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unusual facts about Samuel J. Montgomery


Samuel J. Montgomery

Born in Buffalo, Kentucky, Montgomery was the son of Henry Harrison and Ella Slack (Montgomery) Montgomery.


Alexander B. Montgomery

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

He served as member of the Dawes Indian Commission, appointed under act of Congress to treat with the Five Civilized Tribes from 1895 to 1898.

Montgomery was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses).

Barry Minkow

Seitz had recommended that Minkow serve his sentence at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Montgomery, Alabama.

Benjamin S. W. Clark

In March 1876, he was appointed by Governor Samuel J. Tilden an Inspector of State Prisons to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Moss K. Platt.

Carrier Strike Group Eleven

Then Rear Admiral Samuel J. Locklear took command of CCDG-5/Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2002, deploying to the Middle East in 2003.

David Montgomery

David C. Montgomery (died 1917), American comedic actor, straight man half of the pair Montgomery & Stone, with Fred Stone

David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

Dennis L. Montgomery

Montgomery's software claims were reportedly responsible for a false terror alert which grounded international flights and caused Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to raise the government's security level.

Dennis Lee Montgomery (born 1953) is an American software designer and former medical technician credited with "bamboozling" federal officials into purchasing computer programs he claimed would decode secret Al Qaeda messages hidden in Al Jazeera broadcasts and identify terrorists based on predator drone videos.

Edward Montgomery

Edward B. Montgomery, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor and economist

Edward Packard

Along with R. A. Montgomery, his original publisher at Vermont Crossroads Press, Packard wrote many more books in the series, contributing well over 60 titles by 1998, when the series ended.

Elmore Harris

This group was led by Elmore Harris, and included the well-known Casimir Gzowski Jr. (son of the builder of the Grand Trunk Railway and grandfather of broadcaster Peter Gzowski), Robert Kilgour of the Kilgour Brothers (a manufacturer of paper bags and paper boxes), John Drysdale Nasmith (a baker) and Samuel J. Moore of the business forms fame (a Sunday school leader at Dovercourt Road Baptist Church).

Eric Fanning

He also worked at Business Executives for National Security, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank and at Robinson, Lerer & Montgomery, a strategic communications firm in New York City.

Eric Luedtke

In 2010, Luedtke ran for the House of Delegates after then-Delegates Herman L. Taylor, Jr. and Karen S. Montgomery decided to run for higher offices.

He dropped out of the Senate race, but in early 2010 two seats in the House of Delegates became open when incumbent Delegate Karen S. Montgomery decided to challenge Kramer and Delegate Herman L. Taylor, Jr. began a campaign against Congresswoman Donna Edwards.

Ffridd Faldwyn, Montgomery

This was following the most recent excavation practices developed by Mortimer Wheeler for his excavations at the hillfort at Maiden Castle in Dorset.

Fort Peck Dam

M.R. Montgomery, Personal History, "Impalpable Dust," The New Yorker, March 27, 1989, p.

Hugh E. Montgomery

He has been appointed director of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in 2008.

Irene Gammel

She has published numerous books including Baroness Elsa, a groundbreaking cultural biography of New York Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Looking for Anne of Green Gables, revealing the hidden life of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery during the writing of her classic novel Anne of Green Gables.

John R. Montgomery

Montgomery worked at Burnett for 33 years, where he served as Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director and handled accounts including McDonald’s (domestic and global), Minute Maid (Coca-Cola), Nintendo, Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, Allstate, 7-Up, Keebler, Green Giant, Miller Beers, United Airlines, Kraft Foods, Nestle and Samsonite.

Justice Douglas

Samuel J. Douglas, an Associate Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1866 to 1868

Kirkwood, Illinois

Finally, in May 1874 the town name was changed to Kirkwood in honor of the former governor of Iowa, Samuel J. Kirkwood.

