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2 unusual facts about Walter K. Singleton


Tennessee State Route 204

This route was named for Walter K. Singleton, a Memphis native, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor as a result of the Vietnam War.

Walter K. Singleton

Sgt. Walter K. Singleton Parkway, which runs from Memphis to the Naval Support Activity Mid-South in Millington, Tennessee.


C. T. Singleton, Jr.

He was also on the advisory board of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; a director of the Monterey Foundation; and member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association; a lifetime director of the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies; and of the Retired Officers Association.

At the time of his retirement in 1956, Singleton was director of the engineering school at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, the same school he had earlier advocated establishing on the Monterey Peninsula after World War II when he was executive officer at the school.

Charles Singleton

Charles S. Singleton (1909–1985), American scholar and literary critic

James W. Singleton

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress.

Leo E. Strine, Jr.

He clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and for Chief Judge John F. Gerry of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Walter K. Farnsworth

Farnsworth's nephew Arthur Austin Farnsworth (1908-1943) was the second husband of actress Bette Davis.

Walter K. Granger

In 1941 Granger was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1953).

In 1954 he was again an unsuccessful candidate, in the election to the 84th United States Congress.


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