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John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse is located on Fan pier the Boston, Massachusetts waterfront. Named after Congressman Joe Moakley, it was completed in 1999 at a cost of $ 130,000,000 and it has won many design awards.
John Joseph Montgomery John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, inventor, professor at Santa Clara College. On August 28, 1883 he made the first manned, controlled, heavier-than-air flights of the United States, in the Otay Mesa area of San Diego, California (after European pioneers such as George Cayley's coachman in 1853, or Jean-Marie Le Bris in 1856).
John Joseph Sims John Joseph Sims (Bloomsbury 1835 - London 6 December 1881) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Joseph Swaine Sir John Joseph Swaine CBE, LLD, QC, JP (施偉賢)was the President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1993 to 1995. A teacher by training, Swaine was an appointed and unofficial member of the council.
John Joseph Sweeny The Reverend Monsignor John Joseph Sweeny was born April 3, 1924 in San Francisco, California to parents John and Norma Sweeny. Sweeny was ordained to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco on December 18, 1948, along with his brother Louis, by Archbishop John Joseph Mitty.
John Joseph Woods John Woods (1849–1934) was a New Zealand teacher and songwriter. He composed the music for the New Zealand national anthem God Defend New Zealand, winning a competition to set Thomas Bracken's words to music.
John Joyce John Stanislaus Joyce (July 4, 1849-December 29, 1931) was the father of writer James Joyce, and a well known Dublin man about town. The son of James and Ellen (née O'Connell) Joyce, John Joyce grew up in Cork, where his mother's family, which claimed kinship to "Liberator" Daniel O'Connell, was quite prominent.
John Julius Angerstein John Julius Angerstein (1735- January 1823), London merchant, Lloyd's under-writer, and patron of the fine arts, was born in St Petersburg, Russia (it has - wrongly - been suggested that he was an illegitimate son of Catherine the Great or of Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, herself the illegitimate daughter of Peter the Great!) and settled in London in about 1749.
John K. Kane John Kintzing Kane (16 May, 1795 - 21 February, 1858) was an American politician, attorney and jurist. Kane was noted for his political affiliation with President Andrew Jackson and for an 1855 pro-slavery legal decision dealing with the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
John K. Reed John Reed is a senior scientist in the Biomedical Marine Research group at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. He has been instrumental to the success of the group by organizing and participating in numerous research cruises worldwide collecting marine organisms for pharmaceutically active compounds.
John K. Samson John Kristjan Samson is a Canadian rock music singer-songwriter. He played bass in the punk band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s but is probably best known for his current role fronting the indie-rock quartet The Weakerthans.
John Kahn John Kahn (13 June 1947 - 30 May 1996) was an American rock bass player. For a period of about twenty five years Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead, playing in nearly every line-up of the Jerry Garcia Band (including Reconstruction and Legion of Mary with organist Merl Saunders) and acoustic stand-up bass in Garcia's Old and in the Way during 1973, arguably the first "newgrass" group.
John Kalisz John Kalisz is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. He has been recognized for his work with nominations for the Comics' Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist Award in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
John Kampfner John Kampfner is a British journalist who has been editor of the weekly political magazine the New Statesman since 2005. He was educated at Westminster School, a boys' independent school in London and at the University of Oxford.
John Kane (writer) An associate actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played Puck in Peter Brook's acclaimed production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" alongside Ben Kingsley, Alan Howard and Frances de la Tour, before turning to comedy script writing. He began writing for Norman Wisdom and Terry Scott's sketch show "Scott On", before taking over the reigns on a project for Terry Scott and comic actress June Whitfield, which began as "Happily Ever After" and then became long-running series "Terry and June", for which he wrote the entire first series and much of the subsequent series.
John Kapelos John Kapelos (born March 8, 1956) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his role in The Breakfast Club as Carl the Janitor and also appeared in two other movies directed by John Hughes: Sixteen Candles and Weird Science.