Louise Munro Foley

Foley was only the fourth author after Edward Packard, R.A. Montgomery and Richard Brightfield to permanently establish within the Choose Your Own Adventure series.

Paul L. Montgomery

A series of article he wrote in March 1970 resulted in the release of four visitors from Cuenca, Ecuador who had been charged with setting off a simultaneous detonation of incendiary devices in the Alexander's and Bloomingdale's department stores in New York City.

He also wrote stories about the difficulties of life in the slums of Ecuador and coverage of clashes between federal soldiers and protesters in the Tlatelolco Massacre that took place on October 2, 1968, in Mexico City, ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics and left an estimated 200 to 300 deaths.

Peshawar Valley Field Force

Sir Samuel J. Browne (Overall Command of the Peshawar Valley Field Force)

The Peshawar Valley Field Force was a British field force of around 12,000 men, a mix of both British regiments and Indian regiments, under the command of Sir Samuel J. Browne during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880).

R. A. Montgomery

Working from a book manuscript written by Edward Packard, he and his then partner/wife, (Constance Cappel) published four books at Vermont Crossroads Press that would later be included in the Bantam "Choose" series (The Cave of Time, Journey Under the Sea, By Balloon to the Sahara, and Space and Beyond).

Montgomery and partner Shannon Gilligan are currently reissuing some books of the initial "Choose" series through Chooseco LLC, in Waitsfield, Vermont.

Richard Alvin Tonry

These allegation ultimately led to his resignation, his guilty pleas of campaign finance irregularities, and a six-months prison sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Alabama.

Robert H. Foglesong

He helped to establish the Appalachian Leadership Honors Program at Mississippi State, which now goes by the name Montgomery Leadership Program in honor of former congressman Sonny Montgomery.

Samuel J. Aquila

Aquila was born on September 24, 1950 in Burbank, California and ordained a priest in 1976 for the Archdiocese of Denver.

Samuel J. Barrows

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Barrows went with the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, under the command of General Stanley, and with the Black Hills Expedition in 1874, commanded by General Custer.

Samuel J. Beck

He visited Los Angeles in 1869 at the behest of the W.H. Workman family and bought a vineyard on San Pedro Street, then moved to the city in 1876.

Samuel J. Hamrick

Hamrick used the name W. T. Tyler as an allusion to Wat Tyler, an English rebel of the 14th century.

Samuel J. Heyman

During the late 1980s, Heyman attempted hostile takeovers of Union Carbide and Borg-Warner in an effort to increase the scale of GAF's chemical operations.

Samuel J. LeFrak

In 1988, LeFrak was honored by the United Nations, along with former President Jimmy Carter, for global contributions through Habitat International.

Samuel J. Moore

He played an important role in the development of the YMCA in Canada and was a major supporter of the Canadian Baptist Church being a member of Dovercourt Road Baptist Church in Toronto and Sunday school leader.

Samuel Randall

Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), Pennsylvania politician, attorney and soldier

Tilden, Nebraska

Tilden was incorporated as Burnett in 1885, but the U.S. Post Office officially changed the name of the village in 1887, after presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden, due to confusion with Bennet, Nebraska.

Tinsley W. Rucker, Jr.

Upon the death of Georgia's federal representative for the 8th district, Samuel J. Tribble, Rucker won the special election as a Democrat to fill the remainder of the term for that seat in the 64th United States Congress and served from January 11, 1917 until March 3, 1917.

Tom Colten

He favored (though he could not vote in the primary at the time) John Willard "Jack" Montgomery, a Springhill native and Minden lawyer who was challenging two-term State Senator Harold Montgomery of Doyline, also in Webster Parish.

Washington Allon Bartlett

Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7, 1846, and Commander John B. Montgomery of USS Portsmouth arrived at the coastal village of Yerba Buena on July 9, 1846 to take control of the area for the United States.

Willie Randolph

Randolph grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School, where he was a star athlete and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 7th round of the 1972 draft.


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