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2 unusual facts about William L. Armstrong


Nancy E. Dick

She was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 1984, losing to incumbent Republican William L. Armstrong.

WQNO

The program director who developed the format was William L. Armstrong who later served as a U. S. Senator from Colorado.


Abraham B. Tappen

He was a New York City Park Commissioner from 1891 to 1895, appointed by Mayor Hugh J. Grant to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Waldo Hutchins, and re-appointed to a full five-year term, but removed from office by Mayor William L. Strong.

Archie Dagg

In another tape, he talked in detail about pipemaking, and in a third he recalled Tom Clough, Richard Mowat, G.G. Armstrong and 'Kielder Jock' Davison.

Arthur F. Gorham

Gorham left Miami when he received the principal Congressional appointment to West Point from Rep. William L. Fiesinger.

Battle of Rutherford's Farm

Ramseur's division arrived at Winchester the morning of July 20, whereupon he dispatched his cavalry under John C. Vaughn and William L. Jackson to Carter's Farm north of town to scout the enemy's position.

C. W. Armstrong

His son, Simon W J Armstrong, married the daughter of Diana Miller, Countess of Mértola.

Enos D. Hopping

A personal and political friend of Secretary of War William L. Marcy, Hopping was appointed a brigadier general in the Regular Army by President James K. Polk on March 3, 1847.

Frank Armstrong

Frank A. Armstrong (1902–1969), United States Army Air Forces Brigadier General

Gertie Gitana

Her music hall repertoire included "A Schoolgirl's Holiday", "We've been chums for fifty years", "When the Harvest Moon is Shining", "Silver Bell", "You do Look Well in Your Old Dutch Bonnet", "Queen of the Cannibal Isles", "Never Mind", "When I see the Lovelight Gleaming", and especially "Nellie Dean" - written by Henry W. Armstrong - which an audience first heard her sing in 1907.

Glendo, Wyoming

It was in a cabin near the town that William L. Carlisle, one of America's last train robbers, was captured in December 1919 after a shoot-out with the posse pursuing him.

Gyrocam Systems

In addition to Mr. Egner, Gyrocam System’s Board includes two retired Army General Officers, General Leon E. Salomon and General Peter Schoomaker; along with the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, General William L. Nyland; former Under Secretary of Defense, Dr. Jacques Gansler; and strategy and investment experts, Peter Rudaizky and Barry Brott.

Hal Geer

Following his employment at Disney, Geer worked at a number of independent production companies before being brought back to Warner Bros. by producer William L. Hendricks in 1967, beginning a twenty-year association with Looney Tunes.

Herbert W. Armstrong

Franz Josef Strauss, a major politician in post WWII Germany, became the target of the broadcasting and publishing media blitz that Armstrong unleashed upon Europe through the daily offshore pirate radio station broadcasts by his son Garner Ted Armstrong, The Plain Truth and the Ambassador College campus at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, England.

Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal née Armstrong-Jones (born 1979, ), a daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ∞ Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

James A. Elkins

This behind-the-scenes socialization amongst leading Texas politicians and businessmen included the likes of Jesse Jones, Gus Wortham, James Abercrombie, George R. Brown, Herman Brown, Lyndon Johnson, William L. Clayton, William P. Hobby, Oscar Holcombe, Hugh Roy Cullen, and John Connally.

James La Fayette Cottrell

Cottrell was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Yancey and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1847.

John S. Armstrong

John S. Armstrong (b. November 18, 1850, d. April 26, 1908) was the co-founder (along with Thomas Marsalis) of the former City of Oak Cliff (now incorporated into Dallas) and founder of the town of Highland Park, Texas.

Lucius Seymour Storrs

Storrs is a relative of Henry Randolph Storrs, a U.S. Representative from New York; and William L. Storrs, a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Pruneface

He also made a brief appearance in the 1990 film adaptation of Dick Tracy, in which he is portrayed by R. G. Armstrong.

R. G. Armstrong

Armstrong also appeared on The Twilight Zone, in the episode "Nothing in the Dark" along with a young Robert Redford.

In the story line, the recently widowed Doreen Bradley (Patricia Barry) exposes Stoner as the murderer of her husband.

Samuel Armstrong

Samuel C. Armstrong (1839–1893) - Hawaiian-born military officer and educator

Sy Bartlett

There he came into daily contact with the inner workings of Air Force commanders in England, including Brig. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong, and was a close observer of the development of the Eighth into a powerful combat force.

The Fatal Equilibrium

Marshall Jevons is a fictitious crime writer invented and used by William L. Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio and the University of Virginia, respectively.

The Valiant Years

Scriptwriters included Victor Wolfson a dramatist and writer, Quentin Reynolds, William L. Shirer an American journalist, war correspondent and historian, and Richard Tregaskis.

United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1974

The incumbent, Republican Senator Milton Young, sought and received re-election to his fifth term, defeating North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party candidate William L. Guy, a former Governor of North Dakota.

William L. Ball

He was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation in January 2002 .

William L. Breit

Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons (joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga) (Glen Ridge: Thomas Horton and Daughters, 1978).

William L. Carpenter

William Lewis Carpenter, born January 13, 1844 at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York, died July 10, 1898 at Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York.

William L. Downing

William L. Downing is a judge of the Superior Court of Washington for King County (Seattle) and a former deputy prosecutor.

William L. Eagleton

After his term as Ambassador to Syria ended in 1988, Eagleton worked with the United Nations as Deputy Commissioner-General for Palestinian Refugees (1988–94), Special Coordinator for Sarajevo (1994–1996), and Director of UN Operations in Western Sahara (1999-2001).

William L. Fiesinger

Fiesinger was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1937).

William L. Gertz

Later, he founded a marketing and public relations company, serving clients as diverse as Peter Max as well as numerous youth and student travel organizations, including the British Tourist Authority.

William L. Hendricks

Aside from his USMCR career he also worked in the film industry for many years, initially as a documentary producer for the United States Army, then as a production executive at Warner Bros., where he eventually became the final producer of the Looney Tunes series.

William L. Higgins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

William L. Kruer

Afterwards he was a research associate scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and from 1970 a full member of the research staff.

William L. Lane

During this time, he became a mentor to Christian singer and songwriter Michael Card.

William L. May

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.

May was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Duncan.

William L. McKnight

McKnight attended Duluth Business University, and upon graduation began working for 3M Corporation as an Assistant Bookkeeper in May 1907, at a salary of $11.55 per week.

William L. Shelton

Following staff college, he was assigned to work for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Air Force Space Command on Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

William L. Stevens

Stevens then became Vicar of St. Benedict's Episcopal Church, Plantation, Florida, in 1961, leading the congregation from mission to parish status.

William L. Terry

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress.

William L. Tierney

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

Tierney served in the Seventy-second Congress from March 4, 1931 to March 3, 1933.

William L. Webster

In 1992 Webster was the Republican nominee for Governor of Missouri, after defeating Roy Blunt and Wendell Bailey in the Republican Primary.

William L. White

Upon graduating he began working with the Illinois Dangerous Drug Commission, and then became deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s training center in Washington DC.

William Proctor

William L. Proctor (born 1933), Republican Party member of the Florida House of Representatives

William Springer

William L. Springer (1909–1992), U.S. Representative from Illinois


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