John Kappelman John Kappelman is professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research centers on hominoid evolution and human origins, including paleoecology, functional morphology, stratigraphy and geochronology.
John Karlen John Karlen (born John Karlewicz on May 28, 1933 in New York City) is a character actor best known for playing Willie Loomis and other characters on the ABC cult serial Dark Shadows, in various episodes between 206 and 1245, which aired from 1966-1971. he also starred in the 1975 television film, Trilogy of Terror.
John Kasmin John Kasmin (born 1934) is a British art dealer who along with Robert Fraser promoted British and American Pop Art in the 1960s. He went to Magdalen College School in Oxford and then worked with the established London Art dealer Victor Musgrave.
John Kassir Johnny Kassir (born October 24, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian who has been active in many facets of entertainment since 1984. During Ed McMahon's original Star Search Kassir had beaten Sinbad in the talent competition.
John Katzman John Katzman is the founder of The Princeton Review. A graduate of Princeton University, Katzman founded The Princeton Review in 1981, initially teaching SAT preparation to high-school students in New York City.
John Kay (spinning frame) John Kay was a clockmaker from Warrington, Lancashire, England. He is known by association with Richard Arkwright for the invention of the spinning frame in 1767: an important stage in the development of textile manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution.
John Kaye John Kaye teaches and researches electrical engineering at the University of New South Wales where he specialises in sustainable energy and greenhouse issues. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and over twenty years of research and teaching experience.
John Keane (archbishop) John Keane (September 12, 1839 - June 22, 1918) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque from July 24, 1900 - April 28, 1911. Keane was the third Bishop and second Archbishop of the Dubuque, Iowa Archdiocese.
John Keane (British political theorist) John Keane, born 1949 in Australia and educated at the Universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, is Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). In 1989 he founded the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) .
John Keay John Keay (born 1941) is an English journalist and historian. He specialises in writing popular histories about India and the Far East, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans.
John Keefer Mahony John Keefer Mahony, VC (30 June 1911 -15 December 1990) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Keegan Sir John Keegan (born 1934) is a British military historian, lecturer and journalist. As an author he has published a number of works ranging from coverage of 14th Century to 21st Century warfare in the domains of land, air, maritime and intelligence warfare and the psychology of conflict.
John Keith Tucker John Keith Tucker is an unconvicted, admitted child rapist from McCurtain County, Oklkahoma, USA, who won custody over one of the children resulting from the rape and child support from the rape victim. In October 2000, he first raped Melonie Hamm (now Melonie Hamm Knutson) when she was 14.
John Kelly Boys Technology College John Kelly Boys' Technology College was founded in 1958 and is set in pleasant and extensive grounds on Dollis Hill. The College is served by a number of bus routes (316, 245, 182) and is local to Neasden and Dollis Hill Underground stations.
John Kelsey (cryptanalyst) John Kelsey is a cryptographer currently working at NIST. His research interests include cryptanalysis and design of symmetric cryptography primitives (block ciphers, stream ciphers, cryptographic hash functions, MACs), analysis and design of cryptographic protocols, cryptographic random number generation, electronic voting, side-channel attacks on cryptography implementations, and anonymizing communications systems.
John Kelvin Koelsch John Kelvin Koelsch (22 December 1923 – 16 October 1951) was a United States Navy officer and a recipient of America's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in the Korean War. He was the first helicopter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
John Kenagy John Kenagy, MD is a vascular surgeon and the principal creator of Adaptive Design(r). As Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School, Kenagy studied with Clayton Christensen to develop the notion of Disruptive technology--also known as Disruptive Innovation--in health care.
John Kendrew Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (March 24, 1917 – August 23, 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz; their group in the Cavendish Laboratory investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins.
John Kendrick Bangs John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 - January 21, 1922) was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife.
