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William Thompson was an American criminal and con artist whose deceptions probably caused the term confidence man to be coined. [ 1 ] Operating in New York City in the late 1840s, a genteelly dressed Thompson would approach an upper-class mark , pretending they knew each other, and begin a brief conversation.
William Henry Thompson (December 14, 1853 – June 6, 1937) was a Nebraska Democratic Party politician. Biography [ edit ] Born in Perrysville, Ohio , he attended Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa from 1872 to 1875, then graduated from the University of Iowa law school in 1877, being admitted to the bar the same year.
William H. Green Jr. (born April 11, 1963), is a Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in the field of chemical reaction engineering. His research largely focuses on using computers to accurately predict the products and time evolution of systems of reacting chemicals.
William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818 – March 18, 1891) was a law partner and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln. He was an early member of the new Republican Party and was elected mayor of Springfield, Illinois .
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.
The original editor of The Arden Shakespeare was William James Craig (1899–1906), succeeded by R. H. Case (1909–1944). [5] The text of The Arden Shakespeare, First series, was based on the 1864 "Globe" or Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works, edited by William George Clark and John Glover, [ 6 ] as revised in 1891–93.
William Hall "Bill" Janeway (born May 3, 1943) is an American venture capitalist and economist. His work on the innovation economy emphasizes the strategic role played by the state and by financial speculators.
William Thomson Sloper (December 13, 1883 − May 1, 1955) was an American stockbroker and survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Sloper, who was 28 when the Titanic sank, traveled as a first-class passenger and was saved after boarding lifeboat #7 , the first to be launched from the vessel.