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3 unusual facts about Peter T. Washburn


Peter T. Washburn

In 1844 he moved his practice to Woodstock and formed a partnership with Charles P. Marsh until his death in 1870.

In October 1861, he was elected Adjutant General of Vermont, with the rank of Brigadier General, succeeding Horace Henry Baxter.

He moved to Woodstock in 1844, where he lived for the remainder of his life.


Abugida

Abugida as a term in linguistics was proposed by Peter T. Daniels in his 1990 typology of writing systems.

Alfonse M. D'Amato United States Courthouse

It was renamed for D'Amato in 2002 from a bill by Peter T. King that was supported by Chuck Schumer who had defeated D'Amato.

Aramaic alphabet

Writing systems that indicate consonants but do not indicate most vowels (like the Aramaic one) or indicate them with added diacritical signs, have been called abjads by Peter T. Daniels to distinguish them from later alphabets, such as Greek, that represent vowels more systematically.

Dave Mejias

That seat is currently held by Republican Peter King (R-Seaford), chairman of House Committee on Homeland Security.

In August 2006, the AFL-CIO gave their endorsement to Mejias, over the incumbent Peter T. King (R), whom they had endorsed in each election for the previous fourteen years, ever since King was first elected to Congress.

Free Software Foundation

In late 2001, Bradley M. Kuhn (then Executive Director), with the assistance of Moglen, David Turner, and Peter T. Brown, formalized these efforts into FSF's GPL Compliance Labs.

Henry D. Washburn

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress.

He was reelected to the Fortieth Congress and served from February 23, 1866, to March 3, 1869.

John L. Washburn

During 1977-1978, John was a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association, and served as a senior staff member for Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin and for Congressman John Cavanaugh of Nebraska.

John L. Washburn is the Convener for the American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) and Co-Chair of the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court (WICC).

Kevin K. Washburn

After graduating from law school, Professor Washburn clerked for Judge William C. Canby, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Washburn is married to Elizabeth Rodke Washburn, a Senate staffer for Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and they have two children.

Little Bay de Noc

A bit further north, Gladstone was founded in 1887 by U.S. Senator from Minnesota, William D. Washburn, to serve as a rail-lake terminal for lumber products.

National language

On 17 March 2011, Representative Peter T. King (R-NY.) introduced House Bill H.R.1164, a bill to amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States.

Peter King

Peter T. King (born 1944), U.S. Republican Congressman from New York

Peter Kirstein

Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist who played a significant role in the creation of the Internet

Peter T. Brown

Peter T. Brown was the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until early 2011.

Peter T. Curtenius

On May 31, 1775, the New York Provincial Congress appointed him Commissary General, with the rank of colonel, being in charge of the purchase of provisions for the Continental Army.

Peter T. Farrell

Farrell presided over the 1952 trial of bank robber Willie Sutton in which Sutton had been charged with the 1950 heist of $63,942 from a branch of the Manufacturers Trust Company in Sunnyside, Queens, part of more than $2 million he was estimated to have stolen from various banks over the course of his career in crime.

Farrell was best known for presiding over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton, who was sentenced to 30 to 120 years in Attica State Prison, before Farrell suspended the sentence in 1969 because of Sutton's deteriorating health.

Reunion Society of Vermont Officers

Almost all prominent Vermonters who had served in the Civil War were members of the Society, including U.S. Senator Redfield Proctor, Interstate Commerce Commission member Wheelock G. Veazey, and Governors Peter T. Washburn, Roswell Farnham, John L. Barstow, Samuel E. Pingree, Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, Urban A. Woodbury, Josiah Grout, and Charles J. Bell.

Vilmantas Marcinkevičius

2004 - Peter T. Kirstein, University College London (UCL), Professor, London, UK

William B. Washburn

He died in Springfield, Massachusetts, on October 5, 1887 while attending a session of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), of which he was also a member.

William de la Barre

Because of his extensive knowledge flour mills, in 1880 he was hired by Cadwallader C. Washburn (better known as C. C. Washburn), founder of the famous Washburn-Crosby Mills in Minneapolis, to be head engineer and superintendent of his mills.

William J. Sullivan

The court became embroiled in a lengthy ethics scandal in 2006 when it was revealed that retiring Chief Justice Sullivan postponed the publication of a controversial decision opposing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents that track the status and history of legal cases in the Connecticut legal system until hearings for his nominated successor Justice Peter T. Zarella were completed.

William Washburn

William B. Washburn (1820–1887), American politician representing Massachusetts

William D. Washburn (1831–1912), American politician representing Minnesota

Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

By December 27, 2009, responding to rumors that Abdulmutallab had confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen, various American politicians, including Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King and Bennie Thompson, called for American President Barack Obama to halt plans to repatriate the Yemenis.


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