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unusual facts about Samuel P. Benson


Samuel P. Benson

Benson was elected as a Whig to the (Thirty-third Congress) and as an Opposition Party member to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857).


A. C. Benson

His cousin James Bethune-Baker is also buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground.

Alfred W. Benson

Born in Poland, Chautauqua County, New York, he moved to Jamestown, New York in 1860, and attended Jamestown and Randolph Academies.

Arthur W. Benson

In the middle of the land was Indian Field which was the home for the Montaukett tribe.

Benson founded the Brooklyn Gas Light company in 1823, when Brooklyn had 9,000 people.

Binary-coded decimal

In the 1972 case Gottschalk v. Benson, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision which had allowed a patent for converting BCD encoded numbers to binary on a computer.

Bridget Cleary

The writer E. F. Benson took a considerable interest in the case, publishing a scholarly commentary on it, "The Recent 'Witch-Burning at Clonmel'", in the influential periodical The Nineteenth Century in June 1895, before the trial itself began.

Bruce Benson

Bruce D. Benson (born 1938), president of the University of Colorado System

Bruce D. Benson

Benson was selected as CU president amid concerns among the CU faculty and community members because to his lack of academic pedigree, climate change denial, close connection to partisan politics (Benson unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Colorado as the Republican nominee in 1994), and close ties to the oil and gas industry.

Colt State Park

The park lands were previously owned by Bristol industrialist Samuel P. Colt.

Cremation of Care

In 1878, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco first took to the woods in Taylorville, California (present-day Samuel P. Taylor State Park) for a summer celebration that they called Midsummer High Jinks.

Daniel Benson

Daniel R. Benson (born 1975), member of the New Jersey General Assembly

Dominique Avon

He is also the author of La Fragilité des clercs ("The Frailty of the Intellectuals", untranslated), an essay in which he analyses the thought of Samuel P. Huntington, Tariq Ramadan, Georges Corm, Alain Besançon and Alain Finkielkraut.

Ethan Berkowitz

He and running mate for Lieutenant Governor Diane E. Benson faced incumbent Republican Governor Sean Parnell in the November general election and were defeated by a margin of 59% to 38%.

Ezra T. Benson

During his second mission he was in New Jersey serving with John Pack when they received news of Joseph Smith's murder.

Geoffrey Madan

While still at school he earned a day’s holiday for the whole school by the excellence of his account of Eton written in Herodotean Greek, and embarked on a correspondence and friendship with A. C. Benson.

George S. Benson

Buildings are named in his honor at Harding University, Freed Hardeman University, Faulkner University, and Oklahoma Christian University.

Gerontion

Lines within the poems are connected to the works of a wide range of writers, including A. C. Benson, Lancelot Andrews, and Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams.

Gimm-Young Publishers, Inc.

It is also responsible for the Korean-language translations of a number of major foreign works, including Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of Civilizations, Michael J. Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.

Harvard International Relations Council

The HIR has featured scholars and policymakers from around the world, including Nelson Mandela, Samuel P. Huntington, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jeffrey Sachs, Shimon Peres, Paul Krugman, Chen Shui-bian, Amartya Sen, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Ban Ki-moon, N.R. Narayana Murthy, Ted Turner and Javier Solana.

Henry Benson

Henry L. Benson (1854–1921), American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon

James G. Batterson

He joined forces with Elizabeth Colt to make the Wadsworth Atheneum a free public institution; on 16 October 1880, he was honored at the Atheneum by ex-President Ulysses S. Grant for his contributions to historic preservation.

James Oneal

The true "Right Wing" of the party (exemplified by a large section of the publicists associate with the party, including Allan L. Benson, Charles Edward Russell, John Spargo, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, and Carl D. Thompson peeled away in 1917-18, as American participation in the European conflict became a reality and Woodrow Wilson's argument that this was indeed a "war to make the world safe for democracy" made converts.

John T. Benson

Benson was director of education for the Marshall, Wisconsin school district and was assistant supervisor of Public Instruction of Wisconsin.

Judith Fox

Fox's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), the Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP), The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida.

Linden Place

Samuel P. Colt, politician, industrialist (died at Linden Place in 1921)

Lucy Benson

:For the U.S. Under Secretary of State, see Lucy W. Benson.

Martin A. Nelson

Nelson obtained the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1934 and 1936, but lost both general elections to Floyd B. Olson and Elmer A. Benson, respectively.

Namwianga Mission

Namwianga also contains the George Benson Christian College, which trains secondary teachers in the areas of Math-Religious Education or English-Religious Education, and many graduates go on to plant churches around Zambia.

Nearco

With the political turmoil and the possibility of war caused by Benito Mussolini aligning Italy with Germany, in 1938 Federico Tesio sold Nearco to Martin H. Benson of Beech House Stud in Newmarket, England for £60,000 (a world-record for a sire in those days).

North Pacific Coast Railroad

Some of the original right of way can be seen at the Samuel P. Taylor State Park near Fairfax, along the shore of Tomales Bay and Keyes Estuary and passenger depots remain in San Anselmo and Duncans Mills.

Of Paradise and Power

In terms of its impact, it was compared by reviewers to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, and even the X Article.

Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Famous military figures, prospectors, outlaws and warriors would all become part of Tucson's culture more than ever before.

Prosecutor

Bruce L. Benson's To Serve and Protect lauds the role of private prosecutors, often employed by prosecution associations, in serving the needs of crime victims in England.

Robert Knox Sneden

He served on Samuel P. Heintzelman's III Corps staff, as a draughtsman on map work, from January 12, 1862.

Samuel Cox

Samuel P. Cox, Union Colonel in American Civil War; killed William T. Anderson

Samuel P. Carter

Carter was born in Elizabethton, Tennessee, the eldest son of Alfred Moore Carter, a direct descendant of the early settlers for whom Carter County is named.

Temple, Oliver P. Notable Men of Tennessee, New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1912, p.

Samuel P. Colt

A farm owned by Colt was later purchased by the state of Rhode Island, and transformed into Colt State Park.

The ensuing contest between Colt, Wetmore and Democrat Robert Hale Ives Goddard resulted in 81 deadlocked ballots cast by the General Assembly over the course of four months in 1907 and a vacant seat in Rhode Island's delegation to the 60th Congress.

In 1892, he merged it with several other companies he had acquired to form the United States Rubber Company.

Samuel P. Cowley

At 8:30 p.m., Anna Sage, John Dillinger, and Polly Hamilton strolled into the Biograph Theater to see Clark Gable in Manhattan Melodrama.

Samuel P. Cox

Frank was not tried for the bank murder however he was tried in 1883 in Gallatin for an 1881 murder of a Rock Island Railroad employee at nearby Winston, Missouri.

After the war he returned to Gallatin, Missouri and briefly settled in Grass Valley, Nevada and Oroville, California (1854-1856) before returning to Daviess County in 1857 where he was briefly a deputy sheriff.

Samuel P. Heintzelman

Heintzelman was in overall command of the 2nd Michigan Infantry regiment that was responsible for the raid, ransacking, and devastation of the Pohick Church in Lorton, Virginia, on November 12, 1861.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii

In response Ezra T. Benson and Lorenzo Snow of the quorum of the 12 were sent to take over the leadership of the mission with the assistance of Joseph F. Smith who had been a missionary in Hawaii fro much of the 1850s.


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