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William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was an American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol. He also served as the first Architect of the Capitol and first Superintendent of the United States Patent Office .
William Edgar Thornton (April 14, 1929 – January 11, 2021) was an American NASA astronaut. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from University of North Carolina and a doctorate in medicine , also from UNC.
William Thomas Thornton, CB (1813–1880) was an English economist, [1] civil servant [2] and author. [3] Life. Thornton was born at Burnham, Buckinghamshire on 14 ...
Thornton was born around 1779, [2] the eldest of two sons born to William Thornton, Esq. of Muff, near Derry, and of Armagh, who died in 1792 at the age of 51, and Anne Thornton, the daughter of Perrott James, Esq. of Magilligan. [3] His younger brother was Robert Innes Thornton (died 1866), a soldier with the 21st Light Dragoons. [1]
On April 19, 1799, Dr. William Thornton wrote to George Washington, "Mr. J. Tayloe, of Virginia, has contracted to build a house in the City near the President's Square of $13,000 value." Thoronton was a self-trained architect who had won the United States Capitol competition.
William Thornton (December 20, 1717 – 1790) was a British American planter and public official in Colonial Virginia. Thornton served as member of the House of Burgesses for Brunswick County from 1756 to 1768 and as justice of the county and of the quorum as early as 1760 and as late as 1774/5.
William E. Thornton is an American politician who served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 1995 to 1997. [1] He succeeded Nelson Wolff and was himself followed by Howard Peak, [2] after Thornton finished third in his bid for reelection. [3] Thornton also served as a member of the San Antonio City Council for district 8. [4]
William Thornton Kemper Sr. (November 2, 1867 – January 19, 1938) was an American banker who was the patriarch of the Missouri Kemper family, which developed both Commerce Bancshares and United Missouri Bank to become a major banking family in the Midwest.