During World War II, Ford served as head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services and made documentaries for the Navy Department. He was commissioned as a commander in the United States Navy Reserve. He won two more Academy Awards during this time, one for the semi-documentary "The Battle of Midway" (1942), and one for the propaganda film "" (1943). Ford filmed the Japanese attack on Midway from the power plant of Sand Island and was wounded in the arm. Ford was also present on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He crossed the English Channel on the , which anchored off Omaha Beach at 0600.
War years
John Ford
John Ford | War years
Head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services. Head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services and made documentaries for the Navy Department. He  served as head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services and made documentaries for the Navy Department. He served as head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services and made documentaries for the Navy Department.
when did the movie the thing come out
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1982
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what is the movie about?
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It tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates other organisms.
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who wrote it?
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Bill Lancaster.
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who is the director?
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John Carpenter
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where is he from?
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Carthage, New York
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what film genre is he known for?
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Low-budget horror films.
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what are the methods he is known for using in his movies?
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His films are characterized by minimalist lighting and photography, static cameras, use of steadicam, and distinctive synthesized scores (usually self-composed).
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was he married?
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Yes - Carpenter was married to Barbeau from January 1, 1979, to 1984.
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who's films did he take interest in his early days?
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Howard Hawks and John Ford
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where is ford from?
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Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
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what was his position in the war?
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Rear Admiral John Donaldson Ford (19 May 1840 – 17 April 1918) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.
John D. Ford | Introduction
In 1850 he captured the War Chief, Carne Muerto, a son of Santa Anna. After his Ranger unit was disbanded, Ford participated in Jose Maria Jesus Carbajal's Merchant's War (1851-1852) as a Colonel.
John Salmon Ford | Texas
Lee's surrender it had no effect on the outcome of the war.
John Salmon Ford | Introduction
During World War II, Ford served as head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services and made documentaries for the Navy Department. He was commissioned as a commander in the United States Navy Reserve. He won two more Academy Awards during this time, one for the semi-documentary "The Battle of Midway" (1942), and one for the propaganda film "" (1943). Ford filmed the Japanese attack on Midway from the power plant of Sand Island and was wounded in the arm. Ford was also present on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He crossed the English Channel on the , which anchored off Omaha Beach at 0600.
John Ford | War years
Ford, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, entered the Navy as third assistant engineer on 30 July 1862. He was assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron from 1862 to 1865 and participated in engagements on the Mississippi River and the Battle of Mobile Bay. He served on the sloop-of-war until she was wrecked off the coast of India in June 1867. During the next three decades he held various sea and shore assignments, and, while attached to the Maryland Agricultural and Mechanical College (now the University of Maryland, College Park) from 1894–96, he started a course in mechanical engineering.
John D. Ford | Biography
In 1861, Ford served as a member of the Secession Convention, and initiated a trade agreement between Mexico and the Confederacy. As a Colonel in the Confederacy, he had command of the Rio Grande Military District. In early April 1861, he commanded troops who defended Zapata County from invaders from Mexico who did not want Texas in the Confederacy in the Second Cortina War. They had entered Zapata County from Mexico and hanged the county judge. Several of the invaders were killed, marking the first deaths in defense of the Confederacy, about two weeks before the bloodless Battle of Fort Sumter.
John Salmon Ford | American Civil War
Francis Ford was born in Portland, Maine. He was the son of John Augustine Feeney, who was born in the village of Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland, on June 15, 1854. His mother was Barbara "Abbey" Curran. By 1878, John had moved to Portland, Maine, and opened a saloon, at 42 Center Street, that used a false front to pose as grocery store. John opened four others in following years. After service in the United States Army in the Spanish–American War (In "Pappy: The Life of John Ford", Dan Ford wrote about Francis Ford and the war, "The Army soon discovered that he was only fifteen and sent him home."), Francis left home.
Francis Ford (actor) | Biography
Promoted to post-captain on 25 June 1773, Ford was appointed to the command of the post ship in April 1776 in which he saw action at the capture of American frigate in September 1778 and the action in Cancale Bay in May 1779. He commissioned the sixth-rate in July 1779 and then transferred to the command of fifth-rate in which he saw action at the Battle of the Chesapeake in September 1781 during the American Revolutionary War and again at the Battle of the Saintes in April 1782 during the Anglo-French War.
