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Peter C. Doherty

Doherty currently spends three months of the year conducting research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center through the College of Medicine.


16th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry

Before dawn on April 26, 1865 a detachment of the 16th New York Cavalry under the command of Lt. Edward P. Doherty cornered Lincoln assassins Booth and Herold in a tobacco barn near Port Royal, Virginia.

Australian Legends

2002 – Medical Scientists, haematologist Professor Donald Metcalf, microbiologist Professor Nancy Millis, immunologists Professor Sir Gustav Nossal and Professor Peter C. Doherty, and epidemiologist and public health researcher Professor Fiona Stanley

Charles Marcil

Another notable relative was Charles Marcil's maternal uncle, Edward P. Doherty, an American Civil War officer who formed and led the detachment of soldiers that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of United States President Abraham Lincoln.

Dickinson R. Debevoise

After 32 years on the Court, Judge Debevoise has over 60 former law clerks, including Stuart Rabner, current Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, former New Jersey Attorney General, and former counsel to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, and Peter C. Harvey, who was the first African American to serve as New Jersey Attorney General (2003–2006).

Edward Doherty

Edward P. Doherty (1840–1897), United States Army officer, led capture of the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln

Edward P. Doherty

During his last years in the military, he served some time under General George Meade as Inspector General of the Department of Georgia, which had been created by the military in 1865 as part of the Third Military District during the post-war Reconstruction period.

Gerard F. Doherty

Doherty also worked as a campaign coordinator for United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody.

Interval graph

The mathematical theory of interval graphs was developed with a view towards applications by researchers at the RAND Corporation's mathematics department, which included young researchers—such as Peter C. Fishburn and students like Alan C. Tucker and Joel E. Cohen—besides leaders—such as Delbert Fulkerson and (recurring visitor) Victor Klee.

Michael Doherty

Michael J. Doherty (born 1963), American Republican Party politician, member of the New Jersey Senate

Paul Doherty

Paul C. Doherty (born 1946), British author, educator, lecturer and historian

Peter C. Appling

Peter C. Appling served as a member of the 1869-1871 California State Assembly, representing the 4th District.

Peter C. Bishop

Bishop started teaching at Georgia Southern College (now Georgia Southern University) in 1973 where he specialized in social problems and political sociology.

Peter C. Brown

He currently serves on the Rockhurst High School board of trustees, a position he also held 1998 through 2001.

Peter C. Economus

He was a judge of the Mahoning County Ohio Court of Common Pleas from 1982 to 1995.

Peter C. Goldmark, Jr.

He has been a visiting professor at noted schools, including the JFK School of Government of Harvard University, Yale University, Brandeis University and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.

Peter C. Granata

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the Seventy-second Congress and served from March 3, 1931, to April 5, 1932, when he was succeeded by Stanley H. Kunz, who successfully contested the election.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

Peter C. Knudson

A Republican, he is a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 17th senate district in Box Elder, Cache and Tooele Counties including Brigham City.

Peter C. Meinig

At Cornell he joined the International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji).

Peter C. Newman

He joined the Royal Canadian Navy reserve in 1947 as an Ordinary Seaman and later reached the rank of Captain, having served in the naval reserve for 50 years.

He lives with his fourth wife, Alvy (Bjorklund) Newman, in Belleville, Ontario.

Peter C. Schultz

He is a member of the Selection Committee for the National Medal of Technology and a Board member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

He serves as senior advisor and Board member of OFS (the Lucent fiber optics business unit acquired by Furukawa in 2001).

Peter C. Shannon

Shannon presided over the trial of Jack McCall for the killing of Wild Bill Hickok which resulted in the Dakota Territory's first legal hanging, and prepared the Criminal Code adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1875.

In 1883 Shannon was appointed to investigate charges of drunkenness and improper behavior against Everton Conger, a judge in Montana Territory; although his report was somewhat sympathetic, it led to Attorney-General Benjamin H. Brewster recommending his removal.

Peter C. Smith

Peter C Smith is the published author of 76 books of aeronautical, naval and military history including Pedestal - the Convoy that saved Malta; Task Force 57 - The British Pacific Fleet; The Junkers Ju87 Stuka; Sailors in the Dock - A History of Naval Court Martials down the Centuries; and Midway: Dauntless Victory.

Peter C. Whybrow

He is the Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and CEO of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.

Peter Conover Hains

On August 15, 1908, two of his three sons, Peter C. Hains II and Thornton Jenkins Hains, a well-known author of sea stories, were involved in the murder of William E. Annis at the Bayside Yacht Club, Long Island.

Peter Goldmark

Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., American environmentalist, publisher, financier, and executive director

Peter Myers

Peter C. Myers (1931-2012), a US Missouri politician who was Deputy Secretary of Agriculture under Ronald Reagan

Peter Newman

Peter C. Newman, Canadian journalist who emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia

Plainfield, New Hampshire

Peter C. Whybrow, author, psychiatrist, and director of the Semel Institute at UCLA

Republicanism in Canada

The notion of a republic was raised publicly in the early 1990s, when Peter C. Newman wrote in Maclean's that the monarchy should be abolished in favour of a head of state "who would reflect our own, instead of imported, values."

Ross Honeywill

The critically acclaimed Lamarck's Evolution was launched by Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty and Dr John Long at the 2008 Melbourne Writers Festival.

Susan G. Cole

While on the job she met author and Maclean's editor Peter C. Newman who, in 1976, made her his principal researcher for his book The Bronfman Dynasty (McClelland & Stewart).

Tawas Area Schools

Peter C. Lemon is an alumnus of Tawas Area High School, and on 12 January 2005 he donated his Medal of Honor to the school.

Thomas d'Aquino

Canadian author Peter C. Newman, in his book Titans, describes d'Aquino as "the most powerful influence on public policy formation in Canadian history".

Thomas M. Doherty

He died September 21, 1906 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery Southgate, Kentucky.

Walter L. Gordon

He continued to argue for economic nationalist causes and in 1968, along with Peter C. Newman of the Toronto Star; economist Abraham Rotstein; and University of Toronto professor Mel Watkins, founded the Committee for an Independent Canada.

Werner Ploberger

# Empirical Limits for Time Series Econometric Models (with Peter C. B. Phillips), Econometrica, Vol.

#Posterior Odds Testing for a Unit Root with Data-Based Model Selection (with Peter C. B. Phillips), Econometric Theory, Vol.10, No. 3-4, 1994, pp 771–808.

William H. Doherty

William H. Doherty (August 21, 1907 – February 15, 2000) was an American electrical engineer noted for his invention of the Doherty amplifier.

You had an option, sir

Mulroney later disclosed to journalist Peter C. Newman that he did not know his "You had an option" response would be positively received as he was speaking it.


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