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Allen Scott

Allen D. Scott (1831–1897), American lawyer and politician from New York

Arthur F. Gorham

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

Douglas D. Scott

Scott has led similar work at other Indian Wars battlefields, including Fort Washita and the site of the Sand Creek Massacre.

Douglas Scott

Douglas P. Scott (born 1960), mayor of Rockford, Illinois, United States

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 S. Scott

Corporal Frank S. Scott (December 2, 1883 – September 28, 1912) was the first enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces to lose his life in an aircraft accident.

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Founded in 2004 by Edward W. Scott, Adam Waldman and Jack Valenti, Friends of the Global Fight works to educate and mobilize U.S. decision makers to support the Global Fund and the fight to end the worldwide burden of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

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.

Hey, Shipwreck

Patrick Hrabe says former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Terry D. Scott wrote him and said he was "still laughing" after viewing the cartoons.

Highland Park Community College

Among the alumni of Highland Park Community College is Michigan State Senator Martha G. Scott.

Hox gene

In 1983, the homeobox was discovered independently by researchers in two labs: Ernst Hafen, Michael Levine, and William McGinnis (in Walter Gehring's lab at the University of Basel, Switzerland) and Matthew P. Scott and Amy Weiner (in Thomas Kaufman's lab at Indiana University in Bloomington).

Hugh L. Scott

He was promoted to major in the Regular Army in February 1903 and served as Military Governor of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines, in 1903-06 and also commanded troops there, taking part in various skirmishes, reorganized the civil government and institutions.

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.

Joan Wallach Scott

Previously married to Donald Scott, a professor of American history at CUNY, she is the mother of A. O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, and the artist Lizzie Scott.

Joe B. Scott

A left-handed hitter, Scott played professionally from 1936 until 1956.

Kesho Y. Scott

She is the author of several books, including The Habit of Surviving, and Tight Spaces (coauthored with Cherry Muhanji and Egyirba High), which was the winner of the 1988 American Book Award, and was also awarded the Christine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.

Larry B. Scott

He was also the voice of the Paladin in the game Diablo II.

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.

Mars Automatic Pistol

It was manufactured first by Webley & Scott and later by small gunmakers in Birmingham and London.

Michael L. Scott

In 2005, Scott, along with William Scherer III and Doug Lea developed a set of algorithms to handle lock-free concurrent exchanges and synchronous queues.

Moorestown Friends School

Historian James C. Scott dedicated his 1990 book Domination and the Arts of Resistance to Moorestown Friends School.

Nancy E. Dick

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

Nirbheek

The gun's simple mechanism is thought to have been based on earlier designs by Webley & Scott and Smith & Wesson.

Patched

The original mutations in the ptc gene were discovered in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster by 1995 Nobel Laureates Eric F. Wieschaus and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and colleagues, and the gene was independently cloned in 1989 by Joan Hooper in the laboratory of Matthew P. Scott, and by Philip Ingham and colleagues.

Richard G. Scott

A few weeks after returning from Uruguay, Scott was interviewed by the then-Captain (later Admiral) Hyman G. Rickover for a job on a top-secret project involving nuclear energy.

After they both completed their missionary service, they married in the Manti Utah Temple.

One of his missionaries was D. Todd Christofferson, who would later be called to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles with Scott.

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.

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. 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 Springer

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

Winston M. Scott

Winston Mackinley Scott (1909 - 26 April 1971) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who served as Mexico City station chief from 1956 to 1969, having joined the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


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