Although Andrew Jackson served as a courier in a militia unit at age thirteen, Monroe is regarded as the last U. S. President who was a Revolutionary War veteran, since he served as an officer of the Continental Army and took part in combat.

In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise and started calling their games in the 2005 – 2006 basketball season on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran, Mark Jackson.

Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.

17-year NBA veteran and former ABC and ESPN commentator Mark Jackson was named as new head coach on June 6, 2011.

* Montford Stokes ( 1762 – 1842 ), United States Senator, Governor of North Carolina ( 1816 – 1832 ), appointed by President Andrew Jackson to lead the Federal Indian Commission in what is now Oklahoma ; he is believed to be the only veteran of the Revolutionary War buried in that state.

One of Pendergast's political proteges was a young World War I veteran from Independence: Harry S. Truman, who had been his nephew's commanding officer in the war, was elected Presiding Judge ( equivalent to a County Executive ) of Jackson County with Pendergast support in 1926, went on to become a U. S. Senator from Missouri, Vice President, and in 1945, following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-third President of the United States.

General Logan, a Union veteran, invited the Confederate veterans, of which there were many in Jackson County, to march with him.

On March 15, 2010, Nickelodeon announced the renewals of 16 of its existing series for the 2010 – 11 season that include the second season renewals of freshman series The Troop and Big Time Rush ( the latter series was picked up for another season after only 10 episodes aired ) and veteran series such as iCarly ( whose fourth season renewal was already announced in late 2009 and it was announced later that it would be renewed for a 5th season as well ), True Jackson, VP and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Colorado College was founded in 1874 on land designated by U. S. Civil War veteran General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and of Colorado Springs.

He learned guitar from minstrel and medicine show veteran Papa Charlie Jackson, who began recording for Paramount Records in 1924.

Prominent BNP dissidents Chris Jackson and Michael Easter joined the NF in the latter half of 2009 while, more recently, the veteran nationalists Richard Edmonds and Tess Culnane have both rejoined the party.

In November 2006, Eduardo dos Santos adopted an initiative created by veteran Diamantaire, Dr. André Action Diakité Jackson, to launch the African Diamond Producers Association ( ADPA ), an intergovernmental offshoot of the African Diamond Council ( ADC ), consisting of approximately 20 African nations founded to promote market cooperation and foreign investment in the African diamond industry.

The other MPPs were veteran opposition member Sean Conway and cabinet minister Cam Jackson.

In September 1904 she met her first husband Herbert Jackson, a Second Boer War veteran and artist who suffered from paranoid delusions.

Eventual Cy Young award winner Bob Welch opposed postseason veteran Danny Jackson in Game 2.

" Kennon was also weakened by the presence of the fifth-place candidate, veteran Education Superintendent Shelby M. Jackson, a native of Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana, whose votes are believed to have come primarily at the expense of Kennon and therefore worked to deny Kennon the coveted runoff position against Morrison.

For the Rockets, he was briefly reunited with former Knicks personnel Mark Jackson, who was the veteran point guard behind Steve Francis ; Patrick Ewing, who was an assistant coach with the Rockets ; and head coach Jeff Van Gundy, former head coach in Oakley's days in New York City.

The imports included linebackers Sam Mills and Vaughan Johnson, who went on to form the inside tandem of the legendary " Dome Patrol " linebacking corps with veteran Rickey Jackson and draftee Pat Swilling on the outside.

To lighten the load on Major Gilham, in 1851, VMI hired another professor, Major Thomas Jonathon Jackson, later better known as " Stonewall " Jackson, who was also a graduate of West Point, and a veteran of the conflicts in Florida and Mexico.

William Henry Jackson ( April 4, 1843 – June 30, 1942 ) was an American painter, Civil War veteran, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West.

Shortly before the beginning of the season, the Blue Jays traded Bell and Stoney Briggs to the San Diego Padres, in exchange for veteran outfielder Darrin Jackson.

Phillip Cunningham, a veteran of the 1798 rebellion, and William Johnston, another Irish convict at Castle Hill, planned the uprising in which 685 convicts at Castle Hill planned to meet with nearly 1, 100 convicts from the Hawkesbury River area, rally at Constitution Hill, and march on Parramatta and then Sydney ( Port Jackson ) itself.

Sonora Smart Dodd ( February 18, 1882 – March 22, 1978 ) was the daughter of American Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart and was responsible for the founding of Father's Day.

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

His father, Archibald Stuart, was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, attorney, and Democratic politician who represented Patrick County in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and also served one term in the United States House of Representatives.

A few days later, the Post reported that family members of a deceased Army veteran whose remains were stored in an unrefrigerated garage at National Funeral Home asked the Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney to investigate the actions of National and its parent company, SCI, as crimes.

Slovik's case was taken up in 1981 by former Macomb County Commissioner Bernard V. Calka, a Polish-American World War II veteran, who continued to petition the Army to return Slovik ’ s remains.

Flynt was born in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, the first of three children to 23-year-old Larry Claxton Flynt, Sr. ( August 16, 1919 – July 1, 2005 ), a sharecropper and a World War II veteran, and 17-year-old Edith ( née Arnett ; August 13, 1925 – March 29, 1982 ), a homemaker.

His paternal grandparents were Needham Avery ( Civil War veteran ) ( October 8, 1838-February 20, 1913, buried at Wehadkee Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Randolph County, AL ) and his wife Lucinda C. Baxly ( May 11, 1844-March 10, 1892 ).

Among these was Infantry veteran Jesse Sumpter who also worked at many odd jobs before becoming Sheriff in the newly formed Maverick County.

Collin Aldrich ( 1801 – 1842 ) was a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto and was the first judge in Houston County, having served during the Republic of Texas from 1837-1841.

Rhea County is named for Tennessee politician and Revolutionary War veteran John Rhea.

Revolutionary War veteran, and state legislator, Col. Joseph Hardin made Greene County his home for a period of time, serving as justice of the peace and as one of the original trustees of Tusculum ( then Greeneville ) college.

The county is named for Colonel William Christian, a native of Augusta County, Virginia, and a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

Ogle County was formed in 1836 out of Jo Daviess and LaSalle Counties, and named in honor of Captain Joseph Ogle, a veteran of the Revolutionary War who came to Illinois in 1785.

The most prominent African-Americans living in the community include Chris Jordan, almost 30-year veteran City of Hanford Police Captain, then elected in 2006 as the first black Sheriff of Kings County.

Captain David Martin, a veteran of the War of 1812 received a land grant for in Lykins County, Kansas ( Miami County, Kansas ) due to an 1855 congressional act.

Princeton was founded by Revolutionary War veteran William Prince, who settled in the Eddy Grove community of what was then Livingston County, Kentucky about 1799.

The next permanent resident in the township was William H. Bockes, a native of Medina County, Ohio and a Civil War veteran.

The township was named in honor of General Alexander Macomb, who was a highly decorated veteran of the War of 1812 ; his successful mercantile family owned most of Macomb County at one time.

It was separated from the Barry County on December 31, 1838, and established as a county under its present name, given in honor of the often fictionalized American Revolutionary War veteran Sergeant John Newton the fellow of Sergeant William Jasper of Fort Moultrie fame.

The Randall burial plot near the William Floyd Parkway includes the grave of LT Stephen Randall ( 1736 – 1818 ), patriot of the American Revolution and a Suffolk County Militia veteran of the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 as part of a company of Suffolk County Minutemen commanded by Captain Daniel Mulford, his wife Elizabeth Swezey ( 1747 – 1834 ) and several descendants.