John Ford (Royal Navy officer) | Naval career
He was briefly Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1940 just before the German Occupation.
John Minshull-Ford | Military career
Ford worked his way through high school before attending Fisk University. A few months before graduation in 1917, Ford enlisted in the U.S. Army in support of the American war effort in World War I. He entered the signal corps in charge of communications for the 86th Brigade of the 92nd Division in France. At the end of the war, Ford was discharged from the Army and returned to civilian life.
James W. Ford | Early years
During World War I, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff of the 84th Infantry Division and Chief of Staff of the 27th Infantry Division.
Stanley H. Ford | World War I
Although Colonel John Allan is not a name that many recognize and his contributions to the war were not flashy and militaristic, this man had a profound impact on the outcome of the war. His skills at negotiation prevented the British from securing the support of northeastern Indian tribes, and his careful attention and devotion to the United States even outside of his job influenced the boundary of Maine that still stands today.
John Allan (colonel) | Postwar Years/ Legacy
During World War II he assisted John F. O'Ryan, the World War I commander of the 27th Infantry Division, during O'Ryan's assignment as New York State's Civil Defense Director.
Stanley H. Ford | Post military career
They had been led to believe that if captured they would either be shot or returned to slavery. They were agreeably surprised when they were paroled and permitted to depart with the white prisoners. Several of the prisoners were from Austin and vicinity. They were assured they would be treated as prisoners of war. There was no disposition to visit upon them a mean spirit of revenge."-Colonel John Salmon Ford, May 1865. When Colonel Ford surrendered his command following the battle at Palmito Ranch he urged his men to honor their paroles. He insisted that "the negro had a right to vote."
John Salmon Ford | American Civil War
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John Ford | External links
Ford acted as a guide for the US military operating against "cow-thieves and other disturbers of peace and quietude", and was a correspondent for the Galveston "News". Later, he was assistant editor for the Brownsville "Ranchero", and wrote for the Brownsville "Courier", before establishing and publishing the Brownsville "Sentinel".
John Salmon Ford | Post Civil War
William Wellman had served previously in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was stationed as an officer at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California and Glenn Ford had also served in San Diego during World War II.
John Joseph Montgomery | "Gallant Journey"
After the war he served in a series of staff and command assignments, including Infantry and Quartermaster postings to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, Washington, D.C., and the installation now known as Fort Drum, New York.
Stanley H. Ford | Post Spanish–American War
Major General John Randle Minshull-Ford (12 May 1881 – 1 April 1948) was a senior British Army officer who briefly served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey before the German Occupation in 1940.
John Minshull-Ford | Introduction
Ford continued his Army career after the war, completing the General Staff College in 1920. He served as commander of the 16th Infantry Regiment from 1924 to 1926. From 1926 to 1930 Ford served as Assistant Chief of Staff of the Army's Military Intelligence Division.
Stanley H. Ford | Post World War I
Ford eventually rose to become a top adviser to OSS head William Joseph Donovan. According to records released in 2008, Ford was cited by his superiors for bravery, taking a position to film one mission that was "an obvious and clear target". He survived "continuous attack and was wounded" while he continued filming, one commendation in his file states. In 1945, Ford executed affidavits testifying to the integrity of films taken to document conditions at Nazi concentration camps. His last wartime film was "They Were Expendable" (MGM, 1945), an account of America's disastrous defeat in The Philippines, told from the viewpoint of a PT boat squadron and its commander.
John Ford | War years
When the Armistice intervened, Ford commanded the coast defenses of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for five months, then spent three months in France assisting with the shipment of war material to the United States. By October 1919, he had returned to the States and to duty with the Proof Department at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he reverted to his permanent grade of captain. On 1 July 1920, Ford was transferred from the Coast Artillery to Ordnance Corps. In September 1921, Major Ford was named Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Yale University, a post he filled for more than three years until transferred to Camp Lewis, Washington, as camp Ordnance and Chemical Warfare officer.
