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unusual facts about William L. Johnston


William L. Johnston

In addition to his Philadelphia buildings, Johnston was commissioned in 1847 to design the Orange Grove Plantation House in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.


43rd Sustainment Brigade

Operation Restore Hope was declared a success in May 1993 and President Clinton celebrated on the White House lawn with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert B. Johnston and other Somalia veterans.

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

Arthur F. Gorham

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

Basil H. Johnston

He attended elementary school at the Cape Croker Indian Reserve school until the age of 10, after which he attended St. Peter Claver's Indian Residential School in Spanish, Ontario.

By Reingard M. Nischik; Sam Shepard; Basil Johnston; Tom Clark; Richard Brautigan; Jayne Anne Phillips; T Coraghessan Boyle; Ray Bradbury; William Saroyan; Charles Johnson

C.W. Johnston

Clarence Woods Johnston, M.C., M.D. (November 19, 1888 - October 13, 1949) was the fourteenth mayor of the Canadian Village of Elkhorn.

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.

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.

Ian Johnston

Ian R. Johnston (born 1949), Australian human factors engineer and road safety advocate

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.

James S. Johnston

Johnston was born in Church Hill, Mississippi in 1843, the son of a local attorney and cotton planter.

Jeremy Francis Gilmer

He soon became chief engineer on the staff of General A. S. Johnston as a lieutenant colonel.

Joseph E. Johnston

The 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory by Robert Skimin imagines a scenario in which Johnston is left in command during the Atlanta Campaign.

Joseph Johnston

Joseph F. Johnston (1843–1913), governor of Alabama, 1896–1900

Joseph E. Johnston (1807–1891), United States and Confederate Army general

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.

Nancy E. Dick

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

President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate

Henry S. Johnston, of Perry, was sworn into office as the first president pro tempore on November 16, 1907, the same day Oklahoma was admitted U.S. state.

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.

Thomas L. Johnston

Thomas Lothian Johnston FRSE (9 March 1927 in Whitburn, West Lothian – 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish economist.

William H. Loucks

Additionally, he was present for the surrender of the Army of Tennessee by Joseph E. Johnston at Bennett Place.

William J. Johnston

A section of Connecticut Route 16 between Colchester and Lebanon is named in his honor, as is Colchester's public middle school.

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. 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 Pope McArthur

Among the passengers was future American Civil War General Joseph E. Johnston who accompanied the vessel as a civilian topographical engineer.

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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