- Samuel Huntington
Samuel Huntington (July 3, 1731-January 5, 1796) was an American jurist, statesman, and revolutionary leader from Connecticut. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence, as Governor of Connecticut, and later as the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled, that is, the presiding officer of the Congress of the Confederation, … - Samuel H. Huntington
Samuel H. Huntington (October 4, 1765 - June 8, 1817) was an American jurist who was Governor of Ohio from 1808-1810. He was the nephew and adopted son of Samuel Huntington, the first President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. A 1785 graduate of Yale College. He was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Connecticut. He moved to Ohio in 1801, moving with his wife and small sons to the tiny village of Cleveland. - Paul Huntington
Paul Huntington (born September 17 1987 in Carlisle) is an English footballer, currently playing for Premiership club Newcastle United. His position is defender. Huntington joined the Newcastle United School of Excellence on July 1 2004 from Trinity School in Cumbria. As a schoolboy he played at Wembley Stadium and also won the England Under 18 National Cup for his school in 2004. - Sam Huntington
Sam Huntington (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor. - William Reed Huntington
William Reed Huntington (1838-1909) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman and author, born in Lowell, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1859 and in 1859-60 was an instructor in chemistry there. Entering the Episcopal ministry, he was rector of All Saints Church, Worcester, Mass., in 1862-83 and of Grace Church, New York from 1883 until his death. Dr. Huntington always took a prominent part in public affairs. - Collis Potter Huntington
Collis Potter Huntington (April 16 or October 22 1821-August 13 1900) was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who built the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington then helped lead and develop other major interstate lines such as the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. - Lucius Seth Huntington
Lucius Seth Huntington, PC (May 26 1827-May 19 1886) was a Quebec lawyer, journalist and political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Shefford from 1867 to 1882. He also served as President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Postmaster General. He was born in Compton, Lower Canada in 1827. The families of his parents had come to the Eastern Townships from New England. - Jedediah Huntington
Jedediah Huntington (1743-1818) was an American general in the Army of the Revolution, born in Norwich, Conn., the son of Jabez Huntington (1719-86). He graduated at Harvard in 1763, joined the American army at Cambridge, became a brigadier general in 1777, and took part in many important engagements until the close of the war, when he was brevetted major general in 1783. He was one of the organizers of the Society of the Cincinnati. - Jabez W. Huntington
Jabez W. Huntington (November 8, 1788 - November 1, 1847) was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut. Born in Norwich, he pursued classical studies, and graduated from Yale College in 1806. He taught in the Litchfield South Farms Academy for one year, and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Litchfield, and was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1829. - Ellsworth Huntington
Ellsworth Huntington (1876 - 1947) was a professor of geology and climatology and economics at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography. He served as the President of the Board of Directors of the American Eugenics Society. - Jedediah Vincent Huntington
Jedediah Vincent Huntington, (alt. Jedidiah) clergyman, novelist; born 20 January, 1815, in New York City, the son of Benjamin Huntington Jr. and Faith Trumbull Huntington. He died 10 March, 1862, at Pau, France. He received his early education at home and at an Episcopalian private school. He entered Yale College and later the University of New York, where he was graduated in 1835. He then studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, received his degree in 1838, … - Henry E. Huntington
Henry Edwards Huntington (February 27 1850-May 23 1927) was a railroad magnate and business leader. He was born in Oneonta, New York, USA and died in San Marino, California. He was the nephew of Collis P. Huntington, one of The Big Four, the men instrumental in the creation of the transcontinental railway. Huntington held several executive positions working along side his uncle with the Southern Pacific Railway. - Anna Hyatt Huntington
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington was an American sculptor. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Robert Kingsbury Huntington
Robert Kingsbury Huntington (13 March 1921 - 5 June 1942), was a naval aviator and member of Torpedo Squardon 8 (or VT-8). Along with his entire squadron, Huntington was shot down during the Battle of Midway, on 4-5 June 1942. Born in Los Angeles, California, enlisted in the US Navy 21 April 1941. He served on board "Lexington" (CV-2) and was rated aviation radioman third class before being transferred to Torpedo Squadron 8 on board "Hornet" (CV-8). - George Huntington
