Elihu may refer to:
People
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Elihu Burritt (1811–1879), American philanthropist, linguist, and social activist
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Elihú Chávez (1988), Mexican Environmental Engineer with Renewable Energies Master Degree (ITESM 2019). Safety professional and LGBT+ Activist.
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Elihu Embree
Elihu Embree (November 11, 1782 – December 4, 1820) was an abolitionist in Jonesborough, Tennessee and publisher of ''Manumission Intelligencier'' (later renamed as ''The Emancipator''). Founded in 1819, it was the first newspaper in the United S ...
(1782–1820), abolitionist and publisher of the first newspaper in the United States devoted exclusively to that cause
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Elihu Goodsell
Elihu Bernard Goodsell (May 11, 1806 – November 17, 1878) was an American farmer, miner, and politician.
Born in Sheldon, Vermont, he went to Quincy, Illinois, and then to Mineral Point, Michigan Territory in 1834. He was the first settler ...
(1806–1880), American politician
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Elihu Harris
Elihu Mason Harris (born August 15, 1947) is a retired American politician and college administrator. A member of the Democratic Party, Harris served as the 46th Mayor of Oakland, California from 1991 to 1999; he previously served for 12 years ...
(born 1947), mayor of Oakland, California, U.S.
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Elihu B. Hayes
Elihu Burritt Hayes (April 26, 1848 – April 1, 1903) was an American shoe manufacturer, newspaperman, and politician, who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 18th Essex District, and as the 2 ...
(1848–1903), American shoe manufacturer, newspaper owner, and politician
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Elihu Emory Jackson (1837–1907), governor of Maryland, U.S.
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Elihu Katz (born 1926), American and Israeli sociologist
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Elihu Lauterpacht
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht (13 July 1928 – 8 February 2017) was a British academic and lawyer, who specialized in international law. The son of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, he was founder of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the Law Faculty ...
(1928–2017), British academic and lawyer
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Elihu Spencer Miller (1817–1879), American Dean of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), founder of the Deistical Society of New York
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Elihu Root
Elihu Root (; February 15, 1845February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and statesman who served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War in the early twentieth century. He also served as United States Senator from N ...
(1845–1937), American statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Elihu Thomson (1853–1937), engineer instrumental in the founding of electrical companies, and acting president of MIT in 1920
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Elihu Vedder
Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of ''The Rubaiyat of Om ...
(1836–1923), American painter, book illustrator, and poet
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Elihu B. Washburne
Elihu Benjamin Washburne (September 23, 1816 – October 22, 1887) was an Americans, American politician and diplomat. A member of the Washburn family, which played a prominent role in the early formation of the Republican Party (United States), ...
(1816–1887), United States politician and a founder of Republican Party
*Elihu Pinson Watkins (1826–1868), American Confederate military officer, politician, and entrepreneur
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Elihu S. Williams
Elihu Stephen Williams (January 24, 1835 – December 1, 1903) was a farmer, lawyer, soldier, and politician who became a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio, serving from 1887 to 1891.
Biography
Elihu S. William ...
(1835–1903), American farmer, lawyer, soldier, and politician
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Elihu Yale (1649–1721), benefactor of Yale University
Characters
*Judge Elihu Smails, co-founder of the Bushwood Country Club, in the film ''
Caddyshack''
*Elihu Willsson, a leading character in Dashiell Hammett's novel ''
Red Harvest''
*Elihu Yale, the Atlanta Police Chief in Tom Wolfe's novel ''
A Man in Full
''A Man in Full'' is the second novel by Tom Wolfe, published on November 12, 1998, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It is set primarily in Atlanta, with a significant portion of the story also transpiring in the East Bay region of the San Francisco B ...
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*Elihu "Sam" Nivens, the protagonist in Robert A. Heinlein's ''
The Puppet Masters''
*Elihu Whipple, one of the two main characters in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "
The Shunned House"
Biblical figures
*A
speaker who challenges Job
Work or labor (or labour in British English) is intentional activity people perform to support the needs and wants of themselves, others, or a wider community. In the context of economics, work can be viewed as the human activity that contr ...
in the
Book of Job
The Book of Job (; hbo, אִיּוֹב, ʾIyyōḇ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and is the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Scholars ar ...
(Chapters 32–37)
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Ephraim
Ephraim (; he, ''ʾEp̄rayīm'', in pausa: ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath. Asenath was an Ancient Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph as wife, and the daughte ...
ite and grandfather to
Samuel
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...
, mentioned in the
First Book of Samuel (1:1)
*a brother of
David, king of
Israel (1 Samuel 16:6)
*a chief of the
Tribe of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 12:21)
*a
Korahite (1 Chronicles 26:7)
Other
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Elihu (secret society)
Elihu, founded in 1903, is the fourth oldest senior society at Yale University, New Haven, CT. While similar to Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head societies in charter and function, Elihu favors privacy over secrecy. It was founded ...
, a senior society at Yale University
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Elihu Island Elihu Island is a private island off the coast of Stonington, Connecticut. It is located in Wequetequock Cove, just southwest of Goat Island and northeast of the western tip of Sandy Point Island. It has been variously known as Ledward or Ledwar ...
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