The Republican Party, which was embroiled in a power struggle between Walter P. Brownlow and Newell Sanders, initially nominated two candidates, T. Asbury Wright (Brownlow's candidate) and George Tillman (Sanders's candidate), but Wright eventually withdrew.
The cemetery features over 12,000 graves highlighted by a monument to Congressman Walter Preston Brownlow, who petitioned the government and worked tirelessly to have the veteran's center created.
Williams joined politician Walter P. Brownlow in forming Watauga Light and Power Company and the Johnson City Transit Company (Johnson City Streetcar Company).
In December 1881, he was appointed Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives for the 47th Congress (1881–1883), a position which controlled entry to the House floor.
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Collins was commissioned to paint more than seventy-five of the leading racehorses of her time, including Citation, commissioned by Nat Herzfeld former President of Tropical Park Race Course, Chrysler II and By Jimminy for Walter P. Chrysler, Dom Bingo for Bing Crosby, Tom Fool for Jock Whitney, and Discovery and Bed o'Roses for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr.
Jill P. Carter is the daughter of the late Walter P. Carter, who was a civil rights activist and leader in the desegregation movement in Maryland in the 1950s and 1960s.
Later, after Oliver is captured by Nancy and Bill Sikes, it is revealed that much later, close to midnight, the two men are still waiting in the dark.
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In the film version of Oliver!, Brownlow is made into Oliver's great-uncle, and the boy is saved, not at London Bridge, but from the rooftops of London, where Bill Sikes, who has murdered Nancy and taken Oliver as a hostage, has forced him to crawl out on a wooden hoist in order to loop a rope that Sikes intends to use in his escape.
Newrite is a system of shorthand invented by the American Scientist Walter P. Kistler.
In 1941, Vanderbilt teamed up with Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. and other investors to acquire for breeding services the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.
East Tennessee and Georgia president Campbell Wallace, an ardent Confederate, accused the pro-Union Knoxville Whig editor William "Parson" Brownlow of instigating the November 1861 bridge-burning conspiracy, and demanded he be hanged.
After Texas had gained its independence, Lane lived in San Augustine County in East Texas and then San Antonio, where he briefly served as a Texas Ranger.
A disciple of Dr. Norman Orentreich, who is considered the father of modern hair transplantation, Dr. Unger became one of the first physicians in the world to limit his practice entirely to hair transplantation.
Walter P. Thompson (1889–1970), President of the University of Saskatchewan, 1949–1959
Walter P. Zeller (1890–1957), Canadian businessman and founder of discount retail chain Zellers