Preston served as a journalist and essayist throughout his life.

Monument off U. S. Highway 83 to George Preston Humphreys ( 1899-1979 ), the manager of the 6666 Ranch, who also served as King County sheriff from 1928-1948

Preston Bynum, a lobbyist in Little Rock, served as the state representative from Siloam Springs from 1969 to 1980.

While New Preston village once had its own post office, it is now served by a combined New Preston-Marble Dale post office, which is located in Marble Dale, and also serves the southern portion of the Town of Warren.

Taylor ’ s bridge served the new tide of westward migration and travel in the region that followed the military suppression of Shoshone resistance at the Bear River Massacre near Preston, Idaho in 1863.

* Preston Smith, a Democrat, served as governor of Texas from 1969-1973.

He served as a member of the House of Commons of Parliament for a number of years, sitting for the seats of Midhurst and Preston.

As a volunteer he served in Dormer's regiment at the Battle of Preston in 1715, spent some time on the Continent, and in 1717 entered Parliament for Seaford in Sussex which he represented until 1722.

Fitzhugh served as president until his death in 1904, upon which his heirs sold the college to Dr. J. R. Preston, who operated the school until it was again destroyed by a fire in 1910.

The Walkers served for a time as president and matron of the Salt Lake Temple and as of 2010 began presiding over the Missionary Training Center in Preston, England.

Birkdale is served by frequent buses run by Arriva ( to Southport, Formby and Liverpool ), Cumfybus, and Stagecoach ( to Liverpool and Preston ).

Grange-over-Sands railway station, which serves the town, was opened by the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway on 1 September 1857 and is now served by the Furness Line, giving connections to Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness to the west, and Lancaster, Preston and Manchester ( and its airport ) to the east.

The Preston family descends from Sir Robert Preston, who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Other ring announcers in WCCW included George Preston ( 1960s ), Joe Rinelli ( from the 1960s until 1988 ) and Ralph Pulley ( mid-1980s ), who also served as a referee for a time.

Summers served as host of " Drunk Double Dare " during Drunk Day, an annual episode of the Philadelphia-based Preston and Steve radio show on WMMR, held directly before the Fourth of July weekend.

Thornbury is well served by public transport, with Thornbury Station on the South Morang railway line, and two tram lines: services along High Street ( tram route 86 ) connecting to the Bundoora Campus of RMIT to the City, and along St Georges Road ( tram route 112 ) from Miller Street, past the Preston Tram Workshops and on to the City and St Kilda.

The town is now served by Burnley & Pendle bus services from Accrington, Burnley, Nelson, Colne and beyond, and Lancashire United service 152 from Burnley, Blackburn and Preston.

Clifton is on the line to Bolton and Preston ; Swinton, Moorside and Walkden are on the Manchester to Southport Line via Wigan ; and Salford Central and Salford Crescent are served by both routes.

Buses run to destinations throughout the city, across Greater Manchester and further afield: Pendleton is served by a route to Preston, while the Eccles Interchange, next to the Metrolink stop, has a service to Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Preston Earnest Smith ( March 8, 1912October 18, 2003 ) was the 40th Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973, who earlier served as the lieutenant governor from 1963 to 1969.

The Confederate armies were commanded mainly by professional Irish soldiers such as Thomas Preston and Owen Roe O ' Neill, who had served in the Spanish army in the Eighty Years ' War and Thirty Years ' War.

* Wickliffe Preston Draper, heir to a large fortune and the fund's de facto final authority, served on the Board of Directors from 1937 until 1972.

He served as a Presidential Elector for the Horatio Seymour / Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Democratic ticket in the 1868 election.

Kelvin Spiller ( 1994 to 1998 ) was the Chief Executive Officer of the former City of Preston, and stayed on at amalgamation to become the first Chief Executive Officer of the City of Darebin.

* A Guide to the Governor James Patton Preston Executive Papers, 1816-1819 at The Library of Virginia

In August 2010, Reid became the Executive Director of The Manning Centre, a policy and research forum founded by Preston Manning.

A public version of ' Radiological Habits Survey 2006 ' supported by the Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency and Health and Executive is available which included ' recreational activities ', i. e. The Millennium Ribble Link, in the vicinity of Springfield Fuels Limited, Westinghouse site near Preston Lancashire.

