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  Edward White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edward White 1910-1994 is also the name of British composer of light classical music.
Edward Higgins White, II (November 14, 1930 - January 27, 1967) was an American astronaut.
By the usual process of crew rotation in the Gemini programme White would have been in line for a second orbital flight as Command Pilot of Gemini 10 but instead in 1966 was promoted to be command module pilot for the first Apollo program flight.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Edward_White   (335 words)

  
 Edward Douglas White II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edward Douglas White II Edward Douglas White II Edward D. White II was born on a farm in LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, on November 3, 1845.
White was appointed associate justice of the State Supreme Court in 1879, and was elected to the U.S. Senate from Louisiana in 1891.
White was appointed associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Cleveland in 1894, was elevated to the office of chief justice of the U.S. by President Taft in 1910, and at the time of his death in 1921 had served twenty-seven years on the nation's highest tribunal.
www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/Edward_White   (602 words)

  
 The Supreme Court Historical Society
Edward Douglass White was a Democrat, an ex-Confederate and a Roman Catholic.
Whether or not White became a member of the Supreme Court by political accident, he would remain for a quarter of a century, contributing one of the cardinal principles of construction of the new regulatory legislation which was ushering in the new century.
Edward Douglass White II was a unique figure on the Supreme Court, a jurist schooled in both the English common law traditions and the French civil law of Louisiana.
www.supremecourthistory.org /04_library/subs_volumes/04_c15_c.html   (1239 words)

  
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Edward Higgins White, II was born on November 14, 1930 in San Antonio, Texas.
White had seen the rousing parades and media blitz which surrounded the Project Mercury astronauts and their families, but he was not prepared for the attention he and his friend, Jim McDivitt would receive upon their arrival in Houston.
White was scheduled to use a newly developed suit and a special hand held unit which would allow the astronaut to propel himself while performing maneuvers outside the spacecraft.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/Apollo204/zorn/white.htm   (5719 words)

  
 Major Edward White House, Circa 1806   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edward White was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1758, and joined a local militia unit which marched to meet the British at Concord in April, 1775.
Their son Benjamin Aspinwall White was born in Louisville in 1794, followed by Thomas, born in 1801, James Seagrove, who died in infancy, and Maria Susannah, born in Savannah in 1805.
It is now known as the Major Edward White house in tribute to its original owner and his contribution to the cause of American independence and the economic and political development of his adopted state.
library.gcsu.edu /~reference/guides/edwardwhite.html   (1193 words)

  
 Edward Douglass White Biography / Biography of Edward Douglass White Biography Biography
Edward Douglass White (1845-1921), ninth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, is known for his enunciation of the "rule of reason" for interpreting and applying antitrust legislation.
White was appointed chief justice in 1910 largely because of the ambition of President William Howard Taft, who hoped that, by appointing a man of 65, he himself could succeed him.
Thus White was reflecting the pragmatic spirit of the day and, from a viewpoint favorable to business, testing whether a business combination was workable rather than whether it complied with the letter of the law.
www.bookrags.com /biography-edward-douglass-white   (596 words)

  
 The Supreme Court Historical Society
EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE was born in the Parish of Lafourche, Louisiana, on November 3, 1845.
White was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 1874, and from 1878 to 1880 he served on the Louisiana Supreme Court.
White had served for sixteen years on the Court when, on December 12, 1910, President William H. Taft nominated him Chief Justice of the United States.
www.supremecourthistory.org /02_history/subs_timeline/images_chiefs/009.html   (213 words)

  
 Investing With: Edward B. White
White, 56, uses a bottom-up investment strategy, and balances the fund's big blue-chip companies with lesser-known, smaller companies with market capitalizations of $250 million to $1.5 billion.
White starts by screening the nation's roughly 10,000 publicly traded companies for those with revenue growth of at least 10 percent a year and above-average and rising profit margins in their industry.
White buys stocks with the goal of holding them at least five years, but he may sell if profit margins stop expanding or because of deteriorating company or industry fundamentals.
partners.nytimes.com /library/financial/investing/090300invest-with.html   (908 words)

  
 Edward H. White II
White and his wife, Patricia Finegan White, have two children, Edward and Bonnie Lynn.
Lieutenant Colonel White was a test pilot in the Air Force and in 1962 was selected by NASA to become an astronaut.
Edward H. White made the ultimate sacrifice and lost his life in service to the nation and the space program on January 27, 1967, at 36 years of age.
www.amfcse.org /honor/white.htm   (208 words)

