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George Lawrence Forbes (born April 4, 1931) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. From 1974 to 1989, Forbes served as president of the Cleveland City Council . He is the former President of the Cleveland NAACP and is semi-retired from practicing law.
In 1880, George Forbes was the first to postulate the existence of trans-Neptunian planets that were somewhat similar to the hypothetical Planet Nine in the far outer Solar System. In his model the planet had a semi-major axis of ~300 AU, and he based locations from clustering of the aphelion distances of periodic comets.
George Forbes (scientist) (1849–1936), Scottish electrical engineer, astronomer, and inventor George Forbes (footballer, born 1914) (1914–1964), centre half for Blackburn Rovers and Barrow George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard (1685–1765), Anglo-Irish naval commander and diplomatist
Forbes was born on 14 June 1760 and was educated at Armagh.He was the eldest son of George Forbes, 5th Earl of Granard, by his first wife, Dorothea Bayly, second daughter of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, of the Isle of Anglesea, and great-grandson of Admiral George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard.
George W. Forbes (1864-1927) was an American journalist who advocated for African-American civil rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for co-founding the Boston Guardian, an African-American newspaper in which he and William Monroe Trotter published editorials excoriating Booker T. Washington for his accommodationist approach to race relations.
In Cleveland, incumbent Mike White won re-election against council president George Forbes, who ran as the candidate of black power and the public sector unions. Angering the unions by eliminating some of the city's exotic work rules, White presented himself as pro-business, pro-police and an effective manager above all, arguing that "jobs were ...
George John Forbes, Viscount Forbes (3 May 1785–14 November 1836) was an Irish aristocrat who represented County Longford in the House of Commons from 1806 to 1832, and 1833 to his death in 1836. Early life
George Arthur Hastings Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard KP (5 August 1833 – 25 August 1889), styled Viscount Forbes from 1836 to 1837, was an Irish peer and militia officer. Background and education [ edit ]