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George Morton (Australian Politician)
George Morton may refer to: Politicians * George Morton (born c.1540), MP for Hythe * George Morton (Labour politician) (born 1940), retired Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom * George W. Morton (1793–1865), U.S. politician * Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet (died 1662), English politician Others * Shadow Morton (George Morton, 1941–2013), U.S. record producer * George Morton (American football), American football player * George Morton (Pilgrim Father) (1585–1624), English puritan separatist * George Morton (cricketer) (1828–1861), English cricketer * George Morton (footballer) (1943–2009), English footballer, Inside forward for Rochdale. See also * Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), U.S. physician and natural scientist * George Morton Pitt (1693–1756), British politician and administrator * George Morton Randall (1841–1918), U.S. soldier * George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton (1662–1738), Scottish nobleman and politician * George Douglas, 16th Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morton (born C
George Morton may refer to: Politicians * George Morton (born c.1540), MP for Hythe * George Morton (Labour politician) (born 1940), retired Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom * George W. Morton (1793–1865), U.S. politician * Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet (died 1662), English politician Others * Shadow Morton (George Morton, 1941–2013), U.S. record producer * George Morton (American football), American football player * George Morton (Pilgrim Father) (1585–1624), English puritan separatist * George Morton (cricketer) (1828–1861), English cricketer * George Morton (footballer) (1943–2009), English footballer, Inside forward for Rochdale. See also * Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), U.S. physician and natural scientist * George Morton Pitt (1693–1756), British politician and administrator * George Morton Randall George Morton Randall (October 8, 1841 – June 14, 1918) was a major general in the United States Army, noted for his service in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morton (Labour Politician)
George Martin Morton (born 11 February 1940) is a retired Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Morton was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Glasgow University. He was an elected member of Manchester City Council and of Greater Manchester Council in the early-1970s. Morton was elected as the Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side at a by-election in 1978 following the death of Labour MP Frank Hatton. He served until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1983 general election The following elections occurred in the year 1983. Africa * 1983 Cameroonian parliamentary election * 1983 Equatorial Guinean legislative election * 1983 Kenyan general election * 1983 Malagasy parliamentary election * 1983 Malawian general e ..., and failed to be selected for another Manchester seat. After Labour went into opposition following the 1979 general election, Morton served in the Labour Whips' Office and on Standing Committees on home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George W
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. While in his twenties, Bush flew warplanes in the Texas Air National Guard. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. In 1978, Bush unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball before he was elected governor of Texas in 1994. As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. He also helped make Texas the leading producer of wind powered electricity in the nation. In the 2000 presidential election, Bush defeated Democratic incum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet
Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet (died 1662) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1626. Morton was the son of Sir George Morton of Milbourne St Andrew Milborne St Andrew is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated on the A354 road, northeast of the county town Dorchester, in a winterbourne valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs. In the 20 ..., Dorset and his wife Joan Holloway of Walton. He succeeded to the estate of Milborne on the death of his father in 1611, and was created baronet of Milbourne St Andrew in the County of Dorset on 1 March 1619. In 1626, he was elected Member of Parliament for Dorset. He was a faithful Royalist during the English Civil War. Morton married firstly Catharine Hopton, daughter of Sir Arthur Hopton, of Witham. He married secondly Anne Willoughby, widow of Sir Rotherham Willoughby who had died by July 1634, and daughter of Sir Richard Wortley, of Wort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Morton
George Francis "Shadow" Morton (September 3, 1941 – February 14, 2013) was an American record producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in the 1960s. In particular, he was noted for writing and producing "Remember (Walking in the Sand)", "Leader of the Pack", and other hits for girl group the Shangri-Las. Early life He was born in Richmond, Virginia, United States, and raised in Hicksville, Long Island, where he met his high school sweetheart and future wife, Lois Berman, and formed a doo-wop group, the Markeys. He became friendly with Ellie Greenwich, and did drop-in visits to her and her songwriting partner (later husband) Jeff Barry when they were working at the Brill Building. Career According to a ''Biography'' episode on various 1960s Brill Building pop songwriters, which included interviews with Greenwich, Barry and Morton among others, Barry said that at the time he was suspicious of Morton's overt attention to Greenwich. Skeptical that Morton wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morton (American Football)
