In his final years in New Jersey, he was a prominent member and later president of the Theosophical Society.

In the summer of 1878 Doubleday lived in Mendham, New Jersey, and became a prominent member of the Theosophical Society.

Another prominent member was Thomas A. Edison.

In 1900 he moved to San Diego and became a prominent member and supporter of the Theosophical community Lomaland, which was being developed on Point Loma by Katherine Tingley.

A strong and prominent a cappella tradition was begun in the midwest part of the United States in 1911 by F. Melius Christiansen, a music faculty member at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Former Browns RB Jim Brown, who was a prominent member of the 1964 NFL Championship team, the team's all-time leader in rushing yards, and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member.

* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

* Paul de Man was a member of the Yale School and a prominent practitioner of deconstruction as he understood it.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Ackerman was an early member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Science Fiction League, and became so active in and important to the club, that in essence he ran it, including after the name change the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, a prominent regional organization, as well as the National Fantasy Fan Federation ( N3F ).

Germanicus Julius Caesar ( 24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19 ), commonly known as Germanicus, was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a prominent general of the early Roman Empire.

He was the son of Gil Állvarez de Albornoz and of Doña Teresa de Luna, sister of Jimeno de Luna, archbishop of Toledo and a member of the prominent Carrillo family.

The Brundtland Commission provided the momentum for the 1992 Earth Summit / UNCED, that was headed by Maurice Strong, who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission.

As disillusionment set in, in 1978 a prominent member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), Mir Akbar Khyber ( or " Kaibar "), was killed by the government.

A prominent example was Anahita Ratebzad, who was a major Marxist leader and a member of the Revolutionary Council.

Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing.

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor.

The Keswicks have maintained a relationship with another prominent Scottish family, the Flemings, of which the author Ian Fleming was also a member.

As a prominent member of the Roman clergy, he has often been portrayed anachronistically in the garb of a cardinal.

In Spring 1999, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden committed to support the 9 / 11 attacks plot, which was largely organized by prominent al-Qaeda member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Karl August Böttiger ( June 8, 1760 – November 17, 1835 ) was a German archaeologist and classicist, and a prominent member of the literary and artistic circles in Weimar and Jena.

It is also a member of most specialized organizations of the UN system, a prominent exception being UNESCO.

Aleman was a prominent member of the council of Basel, and, together with Cardinal Julian Cesarini, led the party which maintained the supremacy of general councils over the pope's authority.

Since Johnson's proclamations allowed the Southern states to control the procedure and conduct of their elections in 1865, prominent former Confederate leaders were elected to the U. S. Congress ( but not seated ).

In Jerusalem, he gives evening seminars, which according to Newsweek usually last till 2 in the morning, and have attracted prominent politicians as the former Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and former Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir.

The buyers were a group of prominent Cleveland businessmen: Homer Marshman, an attorney, Dave R. Jones, a businessman and former Cleveland Indians director, Ellis Ryan, a former Indians president, Saul Silberman, owner of the Randall Park race track, and Ralph DeChairo, an associate of Silberman.

Throughout Dalhousie's history, faculty, alumni, and former students have played prominent roles in many different fields, with 86 Rhodes Scholarship originating from Dalhousie.

Jonathan Kozol, a former public school teacher and prominent public school reform thinker has called vouchers the " single worst, most dangerous idea to have entered education discourse in my adult life.

With the former SPD chairman, Oskar Lafontaine for the WASG and Gregor Gysi for the PDS as prominent figures, this alliance soon found interest in the media and in the population.

The demographic situation in Georgia, like that of some other former Soviet republics ( especially Estonia and Latvia ), has been characterized by two prominent features since independence: decline in total population and significant " Georgianization " of the ethnic composition.

In 1862, the King dismissed his Prime Minister, the former admiral Constantine Kanaris, the most prominent politician of the period.

" Bob " Smith, a prominent oilman and real estate magnate in Houston who was brought in for his financial resources ; and Judge Roy Hofheinz, a former Mayor of Houston and Harris County Judge who was recruited for his salesmanship and political style.

" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.

However, he was re-admitted in 1930 and was one of the few former oppositionists to retain a prominent place within the party, heading the International Information Bureau of the Russian Communist Party Central Committee as well as giving the main address at the First Soviet Writer's Conference in 1934.

In an interview on the BBC, George Fernandes, former Indian Defence Minister and prominent Burma critic, said that Coco Island was part of India until it was donated to Burma by former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.

The Nationals hold a larger membership base than either the Liberal or Labor Parties, although in the larger eastern states its vote is in decline and its traditional supporters are turning instead to prominent independents such as Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Peter Andren in Federal Parliament and similar independents in the Parliaments of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, many of whom are former members of the National Party.

Among the prominent figures who have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons are " the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the entertainer Steve Allen, CNN ’ s Ted Turner, former Senator Claiborne Pell, Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburg, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama ".

Besides Lafontaine, a number of other prominent SPD defectors won election to the Bundestag on the Left Party list, including a prominent leader of Germany's Turkish minority, Hakkı Keskin, German Federal Constitutional Court justice Wolfgang Neskovic, and the former SPD leader in Baden-Württemberg, Ulrich Maurer.

The head of the most prominent, the former Lord Protector Cromwell, was finally buried in 1960.

Note that former military officers from the World War II era may be appointed prime minister despite the " civilian " requirement, Yasuhiro Nakasone being one prominent example.

Katharine, Duchess of Kent ; her son and grandson, Lord Nicholas Windsor and Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, respectively, both of whose wives are Catholic, and her granddaughter, Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor, as well as politicians such as Baroness Masham of Ilton and Ann Widdecombe, and, most recently, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose wife and children are Catholic, are prominent among laypeople who have converted.

Several prominent former and or current newspaper editors and publishers have become Catholics as well – Charles Moore ( The Daily Telegraph ), John Wilkins and Clifford Longley ( The Tablet ) and Dr William Oddie ( The Catholic Herald ).

All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

Several prominent members of the Momoh government who had been in detention at the Pa Demba Road prison, including former insepctor general of police Bambay Kamara were also executed.