Search

Search results

Displaying 211 - 220

C. Vann Woodward 1999 Deaths

C. Vann Woodward,Age: 91 Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller and historian who chronicled the upheaval of the turbulent South, as well as its culture. In his books, Woodward, an expert on race…

Richard C. Kleindienst 2000 Deaths

Richard C. KleindienstAge: 76 President Nixon's attorney general who served for one year during the Watergate scandal. When he learned of the break-in shortly after it occurred, Kleindienst…

Bernard C. Bert Kuczynski Biography

Bernard C. “Bert” KuczynskiAge: 77 became the first athlete to play pro football and baseball in the same season when he suited up for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Detroit Lions in…

Eleanor C. Lambertsen 1998 Deaths

Eleanor C. LambertsenAge: 82 a leader in American nursing education. She introduced the concept of team nursing to improve patient care. Died: March 30, 1998.Akira KurosawaG - LHalldor…

George C. Wallace 1998 Deaths

George C. WallaceAge: 79 former governor of Alabama who campaigned for the presidency in 1968, 1972, 1976. His ardent support for segregation made him a controversial national figure.Died:…

Jacob C. ISACKS, Congress, TN

ISACKS Jacob C. , a Representative from Tennessee; born in Montgomery County, Pa., birth date unknown; moved to Winchester, Tenn.; elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress…

Madame C. J. Walker Building

Madame C. J. Walker Building Indianapolis, Indiana After moving from Denver and then to Pittsburgh, African-American hair-care mogul Madame C. J. Walker ultimately based her operations in…

Portman, John Calvin, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Portman, John Calvin, Jr., 1924–2017, American architect and developer, b. Walhalla, S.C., grad. Georgia Institute of Technology (1950). In the 1960s and 70s, he radically changed the…

Randolph, John

(Encyclopedia) Randolph, John, 1773–1833, American legislator, known as John Randolph of Roanoke, b. Prince George co., Va. He briefly studied law under his cousin Edmund Randolph. He served in the U…