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# Operation Distant Plain

Operation Distant Plain was a series of non-nuclear explosive and detonable gas tests performed on test sites in Alberta, Canada, during the course of 1966 and 1967. Their purpose was to provide airblast, cratering, and ground shock data in summer and winter conditions for testing new prototype equipment, military targets and coniferous forest blowdown, and defoliation.
Participants included Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States under the Tripartite Technical Cooperation Program. Detonable gas balloons were used in this operation in an attempt to find an economical substitute for TNT as well as for the fact that they could be placed at desired heights without a heavy support structure or towers. In addition, they were more adaptable to airblast phenomena and produced a well defined blast wave without perturbation or ejecta; they also produced no crater. However, it was found that they lacked the high pressure associated with high explosives, and difficulties were encountered as the 20-ton gas balloon ruptured and another detonated unexpectedly during inflation. Ultimately ANFO was elected as a lower cost alternative to TNT for non-nuclear explosives tests.

## Tests

The following table summarizes the events that took place during the operation in chronological order.
| Event | Date | Charge | Yield (short tons) | Height of Burst (feet) | Location | Notes |
| 1 | 7 July 1966 | TNT sphere, tower | 20 | 85 | Drowning Ford Test Range, SES | Airblast and induced ground motions |
| 2 | July 1966 | 125 foot methane-oxygen balloon | 20 | 85 | Drowning Ford Test Range, SES | Cancelled, balloon ruptured during inflation |
| 2A | 22 July 1966 | 125 foot propane-oxygen hemisphere | 20 | 0 | Drowning Ford Test Range, SES | Test feasibility of detonable gas, compare with 20 ton TNT events |
| 3 | 27 July 1966 | TNT sphere, half buried | 20 | 0 | Drowning Ford Test Range, SES | Normal environment control for Event 5 |
| 4 | 16 August 1966 | TNT Hemisphere | 50 | 0 | Edson Forest, 10 miles northwest of Hinton | Coniferous forest blowdown test |
| 2B | October 1966 | 125 foot methane-oxygen balloon | 18.6 | 63 | Drowning Ford Test Range, SES | Rescheduled Event 2, detonated unexpectedly during inflation on ground |
| 5 | 9 February, 1967 | TNT sphere, half buried | 20 | 0 | Drowning Ford Test Range, SES | Frozen ground test |
| 6 | 26 July 1967 | TNT sphere, supported | 100 | 0 | Watchdog Hill Blast Range, SES | Nuclear weapon surface burst simulation |
| 1A | 18 August 1967 | TNT sphere, tower | 20 | 30 | Watchdog Hill Blast Range, SES | Airblast and induced ground motions, repeat of event 1 |
* Detonation of 20 tons of propane-oxygen hemisphere in Event 2A. The blast wave can be seen affecting the smoke trails.
# Richard Van Wagner

Richard Van Wagner (October 23, 1936 – March 3, 2007) was an American politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1974 to 1984 and in the New Jersey Senate from 1984 to 1991.
# Ralph Kilzer

Ralph L. Kilzer (born March 30, 1935) is an American politician and physician who served as a member of the North Dakota Senate for the 47th district from 1998 to 2018.

## Education

Kilzer earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Saint John's University, followed by a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

## Career

Kilzer served in the United States Army. He later worked as an orthopedic surgeon and as a clinical professor of surgery at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He was also a medical consultant for the North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau. From 1996 to 1998, he was a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives. Kilzer was elected to the North Dakota Senate in November 1998 and assumed office on December 1, 1998.
# Leon Lombardi

Leon J. Lombardi (born April 16, 1949 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977–1983 and as the Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1990-1992. He was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1982. He was appointed an associate justice of the Massachusetts Land Court Department by Gov. William Weld in 1995 and retired in 2008.
# Mluleki George

Mluleki Editor George (2 February 1948 – 5 January 2021) was a South African activist, politician and sports administrator. He served as a Deputy Minister of Defence from 2004 to 2008.

