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unusual facts about Theodore S. Peck


Theodore S. Peck

From 1870 to 1872 Peck served as chief of staff to Governor John Stewart with the rank of colonel.


Albion P. Howe

He took command of John J. Peck's 3rd Brigade, (55th New York, 62nd New York, and the 93rd, 98th, and 102nd Pennsylvania regiments) Couch's 1st Division, Keyes's IV Corps during the Seven Days Battles, after Peck was promoted to command of Silas Casey's Division of the same corps.

Cape Canaveral Light

William H. Peck wrote about his meeting with lighthouse keeper Mills Burnham of Cape Canaveral in the Florida Star newspaper in 1887.

Dick Celeste

His brother, Theodore S. Celeste, successfully ran as a Democratic Party candidate for the Ohio House in 2006.

Erasmus D. Peck

He was reelected to the Forty-second Congress and served from April 23, 1870, to March 3, 1873.

Peck was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Truman H. Hoag.

George H. Peck

Among his larger real estate transactions were the sale of properties for the Standard Oil (now Chevron) refinery at what became El Segundo and the Army's Fort MacArthur at San Pedro.

James Peck

James H. Peck (1790–1836), American judge in Missouri impeached for abuse of power

John J. Peck

He was placed in command of the 2nd Division, IV Corps during the Seven Days Battles where he again distinguished himself.

John Watts de Peyster, Jr.

After Kearny's death at the Battle of Chantilly, he then joined the 11th New York Cavalry Regiment in June 1862 as a Lieutenant, but was mustered out the same month, and assigned to the 1st New York Light Artillery as a Major and served until 1863 when he joined the staff of General John J. Peck.

Luther C. Peck

Born in Farmington, Connecticut in January 1800, Peck completed preparatory studies and taught school in Holley, New York.

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline, based on the book of the same name by George W. Peck.

Theodore S. Coberly

He returned to Washington, D.C., in August 1968 for a tour of duty with the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as deputy director for operations, National Military Command Center.

Theodore S. Weiss

They also found that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to remove several drugs already known to be carcinogens.

Weiss was born in Gáva, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1938 as his family fled the Nazi invasion of Hungary.

Theodore S. Westhusing

Westhusing was born in Dallas, Texas and attended high school at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma where he was an outstanding student and starter for the basketball team.

a West Point professor of English and Philosophy, volunteered to serve in Iraq in late 2004 and died in Baghdad from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound in June 2005.

Westhusing served with what the U.S. Department of Defense called the "Multi-national Security Transition Command - Iraq".

Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus

Toby Tyler is a "bad boy" novel, meant to teach a lesson what happens to boys who do bad things; other examples include George W. Peck's Peck's Bad Boy (1883), Thomas Bailey Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), and Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

William R. Peck

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

William Underhill Moore

In 1929 he was co-author with Theodore S. Hope Jr. of "An Institutional Approach to the Law of Commercial Banking,” as published in the Yale Law Journal, 1929, an explanation and predicting of banking law decisions that "did not appear to derive from existing legal rules by determining the extent to which the facts of the case deviated from normal banking practice.


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