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Major General Marion Eugene Carl (November 1, 1915 – June 28, 1998) was an American military officer, World War II fighter ace, record-setting test pilot, and naval aviator. He was the United States Marine Corps ' first ace in World War II.
Marion Military Institute is an Alabama Historical Marker. [12] It is the home of two National Register of Historic Places - The MMI Chapel and Lovelace Hall, and the President's House. [13] [14] The Alabama Military Hall of Honor (the Old Marion City Hall), created by executive order of Gov. George Wallace in 1975, is also on campus. [2]
Francis Marion was born in Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina around 1732. His father Gabriel Marion was a Huguenot who emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies from France at some point prior to 1700 due to the Edict of Fontainebleau and became a slaveowning planter. [3]
Houser's grave at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.. Houser was born in Fort Valley, Georgia to Emmett and Mary Mathews Houser. [2] Houser attended the Marion Military Institute, graduating in 1916, [3] before receiving an appointment to the United States Naval Academy on May 26, 1917.
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John Charles Bahnsen Jr. was born to John C. Bahnsen and Evelyn Williams in Albany, Georgia. [1] [2] [3] on November 8, 1934. [4]His nickname, "Doc", stems from his grandfather, Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen, [5] who immigrated with his parents to the United States from Denmark.
Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) [1] [2] was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper.