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William W. Allen (boxer)
William Allen may refer to: Politicians United States * William Allen (congressman) (1827–1881), United States Representative from Ohio *William Allen (governor) (1803–1879), U.S. Representative, Senator, and 31st Governor of Ohio *William Allen (loyalist) (1704–1780), wealthy merchant, chief justice of Pennsylvania's provincial Supreme Court, and founder of Allentown, Pennsylvania * William Allen (Montana politician) (1871–1953), member of the Montana House of Representatives and lieutenant governor *William C. Allen (politician) (1814–1887), American businessman and politician in Wisconsin *William F. Allen (Delaware politician) (1883–1946), American businessman and politician *William F. Allen (New York politician) (1808–1878), American judge and politician * William Fessenden Allen (1831–1906), American businessman and royal advisor in the Kingdom of Hawaii * William H. Allen (politician), member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in the 1880s * Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen (congressman)
William Allen (August 13, 1827 – July 6, 1881) was a United States Representative from Ohio during the early part of the American Civil War, serving two terms from 1859 to 1863. Early life and career Allen was born near Hamilton, Ohio, where he attended the public schools. As a young man, he taught school, then studied law. Allen was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Greenville, Ohio, in 1850. He was the prosecuting attorney of Darke County from 1850 until 1854. Congress Allen was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1863), where he served as chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Thirty-seventh Congress). Later career and death He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862 and resumed the practice of law. He became affiliated with the Republican Party at the close of the Civil War and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the second j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen (National Liberal Politician)
William Allen (1870 – 11 September 1945) was a politician in Britain who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1892 to 1900, and – after a gap of more than thirty years – from 1931 to 1935. Allen was the son of William Shepherd Allen, also an MP. He first entered the House of Commons at the 1892 general election. Aged only 22, he was elected as the Liberal Party MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, defeating the incumbent Liberal Unionist MP, Douglas Coghill. He was re-elected at the 1895 election, but was defeated at the 1900 general election. This was on account of his active service in the Second Boer War. He did not seek election again until the 1924 general election, when he stood as a Constitutionalist candidate in the Burslem constituency. In 1924, Constitutionalist candidates were either Unionist or Liberal candidates who were supported by both local party associations. As a group, they wished to see the return of a Coalition Government. Allen narrowly lost the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rodney Allen
William Rodney Allen is an American author and former Professor of English at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. He received his PhD from Duke University, and was a faculty member at LSMSA from the time the school first opened in 1983 until his retirement in 2011. He is married to Cindy Allen, a counselor at the school, and has two daughters, Emily and Claire, with her. He has many interests, which include and are not limited to playing guitar, reading, and cutting down Magnolia trees. He is also a Kurt Vonnegut fan and owns what is believed to be the last thing that Vonnegut wrote before his death in 2007, a postcard addressed to Allen. Works ''Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer'' University Press of Mississippi, 2006, ''Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (Literary conversations series)''University Press of Mississippi, 1988, * ''Understanding Kurt Vonnegut (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)'' (1991) * ''The Heath Introduction to Literature'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Allen (academician)
William Henry Allen (March 27, 1808 – August 29, 1882) was an American professor and academic administrator. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he served as acting president of Dickinson College from 1847 until 1848, and later was selected as the second president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1864 until 1866. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ... in 1858. References William Henry Allen 1864-1866 Dickinson College 1808 births 1882 deaths Bowdoin College alumni Presidents of Pennsylvania State University People from Readfield, Maine Academics from Maine Presidents of Dickinson College {{US-academic-administrator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Francis Allen
William Francis Allen (September 5, 1830December 9, 1889) was an American classical scholar and an editor of the first book of American slave songs, '' Slave Songs of the United States.'' Allen was born in Northborough, Massachusetts in 1830, the son of Joseph Allen. He graduated Harvard College in 1851; later he traveled and studied in Europe. A Unitarian, he considered the ministry before deciding to pursue a literary and scholarly career. In 1856, he became assistant principal at the West Newton English and Classical School in Massachusetts, headed by his cousin Nathaniel Topliff Allen. In 1862 he married a former student of the Allen School, Mary Tileston Lambert, daughter of Rev Henry and Catherine Porter Lambert, from West Newton. In 1863–4, during the Civil War, William and his wife Mary ran a school for newly emancipated slaves on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. His detailed journals about their this experience were published in ''A Yankee Scholar in Coastal So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William B
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German '' Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen (Utah Architect)
