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Samuel D. Lockwood

Lockwood practiced law in Batavia for a year before relocating his practice to Sempronius, New York for about a year and a half.


Anti-submarine weapon

Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, commander of the U.S. submarine fleet in the Pacific, later estimated that May's revelation cost the navy as many as ten submarines and 800 crewmen.

Charles A. Lockwood

He oversaw the moving forward of the Pacific Fleet submarine bases from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Australia to places like Saipan - where a submarine tender was stationed for a period of time - Guam, the Admiralty Islands, and Subic Bay, the Philippines.

In retirement at Los Gatos, California, he authored and contributed to several best-selling books on naval history and submarine operations, including Tragedy at Honda, Sink-Em All, Through Hell and Deep Water, Hell at 50 Fathoms, Zoomies, Subs and Zeros, Hellcats of the Sea, Battles of the Philippine Sea, and Down to The Sea in Subs: My Life in the U.S. Navy.

Lockwood also acted as Commander Allied Naval Forces, Western Australia, until July 1942, overseeing the major bases at Fremantle and Exmouth (Codename "Potshot"), amongst others.

Duncan invited Lockwood to be his guest that year at Jake's Opening Hunting Club, near Boonville, California.

Charles G. DeWitt

On March 22, 1831, he was appointed by Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham as one of three Commissioners of Insolvency for the Southern District of New York.

Daniel N. Lockwood

Lockwood was elected as a Democrat to the 43rd United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1877, to March 3, 1879.

Lockwood was elected again to the 52nd and 53rd United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1895.

Fonville Winans

In 1995, LSU Press issued Fonville Winans' Louisiana: Politics, People, and Places, a collection of over one hundred images by Fonville with a foreword by Louisiana politico James Carville and an afterword by noted contemporary Louisiana photographer C.C. Lockwood.

Gertrude Emerson Sen

She was the daughter of Alfred Emerson, Sr., and the granddaughter of Deborah Hall, the wife of Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treasury (1829-31) under US President Andrew Jackson.

John H. Brinton

Brinton succeeded Dr. Samuel D. Gross (who was featured in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic), in the chair of surgery at Jefferson College, and also served as the chairman of the Mütter Museum Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Lorna E. Lockwood

Lorna Lockwood was born on March 24, 1903, in Douglas, Arizona Territory, to Daisy Maude Lincoln and Alfred Collins Lockwood.

Mark 14 torpedo

Only in May 1943, after the most famous skipper in the Sub Force, Dudley W. "Mush" Morton, turned in a dry patrol, did Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, Commander Submarine Force Pacific (COMSUBPAC), accept the Mark VI should be deactivated, but waited to see if Bureau of Ordnance commander Admiral William "Spike" Blandy might yet find a fix for the problem.

Operation Pacific

The technical advisor for this film was Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the actual Commander, Submarine Forces, Pacific (COMSUBPAC) during World War II.

Peter Ihrie, Jr.

Ihrie was elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of George Wolf and Samuel D. Ingham.

Riddlewood, Pennsylvania

The name comes from famous racehorse owner Samuel D. Riddle, who owned the property before it was developed in the 1950s.

Samuel A. Smith

He resigned this position in 1832, and was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of George Wolf and Samuel D. Ingham.

Samuel D. Gruber

Gruber received his B.A. degree in Medieval Studies from Princeton University where he studied with Joseph Strayer, William Chester Jordan, Robert Bergman, David Coffin, Robert Hollander and other distinguished scholars.

Samuel D. Phillips

While serving as a private in Company H, 2nd U.S. Cavalry, he fought in an action against Indians at Muddy Creek in the Montana Territory on May 7, 1877.

Samuel D. Purviance

He was member of the State house of commons in 1798 and 1799; member of the State senate from Cumberland County in 1801; trustee of Fayetteville Academy in 1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); continued the practice of law in Fayetteville; died on the Red River in 1806, while on an exploring expedition into the West.

Samuel D. Ratcliffe

He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Birmingham Southern College, moving to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as an actor.

Samuel D. Riddle

Miss Riddle, member number 25516 of the Daughters of the American Revolution, married Mr. Homer Lee (of Mansfield, Ohio, who founded the Homer Lee Bank Note Company in New York City).

Samuel D. Roberts

Roberts is retired from General Motors where he worked for 30 years and was a member of the United Auto Workers union.

Samuel D. Thompson

He served on the New Jersey Turnpike Authority from 1994-1997 as director of communications and formerly as director of planning, analysis and government relations.

Samuel D. Wonders

He was elected president in 1949 after the death of president Richard B. Carter and served until 1955.

Samuel D. Wonders died in October 1980, a resident of Peterborough, New Hampshire.

From 1913-1929, Samuel D. Wonders worked as an industrial engineer for various companies in Ohio and Massachusetts, the best known of which was Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.

Samuel D. Woods

He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and served from December 3, 1900, to March 3, 1903.

Woods was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Marion De Vries.

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

Samuel Purviance

Samuel D. Purviance (1774 – 1806), U.S. Representative from North Carolina

Samuel Warren

Samuel D. Warren (1852–1910), US attorney, co-author (with Brandeis) of the classic law review article The Right to Privacy (1890)

Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War is a nonfiction scientific warfare book written by award-winning author and University of Wyoming professor, Jeffrey A. Lockwood.

Tambor-class submarine

In the fall of 1937 a proposal for a true fleet submarine (a submarine intended to operate as part of a larger fleet) was finally put forward by the team of officers put together by then Commander Charles A. Lockwood (later admiral and Commander Submarine Fleet Pacific), Lt. Cmdr. Andrew I. McKee, planning officer at Portsmouth Navy Yard, and Lt. Armand M. Morgan, head of the Navy's submarine design section.

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).

Walter M. Jeffords, Sr.

(August 8, 1883 - September 28, 1960) was a successful Investment banker and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who, in partnership with his wife's uncle, Samuel Riddle, purchased and operated Faraway Farm near Lexington Kentucky where they stood Man o' War.

William W. Lockwood

William W. Lockwood (William Wirt or Bill) (1906-1978) was a noted academic who was Research Secretary (1935-1940) and Executive Secretary (1941-1943) at the Institute of Pacific Relations.


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