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Thomas Rice

Thomas O. Rice, former federal prosecutor and current United States district judge


Alexander Rice

Alexander H. Rice (1818–1895), American politician and businessman from Massachusetts

Alexander H. Rice, Jr. (1875–1956), American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer

Alfred B. Fitt

His second wife, born Lois Dickson (b. 1933), married Fitt after divorcing Emmett J. Rice, making Fitt the stepfather of Susan Rice.

American Airlines Flight 6780

Also on board were former war correspondent John F. Chester and US Civil Aeronautics Administration officials George T. Williams and John D. Rice, both engaged in the development of airport radar systems and navigational aids.

Anatoli Blagonravov

In April 1970, he held informal talks in New York City with NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, about the possibility of performing a rendezvous and docking of a US and Soviet spacecraft.

Baron O'Hagan

It was created on 14 June 1870 for Sir Thomas O'Hagan, then Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Battle of the San Gabriels

A company of Texas Rangers under Lt. James O. Rice had pursued the Mexican agent Manuel Flores and his party of Mexicans and Indians, following their murder of four surveyors working between Seguin and San Antonio, Texas.

Benjamin F. Rice

He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 19, 1905, and was buried Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

Bernard G. Caulfield

Caulfield was elected in 1874 as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress to succeed John B. Rice, who had not sought reelection; when Rice died a month after the election, Caulfield won an additional special election to complete Rice's term in the Forty-third Congress, and served from February 1, 1875 to March 3, 1877.

Carl A. Roles

A Thoroughbred trainer and owner, he trained for prominent stable owners such as Ada L. Rice of Chicago and Hollywood film studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.

Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan

In 1975, he sold the papers of several of his Irish ancestors, including Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan, to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

Clare de Kitchen

It dates to 1832, when blackface performers such as George Nichols, Thomas D. Rice, and George Washington Dixon began to sing it.

Conradh na Gaeilge

The English text reads "This Association has been founded solely to keep the Irish Language spoken in Ireland. If you wish the Irish Language to live on the lips of Irishmen, help this effort according to your ability!"Conradh na Gaeilge was founded in Dublin on 31 July 1893 by Douglas Hyde, the son of a Church of Ireland rector from Frenchpark, County Roscommon with the aid of Eugene O'Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Thomas O'Neill Russell and others.

D.C. Rice

Paul Oliver, Songsters and Saints : Vocal Traditions on Race Records, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Gayle Dean Wardlow, "Rev. D. C. Rice - Gospel singer", in Storyville 23, June–July 1969.

Emmett J. Rice

In between, he spent 1952 as a research associate at the Reserve Bank of India as a Fulbright Fellow.

From 1966 to 1970, he was U.S. Alternate Executive Director for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the International Development Association, and the International Finance Corporation.

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

Frank P. Rice

He was instrumental in obtaining land for the right-of-way for extension of the Richmond and Danville Railroad and Georgia Pacific Railway.

Frederick Hallen

Before her vaudeville days Fuller was on the legitimate stage in productions like the libretto Adonis, by Edward E. Rice and William F. Gill and Edward E. Rice’s Evangeline, in which she stepped in to replace Fay Templeton when the actress was unable to go on stage.

Italica Press

Italica also publishes a series of scholarly essays, "Studies in Art & History," with volumes dedicated to scholars such as Aldus Manutius, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Eugene F. Rice, Jr., William S. Heckscher, Irving Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin and Sarah Blake McHam.

John C. Rice

John C. Rice (ca. 1858, Sullivan County, New York – June 5, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American born Broadway stage actor who is credited with performing the first onscreen kiss with May Irwin in 1896 for the Thomas Edison film company film The Kiss.

John Joseph Braham, Sr.

Around New York in 80 Minutes (contributing composer, with Edward E. Rice)

John R. Rice

In July 1932, Rice held an open-air evangelistic campaign in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas and hundreds made professions of faith.

Old Corn Meal

George Nichols, a blackface circus clown is one, as is Thomas D. Rice, whose "Corn Meal" skit most likely came from seeing Old Corn Meal's act during one of his visits to New Orleans in 1835, 1836 and 1838.

Omaha City Council

It was composed of A. D. Jones, who resigned March 23, 1857; T. G. Goodwill, who died May 18, 1857; G. C. Bove, H. H. Visscher, Thomas Davis, William N. Byers, William W. Wyman, Thomas O'Connor, C. H. Downs, J. H. Kellom, for whom Kellom School was later named; and John Creighton, whom Creighton University was later named for.

Robert Ayres Barnet

It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose burlesque. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou, Klaw & Erlanger, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended.

SIRVA

On January 12, 1998, NAVL was bought out from Norfolk Southern Corp. by the private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice for more than US$200 million.

Thomas O. Edwards

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress.

Thomas O. Enders

From 1960 to 1963, he was a visa officer and then an economic officer in Stockholm.

Thomas O. Melia

Melia began his career as a research assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York) in 1980 and eventually became Senior Legislative Assistant for foreign and defense policy.

Thomas O. Seaver

He left Norwich without a degree in 1858, completing his studies at Union College and receiving a B.A. in 1859.

Thomas O. Staggs

Staggs was born in Illinois and received a B.S. in business from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Thomas O'Brien

Thomas D. O'Brien (1859–1935), co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law

Thomas P. O'Brien (born 1960), former United States Attorney for the Central District of California

Thomas O'Connell

Thomas J. O'Connell (1882–1969), Irish Labour party politician, leader of the party 1927–1932

Thomas O'Connor

T. P. O'Connor (1848–1929), Irish nationalist, journalist, and politician

Thomas O'Donahue

He finished 23rd in the high jump competition.

Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan

The Liberal Unionist editor of the Belfast Norther Whig, Thomas Macknight, who had been a personal friend of O'Hagan, states in his memoir ULSTER AS IT IS (London, 1896) that he believed O'Hagan would have opposed Gladstone's conversion to Home Rule had he not died when he did.

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Elwin W. Rice organized the manufacturing facilities, and Elihu Thomson ran the Model Room which was a precursor to the industrial research lab.

United States Ambassador to South Sudan

General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State; Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations; and Ambassador R. Barrie Walkley inaugurating the new U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan on Independence Day, July 9, 2011.

Virginia Earle

After completing two seasons with Hallen and Hart she became associated with producer Edward E. Rice and in 1891 traveled to Australia with a troupe of actors that included George Fortescue, his wife and daughter (both named Viola) and actresses Lillian Karl, and Agnes Pearl.

William B. Rice

In 1894, Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge appointed him to the governor's council of business advisers and he was a major benefactor of the Quincy City Hospital.

William Thomas Councilman

In 1916, he went with the Rice Expedition, led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., to the Amazon and Brazil.

William W. Rice

Rice was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).


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