John Kendrick Skinner John Kendrick Skinner (VC, DCM) (February 5, 1883 - March 17, 1918) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Kennedy (baseball 1957) John Irvin Kennedy (October 12, 1926 - April 27, 1998) was a Major League Baseball shortstop. He signed as a free agent with the New York Giants before the 1953 season, was released before the 1954 season, then signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia Phillies before the 1957 season.
John Kennedy (DJ) John Kennedy (not to be confused with dance musician Jon Kennedy), is a radio and club DJ who presents on London radio station XFM, between 10pm and 1am Monday-Thurdays. His show, X-Posure, focuses on new, cutting edge music.
John Kennedy (theologian) John Kennedy (1813-1900) was a Scottish Congregational minister and author, born at Aberfeldy, Perthshire, and educated at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow universities. He was pastor of a Congregational church in Aberdeen from 1836 to 1846, when he was called to the Stepney Congregational Meeting House in London, a charge he held until his retirement in 1882.
John Kennedy College John Kennedy College is a high school found in Beau Bassin in Mauritius. Founded in 1964 and inaugurated by the then Governor General Sir John Shaw Rennie, it has proved to be one of the most prestigious colleges in Mauritius.
John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15 1908–April 29 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism.
John Kenneth Graham American composer John Kenneth Graham (born July 261955 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana), studied at Southeastern Louisiana University and Louisiana State University, and writes orchestral tableaux of American legend and folklore. A traditionalist, his most representative works include the first four symphonies of a nine-symphony cycle.
John Kenneth Muir John Kenneth Muir, born December 3 1969, is the author of nineteen reference books in the fields of film and television, with a particular accent on the horror and science fiction genres. He has written a book about Kevin Smith, entitled An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2002), a study of Sam Raimi entitled The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2004) and another on the works of comedian Christopher Guest and his repertory company, titled Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2004).
John Kenny John Kenny (1957-) is a British trombonist, actor, composer and multi-faceted performer of contemporary solo repertoire, modern jazz and early music. As a composer, he has received commissions from the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and in 1989 was Strathclyde Composer in Residence to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
John Keogh John Keogh (1740 - 1817) was a leading Irish rights campaigner who struggled to get Irish Roman Catholics the right to vote and the repeal of the penal act. He was of an obscure family and made his considerable fortune in land speculation, brewing, and silk trading.
John Kerr Sir John Robert Kerr, AK, GCMG, GCVO (24 September 1914 - 24 March 1991), 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and 18th Governor-General of Australia, dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, marking the climax of one of the most significant constitutional crises in Australian history.
John Kerr (broadcaster) John Kerr (Born 19 February 1942) has been the greatest broadcaster in Australia for almost 50 years. His magnificent achievements have earned him the respect and admiration of not only the movers and shakers of the Australian radio industry, but of the entire nation.
John Kerry presidential campaign VP selection process This article discusses the John Kerry presidential campaign vice-president selection process that began after Kerry became the presumptive Democratic Party candidate for president of the United States of America in the 2004 election campaign.
John Kerry VVAW controversy John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 2004, first came to national prominence through his leadership role in Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). In 1971, when Kerry was 27 years old, he represented VVAW when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
John Ketcham John Ketcham (also spelt Catchum or Ketchum) is a possibly fictitious man whose name appears in the book and film versions of The Amityville Horror. Although there may have been a real John Ketcham who lived during the 17th century, the claims made about him in conjunction with the story are likely to be untrue.
John Kibowen John Kibowen (born April 21, 1969 in Changach, southern Keiyo District) is aKenyan 5000m runner who won the gold medal at the 1998 and 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. He also won a bronze at the 2001 World Championships and a silver at the 1st IAAF World Athletics Final.
John Kiley John Kiley (died 1993) was the organist at Fenway Park from 1953 to 1989 and contemporaneously for Boston Garden as well. He is credited with having discovered the Boston Garden's resident singer Rene Rancourt.
John Kim John Kim is a product designer and serial internet entrepreneur. Starting his career as a car & motorcycle designer for Honda, Kim helped design several products including the first generation Acura TL and Honda Civic from the early 1990s.
