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Many of them were greedy and became extremely wealthy and powerful through their exactions from the poor. The tax collectors were therefore hated by the people. Louis Mandrin was born in 1725 at Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, Dauphiné, then a border province. His family was well established in the region, but was no longer as prosperous as in ...
B. Ivan Bagration; Robert Bakewell (agriculturalist) Francesco Battaglioli; Theresa Benedicta of Bavaria; Pierre Bayen; Johann Peter Beaulieu; Antoine Hilarion de Beausset
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
Rick Hardcastle (born 1956), Republican former member of Texas House form Wilbarger County Will Ford Hartnett (born 1956), Dallas lawyer and Republican member of Texas House, 1991–2013 Talmadge L. Heflin (born 1940), former state representative from Harris County , director of Center for Fiscal Policy at Texas Public Policy Foundation
John T. Mills, Supreme Court Justice of the Republic of Texas; Johnny Moss, champion poker player; Bill Moyers, journalist and government official; Pendleton Murrah, Texas Governor; Lucy Holcombe Pickens, 19th-century Southern socialite; William Henry Pope, politician, self-described "Jim Crow Senator" Horace Randal, Confederate brigadier general
Howard D. Graves, Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, later Chancellor of Texas A & M system of universities; John Marvin Jones, United States Congressman and Chief Judge of the Court of Claims; Walter Thomas Price, IV, Amarillo attorney and Republican nominee for the District 87 seat in the Texas House of Representatives
Tax inversion is the process by which an American company moves the legal address of its headquarters outside the United States for the sole purpose of avoiding taxes. Fifty major companies have ...
David J. Porter, Republican, Texas Railroad Commission member, 2010–2016; Carol Schwartz, former member of the D.C. city council, raised in Midland; W. E. "Pete" Snelson, member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature from Midland; later an educational consultant in Austin; Clayton Williams, businessman and 1990 gubernatorial candidate