William Robert Allen (January 1, 1849 – October 11, 1928) was an early 20th-century architect in Utah. His most important work, the Davis County Courthouse, is no longer extant, yet a number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Allen received training through the International Correspondence Schools which was based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, but allowed him to receive training and continue work in Utah. He nearly monopolized architecture in Davis County, Utah, Davis County, and was irritated to find others' works. He criticized another's work as a "It has a Queen Anne front and a jackass behind". Works * John George Moroni Barnes House (1869), Kaysville, Utah, NRHP-listed * John R. Barnes House (1869), Kaysville, NRHP-listed * Kaysville Presbyterian Church (1887), Kaysville * Kaysville Academy (1888) * Kaysville City Hall (1889), Kaysville * Farmer's Union Building (1890), Layton, Utah, NRHP-listed * Governor Henry Blood House (c.1896), Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen (biographer)
William Allen (January 2, 1784 – July 16, 1868) was an American biographer, scholar and academic. He served as president of both Dartmouth University and Bowdoin College. Biography William Allen was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1784. He graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge in 1802 and after a few years of work became assistant librarian at Harvard. He became Pastor of Pittsfield 1810; President of Dartmouth University, 1817; and President of Bowdoin College 1820-1839. He was largely responsible for establishing the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1820. He resigned in 1839, and died at Northampton in 1868. He prepared his ''American Biographical and Historical Dictionary'' (1809), the first work of general biography published in the United States. In 1810 he succeeded his father as pastor of the Church in Pittsfield. Allen was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814. He was chosen president of Dartmouth University in 181 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen (actor)
William Allen (died 1647) was a prominent English actor in the Caroline era. He belonged to both of the most important theatre companies of his generation, Queen Henrietta's Men and the King's Men. Allen was a member of the Queen Henrietta's company through the main phase of its existence, from 1625 to 1636. Six cast lists for five plays survive for the company; Allen is one of only two men (the other being Michael Bowyer) who is included in all six lists. Allen played major roles: * Captain Landby in Shirley's '' The Wedding'' * Pandolph in Davenport's '' King John and Matilda'' * Grimaldi the Renegado in Massinger's '' The Renegado'' * Hannibal in Nabbes's '' Hannibal and Scipio'' * Mullisheg in Heywood's ''The Fair Maid of the West'' (both parts). The Queen Henrietta's company was disrupted and fractured by the long theatre closure from May 1636 to October 1637, due to a severe outbreak of bubonic plague. Allen was one of several members of the troupe who disappear fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shepherd Allen
William Shepherd Allen (22 June 1831 – 15 January 1915) was an English Liberal politician. He also worked as a farmer and served as an MP in New Zealand. Biography Allen was born at Manchester, the son of William Allen and his wife Maria Shepherd. His father was JP for Staffordshire, residing at Woodhead Hall, Cheadle. Allen was educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated with a BA in law and history in 1854, and an MA in 1857. In 1869, Allen married Elizabeth Penelope Candlish, the daughter of John Candlish MP for Sunderland. Their eldest son William was later MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme. Another son, Colonel Sir Stephen Allen, (1882–1964) was a New Zealand lawyer, farmer, local body politician, and Mayor of Morrinsville. He served in World War I and in the Territorial Army, and was Administrator of the colony of Western Samoa (now Samoa) 1928–31. He was a devout Methodist and wrote several religious papers. Allen was elected as member of parliament for New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Johnston Allen
William Johnston Allen (1835 – 12 June 1915) was an Irish-born Australian politician. Biography William Johnston Allen was born in Belfast, Ireland, the eldest child of Ruth Sayers Johnston and soap manufacturer William Bell Allen, later a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, as the member for Williams from 1860 until 1864. His father arrived in Sydney in 1841, and his mother brought William and his sister Eliza Allen, in 1844. When he grew older, William joined his father in the soap and candle business. On 21 April 1868 he married Edith Isabella Crew; they had eight children. Legislative Assembly William unsuccessfully stood for election to the Legislative Assembly for the district of Paddington, in 1880 for the then two member district, 1882, and 1887 as a member of the Protectionist Party. His brother Alfred also stood for Paddington in 1887 but for the Free Trade Party The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Edward David Allen
William Edward David Allen (6 January 1901 – 18 September 1973) was a British scholar, Foreign Service officer, politician and businessman, best known as a historian of the South Caucasus—notably Georgia. He was closely involved in the politics of Northern Ireland, and had fascist tendencies. Career Born into, on his father's side, an Ulster-Scots family in London and brought up in Hertfordshire, he was educated at Eton College (1914–1918), where he began to learn Russian and Turkish. He published his first book, ''The Turks in Europe'', when he was eighteen. He was a special correspondent for ''The Morning Post'' during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) and the Rif War (1925). In the pre-Second World War years, he travelled a lot and conducted extensive research on the history of the peoples of the Caucasus and Anatolia. In 1930, along with Sir Oliver Wardrop, he founded the Georgian Historical Society; the Society published its own journal, ''Georgica'', dedicated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