Elbert L. Ford | Military career
As fleet engineer of the Pacific Squadron in 1898, he served in the cruiser during the Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May. For his "eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle" in operations at Cavite, Sangley Point, and Corregidor, he was advanced three numbers. Ford was promoted to rear admiral upon retirement on 19 May 1902. He remained on active duty as Inspector of Machinery and Ordnance at Sparrows Point, Maryland until December 1908.
John D. Ford | Biography
Ford was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was the son of Elias and Anna ("née" Greanor) Ford. His ancestors were early Maryland settlers and some of them took part in the American Revolution. For a few years he attended public school in Baltimore and then became a clerk in his uncle's tobacco factory in Richmond, Virginia. Not caring for this work, he became a bookseller.
John T. Ford | Early life
John Salmon Ford (May 26, 1815 – November 3, 1897), better known as "Rip" Ford, was a member of the Republic of Texas Congress and later of the State Senate, and mayor of Brownsville, Texas. He was also a Texas Ranger, a Confederate colonel, doctor, lawyer, and a journalist and newspaper owner. Ford commanded men during the Antelope Hills Expedition and he later commanded the Confederate forces in what was arguably the last engagement of the American Civil War, the Battle of Palmito Ranch on May 12–13, 1865. It was a Confederate victory, but as it occurred more than a month after Robert E.
John Salmon Ford | Introduction
Between 1862 and 1865 he ran the Bureau of Conscription of the State, and at various times he was engaged in border operations protecting Confederate-Mexican trade. After raising 1300 troops, "The Cavalry of the West", Col. Ford recaptured Fort Brown on 30 July 1864. His forces defended a Federal attack a few miles above Palmito Ranch on 9 September 1864, forcing them to retreat back to Brazos Island on 12 Sept. 1864. In May 1865, he led Confederate forces in the Battle of Palmito Ranch, by some criteria the last battle of the American Civil War. "Some of the Sixty-Second Colored Regiment were also taken.
John Salmon Ford | American Civil War
In 1941, Ford enlisted in the Air force during World War II and became a Lieutenant colonel (United States).
Byington Ford | Military
James Hobart Ford (May 22, 1829 – January 12, 1867) was a Union colonel and brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War, notable for his contributions in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the war.
James Hobart Ford | Introduction
America's entry into World War II resulted in a deluge of support for the war effort from all sectors of society, and Hollywood was no exception. Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status (classified as 3-A – family deferment). Wayne repeatedly wrote to John Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit. Wayne did not attempt to prevent his reclassification as 1-A (draft eligible), but Republic Studios was emphatically resistant to losing him since he was their only A-list actor under contract.
John Wayne | "Stagecoach" and the war years
Born in a log cabin in Danville, Kentucky, he never remembered his father, Jonathan Ford, who in 1813 joined the Kentucky Volunteer Homespun regiment to fight the British forces at New Orleans in the War of 1812 and never returned. His mother, Margaret, the daughter of Jean Baptiste, an immigrant from France who had fought in the American Revolutionary War, apprenticed young John at the age of 12 to a Danville saddlemaker. He ran away from the saddlemaker at age 14 and found his freedom in Greenville, Indiana, where he remained for the next 30 years.
John Baptiste Ford | Early life
His group went to neutral Sweden and the Netherlands to meet with peace activists. A target of much ridicule, Ford left the ship as soon as it reached Sweden. In 1915, Ford blamed "German-Jewish bankers" for instigating the war. Ford plants in the United Kingdom produced Fordson tractors to increase the British food supply, as well as trucks and aircraft engines. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, the company became a major supplier of weapons, especially the Liberty engine for airplanes and anti-submarine boats. In 1918, with the war on and the League of Nations a growing issue in global politics, President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, encouraged Ford to run for a Michigan seat in the U.S.
Henry Ford | World War I era
Feeney attended Portland High School, Portland, Maine, where he played fullback and defensive tackle. He earned the nickname "Bull" because, it is said, of the way he would lower his helmet and charge the line. A Portland pub is named Bull Feeney's in his honor. He later moved to California and in 1914 began working in film production as well as acting for his older brother Francis, adopting "Jack Ford" as a professional name. In addition to credited roles, he appeared uncredited as a Klansman in D. W. Griffith's 1915 "The Birth of a Nation".
