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James Graham (jockey)
James Graham may refer to: Baronets * Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, of Kirkstall (1753–1825), Tory MP for Cockermouth, Wigtown Burghs and Carlisle * Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, of Netherby (1761–1824), MP for Ripon 1798–1807 * Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet (1792–1861), First Lord of the Admiralty, MP 1812–61 for Hull, St Ives, Carlisle, Cumberland, East Cumberland, Pembroke, Dorchester, Ripon Military * James Grahme or Graham (1649–1730), English army officer, courtier, politician and Jacobite * James Graham (British Army soldier) (1791–1845), British soldier commended for bravery at the Battle of Waterloo * James A. Graham (1940–1967), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient * James Duncan Graham (1799–1865), member of the Corps of Topographical Engineers Noblemen * James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Scottish nobleman and soldier * James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose (1631–1669), Scottish nobleman and judge * James Graham, 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, Of Kirkstall
Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet (18 November 1753 – 21 March 1825) was a British Tory politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cockermouth at the 1802 general election, but resigned that seat in 1805 to stand for Wigtown Burghs, where he was elected in July 1805. At the 1806 general election he was returned as an MP for Cockermouth, where he was re-elected in 1807 and held the seat until 1812. At the 1812 general election he was returned for Carlisle, and held that seat until his death in 1825, aged 71. He was made a baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ... in 1808, of Kirkstall, Yorkshire. References External links * 1753 births 1825 deaths Tory MPs (pre-1834) Members of the Parliament of the United K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Graham (speaker)
James Graham (1650 – January 27, 1701) was a Scottish born colonial American politician who served as the Speaker of the New York General Assembly. Early life Graham was born in Midlothian, Scotland in 1650 and was the son of John Graham and Isabella (née Affick) Graham. His paternal grandfather was Scottish nobleman James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, who supported King Charles I in the English Civil War, and was executed in Scotland in May 1650 after which the Montrose estates were forfeited.Buchan, John (1928). ''Montrose: A History''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin: The Riverside Press. His father's older brother, James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose, succeeded to the title after his grandfather's death. Career In 1678, as a member of the entourage of Governor Edmund Andros (who was appointed by the Duke of York to be the first proprietary governor of the Province of New York in October 1674), Graham sailed to New York aboard the ''Blossom''. Once i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Graham (rugby Union)
James Buchan Graham (23 April 1884 – 15 May 1941) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A loose forward, Graham represented at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ..., in 1913 and 1914. He played 16 matches for the All Blacks including three internationals. References 1884 births 1941 deaths Rugby union players from Dunedin New Zealand rugby union players New Zealand international rugby union players Otago rugby union players Rugby union flankers {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Graham (sport Shooter)
James Robert "Jay" Graham (February 12, 1870 – February 18, 1950) was an American sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. He won gold medals in trap shooting Trap shooting, or trapshooting in North America, is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting, which is shooting shotguns at clay targets. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays. They are disting ... and team clay pigeons. He turned professional soon after the 1912 Games. References External links * 1870 births 1950 deaths American male sport shooters Trap and double trap shooters Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in shooting Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics 19th-century American people 20th-century American people {{US-sportshooting-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Graham
James McMillan Nielson Graham (August 26, 1945 – June 11, 2017) was a Scottish-born American politician and a member of the Council of the District of Columbia. He was a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat who represented Ward One of the District of Columbia, Ward 1 in Washington, D.C. from 1999 until 2015. Life and education Graham was born on August 26, 1945, in Wishaw, Scotland. Graham's parents, neither of whom had high school degrees, settled in Hyattsville, Maryland, after immigrating to the United States from Scotland. A graduate of Michigan State University where he was a student politician and vice president of the National Student Association, Graham received a Juris Doctor, J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Graham worked as a Law clerk#Federal clerkships, clerk for Chief Justice of the United States, Chief Justice Earl Warren and held a staff attorney position with the U.S. Senate Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, York, James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * James (2005 film), ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * James (2008 film), ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * James (2022 film), ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Allen Graham