## Political career

George joined the banned African National Congress (ANC) in 1972, and was arrested by the apartheid government, and sentenced to five years in prison in 1978, some of which he spent on Robben Island. On his release, he was a founder member of the United Democratic Front in 1983.
He was elected as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the ANC in the first non-racial elections in 1994, and remained in the role until 2013. Originally elected as a member of the ANC, he along with a number of other Thabo Mbeki supporters, he joined the breakaway Congress of the People after the election of Jacob Zuma as party president in 2008.
He served as treasurer-general of the Congress of the People.
In 2013, disillusioned by the leadership of leader Mosiuoa Lekota, he founded a new political party, the United Congress, which he said would restore the moral fibre of society.

## Sport career

George had a long career in sports administration, with his first high-profile role being president of the Border Rugby Union. He held this role until 1976, when he was arrested. After his release from prison, he was again elected president, and remained in the position from 1986 to 1991.
George was a founder member of the National Sports Council in 1988, a founder and executive member of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa in 1989, and chairperson of the South African Football Association for the first year of its existence, from 1991.
He was president of the National Sports Council and United Border Rugby Union from 1991 to 2001, a vice-president of the South African Rugby Football Union from 1993 until 1998 and a member of the International Rugby Board from 1994 to 1997.
George was a board member of South African Rugby Union from 2003.

## Death

George died from COVID-19 on 5 January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. He was 72 years old.
# Graham H. Chapin

Graham Hurd Chapin (February 10, 1799 – September 8, 1843) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1835 to 1837.

## Biography

Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Chapin moved to Lyons, New York in 1817. He graduated from Yale College in 1819. He studied law.

### Legal career

He was admitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced in Lyons. Surrogate of Wayne County from 1826 to 1833.

## Political career

He served as district attorney of Wayne County in 1829 and 1830. He moved to Rochester, New York, in 1833 and continued the practice of law.

### Congress

Chapin was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837).

## Death

He died in Mount Morris, New York, September 8, 1843.
# Basketball at the 2002 Asian Games

Basketball was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea between 28 September and 14 October 2002. The competition took place at Geumjeong Gymnasium and Sajik Arena.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | S | Second round | C | Classification | ½ | Semifinals | B | Bronze medal match | G | Gold medal match |
| Event↓/Date → | 28th Sat | 29th Sun | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 6th Sun | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 10th Thu | 11th Fri | 12th Sat | 13th Sun | 14th Mon |
| Men | P | P | P | | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | C | | ½ | B | G |
| Women | | | | | | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | | ½ | B | G |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Choo Seung-gyun Shin Ki-sung Kim Seung-hyun Cho Sang-hyun Lee Kyu-sup Hyun Joo-yup Moon Kyung-eun Seo Jang-hoon Bang Sung-yoon Chun Hee-chul Lee Sang-min Kim Joo-sung | China Guo Shiqiang Liu Wei Gong Xiaobin Zhang Cheng Hu Weidong Chen Ke Li Nan Liu Yudong Zhu Fangyu Yao Ming Mengke Bateer Du Feng | Kazakhstan Roman Muravyov Fedor Zakharchenko Alexey Yeropkin Vitaliy Lopatin Alexandr Yemelyanov Mikhail Dedov Yevgeniy Issakov Sergey Vdovin Vitaliy Strebkov Yevgeniy Ovsyannikov Alexandr Derbush Boris Tikhonenko |
| Women details | China Song Xiaoyun Zhang Hanlan Pan Wei Miao Bo Miao Lijie Ren Lei Sui Feifei Liu Xiaohong Chen Luyun Zhang Xiaoni Chen Xiaoli Chen Nan | South Korea Kim Yeong-ok Chun Joo-weon Kim Ji-yoon Lee Eun-ju Jang Sun-hyoung Lee Mi-sun Beon Yeon-ha Park Jung-eun Hong Hyun-hee Lee Jong-ae Jung Sun-min Kim Kwe-ryong | Chinese Taipei Chu Yung-hsu Chien Wei-chuan Chiang Feng-chun Mai Ya-hui Chao Pi-feng Huang Shiau-jie Chang Hui-yin Cheng Hui-yun Tsai Pei-ying Tang Su-tuan Chen Yi-ju Liu Chun-yi |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1998 Asian Games.

### Men

* Lebanon and India withdrew, India was replaced by North Korea and Kuwait moved to Group A to balance the number of teams in each group.

### Women

* Lebanon and India withdrew, The remaining teams played in a round-robin competition.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | South Korea | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| | China | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| | Kazakhstan | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Philippines | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 5 | North Korea | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | Japan | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 9 | Qatar | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 10 | Kuwait | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 12 | Mongolia | 5 | 0 | 5 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | China | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| | South Korea | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| | Chinese Taipei | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Japan | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Uzbekistan | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Malaysia | 5 | 0 | 5 |
# Fazlul Bari

Fazlul Bari (7 August 1936 – 28 October 2011, Hindi: फज़लुल बारी) alias Bannay Bhai was an Indian politician and activist. He was the member of 7th Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly from Gonda Assembly constituency.

## Political career

Fazlul Bari was first elected to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly in 1977 as a member of the Janata Party. He played an active role in the movement for the restoration and rebuilding of the Babri Masjid. Additionally, he served as the national president of Majlis Bachao UP. In the early 1980s, during a time when the Muslim community was facing oppression, especially following events like the 1987 Meerut riots and the Eidgah massacre of Muslims in Moradabad in 1980, Fazlul Bari organized a padayatra, a march on foot, from Lucknow to Delhi. This padyatra was a significant demonstration of his commitment to addressing the concerns and grievances of the Muslim community during a period of heightened tension and violence.
# Stephen A. Mikulak

Stephen A. Mikulak (October 15, 1948 – June 16, 2014) was an American Republican Party politician who served two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, from 1992 to 1996, where he represented the 19th Legislative District, which covers portions of Middlesex County.

## Biography

Born in East Orange, New Jersey and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Mikulak graduated from Vailsburg High School in 1966. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Rutgers University.
Mikulak, of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, who is of Ukrainian heritage, ran for the General Assembly in what had traditionally been a solidly Democratic district, as part of a campaign that targeted the Democrats statewide as being responsible for higher taxes. As part of the Republican landslide that year in the New Jersey Legislature in the wake of Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase package, Mikulak was elected to the Assembly together with running mate Ernest L. Oros and Randy Corman in the Senate, defeating incumbent Democrat Thomas J. Deverin and his running mate Jay Ziznewski. Mikulak was re-elected to the Assembly in 1993, together with Oros, though Corman lost his seat in the Senate to Democrat Jim McGreevey.
A bill proposed by Mikulak in June 1992 would ban the use of photo radar to ticket drivers caught speeding on the state's roadways, arguing that "bureaucracy has found ways of making things happen in the past that they said they weren't going to do" and that the practice of dispensing such tickets had to be prevented before any police agencies attempted to use a photo radar system. In June 1992, Mikulak sponsored legislation in the Assembly that would increase the speed limit on 400 miles (640 km) of state highways to 65 miles per hour (105 km/h) from the previous 55 miles per hour (89 km/h) limit, arguing that drivers were not respecting the lower speed limit and the fact that the highways had been constructed to accommodate the faster traffic.
On July 28, 1993, Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio signed a bill sponsored by Mikulak that passed with bipartisan support in both houses of the legislature which would impose the death penalty on terrorists convicted of killing anyone in New Jersey. Mikulak proposed the bill in March 1993 after visiting a room where four people had been killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
In the 1995 elections, Oros and Mikulak were unseated by Arline Friscia and John S. Wisniewski, two of the five seats that the Democrats picked up in that cycle. Mikulak ran for the New Jersey Senate in 1997, losing to Democrat Joseph Vitale by a 60.2%-39.8% margin for the open seat vacated by Jim McGreevey.
He died on June 16, 2014, in Edison, New Jersey at age 65.
# Flying disc at the 2017 World Games

The flying disc event at the 2017 World Games took place in Wrocław, Poland.

