59 Notable alumni of
Mount St. Mary's University
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Mount St. Mary's University is 1397th in the world, 495th in North America, and 464th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 59 notable alumni from Mount St. Mary's University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Francisco I. Madero
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianmilitary personnelmusicianbusinessperson
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Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'état in February 1913 and assassinated. He came to prominence as an advocate for democracy and as an opponent of President and de facto dictator Porfirio Díaz. After Díaz claimed to have won the fraudulent election of 1910 despite promising a return to democracy, Madero started the Mexican Revolution to oust Díaz. Madero supposedly initiated the Mexican Revolution with guidance from spirits (Madero identified as a medium who communicated with ghosts, including historical figures like Benito Juarez and even his deceased younger brother.) The Mexican revolution would continue until 1920, well after Madero and Díaz's deaths, with hundreds of thousands dead.
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Edward Douglass White
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Edward Douglass White Jr. was an American politician and jurist. White, a native of Louisiana, was a U.S. Supreme Court justice for 27 years, first as an associate justice from 1894 to 1910, then as the ninth chief justice from 1910 until his death in 1921. White is known for siding with the Supreme Court majority in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the legality of state segregation.
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Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte
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- merchant
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Jérôme Napoléon "Bo" Bonaparte was an American farmer, chairman of the Maryland Agricultural Society, first president of the Maryland Club, and the son of Elizabeth Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I.
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Edward J. Flanagan
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- Catholic priest
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Right Rev. Monsignor Edward Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States, who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Catholic Diocese of Omaha, he founded the orphanage and educational complex known as Boys Town, located west of the city in what is now Boys Town, Douglas County, Nebraska. In the 21st century, the complex also serves as a center for troubled youth.
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Stanley Rother
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- Bible translatorCatholic priest
- Biography
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Stanley Francis Rother was an American Roman Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981. He had worked as a missionary priest there since 1968. He held several parish assignments as a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City from 1963 to 1968 before being assigned to Guatemala.
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William E. Lori
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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William Edward Lori is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the 16th archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland since 2012.
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John La Farge
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- painterstained-glass artistwriter
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John La Farge was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics. La Farge made stained glass windows, mainly for churches on the American east coast, beginning with a large commission for Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church in Boston in 1878, and continuing for thirty years. La Farge designed stained glass as an artist, as a specialist in color, and as a technical innovator, holding a patent granted in 1880 for superimposing panes of glass. That patent would be key in his dispute with contemporary and rival Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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Harry Hughes
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- politicianlawyer
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Harry Roe Hughes was an American politician from the Democratic Party who served as the 57th Governor of Maryland from 1979 to 1987.
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John McCloskey
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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John McCloskey was an American senior-ranking prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the first American-born Archbishop of New York from 1864 until his death in 1885, having previously served as Bishop of Albany (1847–1864). In 1875, McCloskey became the first American cardinal. He served as the first president of St. John's College, now Fordham University, beginning in 1841.
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Junior Robinson
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Steve Lamont "Junior" Robinson jr is an American basketball player for Kipinä Basket of the 1st Division B. He played college basketball for Mount St. Mary's. He was born in Mebane, North Carolina.
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Jamion Christian
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Jamion Christian is an American basketball coach, who is head coach for Italian second league club Pallacanestro Trieste. In the United States, he was most recently the head coach of the George Washington Colonials men's basketball team. He previously was the head coach at Siena and Mount St. Mary's.
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John Joseph Hughes
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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John Joseph Hughes was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He was the fourth Bishop and first Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, serving between 1842 and his death in 1864. In 1841, he founded St. John's College, which would later become Fordham University.
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Fred Carter
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Fredrick James Carter, nicknamed "Mad Dog" or "Doggy", is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for eight seasons (1969–77) for the Baltimore Bullets, Philadelphia 76ers, and Milwaukee Bucks.
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Heath Tarbert
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- international forum participantlawyer
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Heath Price Tarbert is an American lawyer and former government official who most recently served as the 14th Chairman and a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Prior to leading the CFTC, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development and as acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. As of July 1, 2023, he is Chief Legal Officer and Head of Corporate Affairs for Circle.
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John Early
- Enrolled in Mount St. Mary's University
- Studied in 1833-1834
- Occupations
- academic administratorCatholic priest
- Biography
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John Early was an Irish-American Catholic priest and Jesuit educator who was the president of the College of the Holy Cross and Georgetown University, as well as the founder and first president of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. Upon his arrival, he enrolled at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland and entered the Society of Jesus, completing his education at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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Elijah Mitrou-Long
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Elijah Isa Mitrou-Long is a Canadian professional basketball player for Peristeri of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. He played college basketball for Mount St. Mary's, Texas, and UNLV.
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Edward J. Burns
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- Catholic priesttheologiansociologistCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Edward James Burns is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Dallas in Texas since 2017. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Juneau in Alaska from 2009 to 2017.
