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William D. Hansen

Between 1991 and 1993, Hansen served in the administration of President George H. W. Bush as Assistant Secretary of Education for Management and Budget, the chief financial officer for the U.S. Department of Education.


Alfred G. Hansen

He initially enlisted in the Air Force and later was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the aviation cadet program, receiving his pilot wings in February 1955 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Cape Leahy

It was discovered and photographed from the air on January 24, 1947, by United States Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–1947, and named by Rear admiral Richard E. Byrd for Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, U.S. Navy, who, as naval advisor to President Harry S. Truman at the time of Operation Highjump, assisted materially at the high-level planning and authorization stages.

Craig J. Hansen

The story includes his closest friend, Davey, and a young woman they encounter while hopping freight trains called The Pheadra.

Danish House in Paris

The house was inaugurated on 23 April 1966 with a ceremony attended by King Frederick IX of Denmark, Queen Ingrid, Danish prime minister H. C. Hansen, the French president René Coty, Edgar Faure, and Danish fashion designer Erik Mortensen and sculptor Robert Jacobsen who both lived and worked in France.

Embedded Training Teams

While serving as ETTs in Kunar Province, Captain William D. Swenson (Army) and Corporal Dakota Meyer (Marine) were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Battle of Ganjgal.

Equality Colony

A formal "call" for this convention was published in Coming Nation July 11 and 18, and was endorsed by Henry Demarest Lloyd, Eugene Debs, Frank Parsons, William D. P. Bliss and Eltweed Pomeroy.

Farmers' Market Nutrition Program / Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

The WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Act of 1992 that established the FMNP was introduced to the House of Representatives on November 5, 1991 by Democratic Representative Dale Kildee, and was co-sponsored by Democratic Representative William D. Ford and Republican Representative William F. Goodling.

Frank Battisti

Guest soloists and conductors appearing with the Ithaca High School Band while Battisti was conductor of the ensemble included Benny Goodman, Carl "Doc" Severinsen, Donald Sinta, Harvey Phillips, The New York Brass Quintet, Jimmy Burke, Vincent Persichetti, Norman Dello Joio, Thomas Beversdorf, Clyde Roller, Frederick Fennell, William D. Revelli and Walter Beeler.

Harold I. Hansen

During his first season he managed to perform both The Glass Managerie and Death of a Salesman.

James V. Hansen

In 1990 Hansen was one of the two main House sponsors of a resolution calling on the George H. W. Bush administration to stop pressure on Thailand to allow the sale of U.S. cigarettes.

Joe Forehand

William D. Green assumed the job of CEO effective that same month.

Kenneth Maxwell

Maxwell claims that key Council on Foreign Relations acting at Kissinger's behest put pressure on Foreign Affairs editor, James Hoge, to give the last word in a subsequent exchange about the review to William D. Rogers, a close associate of Kissinger's, rather than to Maxwell; this went against established Foreign Affairs policy.

Little Bay de Noc

A bit further north, Gladstone was founded in 1887 by U.S. Senator from Minnesota, William D. Washburn, to serve as a rail-lake terminal for lumber products.

Louis DeNaples

In 2001, as part of a federal gambling investigation, four informants make mention of a relationship between DeNaples and current leader of the Bufalino crime family, William D'Elia.

Matthew E. Johnson

He spent the next two years as a judicial clerk, first with Charles Wolle of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and then with David R. Hansen of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mirador Basin

Archaeological and environmental studies conducted by the Mirador Basin Project, directed by Richard Hansen, previously known as the Regional Archaeological Investigation of the North Petén, Guatemala (RAINPEG) Project, have identified data relevant to the origins and early development of the Maya civilization in this area.

Mormonism in Norway

Knut Pedersen from Stavanger and Erik Hogan from Telemark were some of the many Norwegian members that migrated west to the Utah Territory after the death of Joseph Smith Jr. They were met in the mountains by a group heading east who had been called to open the Scandinavian Mission: Erastus Snow, the Swede John E. Forsgren, and the Dane Peter O. Hansen.

Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake

Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake is an album performed by a side project of Cardiacs, created by Tim Smith, Sarah Smith and William D. Drake.

