Close advisors Sen. Lewis Cass, a proponent of popular sovereignty as far back as 1848 as an alternative to the Wilmot Proviso, and Secretary of State William L. Marcy both told Pierce that repeal would create serious political problems.

During a slew of fires in Southern California in 2007, Pierce College sheltered and fed more than 150 horses under the direction of the L. A. County Volunteer Equine Response team.

In 1958, Pierce Brothers sold its family-owned chain of Southern California mortuaries and cemeteries to Texas financier Joseph L. Allbritton, who sold off of Valhalla for development.

Pre-World War II engines could be quite large by modern standards — such as the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost's 7. 4 L engine and the 824 cuin ( 13. 5 L ) of the 1910s Peerless, Pierce, and Fageol.

* Pierce, Edward L. Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner 4 vols., 1877-93. online edition

Abraham Lincoln, in an April 6, 1859 letter to Henry L. Pierce, wrote of political opponents of the day who slighted the foundational principles of Thomas Jefferson as " glittering generalities ".

# BG John L. Pierce – September 1944 – 15 October 1945

* Dustin L. Pierce, a senior at Jackson County High School in McKee, Kentucky, armed himself with a shotgun and two handguns and took a history classroom hostage in a nine-hour standoff with police on September 18, 1989 that ended without injury.

On May 7, Admiral King, the CNO, picked Lieutenant Draper L. Kauffman USNR to lead the training, which was based at Fort Pierce.

Other notable film roles include his portrayals of the title character in Harrison's Flowers ( 2000 ); the wisecracking blind techie in Sneakers ( 1992 ); Joe St. George in Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 ); Pierce Patchett in L. A.

She was an important influence on younger female country music singers and rural humorists such as Jerry Clower, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Carl Hurley, David L Cook, Chonda Pierce, Ron White and Larry the Cable Guy.

In his first term in Congress, Fenton strongly opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and unsuccessfully tried to persuade President Franklin Pierce and U. S. Secretary of State William L. Marcy to oppose the bill.

* Vanessa L. Williams as LAPD Detective III Katherine Pierce ( Season Two )

Cloyne was built in 1904 for $ 80, 000 by the University Land and Improvement Company, which included several University professors, University benefactresses Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Jane K. Sather, future Regent James K. Moffit, Dr. Louis Lisser, John L. Howard, Warren Olney, Dr. Kasper Pishel, Louis Titus, John Galen Howard, the architect of the building and James M. Pierce, the later owner of the hotel.

* West, L. J., Pierce, C. M., & Thomas, W. D.

* Robert L. Pierce, Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin

John Doe of L. A. punk band X claims that frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club invented a completely new style of music by mixing punk and blues.

Notable paleornithologists are Storrs L. Olson, Alexander Wetmore, Alan Feduccia, Philip Ashmole, Pierce Brodkorb, Trevor H. Worthy, Zhou Zhonghe, Gerald Mayr, Bradley C. Livezey and David Steadman.

In Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.,, the Supreme Court, through Justice Pierce Butler, stated:

The " dream cars " which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical ( i. e., paternoster ) parking garage — all the cars were new Nashes ; Lincoln presented its rear-engined " concept car " precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine ; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline " Suddenly it's 1940!

* Caledonia Palestine Tyson Long ( 1860 – 1913 ), the mother of Governors Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Kemp Long, was born in Grant Parish.

Their children were John Vinton Dahlgren, who married Elizabeth Wharton Drexel ; Eric Bernard Dahlgren, Sr., who married Lucy Wharton Drexel ; and Ulrica Dahlgren, who married Josiah Pierce, and was the grandmother of Romaine Dahlgren Pierce, wife of David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven.

* Larry G. Sale, sheriff of Claiborne Parish from 1936 to 1944, bodyguard of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., decorated soldier of World War I, interred at Arlington Cemetery in Homer

Riley J. Wilson, a former U. S. representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district who opposed Huey Pierce Long, Jr., was born in Goldonna.