George Huntington (April 9, 1850 - March 3, 1916) was an American physician. Huntington's disease bears his name because he described it in the first of only two academic papers he ever wrote. He wrote this paper when he was 22, one year after getting his medical degree at Columbia University in New York City. Initially he read the paper before the Meigs and Mason Academy of Medicine at Middleport, Ohio on February 15, 1872. - Ebenezer Huntington
Ebenezer Huntington was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He pursued academic studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1775. He served as a soldier during the American Revolutionary War, first in the Lexington alarm in April 1775 and later with the 3rd and 1st Connecticut Regiments. As a lieutenant colonel, he commanded troops at Yorktown. He was promoted to brigadier general in the United States Army, July 19, … - Benjamin Huntington
Benjamin Huntington (April 19, 1736 - October 16, 1800) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from Norwich, Connecticut. He served in the Revolutionary War with the rank of General. He later served Connecticut as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the First United States Congress. Benjamin was born on April 19, 1736 at Norwich, Connecticut, … - Ron Huntington
Arthur Ronald Huntington, PC (February 13, 1921 - December 28, 1998) was a Canadian politician. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was a member of the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander. He first ran for the Canadian House of Commons in 1972 for the riding of Capilano but was defeated. A Progressive Conservative, he was elected in 1974 and was re-elected in 1979 and 1980. - James Otis Sargent Huntington
The Rev. James Otis Sargent Huntington, OHC (23 July 1854 – 28 June 1935), a priest of the Episcopal Church, was the founder of the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican Benedictine monastic order for men whose mother house is now located in West Park, New York. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the younger son of Frederick Dan and Hannah Huntington. While he was a child his father, a Unitarian minister, converted to the Episcopal Church, … - Edward Vermilye Huntington
Edward Vermilye Huntington (April 26 1874, Clinton, New York, USA -- November 25 1952, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an American mathematician. Edward Vermilye Huntington was awarded the B.A. and the M.A. by Harvard University in 1895 and 1897, respectively. After two years' teaching at Williams College, he began a doctorate at the University of Strasbourg, awarded in 1901. He then spent his entire career at Harvard, retiring in 1941. - Frederic Dan Huntington
Frederic Dan Huntington (in some sources Frederick) (May 28, 1819 - July 11, 1904), American clergyman, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts. - William Edwards Huntington
William Edwards Huntington (1844- ?) was an American university dean and president. He was born at Hillsboro, Ill., served as private and first lieutenant in the Wisconsin Infantry in 1864-65, and was educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (A.B., 1870) and at Boston University (B.D., 1873; Ph.D., 1881), where he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1884 to 1904, president of the university in 1904-11, and dean of the graduate department after 1911. - Daniel Huntington
Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816 - April 19, 1906), American artist, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from Connecticut. In 1835 he studied with SFB Morse, and produced "A Bar-Room Politician" and "A Toper Asleep." Subsequently he painted some landscapes on the Hudson river, … - Louise Huntington
Louise Huntington (born in Dallas, Texas on November 1, 1904), was a stage and screen actress appearing on Broadway in the 1920s and on screen in the 1930s. Her film career included silent movies as well as some of the first sound productions. "The Viking", in which she appeared in 1931, was the first Canadian-produced film to include sound. Huntington's stage career took her overseas and she is reported to be the first American woman to perform in South Africa. - Presendia Lathrop Huntington
Presendia Lathrop Huntington (7 September 1810 in Watertown, New York - 1 February 1892 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is recognized as the sixth woman to marry Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. - Cynthia Huntington
Cynthia Huntington is a poet and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She has published several books of poetry, most recently "The Radiant" (Four Way Books, 2003). In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. - William R. Huntington
William Reed Huntington (1907-1990) was an American architect and Quaker representative to the United Nations and director of the Quaker program there. As a pacifist, Huntington was active for years in the American Friends Service Committee, more commonly known as the Quakers. He was a crew member of the Golden Rule, a small boat that in 1958 sailed into the South Pacific to protest atomic testing there by the United States. - William Henry Huntington
