Wharton may refer to:
Academic institutions
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a Private university, private Ivy League rese ...
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Wharton County Junior College
Wharton County Junior College (WCJC) is a public community college with its main campus in Wharton, Texas. The college also has campuses in Richmond, Sugar Land, and Bay City. WCJC is accredited by the Southern Association of College ...
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Paul R. Wharton High School
Paul R. Wharton High School (also known as Wharton High School) is a public high school in Tampa, Florida, United States. It was established in 1997 and is part of the Hillsborough County Public Schools district.
Demographics
Wharton High Scho ...
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Wharton Center for Performing Arts
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It ...
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Michigan State University
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...
Places
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Wharton, Cheshire
Winsford is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the River Weaver south of Northwich and west of Middlewich. It grew around ...
, England
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Wharton, Cumbria
Wharton is a civil parish near Kirkby Stephen in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, which, historically, was part of Westmorland. It has a population of 31. As the population taken at the 2011 Census remained less than 100 details are includ ...
, England
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Wharton, New Jersey
Wharton is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the borough's population was 6,522,[Wharton, Ohio
Wharton is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. The population was 358 at the 2010 census.
History
Wharton was originally called Whartonsburg, and under the latter name was laid out in 1848. The village was named in honor of an earl ...]
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Wharton, Texas
Wharton is a city in and the county seat of Wharton County, Texas, Wharton County, Texas, United States. This city is southwest of Houston. The population was 8,832 at the 2010 census and 8,627 at the 2020 census. Wharton is located on the Colora ...
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Wharton, West Virginia
Wharton is an unincorporated community and coal town on the Pond Fork River in Boone County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Wharton lies along West Virginia Route 85. Wharton was named for Joseph Wharton, a large landowner from Philadelphia.
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Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Wharton Township is a township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,372 at the 2020 census, down from 3,575 at the 2010 census. The Uniontown Area School District serves the region.
Farmington, Deer Lake, Elli ...
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Wharton Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania
Wharton Township is a township in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 119 at the 2020 census.
Geography
In 2000, according to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 113.25 sq mi (293.32  ...
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Wharton Basin
Wharton Basin is the marine area of the north east quarter of the Indian Ocean. It is named after William Wharton (1843-1905), Hydrographer of the Navy. Alternative names are Cocos Basin (after the Cocos Islands) and West Australian Basin.
It ...
, the north-eastern part of the Indian Ocean
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Wharton Creek (Unadilla River), a stream in the U.S. state of New York
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Wharton State Forest
Wharton State Forest is the largest state forest in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the largest single tract of land in the state park system of New Jersey, encompassing approximately of the Pinelands northeast of Hammonton. Its protected ...
, New Jersey, USA
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Mount Wharton
The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier.
Several ...
, Antarctica
People
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Wharton (name) Notable people named Wharton include:
Politicians and diplomats
* A C Wharton, Former Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee
* Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. (1899–1990), American diplomat
* Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. (born 1926), former United States Deputy ...
, including a list of people with the name
See also
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Warton (disambiguation) Warton may refer to:
Places in England
*Warton, Fylde, a village between Preston and Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire
**Bryning-with-Warton, civil parish containing Warton
**Warton Aerodrome, a BAE Systems airfield near the above village
*Warton, Lanca ...
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