In 1956, Anderson was elected State's Attorney in Winnebago County, Illinois, first winning a four-person race in the April primary by 1300 votes and then the general election in November by 11, 000 votes.

In 1956, Burr auditioned for the role of District Attorney Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason, a new courtroom drama based on the highly successful novels written and created by Erle Stanley Gardner that was to air on CBS.

* Carl Sherman ( c. 1891 – 1956 ), New York State Attorney General 1923 – 24

* Homer S. Cummings ( 1870 – 1956 ), US Attorney General

He served as Solicitor-General from 1954 – 1956, Deputy Colonial Secretary 1956 – 1957, and Attorney General 1957 – 1962.

After he lost his diplomatic immunity, he was questioned by the New York District Attorney concerning the disappearance of Trujillo opponents Sergio Bencosme in 1935 and Jesus Galíndez in 1956, but was never charged.

Homer Stille Cummings ( April 30, 1870-September 10, 1956 ) was a U. S. political figure who was United States Attorney General from 1933 to 1939.

Anderson was also an Associate Justice on the Montana Supreme Court from 1953 – 1956 and Montana Attorney General from 1956 to 1968.

Another candidate in the primary was former Arkansas Attorney General Bruce Bennett of El Dorado, who was first elected in 1956, the year that Johnson challenged Faubus.

After a stint as a justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court, Coleman was the Mississippi Attorney General from 1950 to 1956.

He was then slated as the machine's Attorney General candidate in the 1956 election, traditionally the last step before the governorship.

In 1953, he became city attorney of Zephyrhills and worked from 1956 to 1959 as senior assistant to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.

He completed the course in 1956 before serving in Medan, North Sumatra as an Army Attorney from 1957-1961.

John Larkin McKay ( b. 19 June 1956, Seattle, Washington ) is a former United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington.

In 1956, he was appointed to office as the District Attorney in Hessen, based in Frankfurt a. M. Bauer held this position until his death in 1968.

Pearson served as Assistant County Attorney of Johnson County, Kansas from 1952 to 1954 ; County Probate Judge from 1954 to 1956 ; and was elected to the State Senate, where he served from 1956 to 1960.

Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn ( 1946 ), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ), and – perhaps his most accomplished performance – The Court Jester ( 1956 ).

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

Following the promulgation of 1956 Constitution, Prime minister Bogra appointed Bengali bureaucrat and retired Major-General Iskander Mirza was as Interior minister and the Army Commander of army General Ayub Khan as the Defence minister whilst Muhammad Ali remained Economic minister.

* 1956 – Dave Wakeling, English musician ( The ( English ) Beat and General Public )

The Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution in January 1956, establishing a branch college of the University of Virginia in Northern Virginia.

Simon was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, creating with Allen Newell the Logic Theory Machine ( 1956 ) and the General Problem Solver ( GPS ) ( 1957 ) programs.

It is generally thought that the first operating system used for real work was GM-NAA I / O, produced by General Motors ' Research division in 1956.

In 1956 he worked for General Electric on ERMA, a computer system that introduced the use of the magnetically-encoded fonts imprinted on the bottom border of checks, allowing automated check processing via Magnetic Ink Character Recognition ( MICR ).

It resulted from Alfred Sloan ( chairman of General Motors until 1956 ) commissioning a study of the organisation.

* 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

* 1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.

The 1956 General Elections saw the emergence of the People's National Movement under the leadership of Eric Williams.

The party won every General Election between 1956 and 1981.

After returning to the University, Arafat studied civil engineering and served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students ( GUPS ) from 1952 to 1956.

Bolesław Bierut, an NKVD agent, and a hard Stalinist served as first Secretary General of the ruling PUWP from 1948 to 1956, playing a leading role in the Sovietisation of Poland and the installation of her most repressive regime.

It is generally thought that the first operating system used for real work was GM-NAA I / O, produced in 1956 by General Motors ' Research division for its IBM 704.

Szasz completed his residency requirement at the Cincinnati General Hospital, then worked at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1951 – 1956, and then for the next five years was a member of its staff – taking twenty-four months out for active duty with the U. S. Navy.

