- Sir George Clerk 6th Baronet
Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet was a British politician. He was Member of Parliament for Edinburghshire from 1811 to 1832 and again from 1835–1837, for Stamford 1838–1847 and then for Dover from 1847 to 1852. He served as one of the Commissioners of Weights and Measures, 1818 to 1821; a Lord of the Admiralty, 1819 to 1827 and again 1828 to 1830, … - John Clerk
John Clerk (d.3 January, 1541) was a Catholic bishop. He was educated at Cambridge University, and went on to serve under Cardinal Wolsey in a variety of capacities. He was also useful in a diplomatic capacity to both Wolsey and Henry VIII of England. - George Russell Clerk
Sir George Russell Clerk, GCSI, KCB (1800-1889) was a British Civil Servant in India. He was appointed Governor of Bombay twice. - George Clerk
Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet (19 November 1787-23 December 1867), was a British politician. - Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, … - Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith is a retired truck driver from Los Angeles, California. In February 2003, he became the first winner of a million dollars on the syndicated version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". The final question he was asked: The U.S. icon Uncle Sam was based on Samuel Wilson, who worked during the War of 1812 as a what? A. Meat Inspector B. Mail Deliverer C. Historian D. Weapons Mechanic After host Meredith Vieira read the question to him again, … - David Leavitt
David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University. He is the author of "Equal Affections", "The Page Turner", "Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing", "The Lost Language of Cranes", "While England Sleeps" (for the publication of which he was sued by Stephen Spender), "The Body of Jonah Boyd", and numerous short stories. - John Mason
Sir John Mason was an English diplomat and spy. Mason was born in Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He was educated at the school at the abbey in his native town, where his uncle was abbot. Later, he went to All Souls College, Oxford and was ordained a priest. He became Chancellor of Oxford University for the periods 1552-1556 and 1559-1564. He worked for several Tudor monarchs collecting information from the Continent and as a diplomat. - David Orr
David Duvall Orr, more popularly known as David Orr (born October 4, 1944), is an American politician who served as interim Mayor of Chicago from November 25 to December 2, 1987, upon the sudden death of Mayor Harold Washington. Orr rose to prominence by siding with Mayor Washington against aldermen Ed Vrdolyak and Ed Burke during the notorious "council wars" of the mid-eighties. - Harvey Pekar
Harvey Lawrence Pekar (born October 8 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American underground comic book writer and noted jazz critic. His friendship with Robert Crumb led to the creation of the autobiographical comic book series "American Splendor", later adapted as a movie of the same name. Crumb and Pekar became friends through their mutual love of jazz records, and Crumb became the first artist to illustrate "American Splendor". - John Warren
John Vernon Warren (born 1826, date of death unknown) was a convict transported to Western Australia. He was one of only 39 such convicts from the 9721 convicts transported to the colony to overcome the social stigma of convictism to become schoolteachers. Born in 1826, Warren worked as a clerk in his youth, but in 1850 he was convicted of forging a bill of exchange, and sentenced to a lifetime of penal servitude. - John Lane
John Lane (March 14, 1854 - February 2, 1925) was a British publisher. Originally from Devon, where he was born into a farming family, Lane moved to London already in his teens. While working as a clerk at the Railway Clearing House, he acquired knowledge as an autodidact. After entering the London book trade he became co-founder of The Bodley Head, originally a firm that dealt with antiquarian books. They later went into publishing. - Jeff Anderson
Jeffrey Allan Anderson (born April 21, 1970 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American film actor best known for being featured in "Clerks." and "Clerks 2" as Randal Graves. In between he has appeared in other Kevin Smith films and has written/directed/starred in the film "Now You Know". - John Clayton
John Clayton was town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne during the 1830s and worked with the builder Richard Grainger and architect John Dobson to redevelop the centre of the city in a neoclassical style. Clayton Street is named after him. - Ruth Johnson
Ruth Johnson is a Michigan politician. She is the County Clerk / Register of Deeds for Oakland County, and was the 2006 Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor as the running mate of Dick DeVos. Since the election she has tried to distance herself from DeVos on several levels, because of this some experts think she will run for statewide office in 2010, either as governor or Secratery of State. Johnson was an Oakland County Commissioner from 1988 to 1998, … - Rick Moody
Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for "The Ice Storm" (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, and became a bestseller; it was later made into a feature film. His first novel "Garden State" (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. - Tom Ammiano
Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941), a Democrat, is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 9, which encompasses parts of the Mission District and the Bernal Heights and Portola neighborhoods. He was elected to the city-wide Board in 1994, and re-elected in 1998, when he became Board President. His efforts to have the Board elected by district instead of city-wide succeeded, and, running as a resident of Bernal Heights, … - David Lindsay
David Lindsay (1876-1945) was a Scottish author now most famous for the philosophical novel "A Voyage to Arcturus" (1920). Lindsay was born into a middle-class Scottish Calvinist family who had moved to London, although growing up he spent much time in Jedburgh, where his family originally came from. Although he won a scholarship to university, he was forced by poverty to go into business and he became an insurance clerk at Lloyd's of London. - John Phelps
John Phelps was a Clerk of the High Court which tried Charles I of England for high treason in 1649. At English Restoration his name was mentioned in the House of Commons as a regicide, and any goods which he had owned were confiscated. - Brian O'Halloran
Brian Christopher O'Halloran (born September 1, 1969 in Old Bridge, New Jersey) is an American actor best known for his roles in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films, notably as Dante Hicks in Smith's debut film "Clerks.", and its 2006 sequel, "Clerks II". Aside from this, he has done small appearances in all of Smith's films, either as his "Clerks" character Dante Hicks or one of his cousins. He was also the lead actor in "Vulgar" (2000), … - Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation. - Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights. She is credited as the first American "feminist" in the early 1800s but was, more accurately, the initiator of women's political advocacy. - Lawrence Kestenbaum
Lawrence Kestenbaum is an attorney, politician, and the creator and webmaster of the Political Graveyard website. The site was created in 1996 when he was an academic specialist at Michigan State University. He was later on staff at the University of Michigan. He was formerly a county commissioner, and in 2004, he was elected as the Washtenaw County, Michigan Clerk and Register of Deeds. - Stephen Decatur
Stephen A. Decatur (1815 - 1876) was a nephew of Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr.. He was the one of the incorporators of Decatur, Nebraska. Born in New Jersey, he was the son of Captain John Pine Decatur, United States Army, and grandson of Stephen Decatur, Sr.. Decatur had arrived in the area of the town from Bellevue in the 1840s and made his home with the Omaha tribe. - Danny K. Davis
Daniel K. (Danny) Davis (born September 6 1941) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing (map). He was born in Parkdale, Arkansas, was educated at Arkansas AM&N College (B.A. 1961), Chicago State University (M.S. 1968) and the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio (Ph.D. 1977). He was a clerk, a teacher, executive director of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission, … - Thomas Palmer
Thomas Matthews Palmer was a convict transported to Western Australia. After the expiry of his sentence, he became the second ex-convict in Western Australia to be appointed a teacher. Born in the United Kingdom in 1824, Thomas Matthews worked as a clerk but was convicted of forging a money order and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. He was transported to Western Australia on board the "Sea Park", arriving in April 1854. - Rebecca Jackson
Rebecca Jackson is a former Republican politician from Louisville, Kentucky, previously serving as the Jefferson County Judge/Executive and also running unsuccessfully for the party nomination for governor. She is now the chief executive officer of the WHAS Crusade for Children, a local charity that operates a large annual local telethon. Jackson first won elective office in 1989, upsetting a long-time Democrat incumbent Jefferson County clerk. She was re-elected in 1993. - George Gabriel Stokes
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819-1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier-Stokes equations), optics, and mathematical physics (including Stokes' theorem). He was secretary, then president of the Royal Society. - Janet Dean