George Dudley Morton was a college football player. Early years George Dudley Morton was born c. 1904 in Georgia to John White Morton and Mary Lou Hinton. Morton attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia; at the time of his graduation called "the best all-round athlete that The High School has ever produced." He played football, baseball, track and basketball. College football Morton was an All-Southern halfback for the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia, captain of its 1926 team. That year in the rivalry game at Grant Field with Georgia Tech, Georgia found itself down 13 to 0 at the half. Herdis McCrary and Morton led a comeback, winning 14 to 13. In the upset of Vanderbilt in 1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ... Morton passed for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morton (cricketer)
George Morton (25 April 1828 – 21 June 1861) was an English first-class cricketer. Morton was born at Bedale in April 1828. Having played club cricket for a number of sides in the North of England, Morton made his debut in first-class cricket for the North in the North v South fixture of 1853 at The Oval, with him also appearing for an All-England Eleven in the same season against a combined Kent and Sussex cricket team at Tunbridge Wells. The following year he played for the North in the North v South fixture of 1854, before appearing in the same fixture in 1856. Morton scored 19 runs in his four first-class matches, while in hs role as a wicket-keeper he took 8 catches and made 4 stumping Stumped is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket, which involves the wicket-keeper putting down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground. (The batsman leaves his ground when he has moved down the pitch beyond the popping crease ...s. He died at Bedale in June 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morton (footballer)
George Edmond Morton (1943–2009) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward for Rochdale. He began his career as an apprentice with Everton before moving to Rochdale in 1962. References 1943 births 2009 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football forwards English Football League players Rochdale A.F.C. players Footballers from Liverpool {{England-footy-forward-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel George Morton
Samuel George Morton (January 26, 1799 – May 15, 1851) was an American physician, natural scientist, and writer who argued against the single creation story of the Bible, monogenism, instead supporting a theory of multiple racial creations, polygenism. From the 1830s through the 1840s, this Philadelphia-based physician and anatomy lecturer collected human crania. With broadly white supremacist views, Morton’s research on the crania was cited by some as evidence that Europeans, especially those of German and English ancestry, were intellectually, morally, and physically superior to all other races. He was a prolific writer of books on various subjects from 1823 to 1851. He wrote ''Geological Observations'' in 1828, and both ''Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Cretaceous Group of the United States'' and ''Illustrations of Pulmonary Consumption'' in 1834. His first medical essay, on the use of cornine in intermittent fever, in 1825 was published in the '' Philadelphia Journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morton Pitt
George Morton Pitt (1693 – 9 February 1756) was a Madras-born British politician and administrator who served as the President of Fort St George from 1730 to 1735. Fort St George George Morton hailed from the well-known Pitt family of England but had many links to his birthplace, Madras. Son of John Pitt, consul at Masulipatam, and his wife Sarah Charlton, he was a grandson of Edward Pitt and Rachel Morton. His mother was the widow of Thomas Wavell, second of council at Fort St George. His father-in-law was Charles Bugden, secretary of the East India Company at Fort St George.R. Sedgwick (ed. ), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715–1754'', 1970 After education in England he became a merchant at Fort St George. Briefly returning to England he became M.P. for Old Sarum in 1722 then vacated his seat to go back to Madras and take up an initial minor office with the East India Company in 1724 and was then to take up important and lucrative positions with them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morton Randall
George Morton Randall (October 8, 1841 – June 14, 1918) was a major general in the United States Army, noted for his service in the American Civil War and Indian Wars. He was born in Conneaut, Ohio, the son of Brewster Randall (1807–1880) and Harriet Eliza Fifield Randall (1819–1878). Civil War Randall enlisted as a private in the 4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the April 1861. He then accepted appointment to the 4th U.S. Infantry as second lieutenant in October. He served in New York and Washington, D.C., and in the field with the Army of the Potomac. He was a second lieutenant at the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Gaines' Mill, Battle of Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run (where he commanded Company C), and Fredericksburg; and a first lieutenant at the Battle of the Wilderness. He was appointed a brevet captain for gallant service in the Battle of Antietam. He served as a major in the 14th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment, part of Major General Ambrose Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
