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Francis Cherry
Francis Cherry may refer to: * Francis Cherry (governor) (1908–1965), governor of Arkansas, USA * Francis Cherry (diplomat) (1552–1605), English ambassador to the Court of Russia, 1598–1599 * Francis Cherry (non-juror) (1665–1713), English layman and non-juror, known as a philanthropist and benefactor See also *Frances Cherry, (born 1937), New Zealand novelist, short story writer and creative writing teacher {{hndis, Cherry, Francis) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Cherry (governor)
Francis Adams Cherry Sr. (September 5, 1908 – July 15, 1965), was an American jurist, attorney, and the 35th governor of Arkansas, elected as a Democrat for a single two-year term from 1953 to 1955. Biography Cherry was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of a Rock Island Lines railroad conductor. He and his four older siblings grew up in El Reno and Enid, Oklahoma, where he graduated from high school in 1926. He graduated from Oklahoma State University, (then A&M College), in Stillwater in 1930. In 1932, Cherry moved to Fayetteville to attend the University of Arkansas Law School. He received his law degree in 1936. He moved to Jonesboro in northeastern Arkansas to establish a law practice. Political career In 1936, he was appointed U.S. Commissioner for the Jonesboro division of the Eastern district and in 1940 he was named referee to the Workers' Compensation Commission by Governor Carl E. Bailey. In 1942, Cherry was elected chancellor and probate judge of the 12th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Cherry (diplomat)
Sir Francis Cherry (18 October 1552 – 14 April 1605) of the parish of All Hallows, Barking, in Essex, Citizen of the City of London and a Merchant Vintner, was the English ambassador to the Court of Russia from April 1598 to 23 March 1599. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I on 4 July 1604 at Chatham in Kent, “for faithful and gallant service”. He founded the Cherry family of Camberwell in Surrey. Sir Francis Cherry was born on 18 October 1552 at North Kilworth in Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t .... He was the first of his family to settle at Camberwell. He died on 14 April 1605 and was buried at All Hallows' Church in Barking. He married twice; his first wife died giving birth to her twelfth child, and his second wife Elizabeth (of unreco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Cherry (non-juror)
Francis Cherry (1665 – 23 September 1713) was an English layman and non-juror, known as a philanthropist and benefactor. Life The son of William and Anne Cherry of Shottesbrooke in Berkshire, he was born in Maidenhead in 1665, and was a gentleman commoner of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Soon after age 20 he married Eliza, daughter of John Finch of Fiennes Court in the neighbouring parish of White Waltham. He and his wife lived with his father at Shottesbrooke. William Cherry survived until the Glorious Revolution; he allowed his son £2,500 a year to visit Bath and other places, and for charity. Among those he supported was Thomas Hearne, the antiquary, the son of the parish clerk of White Waltham. Cherry sent Hearne to school; and in 1695 took him to live in his house, helped him in his studies, and supplied him with money until he had taken his M.A. degree. Non-juror Cherry would not acknowledge William III and Mary II. He became a liberal patron of some of the most eminent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |