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Katharine Dexter McCormick (August 27, 1875 – December 28, 1967) was a U.S. suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill .
Katharine Dexter McCormick, biologist, woman suffrage leader & philanthropist (born in Dexter) Rosa Parks , civil rights activist (born in Tuskegee, Alabama ; moved to Detroit) Lawrence Plamondon , cofounder of the White Panther Party , activist, and first hippie to be on the FBI 's Most Wanted List (adopted and raised in Traverse City , active ...
Dexter is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census , [ 4 ] the population was 4,500. Established in 1830 as a village, Dexter was incorporated as a city on November 20, 2014.
The following people were either born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Dexter, Michigan. Pages in category "People from Dexter, Michigan" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Dexter M. Ferry Jr. was born on November 22, 1873, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Dexter M. Ferry and Addie Miller Ferry. [1] He attended school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, [2] then graduated from high school in Detroit in 1892. [1] After graduation, he entered the University of Michigan, but a back injury interrupted his studies in his ...
The Cohen-produced horror film I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Herman Cohen (August 27, 1925 – June 2, 2002) was an American producer of B-movies during the 1950s, and helped to popularize the teen horror movie genre with films like the cult classic I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
Milo John Radulovich (October 28, 1926 – November 19, 2007) was an American reserve Air Force lieutenant who was accused of being a security risk for maintaining a "close and continuing relationship" [1] with his father and sister, in violation of Air Force regulation 35-62 as his family members were accused of Communist sympathies. [2]
Ronald William Pelton (November 18, 1941 – September 6, 2022) was a National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst who was convicted in 1986 of spying for and selling secrets to the Soviet Union.