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  2. William Hale Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Mary Walker Wyse. . (m. 1901) . Signature. William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as " Big Bill ", [1] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago. Historians rank him among the most unethical ...

  3. Bill Thompson (voice actor) - Wikipedia

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    Mary Margaret McBride. . . (m. 1950) . William H. Thompson, known professionally as Bill Thompson (July 8, 1913 – July 15, 1971), was an American radio personality and voice actor, whose career stretched from the 1930s until his death. He was a featured comedian playing multiple roles on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio series, and was the ...

  4. William H. Thompson (actor) - Wikipedia

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    William H. Thompson (April 24, 1852 - February 4, 1923) was an American actor on stage, in vaudeville, and in films. Early years. Thompson was born in Scotland on ...

  5. William H. Thompson - Wikipedia

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    William H. Thompson may refer to: William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. William Henry Thompson (1853–1937), U.S. senator from Nebraska. William Howard Thompson (1871–1928), U.S. senator from Kansas. William Hale Thompson (1868–1944), mayor of Chicago.

  6. Lord Kelvin - Wikipedia

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    Lord Kelvin. It is believed the "PNP" in his signature stands for "Professor of Natural Philosophy". Kelvin also wrote under the pseudonym "P. Q. R." William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was an Irish-born, British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer. [7][8] Born in Belfast, he was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the ...

  7. William H. Macy - Wikipedia

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    Macy was born in Miami, Florida, and grew up in Georgia and Maryland. [4] His father, William Hall Macy Sr. (1922–2007), was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal for flying a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in World War II; he later ran a construction company in Atlanta, Georgia, and worked for Dun & Bradstreet before taking over a Cumberland, Maryland-based insurance agency ...

  8. William Thompson (philosopher) - Wikipedia

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    William Thompson (30 June 1775 – 28 March 1833) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the cooperative, trade union and Chartist movements as well as Karl Marx. Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of wealthy ...

  9. William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) - Wikipedia

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    William Henry Thompson (August 16, 1927 – August 6, 1950) was a United States Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War . Born to a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in New York City, Thompson entered the Army in 1945 and served ...