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Thomas Durant

Thomas C. Durant (1820-1885), American financier and railroad promoter


Association of MultiEthnic Americans

In 1989, AMEA issued a letter illustrating the concerns of their constituency to Congressman Thomas Sawyer, Chairman of the House subcommittee monitoring the census.

Center for National Policy

Other CNP Board members have included former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Foley, former Republican Members of Congress Jack Buechner and Rod Chandler, and former Democratic Members of Congress John Brademas and Michael Barnes.

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die

Peyton Westlake (Arnold Vosloo), still searching for the key to creating a permanent liquid-skin formula to repair his burned face and hands, is approached by Dr. Bridget Thorne (Darlanne Fluegel), one of the physicians who saved Westlake's life following his brutal attack at the hands of Robert G. Durant.

De Alva S. Alexander

It focused on prominent political leaders such as Grover Cleveland, Thomas C. Platt, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Donald Gregg

In September 2009, Gregg retired to the role of chairman emeritus of The Korea Society and was replaced as chairman by Thomas C. Hubbard.

Donaldson Brown

In 1918 he assisted in arranging DuPont's purchase of a substantial stake in General Motors from previous chairman William C. Durant, and later that year became treasurer of DuPont replacing Raskob.

Farewell Dossier

Thomas Reed alleged this was the cause of a spectacular trans-Siberian pipeline disaster in 1982.

Hiroo Kanamori

Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks developed the moment magnitude scale which replaced the Richter magnitude scale as a measurement of the relative strength of earthquakes.

Institute on Religion and Democracy

Notable members of the organization's Board of Directors include journalist Fred Barnes, United Methodist theologian Dr. Thomas C. Oden, Princeton University ethicist Dr. Robert P. George, theologian Michael Novak and former papal biographer George Weigel.

Invasion of Palawan

A naval task force of cruisers and destroyers from the 7th Fleet under Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid—which was Gen. Macarthur's naval command—would protect the landing forces on their movements to shore and then remain to provide gunfire as needed.

Kalmar Nyckel

The modern ship, designed by naval architects Thomas C. Gillmer, Melbourne Smith, Joel Welter, and Ken Court, was built at a shipyard in Wilmington on the Christina River near the original 1638 Swedish settlers' landing site at Fort Christina.

Lanier, Florida

Col. Thomas C. Lanier's personal groves are shown on the original plat.

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge

Another, Thomas was a renowned Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and trainer who won the 1902 Kentucky Derby.

New Democrat Coalition

Thomas C. Sawyer (OH-14), charter member, lost re-election following redistricting

Peter Agre

Agre defended Thomas C. Butler, a plague researcher from Texas Tech University who voluntarily reported to the university safety office that 30 vials of plague bacteria were missing and had probably been autoclaved.

Robert Williams Daniel

On December 6, 1923, Daniel married Mrs. Margery Durant Campbell, daughter of William C. Durant, an automobile manufacturer in the Halsey Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey.

St. Michael Elementary School

On August 6, 2006, a new Community Center was dedicated by the Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly and the current mayor of Louisville Jerry Abramson.

Steven Stucky

Among his many prominent composition students are Alfred Cohen, Joseph Phibbs, Marc Mellits, Robert Paterson, David Conte, Thomas C. Duffy, Yotam Haber James Matheson, Steven Burke, Xi Wang, Spencer Topel, Diego Vega, Fang Man, Anna Weesner, Hannah Lash, Andrew Waggoner, Sean Shepherd, Yotam Haber, Chris Arrell, Jesse Jones, Eric Nathan, and many others.

Task Force 61

Later, in October 1942, the Task Force, now under Rear Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, confronted a force directed by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the same area.

Thomas C. Acton

Action was a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Children as well as a member of the Geographical and New York Historical Society.

Thomas C. Brown

He attended the public schools, and a business school in Belleville, Ontario.

Thomas C. Cooney

Cooney was born July 18, 1853 in Westport, Nova Scotia, and after entering the navy he was sent as a Chief Machinist to fight in the Spanish–American War aboard the U.S. Torpedo Boat Winslow.

Thomas C. Ferguson

From 1984 to 1987 Mr. Ferguson was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC.

On April 8, 1987 he was nominated to be the ambassador Ambassador of the United States to Brunei Darussalam.

Thomas C. Fields

He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and in the autumn of 1872 he fled to Cuba, then Europe, and finally Canada, and died while being a fugitive from justice at his residence "The Priory", near St. Andrews, in Quebec.

Thomas C. Hindman

Meanwhile, the younger Hindman attended local schools before leaving for the Lawrenceville Classical Institute in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, the third oldest boarding school in the country.

He was elected as the Democratic representative from Arkansas's 1st congressional district in the Thirty-sixth Congress from March 4, 1859 to March 4, 1861.

He was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but declined to serve after the onset of the Civil War and Arkansas's secession from the Union.

Thomas C. Jerdon

This position led him to describe many species from the Malabar region including ants such as the distinctive Harpegnathos saltator.

Thomas C. Kelly

In 1962 he was assigned as secretary in the Dominican provincial offices in New York City; he also worked with the National Legion of Decency and the tribunal for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

Thomas C. Lynch

He was appointed to the post by Governor Pat Brown in 1964 to succeed Stanley Mosk, who was appointed to the state Supreme Court by Brown.

Thomas C. McGrath, Jr.

In his first bid, for elective office, McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, defeating four-term Republican Party incumbent Milton W. Glenn.

Thomas C. Molesworth

Molesworth's company and career received a major boost in 1933 when he was commissioned by publisher Moses Annenberg to design the interior furnishings for Annenberg's Ranch A retreat near Beulah, Wyoming.

Thomas C. Platt

He became a member of the Forty-seventh Congress and the chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills.

Thomas C. Reed

While maintaining an interest in Supercon Ltd., Reed organized the Quaker Hill Development Corporation at San Rafael, California, in 1965, and served as its treasurer, president and chairman.

On March 9, 2004, At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, an autobiographical book about his experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through his time as an advisor to President Ronald Reagan.

Thomas C. Richards

After completing tactical combat crew training and airborne training in October 1966, Richards was assigned to the 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron at Bien Hoa Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, as a forward air controller with the 101st Airborne Division.

Thomas C. Stanford

After a brief stay there, he located a homestead in the Little Wood River valley, which was the center of his operations as a rancher and stockman.

Thomas Coffin

Thomas C. Coffin (1887–1934), a United States politician who was a United States Representative from Idaho

Thomas Corrigan

Thomas C. Corrigan, Sr. (born 1938), former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Thomas Sharp

Thomas C. Sharp, opponent of Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Latter Day Saints

Thomas Slater

Thomas C. Slater (1945–2009), Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives

White-naped Tit

This species was discovered in the Eastern Ghats near Nellore by T C Jerdon who received a specimen from a local hunter.

William A. Durant

Durant also served as a sergeant-at-arms at the 1906 Oklahoma constitutional convention and was the sponsor of a bill that created Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

William C. Durant

William Crapo "Billy" Durant (December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars; and the co-founder of General Motors with Frederic L. Smith, and of Chevrolet with Louis Chevrolet.

William Durant

William C. Durant (1861–1947), industrialist and founder of General Motors Corporation


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