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William F. Gordon

He moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1809 to continue his practice and eventually became the city's commonwealth attorney in 1812.


12th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

For much of the first half of 1864, the regiment served at Winchester, Virginia, under Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy, and were defeated in their first significant combat action during the Second Battle of Winchester, being pushed off a wooded ridgeline near Kernstown, Virginia, by elements of the Confederate brigade of John B. Gordon on June 13.

Andrei Navrozov

In all over $1 million was raised from alumni supporters, whereupon some 16 lavishly produced and extravagantly priced issues were published, with the participation of such contributors as E. M. Cioran, Philip Larkin, Lewis Lapham, Henri Peyre, G. S. Fraser, Roy Fuller, Martin Seymour-Smith, Ernst Gombrich, A. L. Rowse, Boris Goldovsky, Annie Dillard, William F. Buckley, Jr.

Bruce Gordon

Bruce S. Gordon (born 1946), American business executive and former NAACP president

Capitol of Puerto Rico

The evaluation of the proposals was in charge of William F. Willoughby (president of the Executive Council), José de Diego (Speaker of the House, represented by Luis Muñoz Rivera), José S. Quiñones (President of the Supreme Court), and Laurence Grahame.

Cohmad Securities

On January 14, 2009, William Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, who is in charge of the state's securities issues, filed suit against Jaffe, a Cohmad broker for Madoff, who promoted Madoff's funds to wealthy investors in Massachusetts and Florida.

Colcock

William F. Colcock (1804–1889), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

E. V. Gordon

1927 An Introduction to Old Norse, Revised edition 1956, revised by A.R. Taylor; Reprinted 1981, Oxford University Press, USA; 2nd edition

A collection of these was privately published as the book Songs for the Philologists.

Ego eimi

William F. Beck, Lutheran - The New Testament in the Language of Today (St. Louis, 1963).

Embassy of Botswana in Washington, D.C.

Notable owners have included William F. Aldrich, Thomas H. Anderson, Thomas Leiter (son of Levi Leiter) and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.

Food of the Gods II

Food of the Gods II, sometimes referred to as Gnaw: Food of the Gods II as well as Food of the Gods part 2, is a 1989 film that is a very loose sequel to the 1976 Bert I. Gordon film based on H.G. Wells' novel, The Food of the Gods.

Frank H. Buck

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

Gerald L. Gordon

Gerald L. Gordon, Ph.D., is the president and chief executive officer of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) in Fairfax County, Virginia, a position he has held since late 1983.

God's Word Translation

GW had its beginnings with a New Testament translation titled "The New Testament in the Language of Today: An American Translation", published in 1963 by LCMS pastor and seminary professor William F. Beck (1904–1966).

Harold Hayes

As an editor, Hayes appreciated bold writing and points of view, favoring writers with a flair for ferreting out the spirit of the time—writers like Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr, John Sack, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, Garry Wills, Gina Berriault, and Nora Ephron.

Intermodal passenger transport

In some cases, facilities were merged or transferred into a new facility, as at the William F. Walsh Regional Transportation Center in Syracuse, New York or South Station in Boston, Massachusetts.

Leadership Institute

While the Institute does not provide instruction in philosophical conservatism, it does encourage its graduates to read classic conservative authors like Edmund Burke and "classical liberal" authors like Frederic Bastiat, as well as more modern conservative thinkers including William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater, and libertarian thinkers such as economists Milton Friedman and F. A. Hayek.

Lockheed J37

A committee under the direction of William F. Durand was set up to put the British designs into production and build an aircraft to test them.

Maliseet Vocabulary

The book includes an introduction by Professor William F. Ganong of Smith College, who refers to the book as the first work in the field, and asserts that (as of 1899) the young people of the Maliseet "care nothing" for their language and culture, and that the conditions making the book possible were rapidly slipping away with the passing of the (then-) present generation, although this prediction has fortunately not been borne out.

Military Professional Resources Inc.

General William F. Kernan of the U.S. Army also joined the firm after his military service.