John Kindness John Kindness (Born Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1951) is an Irish multi-media artist whose work often contrasts material, image and reference in an unusual and humorous way. He attended the Belfast College of Art and now lives and works in Dublin.
John King (cricketer) John Herbert King (born 16 April 1871 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England; died 18 November 1946 in Denbigh, Wales) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1895 and 1925. He also played one Test match for England, which was against Australia at Lord's in 1909.
John King (explorer) John King (15 December 1838–15 January 1872) was an Irish soldier who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the sole survivor of the four men from the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition who reached the Gulf of Carpentaria.
John King, Baron King of Wartnaby John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby (August 29,1917-July 12, 2005) was a businessman famous for leading British Airways from inefficient, nationalised company to one of the most successful airlines of recent times. This success was a flagship of Margaret Thatcher's privatisation programme.
John Kingsley Read John Kingsley Read (1937 – 1985) was chairman of the British National Front from 1974 to 1976. A former member of the Conservative Party and chairman of the Blackburn Young Conservatives he left to join NF in the early 70s.
John Kirby (attorney) John Kirby is an American attorney employed by the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP that has represented a number of notable corporations in legal disputes. One of his most well-known cases was Universal City Studios, Inc.
John Kirk (explorer) Sir John Kirk (Dec 19, 1832 – Jan 15, 1922) was a Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and British administrator in Zanzibar. He was born in Barry, near Arbroath, Scotland and is buried in St.
John Kirk (soldier) John Kirk (July 1827 - 30 August 1865) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Kirkham John Charles Kirkham (c.1830-June 1876) was a British adventurer, hotelier and ship's steward who fought with William Walker in Nicaragua and Charles George Gordon in China during the Taiping Rebellion before landing in Ethiopia at the beginning of the British campaign against Emperor Tewodros II in 1868.
John Kirwan (rugby player) John James Kirwan (born 16 December 1964) is a New Zealand born rugby union footballer turned coach. Kirwan who plays as at wing played 96 times (including 63 test matches) as an All Black from 1984 until 1994.
John Kirwan (soccer player) John Kirwan (born 1878 in Wicklow- died 9 January 1959) was an Irish international soccer player who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea FC and Clyde. He went on to become the first paid manager of AFC Ajax of Amsterdam, from 1910-1915.
John Kitzhaber John Albert Kitzhaber (born March 5 1947 in Colfax, Washington) is a physician, member of the Democratic Party and former two term Governor of Oregon. He graduated from South Eugene High School in 1965, Dartmouth College in 1969, and then Oregon Health & Science University with a medical degree in 1973.
John Klemmer John Klemmer is an American jazz and jazz fusion gifted saxophonist and composer, born on July 3, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. Klemmer has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Steely Dan, John Lee Hooker, Roy Haynes, Tim Buckley and Nancy Wilson.
John Kline (politician) John Paul Kline (born September 6, 1947 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. He has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota.
John Knoll John Knoll is a motion picture visual effects specialist at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas), he is recently best known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy.
John Knowles Fitch John Knowles Fitch (born February 15 1880 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, died May 1943) was the founder of the Fitch Publishing Company, and developed a financial securities rating system from AAA to D. Fitch ratings are used as a tool in the business of credit rating, usually behind Moody's ratings and Standard & Poor ratings.
John Knowles Paine John Knowles Paine (January 9, 1839 - April 25, 1906), was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for his large-scale orchestral music. He studied organ, orchestration, and composition in Germany and toured in Europe for three years.
John Komlos John Komlos (born December 28, 1944 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American economic historian at the University of Munich where he is professor of economics and chair of economic history. In the 1980s, Komlos was instrumental in the emergence of anthropometric history, the study of the effect of economic development on human biological outcomes such as physical stature.
