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John G Townsend Jr was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Delaware from 1917 until 1921.
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John G Townsend Jr was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Delaware from 1917 until 1921.
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M Clifford Townsend was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Indiana from 1937 until 1941.
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M Clifford Townsend was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Indiana from 1937 until 1941.
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Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford was a Brit, statesman. he was born in 1676 at Houghton, Norfolk and died in 1745. The son of a Whig country gentleman of Houghton, Norfolk he became member of Parliament for Castle Rising in 1701 and sat for King's Lynn from 1702 until 1742. In 1712 the Tories seized a pretext for imprisoning him. In 1713 Townsend married his sister Dorothy and Walpole became first lord of the Treasury and chancellor of Exchequer in 1715 and in 1720 following the South Sea Bubble crisis he became prime minister.
One of the greatest British, statesmen Robert Walpole sought to bring the court and the House of Commons into a working alliance to unite the nation under the new dynasty by keeping as free as possible from foreign alliances, and to make the nation prosperous, and he may be said to have succeeded in these aims. At the same time he was described as a crass and unrefined man and allegations of corruption for his own political benefit were made against him.
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Patrick Duffy is an American actor. He was born in 1949 at Townsend, Montana. After starring as 'Mark Harris' in the 1977 children's adventure series 'The Man From Atlantis', he went on to play 'Bobby Ewing' in the 1978 soap-opera 'Dallas' and 1979 soap-opera 'Knots Landing'.
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Stuart Townsend is an Irish actor. He was born in 1972 at Howth.
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Kay Johnson (real name Catherine Townsend) was an American actress. She was born in 1904 and died in 1975.
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The Battle of Big Bethel was an unsuccessful attempt directed by General Butler and attempted by General Pierce with four regiments to dislodge outposts of Magruder's Confederate troop encampment at Yorktown, Virginia on June 10th 1861 during the American Civil War. The Federal regiments, under Townsend and Bendix, en route for the Big Bethel camp, mistook each other for the enemy and fired, creating a great confusion. Pierce arrived and pushed on to the Confederate earthwork on Back River, destroying the camp at Little Bethel. The Federal troops crossed Bavk River and charged the earthwork, but were repulsed with considerable losses, including Major Theodore Winthrop who was killed.
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Shooting Fish is a romantic comedy starring Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend, Kate Beckinsale and Nickolas Grace in a story about three people sharing a home in a converted London gasometer. Shooting Fish was directed by Stefan Schwartz in 1997.
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