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2 unusual facts about Roy O. Woodruff


Roy O. Woodruff

In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party from Michigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

In 1920, Woodruff returned to Congress, elected as a Republican from the same district to the 67th Congress.


Amalgamated Sugar Company

Directors included Charles Nibley, William Lewis, Abraham O. Woodruff, Rudger Clawson, William B. Preston, and Joseph Howell, with Charles Nibley as president, Lewis as vice president, and Charles W. Nibley Jr. as secretary.

Brian O'Donnell

After successfully securing Roy O'Brien's signature after the player was about to walk away due to a break of contract from the board, O'Donnell pledged to take on the job full-time with the support of senior players Mark Jermyn and Jamie Gleeson.

George W. Woodruff

He bequeathed the university's law school a $15 million endowment; the Woodruff Curriculum at Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law is named in his honor.

George Woodruff

George W. Woodruff (1895–1987), American businessman and philanthropist

Jonathan Simons

At 41 years old, Simons was recruited by the Georgia governor Roy Barnes and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation of Atlanta to be the Founding Director of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University.

New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments

Votes against conviction: Judges Ward Hunt (Rep.), Lewis B. Woodruff (Rep.), Charles Mason (Rep.), William J. Bacon (Rep.), Thomas W. Clerke and Charles C. Dwight; State Senators Chapman, Banks, Campbell, Hubbard, Humphrey, Kennedy, Mattoon, Morgan, Wicks, Palmer, Parker, Thayer, Van Patten - 19

Pat Dolan

Dolan had finished building a strong team at Cork, following the good work first laid out by Dave Barry and then Liam Murphy, and the club went on to win the league title in 2005 under new manager Damien Richardson, with the notable addition of Roy O'Donovan.

Quapaw Quarter

Another landmark of the area is Mount Holly Cemetery, at the intersection of 12th and Broadway streets, with one of the largest collections of gravesites of notable Arkansans, ranging from past governors, senators and mayors to Confederate spy David Owen Dodd and Arkansas Gazette founder William E. Woodruff.

Robert Woodruff

Robert W. Woodruff (1889–1985), philanthropist and long-time president of The Coca-Cola Company

Roy Disney

Roy O. Disney (1893–1971), Walt Disney's elder brother and the financier of his efforts

Roy O. Disney

While Walt was the creative man, Roy was the one who made sure the company was financially stable; Roy and Walt both founded Disney Studios as brothers, but Walt would buy out most of Roy's share in 1929 and, unlike Max and Dave Fleischer of rival Fleischer Studios, Roy was not a co-producer.

Thomas M. Woodruff

He was elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1847).

Timothy L. Woodruff

In the process Woodruff became the only Lieutenant Governor in New York history to serve under three different Governors — Frank S. Black, Theodore Roosevelt, and Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. As Lieutenant Governor, Woodruff took a leadership role in the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, helping to protect the forests there from the devastation of clear cutting and large scale damming projects.

W. A. Cunningham

He also coached Georgia's first All-American, Bob McWhorter, and George "Kid" Woodruff, who assumed the head coaching duties at Georgia in 1923.

W. George Bowdon, Jr.

Bowdon, an Alexandria native, graduated in 1939 from Bolton High School in Alexandria; among his classmates were Joe D. Smith, Jr., later publisher of the Alexandria Daily Town Talk and the industrialist and philanthropist Roy O. Martin, Jr. (1921–2007).


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