The leaders of the three parties, Alfred Deakin, George Reid and Chris Watson each served as prime minister before losing a vote of confidence.

# Thomas Watson, Jr. succeeded his father as IBM chairman and later served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Jimmy Carter.

# Arthur K. Watson served as president of IBM World Trade Corporation and later as Ambassador to France.

In the 1940s, Watson was on the national executive board of the Boy Scouts of America and served for a time as International Scout Commissioner.

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

* William W. Watson ( born 1934 ) served from 1987-1988 as president of the Louisiana Bankers Association.

Doctors who served this area with distinction and dedication are: Doctors Cain, Simkins, Hemminger, Barton, Melcher, Palmer, Watson, Floyd and Grattidge.

* W. Marvin Watson, who served as U. S. Postmaster General, White House Appointments Secretary and then as White House Chief of Staff under President Lyndon B. Johnson, was born in Oakhurst in 1924.

Watson served for one term from 1994 until 1998.

Georgia politician Tom Watson served as Woodward's hero.

A notable feature was the inclusion of work by women writers and illustrators, among them Ella D ' Arcy and Ethel Colburn Mayne ( both also served as Harland's subeditors ), George Egerton, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Ada Leverson, Netta and Nellie Syrett, and Ethel Reed.

He also served as President of London ’ s Philological Society and helped found the Society for Pure English ( SPE ), along with Henry Watson Fowler and others.

Wingfield W. Watson, a High Priest who had known and served under Strang personally, kept the Strangite church alive into the 20th century.

Polygamy was apparently practiced by a few Strangites up to 1880 or so, to include Wingfield W. Watson, a Strangite High Priest who knew and served under James Strang personally.

Watson McMillan Hayes | Watson M. Hayes was invited to organize Imperial Shandong University and served as its first dean.

As Watson had already served over fifteen months by that time, he was released the next day and returned to his family and farm in North Carolina.

Nearly four years later, Watson went back to court before District Court Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan for reconsideration of his sentence on February 12, 2008, which was an uncommon situation for the federal court after a defendant had served his time and had been released.

Watson has served on the board or as honorary chair of several community organizations including the Riverside Hospital, the National Arts Centre, the Central Canada Exhibition Association, the Christmas Exchange of Ottawa and the Forum for Young Canadians.

Fentie has served as director of both the Association of Yukon Forests and the Watson Lake Chamber of Commerce, and the owner and former manager of Francis River Construction.

In 1798, Watson was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sloss Hobart and served in the 5th and 6th United States Congress from December 11, 1798, to March 19, 1800, when he resigned to accept an appointment by President John Adams as Naval Officer of the Port of New York.

Polygamy was apparently practiced by a few Strangites up to 1880 or so, to include Wingfield W. Watson, a Strangite High Priest who knew and served under James Strang personally.

Watson graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in June 1895 and served on several ships during the rest of the decade, including Spanish-American War service on board the cruiser Detroit.

After the Honda Point disaster, Watson served as Assistant Commandant of the Fourteenth Naval District, in Hawaii until he left active duty in November 1929.

For example, in " The Final Problem ", Holmes states that his services to the government of France and the royal house of Scandinavia had left him with enough money to retire comfortably, while in " The Adventure of Black Peter ", Watson notes that Holmes would refuse to help the wealthy and powerful if their cases did not interest him, while he could devote weeks at a time to the cases of the most humble clients.

:" Watson, Andrew: One of the very best backs we have ; since joining Queen's Park has made rapid strides to the front as a player ; has great speed and tackles splendidly ; powerful and sure kick ; well worthy of a place in any representative team.

Holbrooke was also an honorary trustee of the Dayton International Peace Museum, as well as professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, his alma mater.

Watson is a former trustee of the University of California, Irvine Foundation and a former member of The Paul Merage School of Business Dean's Advisory Board.

The Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University performed astronomical calculations representing the state of the art in computing.

Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address, Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it, which was given at Columbia University in 1913.

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

After that Watson went back to Fort White, Columbia County.

Meoto zenzai, Roppakukinsei, and Sesō, along with another story, Ki no miyako ( 木の都, 1943 – 44 ), have been translated by Burton Watson and published together as Stories of Osaka Life ( Columbia University Press, 1990 ; Weatherhill, 1994 ).

Alaska Highway between Fort Nelson, British Columbia | Fort Nelson and Watson Lake, Yukon | Watson Lake

( with honors ), 1969, M. A., 1971, where he was a student of Sheila Watson, Lent pursued doctoral studies at York University, 1971-75, including field work in British Columbia, on Malcolm Lowry and Spatial Form.

After several miles, the highway reenters the Yukon ( once again as Highway 1 ) and continues on Yukon 1 southeast of Watson Lake until it once again enters British Columbia as B. C.

* Taneda Santōka, For All My Walking, translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, © 2003 ISBN 0-231-12516-X cloth ISBN 0-231-12517-8 pbk pp. 245 haiku plus diary entries

The first one was discovered by retired meteorologist John R. Hendricks from British Columbia in 1999 with the help of Cliff Pickover at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York after about ten hours of computing time on an IBM IntelliStation computer system.

Translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-08167-7.

Watson was subsequently charged with the federal crimes of making a false threat to detonate explosives and for destroying federal property, and stood trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

IBM Research was established with the 1945 opening of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University.

* Oral history interview with Martin Schwarzschild head of Watson Scientific Computation Laboratory at Columbia University, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

Wallace John Eckert ( June 19, 1902 – August 24, 1971 ) was an American astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM.

IBM would instead focus their funding on Columbia, and Eckert's laboratory was named Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory.

Schwarzschild was Eckert's immediate successor as director of the Watson Scientific Computation Laboratory at Columbia University.

Highway 97 is the longest continuously-numbered route in the Canadian province of British Columbia ( and the longest provincial highway in any province ), running 2, 081 km ( 1, 293 mi ) from the Canada / U. S. border near Osoyoos in the south to the British Columbia / Yukon border in the north at Watson Lake, Yukon.

* Saigyô, Poems of a Mountain Home, translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, © 1991 ISBN 0-231-07492-1 cloth ISBN 0-231-07493-X pbk pp.

Schwarzschild describes his early training in automatic computing when he assumed the position of director of the Watson Scientific Computation Laboratory at Columbia University upon the resignation of Wallace Eckert.

Watson later became a Social Security administrative law judge in Columbia, a position from which he subsequently retired.