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2 unusual facts about Roger B. Chaffee


Roger B. Chaffee

The episode "The Sound of Her Voice" from the sixth season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine features a shuttlecraft named the Chaffee assigned to the USS Defiant.

The star Gamma Velorum was nicknamed "Regor" ("Roger" spelled backwards).


Adna R. Chaffee, Jr.

He predicted in 1927 that mechanized armies would dominate the next war and assisted in the first program for the development of a U.S. Army armored force.

Upon his father's death in 1914, he became an Hereditary First Class Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Calvin C. Chaffee

Irene Emerson was the widow of Dr. John Emerson, the owner of the slave Dred Scott.

Central Methodist Eagles

Roger B. Wilson, who later became Governor of Missouri, was a member of Central Methodist's rugby teams in the early 1970s.

Daniel Van Voorhis

The organization he created and the tactics he developed were vital to the Army's transformation into the modern, mobile armor and mechanized infantry force that was successful in World War II, and with Adna R. Chaffee, Jr. he is recognized as a founder of the Army's Armor branch.

Dred Scott

Her new husband, Calvin C. Chaffee, was an abolitionist, who shortly after their marriage was elected to the U.S. Congress.

Fort McHenry

A drama beginning the famous Supreme Court case involving the night arrest in Baltimore County and imprisonment here of John Merryman and the upholding of his demand for a writ of habeas corpus for release by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney occurred at the gates between Court and Federal Marshals and the commander of Union troops occupying the Fort under orders from President Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

Henry Gratiot

At the time of his death, he had been attended by his brother General Charles Gratiot, General George W. Jones, Captain Henry A. Thompson and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney among others.

M24 Chaffee

In British service it was given the service name Chaffee, after the United States Army General Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., who helped develop the use of tanks in the United States armed forces.

O'Reilly v. Morse

As Justice Taney, speaking for the majority of the Court, explained it, "He claims the exclusive right to every improvement where the motive power is the electric or galvanic current, and the result is the marking or printing in telligible characters, signs, or letters at a distance."

Provincial Councils of Baltimore

At one of the sessions of this council several lawyers (among them Roger B. Taney, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) gave advice to the bishops on points of American law concerning property rights and ecclesiastical courts.

Robert Merrill Lee

During 1938 to 1940 he was aide-de-camp to General Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., the "father" of the Armored Force.

Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium

The system also features three Sony video projectors, a Barco video projector, scores of Kodak ektagraphic slide projectors and even more special effect projectors and devices.

Roger B. Porter

Porter grew up in Utah, Iowa, and New York and attended Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah.

Roger Wilson

Roger B. Wilson (born 1948), American Democratic politician, former Governor of Missouri

Taney

Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), U.S. Attorney General and Chief Justice

Taney County, Missouri

The county was officially organized on January 4, 1837, and named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, most remembered for later delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford.


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