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James Lafayette acquired two parcels totaling about forty acres in New Kent County in 1816 and became a relatively wealthy farmer in the area with his (second) wife and several children (including a son). He also became a slaveowner. [10] [11] In 1818, Lafayette applied to Virginia's legislature for a pension based on his Revolutionary War ...
James La Fayette Evans (March 27, 1825 – May 28, 1903) was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1875 to 1879. Biography [ edit ]
James Lafayette was the pseudonym of James Stack Lauder (1853–1923). [1] He was a late Victorian and Edwardian portrait photographer, and managing director from 1898 to 1923 of a company in Dublin specializing in society photographs, Lafayette Ltd. [ 1 ] In 1887, he became the first Irish photographer to be granted a royal warrant .
Gary Anthony Williams as James "Pops" Lafayette Sr., a middle-aged man styled as 1960s punker, Lunella's paternal grandfather, and the proprietor of Roll With It. [4] Libe Barer as Casey Calderón, Lunella's manager, best friend of Puerto Rican and Jewish ancestry, and confidant in regards to Lunella's identity as Moon Girl.
The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom (speculated by some historians to be James Armistead Lafayette) and a horse.
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette [a] (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette [a] (/ ˌ l ɑː f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/ LA(H)F-ee-ET), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington ...
James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. [3] He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. [ 5 ] He also received the Order of the South award.
Sherry's death is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the first fatal stage dive by a musician. [ 56 ] 3 October: Franco Scoglio , Italian football manager and sport TV commenter, died of a heart attack while on the air during a program on the Genoan private TV station Primocanale , after a heated discussion over the phone with ...