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Frank M. Byrne

Byrne was born near Volney, Allamakee County, Iowa to Irish immigrants, Michael and Delia (Hart) Byrne.


158th New York State Legislature

For the first time there were three women in the Legislature: Ex-Assemblywoman Rhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), of Gouverneur, a former school teacher who after her marriage became active in women's organisations and politics, was the first woman elected to the State Senate; Assemblywoman Doris I. Byrne (Dem.), a lawyer from the Bronx, was re-elected; and Jane H. Todd (Rep.), of Tarrytown, was also elected to the Assembly.

A Man to Remember

The lawyer opens Abbott's strongbox for the deceased man's impatient creditors, local banker George Sykes (Granville Bates), newspaper editor Jode Harkness (Frank M. Thomas) and store owner Homer Ramsey (Harlan Briggs).

Breakfast for Two

Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform and then to marry him, explaining to her horse-breaking uncle Sam (Frank M. Thomas) that she intends to "slip a bit in his mouth and make him like it".

Brian L. Byrne

The study also included research teams in Colorado, Nevada, and Norway and other prominent social scientists such as John C. DeFries.

Charles Byrne

Charles C. Byrne (1837–1921), brigadier general in the United States Army

Chicago Central Area Transit Plan

In 1979, then-mayor Jane M. Byrne of Chicago and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson reached an agreement whereby the Franklin Line subway project, along with the Crosstown Expressway on the West Side, was to be canceled, the elevated Loop retained and improved, and rapid transit improvements developed for residential sections of Chicago where improvements were needed.

Count Five

John "Sean" Byrne (1947-2008, born Dublin, Ireland) played rhythm guitar and lead vocals, Kenn Ellner played tambourine and harmonica while sharing lead vocals and Craig "Butch" Atkinson (1947-1998, born San Jose, California) played drums.

Dwight B. LaDu

He was Division Engineer of the Eastern Division of the State Canals under John A. Bensel, and in 1914 was appointed Special Deputy State Engineer, a post he retained under Frank M. Williams.

Eulithomyrmex

The fossils were first studied by paleoentomologist Frank M. Carpenter of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Frank Carpenter

Frank M. Carpenter (1902–1994), American entomologist & paleontologist

Frank Gould

Frank M. Gould, 11th head college football coach for the Wabash College Little Giants

Frank M. Angellotti

His father was an Italian merchant and land owner of Marin county, Calif., from 1852 until his death, and his mother was descended from Christopher Osgood, who came from Marlborough, England, on the ship Mary and John in 1633 and settled at Ipswich Mass.

Frank M. Canton

Canton, played by Ed Nelson, is a guest character in the "What Happened at the XST?" episode (1972) of Alias Smith and Jones.

Frank M. Faircloth

Frank M. Faircloth (1820—January 6, 1900) was an American naval officer who served in the Union Navy during the Civil War.

Frank M. Folsom

Frank Marion Folsom (14 May 1894, Sprague, Washington - 12 January 1970, New York City) was an electronics company executive and was a permanent representative of the Holy See.

In 1942 he was appointed as special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy.

Frank M. Pixley

Two years later he travelled to California during the Gold Rush, and spent two winters working mines on the Yuba River.

Frank M. Ramey

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress, in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, and in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress.

Frank M. Robinson

After moving to San Francisco in the 1970s, Robinson, who is gay, was a speechwriter for gay politician Harvey Milk; he also has a small role in the film Milk.

The Gold Crew, also co-written Scortia, was a tense nuclear threat thriller and was filmed as an NBC miniseries re-titled The Fifth Missile.

Then, according to his official website, he could find no work as a writer, and wound up back in the Navy to serve in Korea, where he managed to keep writing, read a lot, and publish in the magazine Astounding.

Frank M. Smith, Jr.

After leaving CBS, Frank became the first paid president of the National Golf Foundation, located in Palm Beach, Florida in 1982.

He began his academic career at the prestigious prep school Deerfield Academy (class of 1945).

Frank M. Thomas

His best known films were We Who Are About To Die (1937), A Man to Remember (1938), A Shot In the Dark (1941), Desert Trail (1942), and No Place for a Lady (1943).

Frank M. Ziebach

Frank M. Ziebach was born in 1830 in Union County, Pennsylvania, near Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Frank Thomas

Frank M. Thomas (1889–1989), American actor, father of Frankie Thomas

George Bosl

George Bosl (born 1948) is an American cancer researcher, holder of the Patrick M. Byrne Chair in Clinical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and is a Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College.

George Byrne

His uncle, James Byrne, had a more substantial first-class career, captaining Warwickshire between 1903 and 1907.

H. P. Sullivan

H.P. Sullivan was the Secretary of State of California from 1970-'71 after Frank M. Jordan died in office.

Harmony Borax Works

William Coleman's original holdings in the works were subsequently acquired by Frank M. "Borax" Smith in 1890, to become the Pacific Coast Borax Company with the 20 Mule Team Borax brand.

James Byrne

J. F. Byrne (1871–1954), James F. Byrne, English cricketer; captain of Warwickshire and rugby international

James A. Byrne (1906–1980), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

John J. Byrne

After being passed over for president in 1975, Byrne quit to become chief executive of GEICO, then a troubled Washington, D.C. auto insurer.

GEICO sold insurance directly to low-risk drivers, but had begun to lose money after underwriting riskier drivers.

John J. Byrne (1931 – March 7, 2013) was an American longtime insurance industry executive who was CEO of GEICO, White Mountains Insurance Group and Fireman's Fund.

Lavinia Byrne

Her great-uncle, J. F. Byrne, captained Warwickshire in first-class cricket and was full back of the England rugby union team

No Place for a Lady

Later, on a country road under cover of darkness, the tires are transferred to Joe Wembley (Frank M. Thomas), an underworld figure and operator of a nightclub at the beach.

Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan

P. J. Byrne (born 1974), film and television actor who has appeared in Horrible Bosses, Final Destination 5 and Wolf of Wall Street, as well as being the voice of Bolin on Nickelodeon's animated TV series The Legend of Korra.

Osbert Mackie

The tourists stuck with the same four threequarters until the final match, with Mackie being joined by Lawrence Bulger, J. F. Byrne and Robert Johnston.

Overstock.com

In July 2006, John J. Byrne, the father of Overstock's chief executive, resigned from the board of directors after a public airing of the elder Byrne's unhappiness with his son's crusade against naked short-selling.

Phillip Puckett

He finished fourth and last in the Democratic primary, behind Leslie L. Byrne, Viola Baskerville and Chap Petersen.

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

She and Mike North (Frank M. Thomas), the horse's trainer, persuade the reluctant doctor to investigate.

The Fifth Missile

The Fifth Missile is a 1986 TV movie starring Robert Conrad, Sam Waterston and David Soul about an American ballistic missile submarine, based on the novel The Gold Crew by Frank M. Robinson and Thomas N. Scortia.

Thomas Byrne

Thomas R. Byrne (1923–2009), former U.S. politician, former mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota

Westcoast Transmission Co.

was a Canadian company founded in 1949 by entrepreneur Frank McMahon who saw an enormous opportunity to supply natural gas to the huge industrial and residential markets in the United States.

William A. Byrne

He was educated at Carlow College as a lay student from 1885 to 1889, and went to Maynooth College to Study for the priesthood, where he was invited to write an ode on the college's centenary; however, he left priestly formation due to ill health.


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