On August 11, 2012, Paul Ryan was introduced as the Republican vice presidential running mate by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to the score of Air Force One in Norfolk, Virginia.

Clifton-Brown is a Freeman of the City of London and became the vice chairman of the Norfolk North Conservative Association in 1984, before being elected as chaiman in 1986.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) ( stylized PeTA ) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president.

In March, the Tidewater Railway was formally rechartered by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as " The Virginian Railway Company " and William Nelson Page was elected president on April 15, 1907 at the first new board meeting in Norfolk.

Kimball was incorporated in 1911 and named for Frederick J. Kimball, who was a president of the Norfolk and Western Railway.

A group headed by Ken Young, who is president of Ovations Food Service and also the owner of the Norfolk Tides, the Triple-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles and the Albuquerque Isotopes, the Triple-A affiliate of the Florida Marlins.

The leaders of the movement included men such as Marshall Wilder, a prosperous Boston merchant and president of the Norfolk Agricultural Society, and Judge Henry Flagg French, who would become the first president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Ricky Rudd was born in Norfolk County, Virginia, now Chesapeake, the son of Margaret ( née McMannen ) and Alvin R. Rudd, Sr., the president of Al Rudd Auto Parts .< ref >

In 1865 he was unable to reclaim Rolleston, his plantation outside Norfolk, before he received pardon from the president.

On the 31st of May, 1814, he was presented, in the presence of a large assembly, a third gold medal by the Duke of Norfolk ( then, the president of the Society of Arts ).

William Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ), a Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ) engineering graduate of the class of 1847, was hired by Dr. Francis Mallory build the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad beginning in 1853 and eventually became its president in the pre-Civil War era.

He managed to become president of all three, and was the driving force in the 1870 corporate linkage of N & P, South Side Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to form the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia.

Kimball became president of the entire Norfolk and Western system, and oversaw continued expansion.

Several of N & W's famous steam locomotives, including J class # 611 and A class # 1218 were used in steam excursion trip services into the 1990s under the leadership of Norfolk Southern's first president, Robert B. Claytor.

He became assistant Bishop of Virginia in 1829 ; was rector of Christ Church, Norfolk, in 1834-1836 ; in 1841 became Bishop of Virginia ; and in 1842-1862 was president of the Virginia Theological Seminary, near Alexandria, delivering an annual course of lectures on pastoral theology.

The Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad was completed in 1858, and Mahone was named its president a short time later.

He was an early president of the Norfolk and Western Railway and helped develop the Pocahontas coalfields in Virginia and West Virginia.

Kimball died in 1903, and was succeeded as president of the Norfolk and Western Railway by Lucius E. Johnson.

Peter Trudgill is the honorary president of the Friends of Norfolk dialect society, and a fellow of the British Academy.

* Lucius E. Johnson succeeds Frederick J. Kimball as president of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.

** Charles Wickliffe Moorman IV is promoted to president of Norfolk Southern.

* April 9-Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway ( b. 1922 ).

* Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway ( died 1993 ).

* Lucius E. Johnson, president of the Norfolk and Western Railroad 1904 – 1921 ( born 1846 ).

* Lucius E. Johnson, president of the Norfolk and Western Railroad 1904 – 1921 ( d. 1921 ).

* Wrinn, Jim, Steam's Camelot: Southern and Norfolk Southern Excursions in Color ( 2000 ).

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, defeated Progressive Conservative Jim Allan by 1, 955 votes in the rural riding of Haldimand — Norfolk.

After watching the Rome Olympics on television, Brad Tazewell and Jim Williams, the Norfolk architects who were eventually to partner with Nervi, solicited U. S. Sen. A. Willis Robertson, father of Pat Robertson, to build a sports complex in Norfolk.

A formal conservation proposal was put forward by the then Circular Head Mayor Horace ( Jim ) Lane for the establishment of a ' Norfolk Range National Park '.

The supposed flatness of the Norfolk landscape is noted in Noël Coward's Private Lives — " Very flat, Norfolk " — and the history of its waterways and drainage forms the backdrop to Graham Swift's novel Waterland.

Eleven days later, the Duke of Norfolk noted that the committee had not agreed on anything and proposed that the Lords examine six doctrinal questions which eventually became the basis of the Six Articles.

According to Vallée, a Navy veteran who served on board the USS Engstrom noted that the Eldridge might indeed have travelled from Philadelphia to Norfolk and back again in a single day at a time when merchant ships could not: by use of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Chesapeake Bay, which at the time was open only to naval vessels.

The theatre opened as the Capitol Cinema in 1932 and he is noted for its construction in Norfolk Carr stone as it contains the largest gable wall of carr stone in existence.

Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, KG, Lord Marshal and Earl Marshal ( 22 March 1366 – 22 September 1399 ) was an English nobleman, noted for his involvement in the power struggles leading up to the fall of king Richard II.

The idea of tourists visiting the beach to see the monument however brought criticism from local wildlife organisations such as the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, who noted how within the first three months of 1999, five thousand visitors had come to see the monument, disturbing feeding wader birds in what was the Holme Dunes National Nature Reserve.

The Kylchap was not the only advanced steam locomotive exhaust: another design, the Lemaître, had some success in France and England ; noted Argentinian engineer Livio Dante Porta designed several, the Kylpor, Lempor and Lemprex designs ; and several U. S. railroads including the Norfolk & Western used a concentric nozzle known as the waffle iron exhaust.

This branch of the Howard family descends from the noted naval commander and politician Lord William Howard, eldest son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, from his second marriage to Agnes Tylney.

The most detailed scholarly study of Bermudian English, in 1933, stated that this type of speech " would create least remark, if indeed any, between, say, Norfolk, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina "; British-Bermudian actor Earl Cameron noted that because the Bermudian accent sounded American, he was able to land a speaking role in 1942.

Sir Henry Spelman ( born Congham, Norfolk c. 1562 and died 1641 ) was an English antiquary, noted for his detailed collections of medieval records, in particular of church councils.

His father John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley was a leading Liberal statesman in the government of William Ewart Gladstone and the family were noted landowners in Norfolk.

He also served as a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War, noted for his controversial performances while in charge of Norfolk, Virginia, and during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.

In testifying against the reliance on federal mandatory minimum sentences in general, U. S. Congressman Bobby Scott ( D-VA ) noted that Richmond had a smaller drop in crime during the period Exile was in effect than did Norfolk, which did not have Exile.

He is particularly noted for commissioning the design and construction of Holkham Hall in north Norfolk.

His brother Christopher Perkins became a noted artist, and both boys were educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk.

In the years from 1952 to 1976, virtually all of the counties in the extreme southeastern portion of state in the Hampton Roads region became consolidated into independent cities ; Princess Anne County, Norfolk County, Nansemond County, Elizabeth City County, and Warwick County all became extinct, although as previously noted, Warwick County was never in the state secondary road system, and Nansemond County received a special exception to stay in the system for an additional 30 years, a relationship that ended in 2006.