The original General Motors Firebird was a series of concept cars developed for the 1953, 1956 and 1959 Motorama auto shows, powered by gas turbines.

In 1956 the " John Sergeant " was lengthened and installed with a General Electric 6600 SHP HD gas turbine, reduction gearing and a variable pitch propeller.

Before his death in 1924, Lenin, while describing Trotsky as " distinguished not only by his exceptional abilities – personally he is, to be sure, the most able man in the present Central Committee ", and also maintaining that " his non-Bolshevik past should not be held against him ", criticized him for " showing excessive preoccupation with the purely administrative side of the work ", and also requested that Stalin be removed from his position of General Secretary, but his notes remained suppressed until 1956.

He worked for General Electric before and after serving as a naval aviator from 1953 to 1956.

In 1949, Duvalier served as Minister of both Health and Labour ; but, when General Paul Magloire ousted President Estimé in a coup d ' état, Duvalier left the government and was forced into hiding until 1956, when an amnesty was declared.

In 1956 he moved to General Atomics, where he directed Project Orion, with his friend Lew Allen as contract manager.

* 1956 – Finnish General Strike

* 1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

In 1956, George Bunker, the president of the Martin Company, paid a courtesy call on Gen. John Medaris of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency ( ABMA ) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

Forms of protest and / or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott ( 1955 – 1956 ) in Alabama ; " sit-ins " such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins ( 1960 ) in North Carolina ; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches ( 1965 ) in Alabama ; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities.

The Causeys left Shady Grove and Alabama for good in October 1956.

An article in the October 1956 issue of National Geographic Magazine proudly proclaims: " Life 8, 000 Years Ago Uncovered in an Alabama Cave.

Ohatchee ( inc. 1956 ) is a town in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.

The court case stemming from her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, Browder v. Gayle, decided by the U. S. District Court in February, 1956 and then by the United States Supreme Court in December, 1956, ended bus segregation in Alabama.

The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.

In response, McComb and Mangin reduced the size of the building and used brownstone at the rear of the building to lower costs ; the brownstone, along with the original deteriorated Massachusetts marble facade, quarried from Alford, Massachusetts, was replaced with Alabama limestone in 1954 to 1956.

The Moon Pie became a traditional " throw " ( an item thrown from a parade float into the crowd ) of Mardi Gras " krewes " ( parade participants ) in Mobile, Alabama during 1956, followed by other communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Monford Merrill " Monte " Irvin ( born February 25, 1919 in Haleburg, Alabama ) is a former left fielder and right-handed batter in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played with the Newark Eagles ( 1938 – 42, 46-48 ), New York Giants ( 1949 – 55 ) and Chicago Cubs ( 1956 ).

Starr played at the University of Alabama from 1952 to 1956 and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 17th round of the 1956 draft ( 199th overall ).

WAIQ in Andalusia ( now WDIQ in Dozier ) went on the air in August 1956, bringing APT to south Alabama for the first time before being reassigned to Montgomery in December 1962.

He returned to Alabama upon his discharge in 1956, where he operated an egg farm.

After a tour of duty as Director of Operations for Air Defense Command and Continental Air Defense Command, General Meyer graduated from the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, in June 1956, and was retained as an instructor at the college.

In 1956, unpledged slates were on the ballot in Alabama ( 20, 150 votes, 4. 1 % of the vote ), Louisiana ( 44, 520 votes, 7. 2 % of the vote and they won four parishes ), Mississippi ( 42, 266 votes, 17. 3 % of the vote and they won seven counties ) and South Carolina ( 88, 509 votes, 29. 5 % of the vote and 21 counties ).

* Walter Burgwyn Jones ( 1888 – 1963 ), judge from Alabama who received one electoral vote in the United States presidential election, 1956

After his discharge, he taught for a year at Hazel Green High School in Hazel Green, Alabama, while waiting to be accepted by the American Theater Wing in New York City in 1956.

Fred Shuttlesworth, a civil rights leader in Birmingham, founded the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in the wake of the outlawing of the NAACP in the State of Alabama in 1956, the group held its first meeting at Smith & Gaston's offices.