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Rupert ZU LOEWENSTEIN born Rupert Louis Ferdinand Frederick Constantine Lofredo Leopold Herbert Maximilian Hubert John Henry ZU LOEWENSTEIN
A scion of the royal houses of Wittelsbach and Löwenstein-Wertheim, Loewenstein was born in Palma, Majorca, Spain, the son of Prince Felicien Leopold Friedrich Ludwig Hubertus zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1903–1974) and his wife,[...]
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Joseph B. FORAKER born Joseph Benson FORAKER
Joseph Benson Foraker was born on July 5, 1846, on a farm about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Rainsboro, Ohio, in Highland County. He was the son of Henry and Margaret (Reece) Foraker, and one of 11 children, of whom nine reached adulthood. Henry[...]
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Oscar L. CHAPMAN born Oscar Littleton CHAPMAN
Chapman was born in Omega, Halifax County, Virginia, to James Jackson Chapman, a Virginia farmer, and his wife, Rosa Archer Blunt. He started taking night classes at the University of Denver, spent the 1927–1928 school year at the University[...]
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Ted TRUMAN born Edwin Malcolm TRUMAN
Truman was awarded a BA from Amherst College in 1963, and a Ph.D in economics from Yale University in 1976. In 1988 Amherst College awarded him an Honorary LL.D.
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Jim FOLSOM born James Elisha FOLSOM
Born in Coffee County in southeastern Alabama, Folsom was among the first southern governors to advocate a moderate position on integration and improvement of civil rights for African Americans. In his Christmas message on December 25, 1949, he[...]
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William Lowell PUTNAM
Putnam graduated from Harvard in 1882, and proceeded to make a professional name for himself in legal and financial circles. Even before his marriage to Percival Lowell's sister, Elizabeth, in 1888, Putnam (who was also Percival's half third[...]
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