John Ford | Early life
After retiring from government service, Ford was a resident of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, and a professor at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
Robert Stephen Ford | Later career
On December 12, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Ford for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from December 10, 1864, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on February 14, 1865. He commanded the District of the Upper Arkansas for the remainder of the war conducting operations against Native Americans from Fort Larned. Ford was discharged from the Union army on July 19, 1865. Shortly after the end of the war, he returned to Ohio where he died on January 12, 1867, in Akron. Ford County, Kansas was named in his honor.
James Hobart Ford | Later service and death
Despite his narrow loss nationwide, Ford actually managed to carry four of the six New England states. Carter only won the heavily Democratic states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which made New England Ford's second strongest region in the nation after the West.
1976 United States presidential election in Maine | Introduction
Ford was born in Greenville District, South Carolina, but grew up in Lincoln County, Tennessee. His parents were William and Harriet Ford. When he was 16 he moved to Shelbyville, Tennessee, to study medicine. There he met his future wife, Mary Davis. However, the marriage ended in divorce and Ford decided to move to Texas, then fighting for its independence from Mexico.
John Salmon Ford | Early life
He observed the first wave land on the beach from the ship, landing on the beach himself later with a team of Coast Guard cameramen who filmed the battle from behind the beach obstacles, with Ford directing operations. The film was edited in London, but very little was released to the public. Ford explained in a 1964 interview that the US Government was "afraid to show so many American casualties on the screen", adding that all of the D-Day film "still exists in color in storage in Anacostia near Washington, D.C." Thirty years later, historian Stephen E. Ambrose reported that the Eisenhower Center had been unable to find the film.
John Ford | War years
Ford was detached from the ship and sent to the Navy Pre-Flight School at Saint Mary's College of California, where he was assigned to the Athletic Department until April 1945. From the end of April 1945 to January 1946, he was on the staff of the Naval Reserve Training Command, Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois, at the rank of lieutenant commander.
Gerald Ford | Sea duty
John Ford (July 28, 1862 – July 1941) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
John Ford (New York state senator) | Introduction
After the war he received the brevet rank of brigadier general in recognition of his superior performance of duty. Hammond became active in the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and the GAR post in Crown Point was named for him.
John Hammond (U.S. Representative) | Military career
Richard John Carwardine (born 12 January 1947) is a Welsh historian and academic, who specialises in American Politics and religion in the era of the American Civil War. Professor Carwadine is best known for his work on President Abraham Lincoln and was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 2010 to 2016.
Richard Carwardine | Introduction
Ford saw service in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish–American War, serving with the 16th Infantry in Cuba and the 25th Infantry in the Philippines.
Stanley H. Ford | Spanish–American War
He returned to the classroom at the end of that time. In May 2005, Mount Holyoke restored his position as Ford Foundation Professor of History.
Joseph Ellis | False claims of combat service and anti-war leadership
Early in life, Ford's politics were conventionally progressive; his favorite presidents were Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy and Republican Abraham Lincoln. But despite these leanings, many thought he was a Republican because of his long association with actors John Wayne, James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and Ward Bond. Ford's attitude to McCarthyism in Hollywood is expressed by a story told by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A faction of the Directors Guild of America, led by Cecil B. DeMille, had tried to make it mandatory for every member to sign a loyalty oath. A whispering campaign was being conducted against Mankiewicz, then President of the Guild, alleging he had Communist sympathies.
John Ford | Politics
Ford arrived in Texas in June 1836, too late to participate in the Texas Revolution. He served in the Texas army until 1838. He opened a medical practice in the east Texas town of San Augustine, where he practiced for eight years. He also studied law and passed the bar exam before winning election to the Texas legislature in 1844, advocating annexation by the United States. The following year he moved to Austin, where he purchased the "Texas National Register", renaming it the "Texas Democrat". When the Mexican War began, Ford enlisted in John Coffee Hays' regiment of Texas Mounted Rifles.
