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    Will Mercer Cook (March 30, 1903 – October 4, 1987), popularly known as Mercer Cook, was an American diplomat and professor. He was the first United States...
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    William Mercer Cook (January 27, 1869 – July 19, 1944), better known as Will Marion Cook, was an American composer, pianist, orchestrator, lyricist, violinist...
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    Page 189. David A. Goldfarb, "Douglas, Marion (1920-)". "Mercer Cook", Answers.com. "Mercer Cook Biography Archived 2011-06-17 at the Wayback Machine",...
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    Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd (née Lucy Page Mercer; April 26, 1891 – July 31, 1948) was an American woman who sustained a long affair with US president Franklin...
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  • Mercer is the given name of: Mercer Cook (1903–1987), African-American diplomat and professor Mercer Ellington (1919–1996), American jazz trumpeter, composer...
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    and Mercer Cook. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, c1947. Masters of the dew. Gouverneurs de la rosée, translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. Oxford;...
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    James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin,...
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    Port Mercer is an unincorporated community located where the municipal boundaries of Lawrence Township, Princeton and West Windsor Township intersect in...
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    posts Preceded by Mercer Cook United States Ambassador to the Gambia 1966-1967 Succeeded by L. Dean Brown Preceded by Mercer Cook United States Ambassador...
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    Beryl Mercer (August 13, 1882 – July 28, 1939) was a Spanish-born American actress of stage and screen who was based in the United States. Beryl Mercer was...
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    Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer OC ONL (born October 17, 1969) is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and author. He is best...
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  • (1904–1972), professor of French and future American ambassador Will Mercer Cook (1903–1987), philosopher William T. Fontaine (1909–1968) and James Ivy...
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    three months after it attained independence from the United Kingdom. During Cook's tenure as non-resident Ambassador, the Embassy in Bathurst (now Banjul)...
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    négres and Nations nègres et culture). Translated from the French by Mercer Cook. New York: L. Hill, ISBN 978-0-88208-021-5, ISBN 978-0-88208-022-2 (1974)...
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  • Miriam Hopkins, Wilton Graff, and George Nader. After divorcing Cook in 1950 Mercer married a casual acquaintance, William Oldenburger, in Los Angeles...
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    Davis, William Fontaine, Jean Price Mars, James Baldwin, Chester Himes, Mercer Cook and Frantz Fanon. Members of both forums were engaged with discussing...
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    President Dwight D. Eisenhower Preceded by office established Succeeded by Mercer Cook 1st United States Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire In office November 20,...
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  • Hungarian soprano singer. Kalervo Palsa, 40, Finnish artist, pneumonia. Mercer Cook, 84, American diplomat and professor, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia,...
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    Joseph Mercer OBE (9 August 1914 – 9 August 1990) was an English footballer and manager. Mercer, who played as a defender for Everton and Arsenal in his...
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    J. Ryan Jr. (1939-)". Office of the Historian. "Ryan to Serve in Niger; Cook Moves to Senegal". State Department Newsletter: 20. June 1964 – via Hathitrust...
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  • political scientist and diplomat Alan Busby, agricultural scientist Mercer Cook, diplomat, writer and translator; returning fellow 1937 Mabel Byrd, economist...
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  • first Black American appointed U.S. Ambassador on multiple occasions was Mercer Cook (Niger, 1961; Senegal,1964; The Gambia, 1965) Four African Americans...
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    Mercer Kennedy Ellington (March 11, 1919 – February 8, 1996) was an American musician, composer, and arranger. His father was Duke Ellington, whose band...
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  • later the Masons Company maintains its friendly relationships with the Mercers’, Cooks’ and Broderers’ companies that formed the Association at the time....
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  • blacks in other parts of the world". Together with Horace Mann Bond, Mercer Cook, John A. Davis and William T. Fontaine, Ivy was amongst the African American...
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  • its towns in Ocean County, and gained several towns in Burlington County, Mercer County, and Monmouth County. For the 118th and successive Congresses (based...
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    Georgia, Cook attended the public schools and received his undergraduate degree from Mercer University, followed by a law degree from Mercer University...
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  • 71 at his home in Langley Park, Maryland, on January 7, 1997. (With Mercer Cook) The Militant Black Writer in Africa and the United States, University...
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  • Barnes, along with fellow professors Roscoe McKinney, Sterling Brown, and Mercer Cook, charted Phi Beta Kappa at Howard, and all were also members of the Gamma...
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    and Plenipotentiary October 14, 1960 November 23, 1960 August 2, 1961 Mercer Cook - Political appointee June 22, 1961 August 2, 1961 May 30, 1964 Robert...
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