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William Coleman (mayor)
William, Will or Bill Coleman may refer to: Business * William Coffin Coleman (1870–1957), founder of the Coleman Company * William Frank Kobina Coleman (born 1922), Ghanaian engineer and director-general of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation * William T. Coleman III (1947–2020), American businessman, CEO of Veritas Technologies * William Tell Coleman (1824–1893), American pioneer and businessman * William C. Coleman (1901–1976), US railroad executive Entertainment * Bill Coleman (artist) (1922–1993), Australian artist * Bill Coleman (trumpeter) (1904–1981), jazz trumpeter * Will Coleman (storyteller) Cornish film-maker, author, and musician * William Stephen Coleman (1829–1904), English painter and book illustrator Politics * Bill Coleman (Oklahoma politician), member of the Oklahoma Senate * William Coleman (politician) (1878–?), house painter, labor activist, and Socialist politician from Milwaukee * William D. Coleman (politician) (1842–1908), president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Coffin Coleman
William Coffin Coleman (May 21, 1870 – November 2, 1957) was a businessman, the American founder of the Coleman Company, a maker of camping equipment, and a politician. He served as the Mayor of Wichita, Kansas from 1923 to 1924. Biography Coleman was born in Chatham, New York in 1870. His parents moved the family to Labette County, Kansas in 1871, and in 1881 his father died. William started earning money by selling small goods as a child. After he got older, he became a salesman, a good entry position for someone with limited education but much energy. While he was selling typewriters in Alabama, Coleman saw a lantern that used gasoline instead of kerosene. He switched his sales to lanterns, believing these would be useful. He began to craft his own lantern, which he marketed as the Coleman Arc Lamp. In 1901 Coleman married Fanny Sheldon and they moved to Wichita, Kansas. They had two children: Sheldon and Clarence Coleman. Coleman also developed what he called the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Coleman (bishop)
William Robert Coleman (16 August 1917 – 21 July 1992) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century. Coleman was educated at the University of Toronto and ordained in 1943. He began his career with a curacy at the Church of the Epiphany, Sudbury. then its Priest in charge 1943–45. He was then successively Professor of Religious Philosophy and Ethics at Wycliffe College, Dean of Divinity at Bishop's University Bishop's University (french: Université Bishop's) is a small English-language Liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The founder of the institution was the Anglican Diocese of Quebe ... and Principal of Huron College. In 1961 he became [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lantz V
__NOTOC__ Lantz may refer to: People * Lantz (surname), a surname of German and Swedish origin * Lantz (given name) Places Canada *Lantz, Nova Scotia Spain * Lantz, Spain, Navarre United States * Lantz, West Virginia * Lantz Arena in Charleston, Illinois * Lantz Corners, Pennsylvania * Lantz Farm and Nature Preserve Wildlife Management Area, West Virginia *Lantz Hall Lantz Hall is a historic building located at Massanutten Military Academy, Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1907–1909, and is a 3 1/2-story, seven bay by three bay, brick faced frame building in the Late Gothic Revival st ..., in Virginia * Lantz Mill, in Virginia * Lantz-Zeigler House, in Maryland See also *'' Lantz v. Coleman'', a Connecticut superior court case in the United States * Lanz (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Coleman
William Peter Coleman (15 December 1928 – 31 March 2019) was an Australian writer and politician. A widely published journalist for over 60 years, he was editor of '' The Bulletin'' (1964–1967) and of '' Quadrant'' for 20 years, and published 16 books on political, biographical and cultural subjects. While still working as an editor and journalist he had a short but distinguished political career as a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1968–1978 for the Liberal Party, serving both as a Minister in the State Cabinet and in the final year as Leader of the New South Wales Opposition. From 1981–1987 he was the member for Wentworth in the Australian House of Representatives. Early life Coleman was born in Melbourne, the son of Stanley Charles Coleman, an advertising agent, and Norma Victoria Tiernan. Moving to Sydney, he was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and at the University of Sydney under philosophers John Anderson and John Passmore. Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thaddeus Coleman III
William Thaddeus Coleman III (born 1947) is a United States lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Army during the Clinton administration. Biography Coleman was born in Boston on April 20, 1947, the son of William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. and his wife Lovida. He was educated at Williams College ( B.A., 1970), and Yale Law School ( J.D., 1973). During his first year at law school, he was befriended by fellow law student Bill Clinton and the two were roommates during their second year of law school. After completing law school, he served as a clerk for federal District Judge Edward T. Gignoux. Coleman was admitted to the bar of Georgia in 1974, and has practiced law since then, most recently in Philadelphia. In the 1990s, when Bill Clinton became President of the United States, he appointed Coleman General Counsel of the Army. Coleman was the subject of a minor scandal in 1997 when he was accused of sexual harassment Sexual harassment is a type of harassment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Higgins Coleman
William Higgins Coleman (18 July 1812 – 12 September 1863) was an English botanist. Life Coleman was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. in 1836, M.A. in 1838, and was ordained deacon and priest by Kaye, bishop of Lincoln, in 1840. Becoming a master at Christ's Hospital, Hertford, he was engaged from 1840 to 1847 with the Rev. R. H. Webb in preparing the ''Flora Hertfordiensis'' (London, 1849). In 1847 he became assistant-master in the grammar school, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t .... Coleman died at Burton-on-Trent. Works In 1834, Coleman was author, in conjunction with John William Colenso, of ''Examples in Arithmetic and Algebra'' (Cambridge). The ''Flora Hertfordiensis'' contains an "Introd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Caldwell Coleman
William Caldwell Coleman (October 17, 1884 – January 12, 1968) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Education and career Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Coleman received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Harvard University in 1905 and a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1909. He was in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1909 to 1927. During this time, he was also an instructor at the University of Maryland Law School from 1914 to 1917, Secretary of the Maryland Educational Survey Committee in 1916, and was a Private in the United States Army during World War I in 1918. Federal judicial service Coleman received a recess appointment from President Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a History of the Republican Party (United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Coleman (judge)
William Coleman (1704 – January 11, 1769) was a merchant, lawyer, municipal official, and judge in colonial Philadelphia. Coleman was born in Philadelphia, where he was educated and studied law. His parents were Quakers; his mother, Rebecca Bradford, had arrived in the new colony of Pennsylvania as a child in 1683, and his father, also William Coleman, was a carpenter and one of the earliest members of the Carpenter's Company of Philadelphia. After he was admitted to the bar, Coleman held a variety of municipal offices, beginning as Town Clerk and Clerk of the City Court. He became a Judge of various local courts including the Orphan's Court, Court of Common Pleas, and Quarter Sessions. In 1758 he was appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He was also a merchant, in partnership with Thomas Hopkinson. He was also active in Philadelphia's emerging cultural institutions. By 1727 Coleman was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and member of Franklin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