John Salmon Ford | Texas
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J. D. Ford | Electoral history
Ford served only a single term before returning home. His term was marred by fighting in a highly partisan Assembly that was divided over issues related to slavery and the Mexican–American War, as well as by a cholera epidemic that swept through Columbus.
Seabury Ford | Career
Henry Ford's pacifist leanings did not make him or his company popular in wartime Britain. Perry, by contrast, devoted his time and effort to making Ford of Britain appear patriotic and loyal. From 1916 to 1919, this experience led to his strong objection to state controls over manufacturing, Perry served without remuneration as: For this unpaid work he was appointed CBE in 1917 and knighted in 1918. After the armistice Perry was determined to run all European operations himself. Ford had supplied many vehicles to the war effort. Although successful in protecting Ford's UK position, Perry's active involvement in wartime British government did not play well with Ford's head office in Detroit.
Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry | 1914–18 war
George W. Ford (1844 to November 29, 1883) was an Irish soldier who fought in the American Civil War. Ford received the United States' highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action during the Battle of Sayler's Creek in Virginia on 6 April 1865. He was honored with the award on 10 May 1865.
George W. Ford | Introduction
After the war, Ford remained an officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He returned to active service during the Korean War, and was promoted to Rear Admiral the day he left service. Ford directed sixteen features and several documentaries in the decade between 1946 and 1956. As with his pre-war career, his films alternated between (relative) box office flops and major successes, but most of his later films made a solid profit, and "Fort Apache", "The Quiet Man", "Mogambo" and "The Searchers" all ranked in the Top 20 box-office hits of their respective years. Ford's first postwar movie "My Darling Clementine" (Fox, 1946) was a romanticized retelling of the primal Western legend of Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K.
John Ford | Post-war career
His job in World War one was to serve on several vessels He survived the war and remained in the Royal Navy 17 February 1920 when he returned to Cobh, Co. Cork. Cobh, Co. Cork was where he spent the rest of his life. Until his death he wore a glove to protect his hand from the effects of the severe frostbite he had suffered half a century before hand.
Robert Forde | Career
It is not clear which war he took part in, or even if Bonham was a real historical person. He has been linked with a Sir John Bonham of Wishford ("fl" 1336–37).
John Bonham (mercer) | Introduction
Four days after the ship arrived in neutral Norway, a beleaguered and physically ill Ford abandoned the mission and returned to the United States; he had demonstrated that independent small efforts accomplished nothing.
American entry into World War I | Popular pacifism
Looking back, I am not terribly proud of this calculation..."
John Bolton | Vietnam War
Ford was born John Martin "Jack" Feeney (though he later often gave his given names as Sean Aloysius, sometimes with surname O'Feeny or O'Fearna; an Irish language equivalent of Feeney) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara "Abbey" Curran, on February 1, 1894, (though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone). His father, John Augustine, was born in Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland, in 1854. Barbara Curran was born in the Aran Islands, in the town of Kilronan on the island of Inishmore (Inis Mór). John A. Feeney's grandmother, Barbara Morris, was said to be a member of an impoverished branch of a family of the Irish nobility, the Morrises of Spiddal (headed at present by Lord Killanin).
John Ford | Early life
When Ford returned from World War II, Goebel urged him to run for U.S. Congress and was part of the original Ford-for-Congress committee. Goebel was later the chairman of a committee formed in 1960 to name Ford as the Republican Party's Vice Presidential candidate on the ticket with Richard Nixon.
Paul G. Goebel | Introduction
if we got back."
Glenn Ford | World War II and Eleanor Powell
Trent. He served in World War I.
John Donald Wade | Early life
Ford was a military contractor in North American clients during World War I and II:
List of Ford vehicles | Military
Ford, a Democrat, served in the U.S. Congress 1933–45 and was not a candidate for renomination in 1944.
Thomas F. Ford | Congress
However, he was promptly appointed a lieutenant and would serve as both adjutant and medical officer. He saw active duty with his regiment in Mexico, commanding a scout company part of the time. He received the nickname 'Rip' for his peculiarity of including the words "Rest in Peace" after each and every name when composing his company's casualty lists. In 1849, with Robert Neighbors, Ford explored the country between San Antonio and El Paso and published a report and map of the route, which became known as the Ford and Neighbors Trail. Later the same year he was made captain in the Texas Rangers and was stationed between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, where he had numerous fights with the Indians during 1850 and 1851.
