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Founder Carrie Chapman Catt Headquarters building in Washington, DC, circa 1920s Board of Directors, 1920. The League of Women Voters was created in 1920 as the merger of two existing organizations, the long-established National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Council of Women Voters (NCWV).
The school was founded in 1977, and renamed in honor of former U.S. Ambassador to Spain, George L. Argyros, in 1999. A Chapman alumnus, Argyros chaired the university's board of trustees from 1976 to 2001, and has made significant donations toward increasing the business school's ranking and resources. [20]
After discussing the general outline of the document, the Second Continental Congress decided that Jefferson would write the first draft. [6] With Congress's busy schedule, Jefferson had limited time to write the draft over the ensuing 17 days. [7] He then consulted with the others on the committee, who reviewed the draft and made extensive ...
Chapman Mortimer, pen name of Scottish novelist William Charles Chapman Mortimer (1907–1988) Chapman To, Hong Kong actor born Edward Ng Cheuk-cheung in 1972;
Carrie Chapman Catt Hall is an administrative building completed in 1892, at Iowa State University which currently houses the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and the Carrie Chapman Center for Women and Politics.
By 1600, the word chapman had come to be applied to an itinerant dealer in particular, but it remained in use for "customer, buyer" as well as "merchant" in the 17th and 18th centuries. The slang term for man, "chap" arose from the use of the abbreviated word to mean a customer, one with whom to bargain.
From 1877 to 1880 he was demonstrator of physiology in association with James Aiken Meigs in Jefferson Medical College, and 1879–1880 was curator of the museum; in 1878 the college gave him his second degree in medicine, when his thesis was the "Persistence of Forces in Biology." Meigs died in the autumn of 1879, soon after starting his ...
Nathaniel Chapman (28 May 1780 – 1 July 1853) was an American physician. [1] He was the founding president of the American Medical Association in 1847. [ 2 ] Chapman founded the American Journal of the Medical Sciences in 1820 and served as its editor for some years, and also served as President of both the Philadelphia Medical Society and ...