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• the Arkansas Democratic politician Hayes McClerkin in 1970 challenged Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's "list" of militants disrupting college and university campuses?
• the Houston businessman, philanthropist, and politician George Strake, Jr., was among the benefactors in the restoration of the World War II vessel, USS Cavalla (SS-244)?
• in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine?
• during World War II, the Arkansas politician Jefferson W. Speck was a POW transported on the Japanese Hell ship, the Oryoku Maru?
• Tom Bauer is a lawyer and politician from Saint Louis, Missouri who was recalled after supporting several redevelopment proposals using eminent domain?
• the Kentucky attorney and politician Fuller Harding died in 2010 in the same house in which he was born in 1915?
• the Louisiana politician J. Frank Colbert was active during the 1920s and 1930s in Henry George's "Single Tax" Utopian movement?
• the British lion tamer and politician John Smith Clarke cured Lenin's dog of an illness?
• the late Wyoming politician Tom Walsh made 14 trips to Southeast Asia at his own expense looking for Vietnam War POWs and MIAs?
• the Australian solicitor and politician, Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a Freemason, and the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT?
• the Texas politician Ray Farabee entitled his 2009 autobiography Making It Through the Night and Beyond because he unexpectedly survived his premature birth?
• the Louisiana Reconstruction politician Marshall H. Twitchell survived six bullets in an 1876 assassination attempt but lost the use of both arms?
• Thomas Milton Gatch (pictured), an Ohioan educator and politician, was the first president of Oregon State University to hold a doctorate degree?
• NTR Gardens (pictured), which was built in the memory of actor-politician N. T. Rama Rao, was actually a water body until 1994?
• Norwegian politician Helge Seip was succeeded by Helge Rognlien both as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development and later as leader of the Liberal Party?
• Polish politician and Sejm member, Joanna Senyszyn, gained media attention due to her distinctive, high-pitched voice?
• merchant, sugar grower and politician George Raff helped establish the Brisbane government and was the main substantiater of wool trade between Brisbane and London?
• Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
• Indian National Congress politician and member of Indian parliament P. Thanulinga Nadar was a leader of Hindu nationalist organisation Hindu Munnani in his later years?
• British journalist and Liberal politician Colin Coote was an editor of the The Daily Telegraph for 14 years?
• 1050 AM ESPN Radio in New York City was launched by American politician Rob Astorino?
• James Whitfield Williamson, a politician from Vivian, Louisiana, won a silver medal in 1987 at his state's seniors tennis tournament?
• Joseph C. Hare, American politician and lumberman, has a railroad station, railroad stop, and valley all named after him?
• Ernest O. Thompson, a Texas businessman, politician, and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for developing improved machine gun tactics?
• Claudia Blum de Barberi is a Colombian politician and psychologist, who became the first woman to ever be elected President of the Congress of Colombia?
• Boyle Roche, an 18th-century Irish politician famous for his risible use of mixed metaphors and malapropisms, was a member of the same family as Diana, Princess of Wales?
• Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?