• Edgar Finley Shannon Jr. (June 4, 1918 – August 24, 1997) was a professor of English and president of the University of Virginia from 1959 to 1974. The...
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    identify Sabato as student government president than could name Edgar F. Shannon Jr. as University president. Sabato graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a Government...
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    Virginia, under the initiative of the university's then President, Edgar F. Shannon Jr. Victor Reynolds, previously director of the Cornell University Press...
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  • Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. (February 11, 1897 – June 9, 1981) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician aligned with the Byrd Organization who...
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  • of the whites-only Farmington Country Club. Where his predecessor Edgar F. Shannon Jr. had resigned from the club, Hereford stated that he preferred to...
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    retirement in 1964; a scholarship in honor of University president Edgar F. Shannon Jr., established in 1973; the Z Society Distinguished Faculty Award...
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  • Since 1974, the University of Virginia’s Z Society has presented Edgar F. Shannon Awards to the "best" graduating students from each of the university’s...
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    (1904–1931) John Lloyd Newcomb (1931–1947) Colgate Darden (1947–1959) Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (1959–1974) Frank Hereford (1974–1985) Robert M. O'Neil (1985–1990)...
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    century, until Shannon Library was opened in 1937. Originally named Alderman Library, the Library was renamed to honor Edgar F. Shannon Jr., the University...
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    United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States (category Official enquiries concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy)
    temperature, [and] sensory isolation." The assassination of President John F. Kennedy Had originally been investigated by the Warren Commission. Some of...
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  • whites-only membership policy. University of Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon Jr. resigned from the club in the late 1960s and the university banned...
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    flag was flown at half-mast and then-President of the University Edgar F. Shannon Jr., led a UVa memorial service in Cabell Hall. All classes at UVa were...
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  • jazz pianist, lung cancer. Zofia Rydet, 86, Polish photographer. Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., 79, American university director, cancer. Luigi Villoresi, 88,...
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    the library. The proposal would have renamed the library in honor of Edgar Shannon, the University's fourth President. After the library opened in the...
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    asked to work as an intern in the office of president Clifton R. Wharton Jr. She continued graduate work, completing her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago...
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    Kennedy, Robert F. Jr. (May 15, 2018). American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family. Harper. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-06-084834-7. "John F. Kennedy". Encyclopædia...
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  • (1904–1931) John Lloyd Newcomb (1931–1947) Colgate Darden (1947–1959) Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (1959–1974) Frank Hereford (1974–1985) Robert M. O'Neil (1985–1990)...
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  • Delia Owens. The film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer Jr., Jojo Regina, Garret Dillahunt, Ahna...
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    Companion (Greenwood, 2000, ISBN 031329707X), p. 4 Cecil Y. Lang & Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. (eds.), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870...
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    (1904–1997) Jacques Petit (1928–1982) Lauri Seppänen (1924–2009) Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (1918–1997) Marcel Thiry (1897–1977) 40 Graham Greene (1904–1991)...
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  • Lloyd Newcomb 1931–1947 Colgate W. Darden Jr. 1947–1959 Edgar F. Shannon Jr. 1959–1974 Frank L. Hereford Jr. 1974–1985 Robert M. O’Neil 1985–1990 John...
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  • (1904–1931) John Lloyd Newcomb (1931–1947) Colgate Darden (1947–1959) Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (1959–1974) Frank Hereford (1974–1985) Robert M. O'Neil (1985–1990)...
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    University of Virginia presidents Edwin Alderman, John Lloyd Newcomb, Edgar F. Shannon Jr., and Frank Hereford Confederate general Turner Ashby was interred...
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  • 2014-10-16. Retrieved 2014-05-29. "Lieutenant General George M. Browning Jr". Archived from the original on 2015-01-11. Retrieved 2016-09-20. "LIEUTENANT...
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  • (1904–1931) John Lloyd Newcomb (1931–1947) Colgate Darden (1947–1959) Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (1959–1974) Frank Hereford (1974–1985) Robert M. O'Neil (1985–1990)...
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  • States Army, Major General and Adjutant General of the U.S. Army Edgar Thomas Conley Jr. (1907–1993), United States Army, Brig. General Thomas Young Conley...
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  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-13. "William F. Church". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-03...
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  • Edgar Shannon Anderson (November 9, 1897 – June 18, 1969) was an American botanist. He introduced the term introgressive hybridization and his 1949 book...
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    serum run participants, including "Wild Bill" Shannon, Edgar Kalland, Bill McCarty, Charlie Evans, Edgar Nollner, Harry Pitka, and Henry Ivanoff have also...
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    Laurence Lush, B. F. Skinner 1969—Robert Huebner, Ernst Mayr 1970—Barbara McClintock, Albert Sabin 1973—Daniel I. Arnon, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. 1974—Britton...
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