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Peters was born on June 2, 1945, in Van Nuys, California. [1] Peters is of Cherokee (father) and Italian (mother) descent. [2] While growing up in a rough neighborhood, Peters's father died when he was eight years old and his mother later remarried; Peters was later expelled from school and sent to reform school for a year when he was 12.
John Peters Humphrey OC OQ (April 30, 1905 – March 14, 1995) was a Canadian legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate. He is most famous as the principal author of the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
John Harvey Tolan (/ ˈ t oʊ l æ n /; January 15, 1877 – June 30, 1947) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1935 to 1947. Biography
John Punnett Peters (December 4, 1887 – December 29, 1955) [1] [2] was an American physician, the John Slade Ely Professor of Medicine at Yale University from 1928 until his death in 1955. He was "one of the founders of modern clinical chemistry". [ 3 ]
John A. Peters (1864–1953), U.S. Representative from Maine (1913–1922) and U.S. District Court judge (1922–1947) John E. Peters (1839–1919), businessman and politician in Newfoundland John M. Peters (1927–2013), American lawyer and legislator
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Peters was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives of the 63rd United States Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Forrest Goodwin, and reelected to the four succeeding Congresses until his resignation on January 2, 1922, serving from September 9, 1913, to January 2, 1922.
Peters was born in Hebron, Connecticut, on September 21, 1772, son of Beneslie and Ann Shipman Peters.He worked on a farm, attended the district schools, taught school in Hebron in 1790, studied medicine under Dr. Benjamin Rush of Marbletown, N.Y., for six months and then under Dr. Abner Mosely of Glastonbury, Conn.; in 1796 attended lectures in Philadelphia, Pa., and practised in Hebron, from ...