- Salem Poor
Salem Poor was a African American soldier who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Born into slavery in Andover, Massachusetts, Poor managed to buy his freedom in 1769 for 27£. Poor soon married a free African American woman named Nancy. In 1775, he enlisted in the militia, serving under Captain Benjamin Ames in Colonel James Fryes' regiment, opposing the British troops stationed in Boston. - Enoch Poor
Enoch Poor (June 21, 1736, Old Style - September 8, 1780) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. He was a ship builder and merchant from Exeter, New Hampshire. Poor was born and raised in Andover, Massachusetts. His father had been part of the 1745 expedition that captured Louisburg, Nova Scotia, during King George's War. - Edward Erie Poor
Edward Erie Poor (born February 5, 1837; died July 29, 1900) served as Vice-President and then President of the National Park Bank from 1895-1900, succeeding Ebenezer K. Wright and followed by Richard Delafield. Born in Boston, Poor was an advocate of the gold standard. - Henry Varnum Poor
- Charles Lane Poor
Charles Lane Poor (January 18, 1866 - September 27, 1951) was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the son of Edward Erie Poor. He graduated from the City College of New York and received a Ph.D. in 1892 from Johns Hopkins University. Poor became an American astronomer and professor of celestial mechanics at Columbia University from 1903 to 1944, when he was named Professor Emeritus. - Charles Henry Poor
Rear Admiral Charles Henry Poor (June 11, 1808 - December 5, 1882) was a U.S. Navy officer of the mid-19th century. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1808, Poor entered the Navy in 1825 and served nearly 30 years at sea. During the Civil War, he commanded the "Brooklyn", "Roanoke", "St. Louis", and "Saranac". He was promoted to rear admiral in 1868 and commanded the North Atlantic Squadron. Poor retired in 1870 from that post. - Abraham The Poor
Saint Abraham the Poor (also Saint Abraham the Child) was a fourth century Egyptian hermit. His nicknames of "the poor" and "the child" refer to his simple life and simple faith. Born in the town of Menuf, he became of disciple of Saint Pachomius, who founded cenobitic monasticism, in the Delta river region of the Nile River. He remained a disciple of Saint Pachomius for 23 years, after which he spent the following seventeen as a cave hermit. - Riva Poor
Riva Poor was a management consultant who lobbied for a compressed workweek. Poor received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1970, when she started a public relations campaign calling for a work week which compressed its working time into fewer days. Her immediate goal, which was ultimately achieved, was repeal of the 8-hour workday provisions in the Walsh-Healey Act, a 1936 law requiring minimum labor standards in the production of goods, under contract, … - Muhammad Yunus
Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, has shown himself to be a leader who can translate his vision into powerful reality for the benefit of millions. The Nobel Peace Prize was bestowed upon him for his entrepreneurial efforts and innovative thinking as he single handedly revolutionized economic and social development worldwide. - Meher Baba
Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Irani (February 25, 1894 – January 31, 1969), was an Indian guru of Persian descent. Educated at St. Vincent's High School in Pune, India, as well as Deccan College, he led a normal school life, showing no particular inclination toward spiritual matters. At the age of 19, a short contact with an old Muslim holy woman Hazrat Babajan marked the beginning of his spiritual awakening. - Dennis Rogers
Dennis Rogers was a GP, and latterly the Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand from 1959-1968. He was elected for 3 terms. During his mayorship, he campaigned for the poor and for an international airport to built in Hamilton. He died of a heart attack in 1987. He was well known for his like of gardening, and the Rogers Rose gardens in Hamilton are named after him. Rogers' Brother, Anthony Rogers, was also a well known Hamiltonian political figure. - Steve Rothman
Steven R. "Steve" Rothman (born October 14 1952 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American Democratic Party politician, who is a member of the United States House of Representatives for New Jersey's Ninth Congressional District (map). First sworn into the United States Congress on January 3, 1997, he now is serving his fifth two-year term in office. Rothman also sits on the powerful Committee on Appropriations in the House. He attended Washington University Law School. - William Few
William Few, Jr. (June 8, 1748-July 16, 1828) was an American politician and a Founding Father of the United States. Few represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention. Born into a poor yeoman farming family, Few achieved both social prominence and political power later in life. Exhibiting those characteristics of self-reliance vital for survival on the American frontier, he became an intimate of the nation's political and military elite. - Carl Larsson
Carl Larsson (May 28, 1853-January 22, 1919) was a Swedish painter and interior designer. The Swedish artist Carl Larsson was born in Gamla stan, the old town in Stockholm. His parents were extremely poor and his childhood was not happy. However, at the age of thirteen his teacher at the school for poor children urged him to apply to the "principskola" of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and he was admitted. During his first years there, Larsson felt socially inferior, … - Ita Ford
Ita Ford, M.M. (April 23, 1940 - December 2, 1980) was a Roman Catholic Maryknoll Sister missionary to Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and war refugees. On December 2 1980, she was tortured, raped, and murdered, along with fellow missionaries Maura Clarke, M.M., laywoman Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U. They were killed in El Salvador, by members of a military death squad. - Cathy Crowe
Cathy Crowe, RN (born ca. 1951) is a Canadian nurse and social activist, specializing in advocacy for the homeless in Canada. Raised in Kingston, Ontario, she has won fame as a "street nurse" working with homeless and poor populations in downtown Toronto, Ontario, and as an activist for housing, public health and social justice. In 1998, she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. Crowe was the subject of "Street Nurse", a documentary film (ca. - Tom Zé
