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unusual facts about William P. Richardson


William P. Richardson

His granddaughter, Rhea, was the mother of the famous American film director John Huston and grandmother of the actors Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston.


Albert D. Richardson

In August 2013, a new book about Junius Henri Browne and Richardson, Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy by journalist and author Peter Carlson, was published by PublicAffairs.

Richardson and Browne were imprisoned for 20 months in seven different prisons, confined successively at Vicksburg, Jackson, Atlanta, Richmond, and Salisbury, North Carolina, prisons.

Augustus G. Weissert

Weissert mustered out September 17, 1865 with the regiment and returned to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he continued to study law under Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice William P. Lyon.

Boston College Eagles

At a Big East meeting in Newark on October 1, conference presidents asked BC president Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., about rumors surrounding the Eagles' intentions.

Buckingham, Richardson, Texas

In the early 1980s, real estate speculators bought most of the land, intending to create a planned development similar to the Las Colinas planned development in north Irving.

Clifford M. Hardin

His daughter, Nancy H. Rogers, married Douglas L. Rogers, the son of Secretary of State William P. Rogers.

Curtis B. Richardson

His wife is the daughter of the Ethiopian composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, Dr. Ashenafi Kebede and sister of the actress Senait Ashenafi.

Darrell C. Richardson

He served as Director of the National Fantasy Fan Federation and was involved in the Cincinnati Fantasy Group and the Memphis Science Fiction Association.

Dick Anthony

James T. Richardson, Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-0-306-47887-1: 127–149 (with Thomas Robbins)

Harry Richardson

Harry A. Richardson (1853–1928), American businessman and politician in Delaware

Highlight Towers

The best known tenants of the buildings are the consulting firm Roland Berger in the Tower I, and Fujitsu Technology Solutions and Fish & Richardson in the smaller Tower II.

Holden C. Richardson

On October 4, 1918, Richardson performed the crucial test flight of the NC-1 flying boat from Jamaica Bay.

Israel B. Richardson

Nicknamed "Fighting Dick" for his prowess on the battlefield, he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

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.

Justice Richardson

Frank K. Richardson (1914-1999), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California

Norman L. Richardson

At one point be became interested in the legendary "Fouke Monster" of Fouke in Miller County in southwestern Arkansas, a variation of Bigfoot.

Portland Rum Riot

The prosecutor was former U.S. Attorney General Nathan Clifford, and the defense attorney was later U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden.

Robert V. Richardson

Robert Vinkler Richardson (November 4, 1820 – January 6, 1870) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Sid W. Richardson

He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

Temple Daily Telegram

Norman L. Richardson, an award-winning journalist originally from Louisiana who was known for his coverage of hurricanes, was the executive editor of the Daily Telegram from 1974 to 1979.

Trobriand Music Company

The company is principally engaged in the publication and distribution of the musical works of American composer, William P. Perry.

Wilds P. Richardson

The Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, surveyed under his supervision in 1904, was named the Richardson Trail to honor him.

William Hobby

William P. Hobby, Jr. (b. 1932), an American publisher and politician and the son of William P. Hobby

William Lauder

William P. Lauder, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

William Lawlor

William P. Lawlor (1854–?), justice of the California Supreme Court in the 1920s

William M. Richardson

He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph B. Varnum; and was reelected to the Thirteenth Congress and served from November 4, 1811, to April 18, 1814, when he resigned.

William P. Bolton

Born near Whiteford, Maryland, Bolton attended the public schools and St. Francis Parochial School in Baltimore County, Maryland.

William P. C. Barton

President John Tyler appointed Barton to the office of first head of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery on September 2, 1842.

William P. Clark, Jr.

His biography, The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand, written by Paul Kengor and Patricia Clark Doerner, was published in 2007 by Ignatius Press.

William P. Crowell

William Perry Crowell (born November 25, 1940) was Deputy Director of the National Security Agency from 1994 to 1997, during which time he was the highest ranking civilian in the agency, who oversaw management.

William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History

After Brendler's death in 1986, William W. Scott (a colleague of Nobel Laureate Charles Huggins at the University of Chicago) became curator of the museum.

William P. Edwards

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Upon the readmission of Georgia to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869.

William P. Elmer

Elmer was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945).

William P. Fessenden

He also served as a chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds during the 40th Congress, the Appropriations Committee during the 41st Congress and the U.S. Senate Committee on the Library, also during the 41st Congress.

William P. Greene, Jr.

During his career as a Judge Advocate, he completed his military education at the Basic, Advanced, and Military Judges' courses at The Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

William P. Greiner

In 1922, he ran for Congress in the 41st District, but was defeated by Republican Clarence MacGregor.

William P. Hobby

Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the Post in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901.

William P. Hobby, Jr.

Hobby was an easy winner in most of his elections, including a high-profile race in 1982 in which he defeated the Republican nominee George Strake, Jr., also a Houston businessman, a former Secretary of State of Texas, and later the Republican state chairman.

William P. Holaday

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, after which he resumed the practice of Law in Danville.

William P. Lambertson

Lambertson was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3, 1945).

Born in Fairview, Kansas, Lambertson attended the public schools, Ottawa (Kansas) University, and the law school of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

William P. Latham

His orchestral works have been performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman-Rochester Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Radio Orchestras in Brussels, Belgium and Hilversum, Holland, under such well known conductors as Eugene Goossens, Howard Hanson, Thor Johnson, Anshel Brusilow, John Giordano, and Walter Susskind.

William P. Sanders

On August 2, 1861, the 2nd U.S. Dragoons was renamed the 6th U.S. Cavalry, where he participated in the Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam.

William P. Wolf

On September 30, 1870, William Smyth, the incumbent Congressman representing Iowa's 2nd congressional district, died while seeking re-election.

William Parry

William P. Murphy (1892–1987), William Parry Murphy, American physician

William S. Sessions

A report by outgoing Attorney General William P. Barr presented to the Justice Department that month by the Office of Professional Responsibility included criticisms that he had used an FBI plane to travel to visit his daughter on several occasions, and had a security system installed in his home at government expense.

William Thorne

William P. Thorne (1845–1928) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1903–1907)


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Essex County Natural History Society

Other members included Samuel B. Buttrick, Samuel P. Fowler, John M. Ives, John C. Lee, George Osgood, Charles G. Page, Gardner B. Perry, George Dean Phippen, William P. Richardson, John Lewis Russell, Henry Wheatland.