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unusual facts about Thomas U. Sisson


Mina Van Winkle

Subcommittee members Rep. George Tinkham (a Republican from Massachusetts) (and Rep. Thomas U. Sisson, a Democrat from Mississippi) objected that Congress had not specifically appropriated funds for a bureau of policewomen.


C. H. Sisson

He reacted against the prevailing intellectual climate of the 1930s, particularly the Auden Group, preferring to go back to the anti-romantic T. E. Hulme, and to the Anglican tradition.

George H. Sisson

This was extended with additional purchases to 28° North, which later was to become the border between Baja California and Baja California Sur, Land was also purchased northward to the United States border.

He was a mining engineer in Arizona, and with his profits from that operation, purchased a large land concession in Baja California.

On July 24, 1884, he and Luis Huller obtained a concession from the Mexican government for a tract of land in Baja California, extending between 29° North and 32°42' North, including Cedros Island.


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