R. K. Gordon

In 1913, having graduated from the Universities of University of Toronto and Oxford, Gordon became administrator at the University of Alberta.

Spyke

Created by writer Robert N. Skir and artist Steven E. Gordon, he first appeared in "Speed And Spyke", episode #5 (December 9, 2000), where he was voiced by Neil Denis.

Stewart L. Gordon

He has served as an adjudicator for many international competitions, including the Gina Bachauer, William Kapell, Rosa Ponselle, Virginia Waring and the finals of the Canadian Music Competitions, and Music Teachers National Competitions at the regional and national levels.

Thomas S. Gordon

Gordon was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-fifth Congress).

Walter A. Gordon

In 1918 he became one of the first two African-American All-Americans (the first was Paul Robeson).

William Albright

William F. Albright (1891–1971), evangelical Methodist archaeologist, biblical authority, linguist and expert on ceramics

William Denny

William F. Denny (c. 1860–1908), American vaudeville performer and pioneer recording artist

William F. Albright

He was also the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, 1922–1929, 1933–1936, and did important archaeological work at such sites in Israel as Gibeah (Tell el-Fûl, 1922) and Tell Beit Mirsim (1933–1936).

William F. Badè

After short pastoral appointments at Unionville, Michigan, and Chaska, Minnesota, he returned to Moravian College as instructor of Greek and German, earning his PhD from that institution in 1898 with a thesis on the Assyrian flood legends.

William F. Barnes

He did have two seven win seasons in 1960 and 1961, leading the Bruins to the 1962 Rose Bowl.

William F. Bottke

In 2007, Bottke published a paper in Nature (with David Vokrouhlicky and David Nesvorny), proposing that the asteroid that produced the Chicxulub Crater and caused the Cretaceous mass extinction (although the latter is still contended) formed during an asteroid breakup in the main asteroid belt approximately 160 million years ago.

William F. Creed

William F. Creed (1845 - November 8, 1903) of Malone, New York, was appointed auditor at the Manhattan Custom House by Daniel Magone, the Collector of the Port of New York.

William F. Downes

His official portrait was painted by artist Michele Rushworth and hangs in the federal courthouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

William F. Durand

A native of Connecticut, he was a member of the first graduating class of Birmingham High School in Derby, Connecticut (now Derby High School) in 1877.

William F. Fitzgerald

On March 3, 1884, following the death of Justice A. W. Sheldon, President Arthur nominated Fitzgerald for a seat on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court.

William F. Haddock

His next film was in 1911, when he directed The Immortal Alamo, which is the earliest known film version of the events surrounding the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and which starred Francis Ford.

William F. Kerby

Kerby was selected as one of the "Great American Business Leaders" of the 20th Century by Harvard Business School.

William F. Knox

In 1917, he formed a law partnership with William S. Moorhead, who later served as a U.S. Congressman from 1959 to 1981.

William F. L. Hadley

Hadley was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick Remann and served from December 2, 1895, to March 3, 1897.

William F. Martin

William Martin (born February 16, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

William F. McCombs

McCombs helped Woodrow Wilson become Governor of New Jersey and then managed Wilson's successful campaign for the 1912 Democratic presidential nomination.

William F. Meggers Award

It was established in 1970 to honor William Frederick Meggers and his contributions to the fields of spectroscopy and metrology.

William F. Milliken, Jr.

Later, continuing involvement included a term as Chief Steward for the Formula One US Grand Prix.

William F. Russell

William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

William F. Schulz

From 1997 to 2005, Federal Election Commission records show that William F. Schulz contributed a total of $9,450 to the campaigns of Democratic Party politicians Gary Ackerman, Geraldine Ferraro, Carolyn McCarthy, Steve Israel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward M. Kennedy, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Bill Nelson and Al Gore.

William Galvin

William F. Galvin (born 1950), Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth

William Moran

William F. Moran (1925-2006), knifemaker who founded the American Bladesmith Society

William Packer

William F. Packer (1807–1870), governor of Pennsylvania from 1858 to 1861


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