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2 unusual facts about Walter M. Chandler


Walter M. Chandler

In 1920, Chandler was elected to a fourth nonconsecutive term as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923).

He served as member of the faculty and lecturer at the American Expeditionary Force University at Beaune, France, during World War I.


Albert Chandler

Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. (1898–1991), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and American politician

Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1945

The committee had initially planned to meet in February; but the long search for a successor to Landis, along with the retirements of Barrow and Quinn as club presidents, delayed the meeting until April 25, one day after Albert "Happy" Chandler was elected as the new commissioner.

Bert D. Chandler

Bert D. Chandler (1869–1947) was a member of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1937-1943.

Cambodian genocide denial

The witnesses were Barron and three academics who specialized in Cambodia: David P. Chandler, who would become perhaps the most prominent American scholar of Cambodia, Peter Poole, and Gareth Porter.

Charles Chandler

Charles F. Chandler (1836–1925), American chemist and public-health reformer

Charles F. Chandler

In 1870 he and his brother William Henry Chandler, a chemistry professor at Lehigh University, started the journal The American Chemist, the first chemical journal in America.

Upon retirement he and his second wife Augusta Berard Chandler continued to reside in New York City, but spent more and more time at their summer home in Westhampton and at her family's home in New Hartford, Connecticut, where Chandler died in 1925.

David Chandler

David G. Chandler (1934–2004), British historian specializing in Napoleonic history

David P. Chandler, American historian specializing in Cambodian history

David G. Chandler

As a young man he served briefly in the army, reaching the rank of captain, and in later life he taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

David P. Chandler

He has been a Senior Advisor at the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap; a USAID consultant evaluating Cambodia's democracy and governance programs; an Asia Foundation consultant assessing Phnom Penh election activities.

Economy of Lexington, Kentucky

During this time, supported by A.B. "Happy" Chandler, the Kentucky Medical Foundation, and the Kentucky Farm Bureau, the University of Kentucky Medical Center became a top priority.

Franco Amatori

Due to a Fulbright Scholarship, Amatori spent three semesters in the individual studies program of Harvard Business School under the tutelage of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr..

Grolier

Walter M. Jackson (1863–1923) was the founder of encyclopedia publisher Grolier, Inc., and he was the partner of Horace Everett Hooper in publishing the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and in developing its 11th edition.

Henry Chandler

Henry F. Chandler (1835–1906), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Henry P. Chandler (1880–1975), first Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts

Henry P. Chandler

After his retirement from the Administrative Office, Chandler was tapped in 1957 by the territorial government of Hawaii to undertake an a study of the administration of territorial courts, and to recommend legislation to implement his findings.

J. A. C. Chandler

He is best known as the 18th president of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he served as the successor to retiring fellow educator and author Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler.

James B. Chandler

In the April 1862 Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Richmond fought Confederate ships in the Mississippi and passed artillery batteries at Chalmette, Louisiana, leading to the capture of New Orleans.

James Madison Wells

Walter M. Lowrey, "The Political Career of James Madison Wells,", Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 31 (October, 1948), pp.

Jamie P. Chandler

Between 2007 and 2009 he was a visiting fellow at the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University studying under Statistician Andrew Gelman.

Lady Franklin Bay Expedition

In 1884, Secretary of the Navy, William E. Chandler, was credited with planning the ensuing rescue effort, commanded by Cdr.

Raymond F. Chandler

As Sergeant Major of the Army, Chandler serves as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army's personal adviser on all enlisted-related matters, particularly in areas affecting soldier training and quality of life, including the adoption of the new Army Service Uniform, which phases out the Green Service Uniform in 2014.

Robert Chandler

Robert W. Chandler (1921–1996), American journalist, businessman, and philanthropist

Saint Leibowitz

Saint Leibowitz is a character in the science fiction novels A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman written by Walter M. Miller, Jr..

Spanish Treaty Claims Commission

The original Commissioners were recently-defeated U.S. Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire (who was chosen as president), Gerrit J. Diekema of Michigan, James P. Wood of Ohio, William Arden Maury of the District of Columbia, and William L. Chambers of Alabama.

Teenage Rebel

It was nominated for two Academy Awards; Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss).

The Children's Encyclopædia

Walter M. Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S. under the name The Book of Knowledge (1910).

Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr.

Under the aegis of noted landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland, he relocated to Philadelphia in 1872, to work on development of the planned community of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.

Bishop Mackay-Smith House, 251 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1903–04).

Thomas Chandler

Thomas R. Chandler (born 1954), candidate for Congress from Ohio in the 1990s

Thomas R. Chandler

He faced incumbent Jacquelyn K. O'Brien in the 37th Ohio House district, which included the eastern Cincinnati neighborhoods of Oakley, the East End, Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Columbia Tusculum, Linwood, California and Mount Washington; the cities of Norwood and Newtown; and Anderson Township.

In the fall, The Post wrote "Chandler deserves credit for offering a credible alternative, and he has a compelling belief in the work ethic. But in this race, Portman is clearly the better qualified candidate. We endorse him enthusiastically." Chandler lost 58,715 to 186,853, with Natural Law Party candidate Kathleen M. McKnight receiving 13,905 votes.

On the same day he lost his congressional bid, he was chose an elector for Ohio and cast his votes on December 14 for Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

Wait Chapel

It also houses the Williams Organ, donated by Walter McAdoo Williams, namesake of Walter M. Williams High School.

Walter Gibson

Walter M. Gibson (1822–1888), English adventurer, Mormon missionary, and government official in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Walter M. Bortz III

Bortz received his bachelor's degree in biology at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia.

After his retirement, Dr. Bortz and his wife moved to South Carolina.

Walter M. Brackett

He was one of the artists engaged by Secretary of War William W. Belknap in the early 1870s to execute portraits of the line of succession of the secretaries, and he painted the portraits of Timothy Pickering, Samuel Dexter, William Eustis, and Henry Dearborn, all prominent residents of his native state.

Walter M. Calinger

When Walter Calinger was hired by Woodland Hills School District outside Pittsburgh, his claims of past accomplishment was discussed by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter Brian Bowling.

In his position as superintendent (2008–2011) of the Woodland Hills School District, Calinger challenged the public charter school Propel,about how the School District's test results compared with the Propel charter school.

Walter M. Carlaw

Walter Macfarlane Carlaw was the son of Walter and Jeannie Carlaw of Blythwood in Glasgow, Scotland.

Walter M. Geddes

On October 26, 1915, Geddes left Aleppo and headed for Smyrna and passed through Bozanti.

Walter M. Jeffords, Sr.

(August 8, 1883 - September 28, 1960) was a successful Investment banker and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who, in partnership with his wife's uncle, Samuel Riddle, purchased and operated Faraway Farm near Lexington Kentucky where they stood Man o' War.

Walter M. Pierce

The Compulsory Education Act was later struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States in its 1925 Pierce v. Society of Sisters decision, on the grounds that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Walter M. Scott

Walter M. Scott (November 7, 1906, Cleveland, Ohio – February 2, 1989, Los Angeles, California) was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

William Chandler

William E. Chandler (1835–1917) United States Secretary of the Navy and senator

William D. Swenson

Hagel was assisted by the Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh, Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno and the Sergeant Major of the Army, Raymond F. Chandler.

William E. Chandler

He took charge in 1883 in planning for the rescue of Lt. Adolphus Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.


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