John Salmon Ford | Texas
John Augustine and Barbara Curran arrived in Boston and Portland respectively in May and June 1872. They filed their intentions to marry on July 31, 1875 and became American citizens five years later on September 11, 1880. The John Augustine Feeney family resided on Sheridan Street, in the Irish neighborhood of Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, and his father worked a variety of odd jobs to support the family - farming, fishing, a laborer for the gas company, saloon keeping, and an alderman. John and Barbara had eleven children: Mamie (Mary Agnes), born 1876; Delia (Edith), 1878–1881; Patrick; Francis Ford, 1881–1953; Bridget, 1883–1884; Barbara, born and died 1888; Edward, born 1889; Josephine, born 1891; Hannah (Joanna), born and died 1892; John Martin, 1894–1973; and Daniel, born and died 1896 (or 1898).
John Ford | Early life
Nelson McCain Ford (born June 3, 1947 in Wilmington, Delaware) was United States Under Secretary of the Army from 2007 to 2009.
Nelson M. Ford | Introduction
His citation, gazetted on 8 January 1918, read:
Forde Leathley | World War I
Four days after "Oscar II" arrived in Norway, a beleaguered and physically ill Ford abandoned the mission and returned to the United States. The peace mission was unsuccessful, which reinforced Ford’s reputation as a supporter of unusual causes.
Opposition to World War I | Henry Ford
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1882, and resumed the practice of law.
John Ford House | Career
While local Indian tribes and Tory loyalists were a factor in the actual Mohawk Valley campaign, their role was a minor one compared to that of the British Army. Ford chose to minimize the British role because of the political situation in 1939: "He knew that war with Germany was coming, and he had little desire to show the British as villains when they were fighting for their lives against the Nazis."
Drums Along the Mohawk | Historical accuracy
Upon graduation, Ford was assigned to the Coast Artillery branch and spent his first year as an officer watching Boston Harbor for possible German submarines. By August 1917, he was a temporary Captain. After a very brief tour as regimental instructor with the 65th Engineers at Camp Upton, New York, he attended the Heavy Artillery and Anti-Aircraft Schools at Fort Monroe, Virginia, for several months. In June 1918, he returned to Massachusetts for several months' duty with the Coast Artillery. In October 1918, as a Major, Ford was put in command of the 15th Antiaircraft Sector at Camp Upton, Virginia, and helped prepare some of the troops for service overseas.
Elbert L. Ford | Military career
For the 1892 presidential campaign, he published a "Pocket Cyclopedia of Protection". While writing for the newspapers, he studied law with Edmund L. Pitts, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in New York City.
John Ford (New York state senator) | Life
John Ford (), of Dorset, was an English lawyer and politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Melcombe Regis in 1410, for Dorchester in 1417, 1419, 1420, May 1421, Dec. 1421, 1422 and 1423, and for Shaftesbury in 1426. Nothing is known of his family.
John Ford (fl. 1410–1426) | Introduction
From 1931 to 1933 he was a student at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. After graduating, he became District Engineer at St Paul, Minnesota. On 1 July 1937, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He attended the U.S. Army War College from 1937 to 1938, then became at instructor at the Command and General Staff College.
Dwight Johns | Between the wars
In his last years Ford was dogged by declining health, largely the result of decades of heavy drinking and smoking, and exacerbated by the wounds he suffered during the Battle of Midway. His vision, in particular, began to deteriorate rapidly and at one point he briefly lost his sight entirely; his prodigious memory also began to falter, making it necessary to rely more and more on assistants. His work was also restricted by the new regime in Hollywood, and he found it hard to get many projects made. By the 1960s he had been pigeonholed as a Western director and complained that he now found it almost impossible to get backing for projects in other genres.
