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Henry Williams (actor)
Henry Williams may refer to: Politicians *Henry Williams (activist) (born 2000), chief of staff of the Mike Gravel 2020 presidential campaign * Henry Williams (MP for Northamptonshire) (died 1558), Member of Parliament (MP) for Northamptonshire *Henry Williams (alias Cromwell) (died 1604), MP for Huntingdon *Henry Williams (died 1636) (c. 1579–1636), English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1624 *Henry Williams (MP for Radnorshire), Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1659 * Sir Henry Williams, 2nd Baronet (1635–1666), British Member of Parliament for Brecon and Breconshire *Henry Williams (Massachusetts politician) (1805–1887), United States Representative from Massachusetts *Henry Williams (New Zealand politician) (1823–1907), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council *Henry Williams (Victorian politician) (died 1910), Australian politician *Henry D. Williams (1893–1934), American politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Williams (activist)
The 2020 presidential campaign of Mike Gravel, former United States Senate, U.S. senator from Alaska, began on March 19, 2019 with the formation of an exploratory committee, followed on April 2, 2019 with his campaign filing with the Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections Commission to officially run for the presidency. Mike Gravel, Gravel's initial intention was not to win the nomination, but rather to inject his platform into the conversation so that his ideas become part of the mainstream, though he announced that he was "running to win" on April 29, potentially after realizing that a candidacy focused on sending a message rather than putting him in the presidency might disqualify him from the primary debates. The campaign was also notable for its young leadership; manager David Oks and chief of staff Henry Williams (American activist), Henry Williams were only 18 years old. The pair, and other young staffers, developed an online identity and fanbase as the "Gravel Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gizmo Williams
Henry Lee "Gizmo" Williams (born May 31, 1962) is a former American and Canadian football kick returner and wide receiver. After his retirement at the end of the 2000 CFL season, Williams worked as a motivational speaker. Born into an impoverished family, Williams was raised by his brother Edgar after the death of both his parents as a child, and, after Edgar's death, by an aunt. Despite his background, Williams was able to be a successful high school football player, and was able to enroll at East Carolina University. After graduating from East Carolina, Williams was signed by the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League. While playing in Memphis, future Professional Football Hall of Famer Reggie White gave the shifty Williams the nickname "Gizmo", which would stick with him through his professional career. Williams was released by the Showboats after one season in the USFL in 1985, and signed with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. With t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubberlegs Williams
Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams (14 July 1907 in Atlanta - 17 October 1962 in New York City) was an American blues and jazz singer, dancer and occasional female impersonator. A star of Vaudeville, he is probably best remembered for his singing work with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, although it was his dancing for which he was renowned in New York City and Boston. Biography Williams was born in Atlanta in 1907. He became employed as dancer with Bobby Grant's Female Impersonators in 1919 and became a spectacle. He later won several Cakewalk and Charleston competitions and other dancing contests and achieved success in Vaudeville, going on tours with the Theater Owners Booking Association. He got his nickname "Rubberlegs" because he danced as if he had legs made of rubber. In 1933 he appeared in the short film ''Smash Your Baggage'', and appeared in shows like the "Cotton Club Parade" and "Blackbirds of 1933". He was a regular performer at The Cotton Club and the Apollo in Harlem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Sylvester Williams
Henry Sylvester-Williams (24 March 1867 or 15 February 186926 March 1911) was a Trinidadian lawyer, activist, councillor and writer who was among the founders of the Pan-African movement. As a young man, Williams travelled to the United States and Canada to further his education before subsequently moving to England where he founded the African Association in 1897 to "promote and protect the interests of all subjects claiming African descent, wholly or in part, in British colonies and other place, especially Africa, by circulating accurate information on all subjects affecting their rights and privileges as subjects of the British Empire, by direct appeals to the Imperial and local Governments." In 1900, Williams organised the First Pan-African Conference, held at Westminster Town Hall in London. In 1903 he went to practise as a barrister in Southern Africa, becoming the first black man to be called to the bar in the Cape Colony. Early life The date and place of birth for Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Shaler Williams
Henry Shaler Williams (6 March 1847 – July 31, 1918) was an American geologist. He was the son of State Senator Josiah B. Williams (1810–1883). He graduated from Yale College and studied with Louis Agassiz at Cornell University. In 1871, he taught for a year at Transylvania University and then worked in business with his father in Ithaca, New York until joining the Cornell University faculty in 1879. From 1892 to 1904 he was Professor of Geology at Yale University and Professor of Geology at Cornell University from 1904 until 1912 when he was named Emeritus Professor. He was a leader in and early member of Sigma Xi honorary society, 1886, and The Geological Society of America, 1888. He was particularly influential in the development of Sigma Xi, serving as a mentor to the founders and as president of the fledgling organization at Cornell University. Shaler has been credited with naming the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sub-periods in 1891; the last period names on the geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Williams (soldier)