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Michael Augustine Corrigan
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Michael Augustine Corrigan was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the third archbishop of New York from 1885 to 1902.
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Harry Joseph Flynn
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Harry Joseph Flynn was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1995 to 2008. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette from 1989 to 1994.
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Kristijan Krajina
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- basketball player
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Kristijan Krajina is a Croatian professional basketball player for New Taipei CTBC DEA of the T1 League. Standing at 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in), he plays at the center position.
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Paul Stagg Coakley
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
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Paul Stagg Coakley is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City since 2010
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Michael Owen Jackels
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Mons. Michael Owen Jackels is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the metropolitan archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque from 2013 to 2023. He previously served as the bishop of the Diocese of Wichita in Kansas. Jackels was consecrated bishop on April 4, 2005.
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William Henry Fry
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- music criticjournalistcomposer
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William Henry Fry was an American composer, music critic, and journalist. Fry was the first known person born in the United States to write for a large symphony orchestra, and the first to compose a publicly performed opera. He was also the first music critic for a major American newspaper, and he was the first known person to insist that his fellow countrymen support American-made music.
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Thomas M. Anderson
- Enrolled in Mount St. Mary's University
- Studied in 1855
- Occupations
- military personnellawyer
- Biography
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Thomas McArthur Anderson was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a general in the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War.
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John Lawrence LeConte
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- naturalistzoologistmilitary physicianentomologist
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John Lawrence LeConte MD was an American entomologist, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, including some 5,000 species of beetles. He was recognized as the foremost authority on North American beetles during his career, and has been described as "the father of American beetle study".
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John Baptist Purcell
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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John Baptist Purcell was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to his death in 1883, and he was elevated to the rank of archbishop in 1850. He formed the basis of Father Ferrand, the Ohio-based "Irish by birth, French by ancestry" character in the prologue of Willa Cather's historical novel Death Comes for the Archbishop who goes to Rome asking for a bishop for New Mexico Territory.
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Agnus Berenato
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Agnus Berenato, is a former basketball coach. She was the head women's basketball coach at Rider from 1982 to 1985, Georgia Tech from 1989 to 2003, Pittsburgh from 2003 to 2013, and Kennesaw State from 2016 to 2021. She is the all-time wins leader among women's basketball head coaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Joe Engel
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Joseph William Engel was an American left-handed pitcher and scout in Major League Baseball who spent nearly his entire career with the Washington Senators, and went on to become a promoter and team owner in the minor leagues. He was born in Washington, D.C. as one of six children of a German immigrant who owned a bar/hotel next door to the Washington Post building in the District of Columbia. Engel was married twice and lost his only child, son Bryant, due to a traffic accident in Nov. 1930 at age 9. Engel himself died in Chattanooga in 1969 at age 76.
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Mary Kane
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- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politicianproducer
- Biography
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Mary D. Kane is an American attorney from Maryland who was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2010, as the running mate of Bob Ehrlich. In October 2011, Kane became the President and CEO of Sister Cities International. Sister Cities International is a nonprofit organization for individual sister cities, counties, and states across the United States. Kane also sits on the board of Suburban Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Mount St. Mary's University.
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Matthew F. McHugh
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Matthew Francis "Matt" McHugh is an American lawyer and former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, serving from 1975 to 1993.
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Carol Keehan
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- international forum participantnun
- Biography
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Sister Carol Keehan, D.C. is a member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. She served as president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States from 2005 to 2019.
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Kathy Afzali
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- politicianjournalist
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Kathryn L. Afzali is an American politician who represented district 4 in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2011 to 2019.
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Edward Fitzgerald
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Edward Mary Fitzgerald was an Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock in Arkansas from 1867 until his death in 1907.
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Robert W. Curran
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Robert W. Curran is a former member of the Baltimore City Council representing the Third Council District in Baltimore, Maryland. A member of a prominent Maryland political family, Curran is the son of J. Joseph Curran, Sr., Baltimore City Councilman from 1953 through 1977, a brother of former Maryland attorney general J. Joseph Curran, Jr., brother to a former city councilman, Mike Curran, and uncle of Katie O'Malley, wife of former Governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley.
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Cliff Warren
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Cliff Warren is an American college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for the SMU Mustangs. He previously served as the head coach for Jacksonville University.