  
 Edward A. White
Phoenix, AZ The son of an electrician, Edward White was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
White, a bright student, skipped a grade and pursued an accelerated academic program at Tufts University.
White spent four years at ITT, where he discovered a need for mechanisms for the analog computer.
www.horatioalger.com /members/member_info.cfm?memberid=whi62   (307 words)

  
 Louisiana Secretary of State/LA Governors-Pg.32-E.D.WHITE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edward Douglass White's governorship came in the middle of Whig dominance of the office.
White had been a Congressman, respected by both parties, before he ran for governor and he returned to Washington after his term.
White signed the charter creating the Medical College of Louisiana in 1837 which was the forerunner of Tulane University.
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 Articles - Edward Douglass White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edward Douglass White (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States Senator, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States.
The grandson of U.S. Marshal Tench Ringgold and the son of Edward Douglass White, a former Governor of Louisiana, White was born in a mansion in Lafourche Parish, La.
White returned home to Bayou La Fourche, where he enlisted as an infantryman in the army of the Confederate States of America under General Tyler and eventually made the rank of lieutenant.
www.gaple.com /articles/Edward_Douglass_White?mySession=6e1185ce9461d0650083f2c91848127c   (763 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Edward Douglass White (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Edward Douglass White 1845–1921, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1894–1910), ninth Chief Justice of the United States (1910–21), b.
White became (1879) judge of the Louisiana supreme court and served (1891–94) in the U.S. Senate until he was appointed (1894) Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Cleveland.
Made Chief Justice by President Taft, White : the first Southerner since Roger Taney to head the Supreme Court : was generally a conservative on the bench.
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 Profotos - Minor White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1908.
In 1945, White did his studies with Edward Weston, which was extremely intense due to the tonal beauty of his photographs.
White eventually succeeded Adams and became the Director of the California School of Fine Arts.
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 Robert B. Highsaw, Edward Douglass White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
White’s concept of a federal system in which the national and state governments each operated within a defined sphere of powers underlay many of his opinions.
White considered farm issues that developed after the closing of the western frontier, economic issues precipitated by a growing laboring class, and tense political issues of civil liberties that emerged during World War I..
White was conservative, but unlike the conservative justices of the 1920s and 1930s whose intransigence produced the judicial revolution of 1937, he saw that injury to the Constitution might result from its consistent use as a barrier to social progress.
www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/1981/Highsaw_Edward   (443 words)

  
 White Family History Deptford London Second Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1851 they were all living at 27 Canal Row, Deptford and Edward, Charlotte and their three eldest children, Edward (13), George William (11) and Charles (9) were all employed as firewood cutters at a nearby firewood factory.
Edward Thornton was a baker in 1841(aged 16) presumably helping his father in the bakery in Flagon Row, where he lived.
Edward's estate, which was administered upon the death of his wife, included the sale of houses to the value of £450, and the proceeds of the estate were divided between his children, each receiving in the region of £83.00.
members.aol.com /kjwtut/white_family_history/Second_generation.htm   (1051 words)

  
 The Reader's Companion to American History: White, Edward D.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
White, Edward D. (1845-1921), chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
Following service in the Confederate army, White read law in New Orleans and took some courses in what would later be the Tulane Law School.
He passed the Louisiana bar in 1868, became active in state Democratic politics, and was elected to the state senate in 1874.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28407433&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (195 words)

  
 Edward D. White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edward D. White was the son of a slaveholding suger planter; he was born and raised in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.
White traveled north to college and enrolled briefly in Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland and in Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) in Washington DC.
White's appointment to the Supreme Court was a surprise.
www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/legal_entity/55/biography   (235 words)

  
 Edward White -- vendor for Giants for decades
White, a second-generation San Franciscan who only recently left the neighborhood where he was born, died of kidney failure stemming from cancer at a nursing home in Walnut Creek.
White soon found he had a knack for the job and started hawking souvenirs at the wrestling matches and roller derbies at the Cow Palace, the state fair in Sacramento and outside the St. Francis Hotel on New Year's Eve.
He is survived by three sons, Terrance White and his wife Judy of Walnut Creek, Dennis White and his wife Maria of Lafayette, and Patrick White and his wife Patty of Clayton; two daughters, Christine White of Concord and Michelle Maxwell and her husband Gerald of San Francisco; 13 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/23/BA205805.DTL&type=printable   (620 words)

  
 State Governors of Louisiana: Edward Douglas White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wins election, over Edward Livingston, to a seat in Congress with the help of Alexander Porter, who is now a Louisiana Supreme Court Justice and Henry S. Johnson, who is governor.
White is supported by the Clay faction as well as Jacksonian Creoles.
White takes office and his administration is marked by bitter quarrels over patronage.
www.enlou.com /people/whiteed-bio.htm   (496 words)

  
 Astronaut Bio: Edward H. White, II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
EDWARD H. Born in San Antonio, Texas, on November 14, 1930.
White was later assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as an experimental test pilot with the Aeronautical Systems Division.
Lieutenant Colonel White died on January 26, 1967, in the Apollo spacecraft flash fire during a launch pad test at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios/htmlbios/white-eh.html   (377 words)

  
 US Air Force Military Biographies: Major General Edward H. White
Edward Higgins White was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., in l901.
General White was assigned in May 1931 to Wheeler Field, Hawaii as a squadron commander and adjutant of the 18th Pursuit Group.
General White went to Air Corps headquarters in August 1944 as deputy chief of a branch in the Budget Office, and became assistant budget officer in February 1946.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RBE/is_2004_Annual/ai_n8589007   (493 words)

  
 White
On the first day of the flight, White made America’s first spacewalk, a 21-minute EVA during which he manoeuvred on the end of a 25-foot tether using a hand-held gas gun.
White and fellow Apollo 1 astronauts, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, died in a spacecraft fire during a launch pad test on Jan. 27, 1967.
The crew of Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee, was killed in a fire while testing their capsule on the pad on 27 January 1967, still weeks away from launch.
www.astronautix.com /astros/white.htm   (2097 words)

  
 WHITE, CHARLES EDWARD "CHARLIE" Compiled by Task Force Omega Inc
After SFC White gave the all clear signal, the pilot increased the Huey's altitude to about 200 feet to clear the jungle canopy.
White was told that her son "became missing while under heavy hostile fire near Khe Sanh in South Vietnam." The true facts and circumstances surrounding his loss remained classified and hidden from public view until declassified in 1973.
If Charlie White died as a result of his loss or under enemy control afterward, he has a right to have his remains returned to his family, friends and country.
www.taskforceomegainc.org /w019.html   (1139 words)

  
 EDWARD M. WHITE PAPERS, 1898-1905
Edward M. White ([1861]-1934), lawyer, prosecutor, and politician, was born in Decatur County, the son of Isaac G. White, a farmer.
White ended his legal career in Indianapolis, in partnership with James Bingham, one of his former chiefs at the state justice department.
Clippings in Folder 2 give election tallies, notices of White's appointment to various offices, and press reports of some of his political and prosecutorial exploits.
www.indianahistory.org /Library/manuscripts/collection_guides/SC1564.html   (356 words)

  
 Kansas National Guard Hall of Fame - CPL Edward White
Edward White was born January 15, 1877, in Seneca, Kansas.
CPL White was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for performance above and beyond the call of duty while serving the 20th Kansas Volunteer Regiment in the Philippine Campaign of the Spanish-American War.
He and CPL Trembley swam the Rio Grande de Pampanga River in the face of enemy fire, fastened a rope to occupied trenches, thereby enabling his own forces to cross the river and drive the enemy from fortified positions.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/museums/kng/mohwhite.html   (309 words)

  
 Edward White II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was selected as the pilot for Gemini 4, a 4-day mission that circled the earth 62 times.
Tragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight rehearsal for Apollo 204, which was to have been the first manned Apollo mission, and would have been launched February 21, 1967.
Edward H. White, II and two other astronauts Virgil Grissom and Roger Chafee lost their lives when fire swept through the Command Module.
www.cas.astate.edu /draganjac/White.html   (281 words)

  
 Edward Higgins White, II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edward Higgins White, II Edward Higgins White, II Personal: Born November 14, 1930, San Antonio, Texas.
Died January 27, 1967 in the Apollo 204 fire at Cape Kennedy.
Was pilot of Gemini 4 (first American to make a spacewalk), backup command pilot for Gemini 7, and had been selected to be command module pilot for the first Apollo flight.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/Apollo204/white.html   (76 words)

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