Tom Zé is a Brazilian songwriter and composer. "Tom Zé" is a faithful informalization of his given names, literally meaning "Tony Joe". - Mollie Orshansky
Mollie Orshansky, (January 9 1915 - December 18 2006), was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963-65, developed the "Orshansky Poverty Thresholds", which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor. - Lin Feng
Lin Feng also known as Limahong, was a Chinese pirate and warlord who invaded the northern Philippine Islands in 1574. Lin Feng was born to a poor family in China. He later became a notorious criminal who raided the eastern coast-line of China and committed many robberies, murders and rapes. He was constantly on the run from the law and from the Chinese Emperor, who wanted Lin Feng brought to justice. - Óscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, commonly known as Monseñor Romero, was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He later became the eighth Bishop and fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding the long-reigning Luis Chávez y González. As archbishop, he witnessed ongoing violations of human rights and started a group which spoke out to the poor and also victims of the country's civil war. - Jeremiah Horrocks
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 - January 3, 1641), sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox, was an English astronomer who made the first observation of a transit of Venus. Horrocks was born in Lower Lodge, Otterspool in Toxteth Park, near Liverpool in Lancashire. His father was a small farmer, and his uncle was a watchmaker. He was relatively poor during his entire brief life. - Ragnar Nurkse
Ragnar Nurkse (Virumaa, Estonia - 6 May 1959, near Lake Geneva, Switzerland) was an Estonian scholar of international economics, international finance, and economic development. He served in the League of Nations and taught at Columbia University. Nurkse continued to build on Rosenstein-Rodan's 'theory of the big push', emphasized the role of savings and capital formation in economic development, … - Madeleine Vionnet
Madeleine Vionnet (June 22, 1876 - March 2,1975) was a French fashion designer. Called the "Queen of the bias cut" and "the architect among dressmakers," Vionnet is best-known today for her elegant Grecian-style dresses and for introducing the bias cut to the fashion world. Born into a poor family in Chilleurs-aux-Bois, Loiret, Vionnet began her apprenticeship as a seamstress at age 11. After a brief marriage at age 18, … - Alfred Boeddeker
Alfred Boeddeker, O.F.M. (August 7, 1903 - January 1, 1994) was an American Franciscan friar who is best known for having founded humanitarian programs to aid the poor and marginalised in the San Francisco Bay Area. These programs, named by Father Boeddeker for St. Anthony of Padua, include: *St. Anthony Dining Room (1950) *St. Anthony Free Medical Clinic (1956) *St. Anthony Farm, 315 acres near Petaluma in Sonoma County, California. - Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte
Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte is a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Montréal. His full title is "Cardinal of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament and the Holy Canadian Martyrs." Born in Montréal, Turcotte attended Collège André-Grasset from 1947 to 1955, and then studied at the Grand Seminaire. He was ordained a priest on May 24, 1959. In 1965 he earned a diploma in social ministry in Lille, France. - Rummu Jüri
Rummu Jüri ("Jüri Rummo"; 2 August (21 July) 1856) is the archetypical Estonian folk hero, an outlaw who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Although most noted for his material egalitarianism, in the stories he also pursues other types of equality and justice. - Lupe Anguiano
Lupe Anguiano , an indefatigable champion of social justice, is widely known for her work on women’s rights, the rights of the poor, and the protection of the environment. A former nun, Ms. Anguiano was a national organizer for the United Farm Workers and the founder of the National Women’s Employment and Education Model Program, which helped single female parents move beyond welfare poverty. - Johanna Bischitz von Heves
Hevesi/y Bischitz Johanna, or Johanna Bischitz de Heves was a Hungarian philanthropist. She was a daughter of a porcelain manufacturer, and wife of David Bischitz. She was the founder and president of the Jewish Women's Association, and the Jewish People's Kitchen, … - Alfred Poor
I'm best at explaining complex concepts to people so that they can use them. - Heather Poor
i live in galesburg IL... uhmmm i love my family n friends... i love to party tan n get my nails done.. i love to work on my car (98 mustang gt) yeaa it hot :D... anything else jus ask! <3. - Cassandra Poor
I love vampires and werewolves and witches. my favorite band is my chemical romance. - Tori Poor
im tori. im not going to try to impress you. i can only be myself. trust will always be an issue. i have people figured out. we are all alone when it comes to true friendship. and i am in. - Geo Poor
www.geopoor.com (my music); www.myspace.com/geopoor; www.zotobi.com (Zo's music... he's amazing); www.meandthekid.com (Zack and Dave... really great music);. - Sarah Poor
I can start by saying that I am trying very hard to work against all odds given to me and the ones I have created. i have spent the last year reconstructing my life and bettering it so that I can actually have something to show when Im old and crippled. I dont want to work a bullshit job for the rest of my life and therefore will spend all my energy fighting the statistics and government views to further improve on what I already have. - Jozsef Poor
- Jerel Poor
Hello, my name is Jerel. I just graduated from Lindenwood University with a BA in Theatre. Now I shal undergo the most insane (yet profitable) educational experience imaginable. I starting the Masters of Business Adminitration program at Lindenwood University in July. - Ronna Poor
I am who I am, no more no less. My family and close friends mean everything to me My favorite flower is a tiger lily, I have a tatty on my ankle of one and a monarch butterfly, another favorite of mine. - Judd Poor
- Bobbi
- Brandon Poor
i am short, i have piercings, i look funny, i am an asshole to stupid people, i act different for nobody, i am huge in to riding bikes, i am down for almost anything, i drink, music is a huge part of my life and i don't like to spell correctly. I don't like hardcore drugs, children, giggle box girls, people who lack any self confidence, and chris tucker.
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