Janet Elizabeth Ann Dean (born 28 January 1949) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Burton in Staffordshire. Born Janet Gibson in Crewe, she was educated at the Verdin Grammar School in Winsford. On leaving school in 1965 she became a clerk at Barclays Bank, before moving to Bass Charrington in 1969. She married Alan Dean in 1968 and became a full-time mother in 1970 following the birth of the first of their two daughters. - Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175 - October 9, 1253), English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian and bishop of Lincoln, was born of humble parents at Stradbroke in Suffolk. A.C. Crombie calls him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in mediaeval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition". - James Mathers
James Mathers (died 1811) was the first Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate. Born in Ireland, he migrated with his family to New York City some years before the American Revolutionary War. In that war's earliest days, Mathers joined the Continental Army and served throughout the conflict, suffering a major wound. After the war, with a large family of his own to support, Mathers found employment as a clerk with the Continental Congress. - John W. Forney
John W. Forney was owner-editor of the Press of Philadelphia and the Morning Chronicle of Washington, D. C. Of German extraction, John Wein Forney was born in Lancaster, the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country. At the age of thirteen, he left school to begin working, first in a store, then as an apprentice to the printer of the Lancaster Journal . In 1837, he purchased an interest in the financially troubled Lancaster Intelligencer , for which he became editor. - Nathan Williams
Nathan Williams (December 19, 1773 - September 25, 1835) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, he attended the common schools in Bennington, Vermont. He moved with his parents to Troy, New York in 1786, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1795 and commenced practice in Utica. He assisted in the establishment of Utica Public Library, of which he was librarian for a number of years. - James Humphrey
James White Humphrey was a convict transported to Western Australia, and later became one of the colony's ex-convict school teachers. Born in the United Kingdom in 1832, Humphrey worked as a clerk until convicted of forgery and sentenced to transportation. Erickson states that he was transported for life, but other records state fifteen years. Humphrey arrived in Western Australia on board the "Stag" in 1855, and received his ticket of leave two years later. - Thomas Szasz
Dr. Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced /sas/; born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. - Doug Henderson
Douglas John Henderson, known as Doug Henderson, (born June 9, 1949) British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle North. Doug Henderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the Waid Academy, Anstruther before going on later to study economics at both the Central College, Glasgow, and the University of Strathclyde. He was an apprentice engineer with Rolls-Royce in Glasgow for two years from 1966, … - William Malone
Lieutenant Colonel William George Malone (born 24 January 1859 in London, England, died 8 August 1915 at Chunuk Bair in Turkey) served as a soldier in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. At the outbreak of World War I, Malone gained command of the Wellington Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and deployed as part of the ANZAC forces. He saw extensive action during the Battle of Gallipoli and was killed in action on 8 August 1915. - John Cockburn
John Cockburn of Ormiston, East Lothian, (20 February 1698 - 12 November 1758) was a Scottish politician, the son of Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Justice Clerk. He is also known as the father of Scottish husbandry. Cockburn became a member of the last Scottish parliament and took an active interest in accomplishing the union. He was the first representative of East Lothian in the parliament of Great Britain, and continued to hold that seat in all successive parliaments, … - Mike Fortner
Mike Fortner Mayor of West Chicago, Illinois was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in Illinois's 95th district on November 7, 2006 defeating Democrat Dirk Enger. He is succeeding Randy Hultgren who was elected State Senator in the 48th district. - David F. Levi
David F. Levi (1951) is a U.S. jurist and current Dean of the Duke University School of Law. Until June 2007, he was Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Levi succeeded former Duke Law Dean Katharine T. Bartlett on July 1, 2007. Levi was born in in Chicago, Illinois. His father was Edward H. Levi, a former president of the University of Chicago and United States Attorney General under President Gerald R. Ford.
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