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Stockton and senior
He received an athletic scholarship to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he was a second-string tight end in his senior year for the Tigers.

Stockton and military
As the military advance proceeds, they arrest rebel technicians and cross connect the wiring of the machinery, motor by motor, to take control away from the rebels in the Stockton office.
In late 1846 Frémont, acting under orders from Commodore Robert F. Stockton, led a military expedition of 300 men to capture Santa Barbara, California, during the Mexican-American War.
On January 16, 1847, Commodore Stockton appointed Frémont military governor of California following the Treaty of Cahuenga.
Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, who outranked both Stockton and Frémont, had orders from President Polk and secretary of war William L. Marcy to serve as military governor.
Stockton is located on the natural trail up the valley of the South Solomon River and where the military supply trail from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, to Fort Hays, Kansas, crossed the South Solomon River.
His son, Commodore Robert Field Stockton, was a hero of the War of 1812, and in 1846 became the first military governor of California and later a Senator from New Jersey.
His son was the naval officer Commodore Robert F. Stockton, who defeated the Mexican army in 1846 and became the first military governor of the State of California, and later became a Senator from New Jersey like his father before him.
Stockton seized on the treaty of capitulation and appointed Frémont military governor of California.
Commodore Sloat had previously raised the US flag, without resistance, at Monterey, but had no plan to conduct any further military operations on shore and once relieved, sailed home to the United States, leaving Commodore Stockton in command of all US forces.
Stockton has been an adjunct to the San Francisco Bay Area, which was a major military production and transit area during WWII.
He served as an aide to Brigadier General M. L. Stockton, then attended military government school.
Originally, his purpose was to quash British and French attempts to forestall the U. S. annexation of Texas, but he later joined Commodore Robert F. Stockton in lobbying leaders of the Republic of Texas to order their military forces across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
Stockton, who had been the initial military governor of California, later granted that post to his aide, Lieutenant-Colonel ( later General ) John C. Fremont.

Stockton and authority
Local government reorganisation in 1996, recommended by the Banham Review, saw the county of Cleveland broken up into the four independent unitary authority boroughs of Hartlepool, Stockton, Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland ( a renamed Langbaurgh ).
Billingham is a town in County Durham in the unitary authority of Stockton on Tees, in North East England, with a population of 35, 765 ( 2006 ).
" A section of Marsh Creek Road was widened to serve as the connection between the bypass built by the authority and the original Route 4 towards Stockton.
By then he retired in Stockton, California and became a foremost authority on the avifauna of California and Baja California.

Stockton and first
The world's first radio disc jockey was Ray Newby, of Stockton, California.
* 1825: George Stephenson opens the Stockton and Darlington Railway the first steam train railway for passenger traffic in the world.
In 1825 he built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north east England, which became the first public steam railway.
The 1992 Olympic basketball Dream Team, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Magic, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, and Christian Laettner.
* 1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
The 1860s also saw the first major Congressional disputes over the issue, with the House and Senate voting to veto the appointment of John P. Stockton to the Senate due to his approval by a plurality rather than a majority.
* September 27, 1825 – The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.
* September 27 – The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.
Beiderbecke joined the Wolverine Orchestra late in 1923, and the seven-man group first played a speakeasy called the Stockton Club near Hamilton, Ohio.
Unfortunately, not understanding the design of the first gun ( originally named " The Orator ", renamed " The Oregon " by Stockton ), the second gun was fatally flawed.
Its first patients, all male, were transferred from state mental institutions in Stockton and Napa.
In 1844 Charles Maria Weber and William Gulnac promoted the first white settlers ' colony on " Rancho del Campo de Los Franceses " which included French Camp and the site of Stockton.
It received a post office in 1821, with John Stockton as the first postmaster.
Timothy Hackworth ( 22 December 1786 – 7 July 1850 ) was a steam locomotive engineer who lived in Shildon, County Durham, England and was the first locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Hackworth is believed to have been influential in the development of the first Stephenson locomotive intended for the Stockton and Darlington Railway during his time at the Forth Street factory.
JARING introduced the Internet to the Malaysian community in 1992 when it was commercialized after its first international satellite leased-circuit at 64kps was installed, connecting Kuala Lumpur to Stockton, California.
The university's men's basketball team, which did not make its first appearance in the NCAA tournament until 1995 ( more than a decade after NBA Hall of Fame player and Gonzaga alum John Stockton graduated ), has made the regional finals of the NCAA tournament (" Elite Eight ") in 1999, re-appearing in the tournament every year since.
* Richard Stockton, Jr. ( 1650 – 1709 ), one of the first white or European settlers in the district of Princeton
In 1768, Stockton had his first taste of government service when he was elevated to a seat in the royal legislative judiciary, and executive council of New Jersey ; he was later ( 1774 ) appointed to the provincial New Jersey Supreme Court.
That August, when elections were held for the state governments of the new nation, Stockton and William Livingston each received the same number of votes to be the Governor of New Jersey on the first ballot.
Stockton was the first person from New Jersey to sign the Declaration of Independence.
His daughter Annie Stockton was the first wife of U. S. Senator John Renshaw Thomson.
On 12 February 1821 at the George & Dragon Inn, the meeting was held that pressed for the third and successful attempt for a Bill to give permission to build the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway.

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