Frank Doran (other)
Frank Doran may refer to: * Frank Doran (aikido), Aikido teacher * Frank Doran (American politician), former mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, USA * Frank Doran (British politician) Frank Doran (13 April 1949 – 31 October 2017) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South from 1987 to 1992, when he lost his seat. He was re-elected in 1997 to Aberdeen Ce ...

Frank Doran (aikido)
Frank Doran is an aikido teacher in the United States and has been chief instructor of Aikido West in Redwood City, California since 1978. He was awarded the rank of 8th dan shihan from the Aikikai in January 2017. As a U.S. Marine in Korea, Doran served with A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine regiment (A-1-5). He is a former U.S. Marine Corps hand-to-hand combat instructor. His martial arts training began in 1955 when he enrolled in a Judo dojo. Doran began studying aikido in 1959 while stationed at the Marine Recruit Depot in San Diego, California. In 1962, he went to the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in Japan to train under Koichi Tohei. Doran, along with Robert Nadeau Robert Nadeau may refer to: * Robert Nadeau (aikidoka) (born 1937), American aikido teacher * Robert Nadeau (science historian) (born 1944), American professor of English at George Mason University {{hndis, Nadeau, Robert ... and Patricia Hendricks, founded the California Aikido Association (CAA) in 2002. He se ...
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Frank Doran (American Politician)
Frank Beecher Doran (1839—1914) was a Republican politician and the 24th mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, holding office between 1896 and 1898. Early life Doran was born in Batavia, Illinois on May 1, 1839, to Solomon B. and Mercy (née Wilson) Doran. He had a younger brother, John. When he was 7, his family moved to McHenry County, Illinois, where he lived for the majority of his life, the only exception being his enlistment in the military. In August 1861, not long after graduating from Clark Seminary in Aurora, Illinois and taking a job at the railroad offices, he joined the 52nd Illinois Infantry Regiment to fight in the American Civil War. He only served a year before being honorably discharged due to injuries. While traveling to aid his injured brother just a few months later, however, he was captured by Confederate soldiers and imprisoned. He was initially held at a military prison in Mobile, Alabama but he was moved to Castle Thunder in Richmond, Virginia when it was ...
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