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unusual facts about Walter K. Stapleton



Benjamin F. Stapleton

He is the great-grandfather of Walker Stapleton, who was elected Colorado Treasurer in 2010, and the grandfather of Craig Roberts Stapleton, former U.S. ambassador to France and the Czech Republic.

D.J. Stapleton

He played hurling with his local club Erin's Own and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the early years of the 20th century.

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.

Patrick J. Stapleton, Jr.

His son, Patrick, is a member of the State Liquor Control Board.

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.

Thomas Stapleton

Thomas J. Stapleton, former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

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.

Walter K. Singleton

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


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