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2. Education. Tufts University ( BA) William Colridge Thompson Jr. (born July 10, 1953) [1] [2] [3] is an American politician who served as the 42nd Comptroller of New York City; sworn into office on January 1, 2002, he was reelected to serve a second term that began on January 1, 2006. He did not seek re-election in 2009.
Billy Tauzin. Wilbert Joseph Tauzin II ( IPA: ['bɪli 'toʊzɛ̃]; born June 14, 1943) is an American lobbyist and politician. [1] He served as the President and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), a pharmaceutical company lobby group. After serving four terms in the State House, Tauzin won a special ...
Historical. The richest Canadian to have ever lived is believed to be Herbert Samuel Holt, president of 27 corporations (including Royal Bank of Canada and Montreal Light, Heat & Power ), and a director of 250 companies worldwide, who had an estimated net worth of CA$ 3 billion in 1928 (equivalent to $46.7 billion in 2021).
t. e. The 2009 election for Mayor of New York City took place on Tuesday, November 3. The incumbent Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, an independent who left the Republican Party in 2008, won reelection on the Republican and Independence Party /Jobs & Education lines with 50.7% of the vote over the retiring City Comptroller, Bill Thompson, a Democrat ...
Glenn William "GT" Thompson Jr. (born July 27, 1959) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected to Congress in 2008 for the state's 5th congressional district; Thompson was redistricted to the 15th congressional district in the 2018 election by an order of the ...
Freddie Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003; Thompson was an unsuccessful candidate in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2008 United States presidential election.
Vincenzo Colosimo [2] ( Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso koˈlɔːzimo]; February 16, 1878 – May 11, 1920), known as James " Big Jim " Colosimo or as " Diamond Jim ", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering.
Bennie Gordon Thompson (born January 28, 1948) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party , Thompson served as the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security from 2019 to 2023 and from 2007 to 2011. [1]