Nathan Lewin

Lewin's individual clients have included Attorney General Edwin Meese III, whom he represented while he was serving as Attorney General, President Richard Nixon, Jodie Foster, John Lennon, nursing home owner Bernard Bergman, Congressman George Hansen, Teamsters president Roy Williams, and Israeli war hero Aviem Sella.

Richard D. Hansen

Hansen is a specialist on the ancient Maya and also a director of the Mirador Basin Project, which investigates the mainly unexplored territory in the northern Peten, Guatemala.

Russell Evans Smith

On February 16, 1966, Smith was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Montana vacated by William D. Murray.

Sam Sheppard

Cuyahoga County prosecutor William D. Mason led the State of Ohio's trial team, which included assistant prosecutors Steve Dever, Kathleen Martin, and Dean M. Boland.

Sewanhaka High School

Alfred G. Hansen (1933-), a United States Air Force four-star general.

Standard Steel Car Company

Established in 1902 in Butler, Pennsylvania by John M. Hansen and "Diamond Jim" Brady, the company quickly became one of the largest builders of steel cars in the United States.

Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen

After travelling widely outside Denmark, Havsteen-Mikkelsen settled first on Tåsinge and later on Ærø from where he toured the Danish countryside with Martin A. Hansen, Ole Wivel and Regin Dahl.

Ted Stewart

He then served as an assistant to Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch in 1980, and then worked as an administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. James V. Hansen from 1981 until 1985.

The Lamplighter

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of the novel in an 1855 letter to William D. Ticknor: "What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse?"

William Bishop

William D. Bishop (1827–1904), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

William D. Bishop

He was the president of the Naugatuck Railroad Company and the New York and New Haven Railroad Company

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress, but served as commissioner of patents from May 23, 1859, to January 1860.

William D. Bynum

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

William D. Drake

The other band members were the then-current Cardiacs drummer Dominic Luckman and two other former Cardiacs members (keyboard player and co-singer Mark Cawthra and bass player Jon Bastable (who'd been a backup Cardiac during Cawthra's tenure in the band).

William D. Euille

He is also one of two alternates representing Virginia on the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

William D. Foster

In 1915, however, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company came into being, building on Foster's groundwork to produce various films including The Realization of a Negro's Ambition in 1916 and The Trooper of Company K in 1917.

William D. Green

Green was raised in Hampden, Massachusetts and did odd jobs managing horses, assisting electricians, and in construction.

William D. Kearfott

Because Kearfott's names were published in widely distributed scientific journals and his species were adequately described and diagnosed, his names are valid, but the naming practice of Kearfott was not deemed appropriate by other entomologists, such as Edward Meyrick who even responded to Kearfott's work with a paper called "On some impossible scientific names in Micro-Lepidoptera," published in 1912.

William D. Kelley

He served as Chairman on the United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and on the Committee on Manufactures (51st United States Congress).

William D. Law

Law is an avid runner and has completed over two dozen marathons, including five Boston Marathons.

William D. McElroy

McElroy was born to William D. McElroy and Ora Shipley in Rogers, Texas.

William D. McGee

On that day, near Mülheim, Germany, he voluntarily walked into a minefield to aid two comrades who had been wounded by anti-personnel mines.

William D. Morrow

William D. Morrow is General Superintendent of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.

William D. Payne

Assemblyman Payne's Amistad legislation established the Amistad Commission to incorporate African American history and contributions into the K-12 curriculum in New Jersey schools and, the practice of racial profiling by law enforcement and all civil service employees has been criminalized in New Jersey by landmark legislation of which Assemblyman Payne was the lead sponsor.

William D. Puleston

Under Puleston's period as Director, Congress authorized the expansion of the staff in Washington and established new attaché offices in 1936 at Rio de Janeiro and Lima, Peru.

William D. Rogers

He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (October 1974 – June 1976) and Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs (June 1976–January 1977) under then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the administration of President Gerald Ford.

William D. Williamson

That same year he ran for and won a congressional seat in the seventeenth Congress.

William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel

His title was held by his son William, until he died, childless, in 1224, when it was passed to William's youngest son Hugh.

William Daniel Phillips

For the cabin in Georgia see William D. Phillips Log Cabin

William Washburn

William D. Washburn (1831–1912), American politician representing Minnesota


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