John Ford | Last years, 1960–1973
Ford served as a private in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) during the First World War and was killed in France on 3 May 1917. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
John Ford (footballer, born 1893) | Personal life
Appleton subsequently accepted command of a free black regiment (the 81st Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops), as did another Union general from Bangor serving in Louisiana, Cyrus Hamlin, the son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, who had strongly urged the arming of freed slaves.
John F. Appleton | American Civil War service
It was reserved to the federal government.
John Deseronto | Post-war years
Ford, Sr., member of United States House of Representatives.
John B. Lowery | Introduction
He did not, however, serve overseas during the war and remained in the United States.
Lunsford E. Oliver | Early life and military career
In 1910 Dennison went to America and Europe, returning in 1911 after having visited numerous trade exhibitions. In 1913 he opened a new garage in Queen Street, Waimate and was predominantly selling Model T Ford's. When World War One broke out Henry Ford opposed war, which he viewed as a terrible waste. Ford became highly critical of those who he felt financed war, and he tried to stop them. In 1915, the pacifist Rosika Schwimmer gained favor with Ford, who agreed to fund a Peace Ship to Europe, where World War I was raging. He and about 170 other prominent peace leaders traveled there.
Frederick Dennison | Ford agent
He served in the Mexican War, and was Colonel of the 32nd Ohio Infantry, Ohio Volunteer Militia during the U.S. Civil War. Ford was arrested in 1862, and sent to Washington, D.C. for trial by a military commission. He was charged with having neglected his duty in the defense of Maryland Heights at the Battle of Harpers Ferry, September, 1862. After trial, Ford was ordered dismissed from the service on November 8, 1862, by order of the War Department. He located in Washington, D.C., where he had a lucrative law practice, and where he died February 29, 1868. He was buried in Mansfield Cemetery.
Thomas H. Ford | Introduction
Later that month, Ford attended the 2nd Congress of the League Against Imperialism, where he was elected to the General Council and the Executive Committee.
James W. Ford | Political career
During the American Civil War in 1863 he served under John L. Hodsdon. Future Vice President of the United States Hannibal Hamlin served under Capt. Llewelyn J. Morse at Fort McClary in Maine.
Llewellyn J. Morse | History
Promoted to rear-admiral, Ford commanded a squadron commanded that accompanied Brigadier-General John Whyte that briefly captured Port-au-Prince in 1794. At the time some forty five vessels lay in harbour and these were all made prizes.
John Ford (Royal Navy officer) | Haitian Revolution
When John A. Gurley, Lincoln's initial appointee for Governor of Arizona Territory, died on August 19, 1863, Goodwin was selected to fill the open position.
John Noble Goodwin | Maine
John Ford (1586c. 1639) was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England.
John Ford (dramatist) | Introduction
In 1917, Ford enlisted in the California National Guard and went to Officers Training Camp at the Presidio of San Francisco where he was commissioned and then sent to France during World War I. He was Captain in the 26th "Yankee" Division. In France, he trained at the Saint-Cyr cavalry school. He was in the engagements of Château-Thierry, Saint-Mihiel and the Toul sector. On March 10, 1919, Ford returned home after recuperating from a poison gas attack suffered during an advance in Troyon, France. Ford saw active service practically the whole time he was in France. He brought a detachment of soldiers to New York from France.
Byington Ford | Military
After Ford returned to Grand Rapids in 1946, he became active in local Republican politics, and supporters urged him to challenge Bartel J. Jonkman, the incumbent Republican congressman. Military service had changed his view of the world. "I came back a converted internationalist", Ford wrote, "and of course our congressman at that time was an avowed, dedicated isolationist. And I thought he ought to be replaced. Nobody thought I could win. I ended up winning two to one." During his first campaign in 1948, Ford visited voters at their doorsteps and as they left the factories where they worked. Ford also visited local farms where, in one instance, a wager resulted in Ford spending two weeks milking cows following his election victory.
Gerald Ford | House of Representatives (1949–1973)
After the war, he got himself involved in the oil business.
John H. Burke | Background
The football pools continued during the war years however.
