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J. Hampton Moore (1864–1950), 108th (1920–1924) and 111th (1932–1936) Mayor of Philadelphia, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1906–1920) Walter Moser was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Browns [ 13 ] Walter ...
The Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an Old Philadelphian family descended from English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681.
Dagit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was raised in a family of architects. His grandfather had founded a prominent architectural firm in 1888, Henry D. Dagit & Sons, known best for Catholic Churches in the eastern United States, and his father and uncles were architects at the firm. [4]
James P. Gourley, Pennsylvania House of Representatives member; William H. Gray (1941–2013), Baptist minister, U.S. House of Representatives member, and former United Negro College Fund president; William J. Green III (born 1938), Philadelphia major and U.S. House of Representatives member; Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941), U.S. Senator and ...
On March 15, 2019, The Philadelphia Inquirer released a front-page investigative report reviewing the suspicious circumstances surrounding Greenberg's death. [5] Pittsburgh forensic pathologist Cyril H. Wecht, who challenged the single-bullet theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination, reviewed the case, determined it was "strongly suspicious of homicide", and said he did not "know how they ...
David Thomas Boreanaz (born February 14, 1936) is an American retired television broadcaster who broadcast under the stage names Dave Thomas in Buffalo, and Dave Roberts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the main weatherman for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia from 1983 until his retirement in 2009.
Rizzo was born in Philadelphia, where his father Rafael was a police officer. [8] He grew up in a South Philadelphia row house neighborhood. During his senior year he dropped out of Southern High School; he later earned a high school equivalency diploma and took government courses at the Fels Institute of Government.
James Franklin Oldham, better known as Jim O'Brien (November 20, 1939 – September 25, 1983), was an American newscaster. He was a member of the WPVI-TV Channel 6 Action News team, which became the highest-rated television news team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley region during the late 1970s and early 1980s.