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William A. Byrne

He was educated at Carlow College as a lay student from 1885 to 1889, and went to Maynooth College to Study for the priesthood, where he was invited to write an ode on the college's centenary; however, he left priestly formation due to ill health.


121st New York State Legislature

Many New Yorkers volunteered to fight for the independence of Cuba, among them Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt and Assemblyman William A. Chanler.

Billy Reynolds

William A. Reynolds (1872–1928), American football player and coach of football and baseball

Cassidy Glacier

The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1992 after William A. Cassidy, Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, who in 13 field seasons, 1976–90, led United States Antarctic Research Program teams in the investigation and collection of Antarctic meteorites from diverse sites through Victoria Land and southward to Lewis Cliff, adjacent to the Queen Alexandra Range.

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

The founding editors were William A. Wallace and Kathleen Carley.

Crystal Nix Hines

She also clerked for Justice William A. Norris on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 1990 to 1991.

E. E. Jones

Only three outside schools have provided Georgia with more than one head coach in football: Princeton (Jones and William A. Reynolds), Cornell University (Pop Warner and Gordon Saussy), and Brown University (Charles McCarthy, James Coulter, and Frank Dobson).

Faith Rockefeller Model

Faith Rockefeller Model (May 30, 1909 – July 2, 1960) was a daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934) and granddaughter of Standard Oil co-founder William A. Rockefeller, Jr. (1841–1922).

Frank M. Byrne

Byrne was born near Volney, Allamakee County, Iowa to Irish immigrants, Michael and Delia (Hart) Byrne.

George Byrne

His uncle, James Byrne, had a more substantial first-class career, captaining Warwickshire between 1903 and 1907.

Harding Lawrence

Braniff co-founder Thomas Elmer Braniff was an insurance magnate and now the third major owner (Senator William A. Blakley was the second largest owner of Braniff after 1954) of Braniff was also an insurance executive.

Helene Chadwick

In January 1919, Chadwick became engaged to Lieutenant William A. Wellman, an American pilot with the Lafayette Flying Corps.

James W. Faulkner

His pallbearers were: William F. Wiley, Herbert R. Mengert, Jasper C. Muma, Robert F. Wolfe, Judson Harmon, James M. Cox, William A. Stewart, Bayard L. Kilgour, William Alexander Julian, Russell A. Wilson, W. F. Burdell and Nicholas Longworth.

John J. Byrne

After being passed over for president in 1975, Byrne quit to become chief executive of GEICO, then a troubled Washington, D.C. auto insurer.

John Qualen

As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954).

Lansdowne Airport

The airport was dedicated as Lansdowne Field in late October, 1926 with Rear Admiral William A. Moffett in attendance.

Lavinia Byrne

Her great-uncle, J. F. Byrne, captained Warwickshire in first-class cricket and was full back of the England rugby union team

Loveland Block and Coors Building

The Loveland Block, named for pioneer William A.H. Loveland, once served as the territorial capitol building of Colorado.

Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr.

He was a grandson of William A. Rockefeller, Jr., co-founder of Standard Oil, great-grandson of Remington Arms Company founder Marcellus Hartley, and grandnephew of Standard Oil's other co-founder, John D. Rockefeller.

Northumbrian smallpipes

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Otto Pommerening

The film, directed by William A. Wellman, was a genre football comedy starring Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown, and members of the 1928 and 1929 All-American football teams and USC coach Howard Jones.

Painesdale, Michigan

Painesdale was built by the Champion Mining Company between 1899 and 1917, and named after the Boston businessman William A. Paine, who was associated with many mines as well as the Paine Webber brokerage.

Phillip Puckett

He finished fourth and last in the Democratic primary, behind Leslie L. Byrne, Viola Baskerville and Chap Petersen.

Radiospongilla sceptroides

It was described as Spongilla sceptroides by Scottish-born Australian zoologist William A. Haswell in 1883, who discovered it growing on submerged wood in a pond in the vicinity of Brisbane.

Red River Valley Museum

The William A. Bond Trophy and Game Room features mounted exotic game collected by the local hunter and rancher.

Seymour Peck

In Dec. 1956 Peck was indicted, along with Robert Shelton, William A. Price, and Alden Whitman, for contempt of Congress by a Washington grand jury.

The Vagabond Trail

The Vagabond Trail is a 1924 American film directed by William A. Wellman.

William A. A. Wallace

Larry McMurtry included a fictionalized version of Wallace in his Lonesome Dove prequel, Dead Man's Walk.

William A. Barnett

In consumer demand and production modelling, he originated the Laurent series approach to specification design and the seminonparametric approach using the Müntz–Szász theorem.

William A. Barrett

Barrett was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat, where he served for two years in the 79th Congress from 1945 to 1947.

William A. Bowles

In June 1863, Confederate spy Thomas Hines visited Bowles, inquiring if Bowles could offer any support for John Hunt Morgan's upcoming raid into Indiana.

William A. Conway

Conway attended the Pingry School in Elizabeth, New Jersey but did not graduate due to a bout with rheumatic fever that sidelined him for several months.

William A. Conway's career was notable for the fact that he rose from Wall Street messenger boy to CEO of Garden State National Bank ("Garden State"), but he is best remembered for his efforts working as an activist shareholder of behalf of minority stockholders of Garden State during the late 1970s.

William A. Durant

Durant also served as a sergeant-at-arms at the 1906 Oklahoma constitutional convention and was the sponsor of a bill that created Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

William A. Eaton

In 2010 Eaton was selected by the Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to be the new Assistant Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for Executive Management.

William A. Glassford

His most notable battle was the Naval Battle of Balikpapan, in which he led a U.S. task force in an attack against Japanese forces that had occupied the port of Balikpapan on Borneo.

William A. Koch

With so many projects going - seemingly all at once - Bill Koch discovered in the late 1950s that Indiana's segment of Interstate 64 was going to run from Vincennes to New Albany.

William A. Massey

After his time in the Senate, he resumed the practice of law in Reno, and died on a train near Litchfield, Nevada in March 1914.

William A. Mitchell

William A. "Bill" Mitchell (October 21, 1911 – July 26, 2004) was an American food chemist who, while working for General Foods Corporation between 1941 and 1976, was the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, quick-set Jell-O, Cool Whip, and powdered egg whites.

William A. Moseley

Moseley was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

William A. Newell

Under this Act, a series of light house stations were set up between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor.

William A. Rusher

He was in the news during the hearings for the Samuel Alito Supreme Court nomination in 2005, when he allowed Senate staff members to inspect documents related to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton group, in which Alito was tangentially involved, in the Rusher Papers at the Library of Congress.

William A. S. Ouderland

He built a friendly relationship with 22nd Baluch Regiment captain Sultan Newaz and penetrated into Dhaka cantonment.

William A. Thompson

In 1896 he moved to La Crosse, and was appointed the Assistant Engineer in charge of the improvements on the Mississippi River from Winona, Minnesota to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

William A. Thorne, Jr.

He served as a circuit court judge until 1994 when Governor Michael Leavitt appointed him as a Third Judicial District Court Judge.

William A. Winder

In January 1867, he applied to the President for reinstatement, stating, "My resignation was tendered while under the impression that the honorable Secretary of War was unfriendly toward me."

William Fletcher

William A. Fletcher (born 1945), United States federal appeals court judge

William Moseley

William A. Moseley (1798–1873), United States Representative from New York

William Newell

William A. Newell (1817–1901), American physician and politician, Governor of New Jersey and Washington Territory

Wright Lorimer

Lorimer committed suicide in 1911 despondent over a contract and proceeds of The Shepherd King with producer William A. Brady.


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