Thomas Yates (politician)
Thomas Yates may refer to: * Thomas J. Yates (1870–1958), seminary teacher in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Tom Yates (1896–1978), British trade unionist * Thomas L. Yates (fl. 1820), politician in Jamaica See also * Thomas Yate (1604–1681), Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford * Thomas Yeates (born 1955), American comic book and comic strip artist * Thomas Yeates (orientalist) Thomas Yeates (1768–1869) was an oriental linguist. Life He was the son of John Yeates, a turner, of Snow Hill, London, where he was born on 9 October 1768. He was at first apprenticed to his father, but, showing no taste for the trade, was allo ...

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Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ...
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Tom Yates
Thomas Yates (26 September 1896 – 27 May 1978) was a British trade unionist. Born in Wallasey, Yates studied locally at St Mary's School before, at the age of seventeen, going to sea, working as a steward.Arthur Ivor Marsh and Victoria Ryan, ''The Seamen'', p.292 With the First World War ongoing, he joined the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He married Lillian in 1918 and had four children (Grace known as Win, Les, Doug and Len), soon returning to sea, eventually becoming a head waiter and librarian for the Cunard Line. He became involved in the National Union of Seamen (NUS), and was made an official in 1928, then a district secretary in 1940, firstly for the south west coast, then a year later for Scotland. In 1942, he was promoted to National Organiser, then the following year to Assistant General Secretary. Finally, in 1947, he was elected to the top job of General Secretary of the NUS.'' Who Was Who 1971-1980'', p.885 In this post, he was known for his anti-co ...
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Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 nove ...
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Thomas Yate
Thomas Yate, D.D. (1604–1681), sometimes called Yates, was an Oxford college head. Yate was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He held the living at Middleton Cheney Middleton Cheney is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The village is about east of Banbury in Oxfordshire and about west-northwest of Brackley. The A422 road between Banbury and Brackley used to pass through Middle ...; and was Principal of Brasenose from 1660 until his death on 22 April 1681. Notes Further reading * , 17th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Principals of Brasenose College, Oxford 1681 deaths {{UOxford-stub ...
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Thomas Yeates
Thomas Yeates (born January 19, 1955) is an American comic strip and comics artist, comic book artist best known for illustrating the comic strips ''Prince Valiant'' and ''Zorro'' and for working on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Career Thomas Yeates was part of the first graduating class from The Kubert School. His first published comics work was "Preacher" a five-page backup feature in ''Sgt. Rock'' #312 (Jan. 1978). He provided spot illustrations for a Batman prose story in ''Detective Comics'' #500 (March 1981) written by Walter B. Gibson, longtime writer of ''The Shadow''. Yeates and Jack C. Harris briefly revived Claw the Unconquered as a backup feature in ''Warlord (DC Comics), The Warlord'' #48-49. "Dragonsword" was a backup feature by Paul Levitz and Yeates which appeared in ''The Warlord'' #51-54 (Nov. 1981–Feb. 1982). In 1982, Yeates and writer Martin Pasko revived Swamp Thing in a new series titled ''Swamp Thing (comic book), Saga of the Swamp Thing' ...
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