John Konrads John Konrads (born May 21 1942) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won the 1500 m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. In his career, he set 26 individual world records, and after his swimming career ended, was the Australasian director of L'Oreal, as well as campaigning for the Sydney Olympics bid.
John Koronka John Vincent Koronka (born July 13, 1980 in Clearwater, Florida) is a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, who currently plays for the Texas Rangers. He made his major league debut for the Chicago Cubs on July 1, 2005 against the Los Angeles Dodgers and gave up 3 runs over 5 innings, walked 3, and struck out 5 for the win.
John Kowalski John Kowalski is a former coach of the professional United States soccer clubs Tampa Bay Mutiny (Major League Soccer), Pittsburgh Riverhounds (NASL) and Pittsburgh Spirit (Major Soccer League originally called the Major Indoor Soccer League). He currently coaches the Robert Morris University women's soccer team.
John Koza John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a consulting professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems, and for the evolution of computer programs which solve them.
John Kricfalusi Michael John Kricfalusi, born on September 9, 1955, is an Emmy-nominated Canadian animator from Chicoutimi, Quebec, better known as John K., creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show and The Ripping Friends animated series, The Goddamn George Liquor Program, the first animated series made using Macromedia Flash, as well as the founder of animation studio Spümcø International.
John Krizanc John Krizanc was born in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1956 and established an international reputation with his non-linear work, Tamara. Its Toronto production (directed by Richard Rose) won him a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1982.
John Kruk John Martin Kruk (born February 9, 1961 in Charleston, West Virginia, raised in Keyser, West Virginia in Mineral County the state's Eastern Panhandle) is an American former Major League Baseball player. He played baseball at Keyser High School in Keyser, West Virginia, at Potomac State College, and at Allegany Community College, He began his professional career with the San Diego Padres after being drafted in 1981.
John Kucera John Kucera (born 17 September 1984 in Calgary) is a Canadian alpine skier. He burst onto the racing scene in 2006, and won his first Super G race on November 26 that year, in the 2007 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing World Cup in Lake Louise in his native Canada.
John Kufuor John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born in Kumasi December 8, 1938) is the current president of Ghana, since January 7 2001. He ran for election in 2000 and won, succeeding Jerry Rawlings, who defeated him when he previously ran for President in the election in 1996, and having the first peaceful transition of power in Ghana since the country's independence was declared.
John Kundla John Albert Kundla (born July 3, 1916 in Star Junction, Pennsylvania, United States) is a former professional and college basketball coach. The highly successful coach of the old Minneapolis Lakers, the first dynasty in NBA history, Kundla guided the George Mikan-led Lakers to five NBA titles in six years.
John Kyrle John Kyrle (22 May 1637 - 7 November 1724), known as "the Man of Ross", was an English philanthropist, was born in the parish of Dymock, Gloucestershire. His father was a barrister and MP, and the family had lived at Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire for many generations.
John le Carré John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), an English writer of espionage novels. Le Carré has resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, England for more than forty years.
John llewellyn Chapman John Llewellyn Chapman is a UK educated Physicist and Illuminati with a belief system stemming from the idea that the organization he belongs to predates biblical text. The firsts attempts of science on a collabrative scale.
John L. Dagg John Leadley Dagg (1794–1884) born in Loudoun County, Virginia, lived to be over 90 years old. He died in June of 1884, as one of the most respected men in American Baptist life and remains one of the most profound thinkers produced by his denomination.
John L. Jerstad Major John Louis Jerstad, United States Army Air Forces,was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military award, the Medal of Honor during World War II for his actions as a B-24 pilot during the raid on PloieĹźti, Romania on August 1, 1943. Jerstad-Agerholm Elementary School and Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School in Racine, Wisconsin are both partially named after John Louis Jerstad.
John L. Jolley John Lawlor Jolley (July 14, 1840-December 14, 1926) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota. He was born in Montreal, Canada in 1840, where he attended the common schools.
