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4 unusual facts about Thomas S. Hammond


Thomas Hammond

Thomas S. Hammond (1883–1950), American business and political leader, soldier and football player and coach

Thomas S. Hammond

His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation.

His grandfather was Brig. Gen. John Hammond, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U.S. Congressman from New York.

Hammond was also active in Republican Party politics and served as the chairman of the Illinois Citizens Republican Finance Committee and the Chicago America First Committee.


43rd North Carolina Infantry

Thomas S. Kenan was elected Lieutenant colonel of the 43rd regiment in March 1862, and promoted to colonel in April 1862.

8: The Mormon Proposition

It states that LDS Church leader Thomas S. Monson asked to ensure the passage of the controversial California Proposition 8.

Abram A. Hammond

In 1852 John C. Walker was nominated by the Democratic Convention to be the candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Barbara E. Mink

Studying with local artists — Stan Taft, Bill Benson, Bente King and Thomas Buechner — Mink has received formal training in landscapes and botanical illustration.

Bethany Home

The superintendent of the Church of Ireland's Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, the Revd T.C. Hammond, was a member of the home's managing committee.

Council on African Affairs

The CAA, from its beginning in 1941, received the support of mainstream activists and liberal intellectuals like Franz Boas, E. Franklin Frazier, record producer John H. Hammond, Mary McLeod Bethune ( from the National Youth Administration) and Rayford Logan.

Evolving digital ecological networks

Just one year later, Thomas S. Ray developed an alternative system, Tierra, and performed the first successful experiments with evolving populations of self-replicating computer programs.

Francis C. Hammond Middle School

The school was built in 1956 as Francis C. Hammond High School and named after Francis C. Hammond, a United States Navy Hospital Corpsman.

Franklin H. Elmore

He was solicitor for the southern circuit from 1822 to 1836, a colonel on the staff of the Governor from 1824 to 1826, and was elected as a State Rights Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James H. Hammond.

Frédéric Labadie-Lagrave

Labadie-Lagrave translated the first American treatise about neurology, W. A. Hammond's Diseases of the nervous system, C. A. Wunderlich's pioneer German book on body temperature Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten and Siegmund Rosenstein's Die Pathologie und Therapie der Nierenkrankheiten.

George Tilghman

Starting in 1929, Morristown School and Kent School competed for the Ranger Trophy donated by Colonel John S. Hammond, the first president of the Rangers.

Gobe Software

After leaving StyleWare and creating the product later known as ClarisWorks and AppleWorks, Bob Hearn, Scott Holdaway joined Tom Hoke, Scott Lindsey, Bruce Q. Hammond, and Carl Grice who also worked at Apple Computer's Claris division and formed Gobe Software, Inc with the notion to create a next-generation integrated office suite similar to ClarisWorks, but for the BeOS platform.

James Hammond

James C. Hammond (born 1950), politician, Republican Idaho State Senator

John P. Hammond

Hammond's middle name, Paul, is in honor of a friend of his father, the actor Paul Robeson.

Larry Conklin

During 23 years of traveling and performing throughout Europe, Conklin shared the stage with number of artists including blues great Memphis Slim, the legendary folk guitarist John Renbourn, the Chinese harpist Xu Feng Xia, blues artist John Hammond and beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Lyman Draper

The most famous personal papers in the Draper Collection include those of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Thomas S. Hinde, John Donelson, James Robertson, Joseph Martin (General), and Simon Kenton.

New York Quarterly

After the death of William M. Packard in 2002, Raymond P. Hammond assumed control of the magazine and currently is the acting Editor-In-Chief.

North Potomac, Maryland

Cabin John and Robert Frost middle schools feed into Thomas S. Wootton High School in nearby Rockville, Maryland, Herbert Hoover feeds into Churchill High School in nearby Potomac, Maryland, and Jones Lane feeds into Quince Orchard High School.

Ogyges

Hammond, N.G.L. and Howard Hayes Scullard (editors), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Orontium aquaticum

However, in a 1988 paper by Thomas Ray, he argued that the structure was misidentified by Engler and was actually a sympodial leaf.

Phoenician language

The name given to these people by Hanno the Navigator's interpreters was transmitted from Punic into Greek as gorillai and was applied in 1847 by Thomas S. Savage to the Western Gorilla.

Samuel M. Hammond

Highlights of his one season as coach include a victory of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the DePauw Tigers.

Silver End

The village includes some noteworthy early examples of Modernist architectural design; the distinctive white, flat-roofed houses on Frances Way and Silver Street are the work of influential Scottish architect Thomas S. Tait, a leading designer of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in the 20th Century who is also credited with designing the concrete pylons on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

SS A. B. Hammond

1959 – Renamed "CESTOS" Zenith Transportation Corporation, Liberia (Fratelli Delfino, Genoa)

The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto

Aside from the Group of Seven, Willan, and MacMillan, some other well-known members of the club were John Joy, Hector Charlesworth, Robertson Davies, M. O. Hammond, George Locke, Charles William Jefferys, and Mavor Moore.

The Chapters Live

The story was inspired by the Cold War, and the preservation of Albert Einstein's brain, which was kept by Thomas S. Harvey, M.D. There are also science fiction themes, such as aliens being concerned with humanity's self-destruction, and the resurrection of the dead through technology.

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book written by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.

Thomas Crow

Thomas S. Crow (1934–2008), Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy

Thomas Pettit

Thomas S. Pettit (1843–1931), newspaper publisher and politician from Kentucky

Thomas S. Buechner

A sculpture garden he created displayed such items as capitals from Louis Sullivan's Bayard-Condict Building.

He rescued sculptures by Daniel Chester French representing Brooklyn and Manhattan which had sat at the Brooklyn plaza of the Manhattan Bridge and that were removed as part of construction on the bridge's approaches, and placed them at the entrance to the museum.

Thomas S. Butler

While in Congress, he was chairman of the United States House Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses) and member of the United States House Committee on Naval Affairs (Sixty-sixth through Seventieth Congresses).

Thomas S. Gordon

Gordon was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-fifth Congress).

Thomas S. McMillan

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives to represent the 1st congressional district in 1924 for the Sixty-ninth Congress.

Thomas S. Plowman

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, to February 9, 1898, when he was succeeded by William F. Aldrich, who contested his election.

Thomas S. Power

First was David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty in 1937: they were divorced after World War 2, whereupon she married Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow.

Thomas S. Ray

Tom Ray is also a former member of the International Core War Society.

In The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons's conclusion to his famous Hyperion Cantos sci-fi series, it is revealed by the character of Aenea that the TechnoCore originated from a human experiment in which computer programs were allowed to compete for resources (e.g. memory) and evolve accordingly.

Thomas S. Ricketts

Named after his joy of celebrating the Chinese New Year, the scholarship not only funds promising students but also allows for those students to meet with Ricketts and the other members of the endowment.

Thomas S. Sprague House

The Thomas S. Sprague House was a private residence located at 80 West Palmer Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan.

Wade H. Hammond

Hammond receied his B.A. from Alabama A&M College, and then studied at the Royal Military School of Music of England.

William Hammond

William C. Hammond (born 1947), American novelist of historical fiction


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