Henry Williams (September 15, 1918 – August 15, 1942) was an African American Private_(rank)#United_States_Army, Private in the United States Army during World War II. He was killed by a bus driver in Mobile, Alabama on August 15, 1942. Williams was born on September 15, 1918, in Macon, Mississippi. He enlisted in the Army on September 23, 1941, and was initially stationed at Fort McClellan in Alabama. At the time of his death, Williams was 23 years old and stationed at Brookley Air Force Base, Brookley Army Air Field, near Mobile. When the bus driver stopped to talk, Williams asked to continue, citing his need to return to base. This led to an argument, which ended when the bus driver, Grover Chandler, produced a firearm. Williams fled out the back of the bus, but Chandler fired multiple shots, striking Williams in the back of the head. In reaction to Williams' death, more than 100 people joined the Mobile branch of the NAACP. Local NAACP president John L. LeFlore bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Williams (Medal Of Honor)
Henry Williams (February 6, 1834-October 17, 1917) was a sailor serving in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for bravery. Biography Williams was born on February 6, 1834, in Canada. After emigrating to the United States, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy on September 27, 1873. He was stationed aboard the USS ''Constitution'' as a carpenter's mate when, on February 13, 1879, he risked his life to repair the ship's rudder in a heavy gale. For his actions he received the Medal of Honor October 18, 1884. Williams was promoted to the warrant officer rank of carpenter on 1 June 1880. He retired from the Navy on February 6, 1896, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 62. U.S. Navy Register. 1897. pg. 109. He died October 17, 1917, and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Medal of Honor citation Rank and organization: Carpenter's Mate, U.S. Navy. Born 1833 Canada. Accredited to: Pennsylvania. G.O. No.: 326, 18 October 1884 Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Williams (bishop)
Henry Herbert Williams (19 December 1872 – 29 September 1961) was an English clergyman who served as Bishop of Carlisle. Williams was the elder son of Rev. John Williams, Vicar of Poppleton. He was educated at St Peter's School, York and The Queen's College, Oxford. He began his ministry in 1900 as a tutor and lecturer in philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford and in 1913 he became Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. From 1920 to 1941 he was Bishop of Carlisle. He died on 29 September 1961.'' Obituary Rt. Rev. H. H. Williams Former Bishop Of Carlisle'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ... Saturday, 30 September 1961; p. 10; Issue 55200; col E References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Henry Herbert 1872 births Cler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Smith Williams
Henry Smith Williams (1863-1943) was a medical doctor, lawyer, and author of a number of books on medicine, history, and science. Work In the introductory ''the Author'' of his book '' Drug Addicts Are Human Beings'' published in 1938, it is stated that this is the author's 119th published book. In addition to his work as a writer, it is claimed that Williams had treated some 10,000 patients in his medical practice. It also announces that he was an expert on the "chemistry and biology of the blood cells" and had spent ten years intensively studying cancer. His brother was the doctor Edward Huntington Williams, with whom he wrote his "''History of Science'' (31 volumes)". He authored articles for '' Harper's Magazine''. In his book, '' Chasing the Scream'', Johann Hari describes how the 1931 arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Williams' brother, Edward, was orchestrated by Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and that Williams, after pleading for his brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Horace Williams
Henry Horace Williams (1858–1940) was a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1890 to 1940. From 1921 to 1935 he was a Kenan Professor of philosophy at UNC, and from 1936-1940 he was a professor emeritus. After being invited to teach at UNC, he became the first chair of the Mental and Moral Sciences Department, which is today better known as the Department of Philosophy. His many interests were varied, yet his especial focus was logic and its humanistic aspects and evolution. He was an owner of the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill, NC, where The Preservation Society of Chapel Hill is headquartered, beginning in 1897. Horace died in 1940 - nearing death, Horace donated his home and outlying properties to UNC's Philosophy Department. This outlying property eventually became the well-known Horace Williams Airport in Chapel Hill. Biography Williams was born in 1858 in Gates County, North Carolina to a farming family; his father wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Harvey Williams
Henry Harvey Williams, OBE (6 January 1917 – 11 November 2004) was a lawyer and civil servant who served as the acting Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines between 1988 and 1989. Williams was born in the village of Gomea, in Saint Vincent's Saint George Parish, and attended Saint Vincent Grammar School. He studied law at the University of the West Indies, and briefly worked as a teacher before entering the British Windward Islands civil service. In 1956, he was appointed District Officer in charge of Carriacou (now part of Grenada, but then administered separately). Two years later, Williams was appointed secretary to the government of Grenada, serving in that role for four years."A Tribute to our father – Henry Harvey Williams" – ''Searchlight' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Williams (missionary)
Henry Williams (11 February 1792 – 16 July 1867) was the leader of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century. Williams entered the Royal Navy at the age of fourteen and served in the Napoleonic Wars. He went to New Zealand in 1823 as a missionary. The Bay of Islands Māori gave Williams the nickname ''Karu-whā'' ("Four-eyes" as he wore spectacles). He was known more widely as ''Te Wiremu''. ('Wiremu' being the Māori form of 'William'). His younger brother, William Williams, was also a missionary in New Zealand and known as "the scholar-surgeon". Their grandfather, the Reverend Thomas Williams (1725–1770), was a Congregational minister at the Independent Chapel of Gosport. Although Williams was not the first missionary in New Zealand – Thomas Kendall, John Gare Butler, John King and William Hall having come before him – he was "the first to make the mission a success, partly because the others had opened up the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