John L. Lee John L. Lee was a Central Intelligence Agency field operative involved in a covert military intelligence rogue operation undertaken by the CIA with no collaboration with South Vietnamese intelligence during the Vietnam War.
John L. Lewis John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960. He was a major player in the history of coal mining.
John L. M. Irby John Laurens Manning Irby (September 10, 1854 - December 9, 1900) was a United States Senator from South Carolina. Born in Laurens, he attended Laurensville Male Academy (Lauren), Princeton College (Princeton, New Jersey in 1870-1871, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1871 to 1873.
John L. MacDonald John Lewis MacDonald (February 22, 1838 – July 13, 1903) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Glasgow, Scotland, February 22, 1838; immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada, with his parents, who later, in 1847, settled in Pittsburgh, PA; moved to Minnesota in 1855 and settled in Scott County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice at Belle Plaine, MN; judge of the probate court of Scott County in 1860 and 1861; during the Civil War was commissioned to enlist and muster volunteers for the Union Army; prosecuting attorney of Scott County in 1863 and 1864; county superintendent of schools in 1865 and 1866; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1869 and 1870; served in the Minnesota Senate in 1871 and 1873 – 1876; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for attorney general in 1872; mayor of Shakopee in 1876; elected judge of the eighth judicial district of Minnesota in 1876 for a term of seven years and reelected without opposition in 1883; resigned in the fall of 1886,
John L. McLaurin John Lowndes McLaurin (May 9, 1860 - July 29, 1934) was a United States Representative and Senator from South Carolina; born in Red Bluff, South Carolina, he attended schools at Bennettsville, South Carolina and Englewood, New Jersey as well as Bethel Military Academy (near Warrenton, Virginia) and Swarthmore College (in Pennsylvania.) He graduated from the Carolina Military Institute, studied law in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, was admitted to the bar in 1883 and practiced in Bennettsville.
John L. McMillan John Lanneau McMillan (April 12, 1898 - September 3, 1979) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. Born on a farm near Mullins, he was educated at Mullins High School, the University of North Carolina, as well as the University of South Carolina Law School and National Law School in Washington, D.
John L. O'Sullivan John Louis O'Sullivan (November 15, 1813 – March 24, 1895) was an American columnist and editor who used the term "Manifest Destiny" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States. O'Sullivan was an influential political writer and advocate for the Democratic Party at that time, but he faded from prominence soon thereafter.
John L. Rapier John Lawrence Rapier (June 15, 1842-May 7, 1905) was an American Civil War soldier and businessman. A native of Mobile, Alabama, he saw action as a sergeant major in the Seven Days Battles, and later became a second lieutenant in the Confederate States Marine Corps.
John L. Stevens John L. Stevens, formally John Leavitt Stevens (August 1, 1820–February 8, 1895), was the United States Department of State Minister to the Kingdom of Hawai'i when he was accused of conspiring to overthrow Queen Lili'uokalani in association with the Committee of Safety, led by Lorrin A.
John L. Valentine John Valentine (born April 26, 1949) is a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 14th Senate district since 1998. Prior to being appointed to the Utah Senate in 1998 he served in the Utah House of Representatives from 1988.
John La Nauze John Andrew La Nauze (1911-1989) was born in Western Australia and completed degrees in Arts at the University of Western Australia and (as Rhodes Scholar for 1931) at Oxford before joining the Economics Departments at Adelaide (from 19350 and Sydney (1940-49). In 1950 he became Foundation Professor of Economic History in the University of Melbourne, moving to the newly created Ernest Scott Chair on the Department of History in 1956.
John Labus John Labus took the radio industry by storm in the early 21st century. His signature tone and timbre fast became recognizable by listeners in the greater Harrisburg (PA) media market, when he was named as Morning Anchor on then struggling WHP Talkradio 580.
John Lafayette Riker John Lafayette Riker (1822 – May 31, 1862) was an American attorney and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Fair Oaks during the Peninsula Campaign.

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