William Henry Huntington (1820-85) was an American journalist, born at Norwich, Conn. He was in Paris as correspondent of the New York "Tribune" for 20 years, from 1858. His philanthropic work the siege of Paris (1870-71) was important. He bequeathed his collection of medals, bronzes, porcelains, miniatures, engravings, and prints relating to Washington, Lafayette, and Franklin to the Metropolitan Museum, New York. - Shy Huntington
Ellery Charles 'Shy' Huntington was a quarterback and later multi-sport coach at the University of Oregon. - Abel Huntington
Abel Huntington (February 21, 1777 - May 18, 1858) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, Huntington received a liberal schooling. He moved to East Hampton, Long Island, New York, where he practiced medicine. He served as member of the State senate in 1822. Supervisor of East Hampton 1829-1832 and in 1844. Huntington was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837). - Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington (born April 18, 1927) is a controversial US political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of "coups d'etat", his thesis (inspired by Polish scientist Feliks Koneczny) that the central political actors of the 21st century will be civilizations rather than nation-states and, most recently, for his views on US immigration. - Archer M. Huntington
Archer Milton Huntington (March 10 1870 - December 11 1955) was the step-son of railroad magnate, Collis P. Huntington. Archer Huntington is best known for his scholarly works in the field of Hispanic Studies and for founding The Hispanic Society of America in New York City. The society, founded in 1904, is a museum and rare books library whose collections of Hispanic materials are unrivaled outside of Spain. He also founded the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. - Arabella Huntington
Arabella Duval Huntington (c.1850-1924) was the second wife of American railway tycoon Collis P. Huntington, and then the second wife of Henry E. Huntington. She was once known as the richest woman in America, and as the force behind the art collection that is housed at the Huntington Library. - Steve Israel
Steven "Steve" Israel (born May 30, 1958) is an American politician from the state of New York, currently representing the state's 2nd congressional district (map), in the U.S. House of Representatives - Nick Rahall
Nicholas Joe "Nick Joe" Rahall II (born May 20, 1949), American politician of Lebanese descent, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District since 1977(map). He is the Dean of the West Virginia Delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes much of the southern portion of the state, including Huntington, Bluefield and Beckley. - John See
Sir John See KCMG, (14 October 1844 – 31 January 1907) was a member of the New South Wales Legislature from November 26, 1880 to June 15, 1901, and was then Premier of New South Wales from 1901-1904. See was a self-made man of strong character, an excellent business man and a sound politician. He was a good friend, much esteemed on both sides of the house, … - Dan Burton
Danny "Dan" Lee Burton (born June 21 1938), American politician, is a member of the United States House of Representatives for. A Republican, his first term in the United States Congress began in January 1983. He was elected to his twelfth term in November 2006. Burton remains one of the most controversial members of Congress. The 5th District is in central Indiana and includes all of Tipton, Grant, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Hamilton, and Hancock counties, … - Katie Lee Joel
Katie Lee Joel (born 1981 in Huntington, West Virginia) is a celebrity and television personality. She is the third wife of the prolific musician Billy Joel. Before her marriage to Billy Joel, she received her Bachelor's degree in English and Journalism from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Currently, Joel is writing her first cookbook, to be published by Simon & Schuster. She regularly appears on "Extra" as a special correspondent. - Stephen J. Kopp
Stephen J. Kopp is president of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Kopp assumed the presidency on July 1, 2005, taking over from interim president Michael J. Farrell. Previously, Kopp was provost for two years at Ohio University (2002-2004) in Athens, Ohio, where he shared with the president the central administrative role in the university and served as the chief academic and operating officer. - Andrew Raia
Andrew Raia represents District 9 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised of parts of Huntington, Babylon, New York and Islip, Long Island. First elected in 2004, Raia is currently the ranking member of the Assembly Committee on Banks. Prior to his election, he was a member of legislative offices in both houses of the New York state legislature, as well as the Suffolk County Legislature.
|
| |