James Allen Graham, (April 27, 1921 – November 20, 2003) was an American teacher and politician who served as the thirteenth North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture. Early life Graham was born on April 7, 1921 to James Turner and Laura Blanche Allen Graham in Cleveland, North Carolina. Graham was raised in Rowan County, North Carolina on a 250-acre farm where the family raised cotton, cattle and grain. Education Graham graduated from Cleveland High School in 1938, where he played on the High School football team. In 1942 Graham graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education from North Carolina State College where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.Staff Writer (Summer 2012)"Tekes in Politics". ''The Teke''. pp. 12–13. Tau Kappa Epsilon. Retrieved January 10, 2018. Family life Jim Graham married Helen Ida Kirk, on October 30, 1942, they had two daughters, Alice Kirk Graham, and Laura Constance Graham. Commissioner of Agriculture On July 19, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Callan Graham
James Callan Graham (October 2, 1914 – July 23, 2006), generally referred to as Callan Graham, was an attorney in the Texas Hill Country, a pilot in World War II and a member of the Texas House of Representatives. Biography Early life and education Born in Del Rio, Texas, on October 2, 1914, to John Coburn Graham and Margaret Callan Graham. His earliest years where spent in Del Rio. He also lived in Mexico, where his father ranched sheep, becoming fluent in Spanish at a very early age. This fluency served him well throughout his life. In 1923 he moved with his family to a Kimble County ranch. Graham graduated from Junction High School and attended the University of Texas at Austin for a short time. Career Coke Stevenson who was then the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives took an interest in Callan, loaned him books and the use of an office and moral support and in February 1935, Callan passed the State Bar Examination and opened a law practice in Junction, Texa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Graham (physician)
Sir James Graham (29 July 1856 – 8 March 1913) was a Scottish-born physician and politician, active in Australia. He was Mayor of Sydney in 1901. Graham was born in Edinburgh, son of Thomas Graham, marble polisher, and his wife Jane ( ''née'' Square). Graham graduated M.A. at University of Edinburgh in 1879 and M.B. and C.M. in 1882. Graham migrated to Sydney in 1884 but then returned to Europe in August 1888 and studied at Berlin, Vienna and Paris. In 1888, he obtained the M.D. degree of Edinburgh Medical School with gold medal for his thesis on "Hydatid Disease in its Clinical Aspects". Returning to Sydney he was appointed superintendent of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital which, largely by his influence, became an excellent training-ground for the medical profession. From 1897 he was lecturer in midwifery at the University of Sydney (working under Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart) and held this position until 1912. He was founder of the Surgical Appliances Aid Society, the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McMahon Graham
James McMahon Graham (April 14, 1852 – October 23, 1945) was a United States representative from Illinois. Born in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Sangamon County, Illinois in 1868. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and attended Valparaiso University; he was a teacher, lawyer in private practice, and in 1885-1886 a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He was prosecuting attorney for Sangamon County from 1892 to 1896 and a member of the board of education of Springfield, Illinois from 1891 to 1894. Graham was elected as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1915); he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-fourth Congress in 1914. From 1916 to 1928, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Graham Fair
James Graham Fair (December 3, 1831December 28, 1894) was an Irish immigrant to the United States who became a highly successful mining engineer and businessman. His investments in silver mines in Nevada made him a millionaire, and he was one of the famous "Bonanza Kings, silver kings" who became wealthy on the Comstock Lode. Fair later became a real estate investor and railroad builder in California. In 1881, he was elected a United States Senate, United States Senator from Nevada. Nearly all other major so-called Robber baron (industrialist), robber barons were Protestants (Episcopalian, Episcopal or Presbyterian) while Fair himself was a Roman Catholic born into poverty. Early life Born to a poor Irish people, Irish family in Clogher, County Tyrone, James Fair came with his father to the United States in 1843 and grew up on a farm in Illinois. There he received an extensive education in business before moving to California in 1850, where he prospected the Feather River coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