* Judge Benjamin Pavy, father-in-law of Carl Weiss, the young doctor who killed U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., was from Opelousas.

The community is located within Allendale Charter Township and the CDP area consists of about the northern two thirds of the township, from the eastern boundary with the Grand River west along Pierce St., north along 75th Ave., then west along Lake Michigan Drive ( M-45 ) to the western boundary of the township.

Earl Williamson, a local politician in Shreveport who was a confidant of Louisiana Governors Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Kemp Long, was born in Carthage in 1903.

* John B. Fournet, the Speaker of the Louisiana House during the Huey Pierce Long, Jr., impeachment case of 1929 and later lieutenant governor and associate and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, received his teaching degree from Northwestern in 1915.

Overton became a staunch supporter of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and served as Long's counsel in the latter's impeachment proceedings in 1929.

He first practiced law in New Orleans but soon became a leader in the movement to break the power of the political machine of U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., who was assassinated in 1935.

* Pierce, Richard S., Associative algebras.

Pierce was the only luxury brand that did not field a lower-priced car ( e. g., the Packard 120 ) to provide cash flow, and without sales or funds for development, the company declared insolvency in 1938 and closed its doors.

In 1930, Huey Pierce Long, Jr., the governor of Louisiana, initiated a massive building program on campus to expand the physical plant and add departments.

* Braby, M., R. Vila, and N. E. Pierce.

* Pierce, R. V., The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, eighty-third edition ( World's Dispensary, 1917 ), available from Project Gutenberg

In that first defeat, Earl's brother, Huey Pierce Long, Jr., endorsed Fournet, but the rest of the Long family stood with Earl.

In the season 4 episode ( 5 ) of the television sitcom M. A. S. H., Hey Doc, Hawkeye Pierce says, " Good thing you didn't go to the local doctors.

* Hoover, Donald B., Pierce, H. A., and Merkel, D. C., " Telluric traverse and self potential data release in the vicinity of the Pinson Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada ".

Jason Pierce, 1998 The band was formed by Pierce who then asked Carruthers, Refoy and Mattock to join him following the impending split of Spacemen 3.

For his work on Frasier, Pierce was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Emmy a record eleven consecutive years, winning in 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2004.

Pierce also provided the voice of Mr. Daedalus in the 1998 Disney show Hercules: The Animated Series.

Pierce won four titles in 1998: the Open Gaz de France in Paris, the Bausch & Lomb Championships, the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, and the Fortis Championships Luxembourg.

Pierce has been a starter every season since being selected by the Celtics with the 10th overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft.

Pierce averaged 16. 4 points and 6. 3 rebounds per game in his three seasons at the University of Kansas, where he majored in Crime and Delinquency Studies, and earned MVP honors in the Big 12 Conference Tournament in both 1997 and 1998.

Five players from the 1998 draft class have played in the NBA All-Star Game at least once in their careers: Nowitzki, Carter, Jamison, Paul Pierce and Rashard Lewis

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998 ; among his other awards were a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal ( 1976 ), and several honorary degrees.

Pierce joined Penn in 1998 from Indiana University and held research positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh.

Staines was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1998.

Master Corporal ( now Master Warrant Officer ) Bryan Keith Pierce, CV, MMM, MSC, CD, a technician of the Canadian Forces search-and-rescue, received the Cross of Valour, the highest Canadian award for acts of courage in circumstances of extreme peril, on September 18, 1998, along with Sergeant Keith Paul Mitchell.

Sergeant Keith Paul Mitchell, CV, MSM, CD, a Search and Rescue technician with 413 Search and Rescue Squadron in the Canadian Forces, received the Cross of Valour, the highest Canadian award for acts of courage in circumstances of extreme peril, on September 18, 1998, along with Master Corporal Bryan Keith Pierce.

From 1992 to 1993 she starred in Norman Lear's The Powers That Be with John Forsythe and David Hyde Pierce ; and from 1995 to 1998 on The Naked Truth.