After joining WEFA Inc as Director of Industrial Research in August 1969, Dr. Ross S. Preston was appointed a board member and executive director of WEFA Inc in December 1970.

* Preston Sturges ( 1898 – 1959 ) Writer, Director

* E. Preston Ames: Art Director

Operationally during the Cold War the Director UKWMO would have been located at the United Kingdom Regional Air Operations Command ( UK RAOC ) within Strike Command's Operations Centre nuclear bunker at RAF High Wycombe to instigate the national Four minute air raid warnings, with the Deputy Director located at a standby UK RAOC, described at the time as being " elsewhere in the UK ", but has since been revealed as being at Goosnargh near Preston within the UKWMO Western Sector nuclear bunker.

* Robert E. Preston ( b. 1836 ), Director of the U. S. Mint 1893-98

* Tulsa City Auditor Preston Doerflinger as Oklahoma Secretary of Finance and Revenue and Director of the Oklahoma Office of State Finance

Mint Engraver Barber had closely followed the progress of the proposed recoinage, and wrote to Acting Mint Director Robert Preston on, 1906:

Preston had been introduced to The Beatles during the early 1960s, but did not work with them until 1969, when Harrison invited him to join them for recording sessions in order to defuse tensions in the band.

Although shot in 1942 and early 1943, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek was withheld from distribution until early 1944, because Paramount had too much product on hand, including Preston Sturges ' The Great Moment.

Again, in 1641 the Parliamentarian faction gained it until Confederate Catholics under Preston captured it in 1645.

However, despite the villagers ' being allowed to keep the church, the lead was stripped from the nave, and until 1618 when George Preston, a landowner at nearby Holker Hall, provided considerable finances to allow the roof to be reinstated, the villagers actually worshipped in the choir, rather than the nave of the church.

A splinter group, the Separate Church of Preston, was established in 1747 and continued until 1817.

According to the Preston Historical Society, " Schools were built in “ districts ” to serve the local children, until two central schools, one on Poquetanuck and one in Preston City were built between 1938 and 1940.

The locks are closely spaced until those at Preston Bagot are reached, after which there is a section with just one lock in the middle.

Up until 1777, pots had to be carried on the short journey from Etruria, over the top of Kidsgrove Hill, and to the other side, where the canal had been constructed to Preston Brook.

At first, Preston's town council was not eager to get the town involved in a potentially hazardous railway scheme and it was not until 1893 that Preston council decided to enter negotiations.

Sunderland won their first FA Cup in 1937 with a 3 – 1 victory over Preston North End, and remained in the top league for 68 successive seasons ( spanning 80 years because of the war years ' interruption ) until they were relegated for the first time in 1958.

The dispute was not resolved until May 1789, when Preston and his brethren were received back into the Moderns with much feasting and fanfare.

* Preston North Ends wins the inaugural Football League championship unbeaten, an achievement that will not be equalled until 2003 – 04 by Arsenal.

Preston married actor Kevin Gage in 1985 until their divorce in 1987.

The location was originally the junction of the main roads to Preston, Liverpool and Wigan, and was marked by a market cross until it was replaced by the current clock tower in the nineteenth century.

It was therefore a successful debut season for Shankly who stayed with Preston until he retired in 1949.

In his autobiography, Shankly wrote that Preston " more than held our own in the 1934 – 35 season " and the club was not relegated again until the end of the 1948 – 49 season in which he left them.

George Preston Marshall ( October 11, 1896 – August 9, 1969 ) was the owner and president of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League ( NFL ) from 1932 until his death in 1969.

David Borrow was elected as a councillor to the Preston Borough Council in 1987, and was the council leader between 1992 and 1994, and again from 1995 until his election to Westminster.

He practiced law until 1998, primarily with the law firm which he co-founded as Shidler & King in 1964, later known as Preston Gates & Ellis LLP ; the firm was merged into the firm now known as K & L Gates, although Bill Gates, Sr. is not affiliated with the firm.

She was then elected as MP for Preston at the 1987 general election, which she held until her death.