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2 unusual facts about Peter A. Porter


Peter A. Porter

In 1907, he was elected as an Independent Republican to the 60th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1909.

Peter Porter

Peter A. Porter (1853–1925), U.S. political figure and grandson of Peter Buell Porter


Albert G. Porter

Because he had supported the strikers in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, he was able to gain the endorsement of the Knights of Labor, who turned out a large labor vote in his favor.

Andrew I. Porter

He had been calling science fiction writers in the Bronx and Manhattan telephone books to discuss science fiction, and Donald Wollheim put him in touch with local science fiction fandom in New York City.

Anise K

His professional breakthrough occurred in 2006 when Anise moved to Los Angeles and was working alongside the Three time Grammy Award winning producer KC Porter.

Some of the biggest names in the music industry have been involved in the development of the single including Phil Tan as mixing engineer and producer KC Porter.

Archibald S. Clarke

Clarke was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peter B. Porter and served from December 2, 1816, to March 3, 1817.

Battle of Moore's Mill

The Missouri State Militia commanders and Union Volunteers began to converge on Joseph C. Porter’s recruiters and associated guerrillas, fighting small action at Vassar Hill on July 19, Florida on July 22, and Santa Fe on July 24.

Bernard Durning

He rose through the ranks of the studio as assistant to Edwin S. Porter, Charles Brabin, and John Hancock Collins.

Charles H. Porter

He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Ashland, New York.

Christopher D. Porter

The individuals on the label's roster are largely tech house or tribal house artists, and includes Paolo Mojo, Dr Kucho!, Supernova, Sabb, Chuck Love, Maher Daniel, and John Creamer & Stephane K.

Clifton Cliff Jail

From 1880 to 1899, ten baby-gauge locomotives were purchased from the H. K. Porter Company of Pittsburgh and delivered to the railend at La Junta, Colorado, where they were offloaded and sent to Arizona overland.

Dennis Danvers

The Watch (2002), ISBN 0-380-97762-1, described as "being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist as imparted to Dennis Danvers by Anchee Mahur, traveler from a distant future"

Desperate Poaching Affray

The film, along with Frank Mottershaw's film A Daring Daylight Burglary, is considered to have helped launch the chase sub-genre and influenced Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Edwin S. Porter

He collaborated with several other filmmakers, including George S. Fleming.

Endoplasmic reticulum

The lacey membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum were first seen in 1945 by Keith R. Porter, Albert Claude, Brody Meskers and Ernest F. Fullam.

Halle Brothers Co.

When the planned subway failed to materialize (then-County Engineer Albert S. Porter refused to go forward with the project believing that the future of local transportation was linked to the freeway), Halle's was forced to continue the shuttle service.

Jane Louise Kelly

After graduation, she clerked for Judge Donald J. Porter of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota.

Jerry Porter

Jerry D. Porter, General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene

Jill Santoriello

Her current project is writing a musical of the 1913 Eleanor H. Porter novel Pollyanna.

John Tsitouris

Then, in Detroit's half of the sixth inning, the Tigers scored two runs on a home run by Charlie Maxwell and an RBI double by J. W. Porter.

Keith R. Porter

Keith Porter was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 11, 1912, and became a citizen of the United States in 1947.

Kenneth N. Robinson

When McMurray resigned in 2005, Robinson and fellow counselor Peter A. Judd led the church until Stephen M. Veazey was selected as the new president.

Knox–Porter Resolution

The United States House of Representatives had its own slightly different resolution introduced by Representative Stephen G. Porter, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

National Competitiveness Report of Armenia

The first ACR was published in 2008; the preface for the report was written by Armenia’s Minister of Economy, Nerses Yeritsyan, and Harvard University Professor, Michael E. Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy and international competitiveness.

Patrick K. Porter

In 1992 Porter earned his doctorate degree in Psychology and Christian counseling from Louisiana Baptist University.

Paul A. Porter

In 1942, Porter left CBS to join the Office of Price Administration as deputy administrator, and then assistant director of the Office of Economic Stabilization under Fred M. Vinson.

Peter A. Carlesimo

He was married to Lucy Rogan and had ten children, including P. J. Carlesimo, the eldest, who was a longtime coach at Seton Hall University and in the NBA.

Carlesimo was known as a humorous speaker, having appeared at countless sports-related dinners and conferences, and was once a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Peter A. Cohen

In 1978, Cohen left Shearson for one year to work for Edmond Safra at Republic New York Corporation and the Trade Development Bank before returning to Shearson in 1979.

Peter A. Dowling

Dowling's first produced movie was Flightplan starring Jodie Foster which was the number one box office hit in the U.S. and grossed over $223,000,000 worldwide.

Peter A. Jay

The 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House is a National Historic Landmark as well as a Save America's Treasures Project; NHL designation is the highest recognition conferred by the US government for a historic site—out of more than 80,000 places on the National Register, only about 2,430 are NHLs.

Peter A. Sturgeon

The writer William Tenn has stated that Sturgeon became involved with POUM while in Spain and fell into disfavor with his superiors.

Peter Assheton Sturgeon (November 22, 1916 – July 22, 2005) was founder of the American branch of Mensa and the older brother of noted American science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon.

Peter A. Sturrock

As in the AIAA survey, about 5% reported puzzling sightings, but skepticism against the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) ran high.

Peter A. Van Bergen

Peter A. Van Bergen's great-great-great-great-granddaughter Marie Princess of Wied (b. 1973) married Duke Friedrich of Württemberg, the heir apparent to the Pretender to the Throne of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Pollyanna Grows Up

Pollyanna Grows Up is a 1915 children's novel by Eleanor H. Porter.

Rhine capitalism

Two researchers, Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, followed up the idea of two different kinds of capitalism with a large, empirical, international study.

Skinner Butte

U.S. Representative from Oregon Charles O. Porter was one of the people who had advocated for the removal of the cross.

Thomas Porter

Thomas F. Porter (1847–1927), Massachusetts politician and mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts

Tokomaru, New Zealand

Highlights include a 1904 Fowler traction engine, an 1897 Aveling & Porter portable engine and a huge 335 hp Filer & Stowell stationary engine-compressor ex the Imlay Freezing Works, Wanganui.

United States Ambassador to South Vietnam

The Deputy Ambassadors and their periods of service in Vietnam are: U. Alexis Johnson (June 1964–September 1965), William J. Porter (September 1965–May 1967), Eugene M. Locke (May 1967–Jan 1968), Samuel D. Berger (March 1968–Mar 1972) Charles S. Whitehouse (March 1972–August 1973).

William A. Porter

As a student at Adams State College, Porter and other students would take turns visiting and reading aloud to the aged and infirmed former governor of Colorado, Billy Adams.

William H. Porter

On October 6, 1908, Porter was elected to serve as President of the New York Clearing House.

William J. Porter

After a chance meeting with United States Minister to Hungary John Flournoy Montgomery, Montgomery invited Porter to come with him to Budapest as his private secretary in 1936.

William Watson Andrews

He contributed articles on the Catholic Apostolic church to the Bibliotheca Sacra and McClintock and Strong's Cyclopœdia, prepared for the Life of Porter a chapter on Dr. Porter as "A Student at Yale," and published many reviews, orations, sermons, and addresses, and The Miscellanies and Correspondence of Hon. John Cotton Smith (1847).


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