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George Henry Miles
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- writer
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George Henry Miles was an American writer. Miles wrote "God Save the South", under the pen name Earnest Halphin, which is considered to have been the unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
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Francis L. Delmonico
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- surgeon
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Francis L. Delmonico, MD, FACS is a surgeon, clinical professor and health expert in the field of transplantation. He serves on numerous committees and is affiliated with various leading organizations and institutions. He is the chief medical officer of the New England Organ Bank (NEOB) and Professor of Surgery, Part-Time at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is emeritus director of renal transplantation. He served as president of The Transplantation Society (TTS) from 2012 to 2014, an international non-profit organization based in Montreal, Canada that works with international transplantation physicians and researchers. He also served as the president of the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) in 2005, which overseas the practice of organ donation and transplantation in the United States. He was appointed and still serves as an advisor to the World Health Organization in matters of organ donation and transplantation. He was appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Academy of Science in 2016. In 2020, he became the recipient of the Medawar Prize of The Transplantation Society.
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Frank Ryan
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francis Xavier Ryan is an American politician, accountant, and retired military officer who served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 101st District from 2017 to 2022.
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John Loughlin
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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John Loughlin was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first Bishop of Brooklyn, of the U.S. state of New York (1853–1891).
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Richard Gilmour
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Richard Gilmour was a Scottish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland in Ohio from 1872 until his death in 1891.
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Thomas M. Middleton
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- politician
- Biography
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Thomas McLain "Mac" Middleton is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the Maryland State Senate from 1995 to 2019, representing Maryland's District 28 in southern Charles County.
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Tony Fulton
- Enrolled in Mount St. Mary's University
- 1995-1996 graduated with Master of Arts in theology
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tony Fulton is a politician and businessman who served as the tax commissioner of Nebraska under Governor Pete Ricketts from 2016 to 2022. He previously represented a Lincoln district in the Nebraska Legislature from 2007 to 2013.
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Harry A. Slattery
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- 1887-1949 (aged 62)
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- environmentalist
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Harry A. Slattery, was an American lawyer and politician. He was United States Under Secretary of the Interior from 1938 to 1939 and gave his name to the Slattery Report, which proposed to develop Alaska through immigration. The proposal, which included the settlement of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria, largely in response to Nazi antisemitism, was never implemented.
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Silas Chatard
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- Catholic priestwriterphysicianCatholic bishop
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Silas Francis Marean Chatard was a Catholic Bishop of Indianapolis in the United States.
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Francois P. Giraud
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- politicianarchitect
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Francois P. Giraud, also known as Francis P. Giraud, was an American politician. He was mayor of the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas.
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William Albert
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- politician
- Biography
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William Julian Albert was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving from 1873 to 1875.
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James Clark
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- Catholic priestacademic administratorteacher
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James Clark was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who led the College of the Holy Cross during the American Civil War as president from 1861 to 1867. Born in Pennsylvania, he was educated at the United States Military Academy and served as an officer in the U.S. Army for one year, before converting to Catholicism and later entering the Society of Jesus.
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John O'Neill
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- politicianlawyer
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John O'Neill was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1863 to 1865,
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William George McCloskey
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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William George McCloskey was an American Catholic priest, who became the fourth Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky.
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John Ambrose Watterson
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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John Ambrose Watterson was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Columbus in Ohio from 1880 until his death in 1899.
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Thomas McGovern
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Thomas McGovern was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1888 until his death in 1898.
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Edward J. Dunphy
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- politicianlawyer
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Edward John Dunphy of New York City was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1889 to 1895. He was a Democrat.
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José Manuel Ramos Barroso
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- politician
- Biography
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José Manuel Ramos Barroso is a Puerto Rican politician and former Senator. He was a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1977 to 1980.
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Dan Costello
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- baseball player
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Daniel Francis "Dashing Dan" Costello was a Major League Baseball outfielder. Costello played for the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1913 to 1916. In 154 career games, he had 85 hits, 24 RBIs and a.243 batting average. He batted left and threw right-handed. Costello was born in Jessup, Pennsylvania, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Joanne Chiedi
- Enrolled in Mount St. Mary's University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- administratorcivil servant
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Joanne Chiedi is an American administrator and former government official working as the chief administrative officer of law firm DLA Piper since January 2020. Prior to this, Chiedi was the principal deputy inspector general and acting inspector general of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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William Walsh
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Walsh was a U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland, serving two terms from 1875 until 1879.
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Ed Kenna
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- player of American footballbaseball player
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Edward Benninghaus Kenna, nicknamed "the Pitching Poet", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, college football coach and newspapers editor. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1902 season. Kenna played football as Georgetown University as a fullback in 1898 and at West Virginia University as a fullback and kicker in 1901. He served as the head football coach at the University of Richmond in 1900 and West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1902. Kenna was later an editor of the Charleston Gazette. He died on March 22, 1912, in Grant, Florida.
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George J. Turner
- Biography
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George J. Turner was the treasurer of the South Atlantic Association when he was elected president of the Amateur Athletic Union from 1915 to 1916. During his tenure the AAU joined with the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America to set the rules that defined amateur sports.
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James McSherry
- Years
- 1842-1907 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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James McSherry was an American jurist who served as chief judge of the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, the Court of Appeals.
