

He was elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1847).

Timothy L. Woodruff

In the process Woodruff became the only Lieutenant Governor in New York history to serve under three different Governors — Frank S. Black, Theodore Roosevelt, and Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. As Lieutenant Governor, Woodruff took a leadership role in the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, helping to protect the forests there from the devastation of clear cutting and large scale damming projects.

W. A. Cunningham

He also coached Georgia's first All-American, Bob McWhorter, and George "Kid" Woodruff, who assumed the head coaching duties at Georgia in 1923.


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