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unusual facts about Louis E. Boone


Louis E. Boone

He owned the most extensive collection of Barbizon art in the United States, which is now part of the collection of the Mobile Museum of Art.


Denfeld Mountains

They were named for Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1947–49), who helped in the planning and organization of Operation Highjump (1946–47) for which Byrd was leader.

Heriberto Jara Corona

General Heriberto Jara International Airport in the port of Veracruz is named after him, as is the Stadium at Xalapa, built in 1925 on the grounds where William K. Boone had organized Olympic-style athletic games in 1922.

Jimmy Hayes

Republican Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins of Baton Rouge and Democrat Mary Landrieu of New Orleans then advanced to the tightly contested general election, which Landrieu narrowly won.

Legend City

Originally conceived as an Old West theme park in the mold of Disneyland by Phoenix artist and advertising agency owner Louis E. Crandall, Legend City endured a series of closings, bankruptcies and ownership changes throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and was never a significant financial success.

Lewis Evans

Louis E. Atkinson (1841–1910), American physician, attorney and Republican politician

Louis E. Atkinson

He served as chairman of the United States Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury during the Fifty-first Congress.

Louis E. Crandall

Crandall was born July 27, 1929, in Mesa, Arizona, to Louis Packer Crandall and Louise Marie Crismon.

He is founder of both Legend City and the Crandall Historical Printing Museum, and he currently serves as president and CEO of the latter.

Louis E. Martin

Born in Shelbyville, Tennessee, to Dr. Louis E. Martin Sr. and Willa Martin, Louis Jr. grew up in Savannah, Georgia.

Originally recruited by R. Sargent Shriver, Martin joined the 1960 Presidential campaign of Senator John F. Kennedy.

Louis E. Newman

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning, and Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Louis E. Saavedra

For post-secondary education, Saavedra received two degrees from Eastern New Mexico University.

Louis E. Woods

In 1944, Wood also had the distinction of sending off to war a 42-year-old pilot named Charles Lindbergh.

Shortly after his return to the United States in August 1926, he was ordered to Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., for duty in the Aviation Section of the Major General Commandant's Department.

Richard B. Boone

Out of the Army, he returned to Little Rock to study music at Philander Smith College.

William K. Boone

He was closely related to two outstanding figures in American history who were an inspiration to him and his descendants: Daniel Boone and Abraham Lincoln.

The Stadium at Xalapa on what had been a swampy field, the so-called "Ciénega de Melgarejo".

William Kenneth Boone (1875–1944) was a benefactor of Xalapa, Veracruz.


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