John Moores (British businessman) | The war years
Ford was born on June 11, 1827 in Granville, Vermont. He left in 1849 to take part in the California Gold Rush. In 1852, Ford moved to Columbia County, Wisconsin after being impressed with the area while visiting relatives. He died in Columbus, Wisconsin on August 3, 1903. During the American Civil War, Ford served in the Union Army with 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, reaching the rank of captain. During the Battle of Shiloh, he was taken as a prisoner of war and held in various locations.
Ira Ford | Biography
An ardent supporter of slavery and southern states' rights, McQueen was elected as a representative from South Carolina in the First Confederate Congress after the outbreak of the American Civil War. Regarding the Confederacy's cause for starting the war, McQueen stated in a December 1860 letter to civic leaders in Richmond, Virginia:
John McQueen | American Civil War
Franklin Ford received in 1942 his A.B. from the University of Minnesota. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the Office of Strategic Services. At Harvard University he graduated with M.A. in 1948 and Ph.D. in 1950. He specialized in modern German history and 17th-century French history. From 1949 to 1952 he taught at Bennington College. In Harvard University's history department, he was an assistant professor from 1953 to 1956, an associate professor 1956 to 1959, and a full professor from 1959 to 1991, when he retired as professor emeritus. In 1968 he was named the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History.
Franklin Lewis Ford | Education and career
He was the 5th commander-in-chief of the Union veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic, serving from 1875 to 1877. He was also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
John F. Hartranft | Post-war life and political career
On 6 June she deployed to Shanghai, China, to protect American lives and interests, which were threatened by Chinese civil strife. After renewal of the Chinese Civil War in May 1926, she patrolled the Chinese coast to protect convoys from roving bands of bandits. On 24 March 1927 she supported the evacuation of American and foreign nationals, who were fleeing from mob violence at Nanking. That event included a naval bombardment of the city. The ascendancy of the reformed Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek in 1928 reduced the intensity of the civil strife. However, Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated, requiring "Ford" to remain in China.
USS John D. Ford | Chinese Civil War
At that time, which was before the U.S. entered the war and still had full diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany, "Ford-Werke" was under the control of the Ford Motor Company. The number of slave laborers grew as the war expanded even though Nazi authorities did not require German companies to use slave laborers. When Rolls-Royce sought a U.S. manufacturer as an additional source for the Merlin engine (as fitted to Spitfire and Hurricane fighters), Ford first agreed to do so and then reneged. He "lined up behind the war effort" when the U.S. entered in December 1941. His support of the American war effort, however, was problematic.
Henry Ford | The coming of World War II and Ford's mental collapse
He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.
Ford Rainey | Early life
John Thompson Ford (April 16, 1829 – March 14, 1894) was an American theater manager in the nineteenth century. He is most notable for operating Ford's Theatre at the time of the Abraham Lincoln assassination.
John T. Ford | Introduction
Ford was born in Detroit and attended Henry Ford Trade School, Melvindale High School, Nebraska State Teachers College, and Wayne State University. His father, a Scottish immigrant, was an autoworker who was killed on the job, an incident that influenced Ford's political views. He interrupted his studies to serve in the United States Navy during World War II, 1944–1946. He also served in the United States Air Force Reserve from 1950 to 1958. After the war, he received a B.A. from the University of Denver in 1949, and a J.D. from that university's College of Law in 1951. He was admitted to the bar in 1951 and practiced law in Taylor, Michigan.
William D. Ford | Biography
In April 1944, just before his 18th birthday, while still at Exeter, Ford enlisted in the US Navy. After summer employment at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Ford was called to active service and began the Navy's Electronic Technician Training. In June 1945, he transferred into the V-12 Navy College Training Program, studying at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In three four-month semesters completed in one year, he was able to secure credit for two years of college work and entered Harvard University as a junior in the fall of 1946 following his discharge from the Navy in June of that year.
Kenneth W. Ford | US Navy
He held the position until he was removed along with other state incumbents in 1865.
Oran Milo Roberts | American Civil War
In 1973, he was appointed as United States Assistant Secretary of Defense, and in January 1974, as National Security Advisor for Vice President Gerald Ford. Under President Ford, he became Counselor to the President and held Cabinet rank. He was seen as one of Ford's top advisers alongside Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld and Philip W. Buchen.
John Otho Marsh Jr. | Ford cabinet