## Qualified teams

| Team | Finals appearance | Previous appearance |
| Australia | 4th | 2013 |
| Canada | 5th | 2013 |
| Colombia | 3rd | 2013 |
| Japan | 4th | 2013 |
| Poland | 1st | Debut |
| United States | 5th | 2013 |

## Round robin
### Standings

| Team | Pld | W | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Colombia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 62 | 51 | +11 | 4 |
| United States | 4 | 3 | 1 | 51 | 37 | +14 | 3 |
| Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 61 | 44 | +17 | 3 |
| Australia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 55 | 55 | 0 | 3 |
| Japan | 5 | 1 | 4 | 45 | 60 | −15 | 1 |
| Poland | 4 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 52 | −27 | 0 |

### Matches
## Final ranking

| Rank | Team |
| | United States |
| | Colombia |
| | Canada |
| 4 | Australia |
| 5 | Japan |
| 6 | Poland |
# Andrzej Przeworski

Andrzej Przeworski (11 February 1900 – 24 November 1952) was a Polish footballer, referee and manager. A goalkeeper, he played for Cracovia (1914–1920, 1922–1926) and Polonia Warsaw (1920–1922).
His debut for the national team came on 3 September 1922 in a 1–1 draw to Romania.

## Family

Przeworski's nephew Adam Przeworski is a Professor of Political Science at New York University.
# Leucosioidea

Leucosioidea is a superfamily of crabs containing the two families Leucosiidae and Iphiculidae.
# Brandee Evans

Brandee Evans (born June 2, 1985) is an American actress and former choreographer, best known for her leading role as Mercedes Woodbine in the Starz drama series, P-Valley.

## Life and career

Evans was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her mother suffers from multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's. Before her acting career, she worked as a high school English teacher. She began her acting career playing supporting roles in films including Beyond the Lights (2014), and appearing on TV miniseries The New Edition Story and The Bobby Brown Story. As a backup dancer, Evans appears with pop singer Katy Perry in 2010 with the music video of California Gurls as "Bubblegum Girl".
In 2020, Evans began starring as Mercedes Woodbine in the Starz drama series, P-Valley. She received positive reviews from critics for her performance. She was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series in 2021 and 2023. In 2023, she starred in the female stoner comedy film, Pretty Stoned.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2012 | Note to Self | Sorority Girl | |
| 2014 | Black Coffee | Shea | |
| 2014 | Beyond the Lights | Dancer | |
| 2019 | Dear Santa, I Need a Date | Michelle | Television film |
| 2021 | B-Boy Blues | Michi | |
| 2021 | A Rich Christmas | Carolyn | |
| 2022 | Rolling Into Christmas | Celeste Franks | Television film |
| 2023 | Pretty Stoned | Tick-Tock | |
| 2024 | The Fabulous Four | Leslie | |
| TBA | Thirsty | Maya King | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2016 | East Los High | Guest | Episode: "Caliente!" |
| 2017 | The New Edition Story | Soul Train Producer | Episode: "Part 2" |
| 2018 | Lethal Weapon | Nurse | Episode: "Diggin' Up Dirt" |
| 2018 | The Bobby Brown Story | Tina Brown | Episode: "Part 1 & 2" |
| 2019 | Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television | Makeup Artist | Episode: "The Rhy Chromosome" |
| 2019 | Games People Play | Cinnamon | Episode: "The Wrath of Grapes" |
| 2020–22 | The Family Business | Sage | Recurring role, 6 episodes |
| 2020–present | P-Valley | Mercedes Woodbine | Main cast |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
| 2021 | Women's Image Network Awards | Women's Image Network Award for Outstanding Actress Drama Series | P-Valley | Won |
| 2021 | NAACP Image Awards | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | P-Valley | Nominated |
| 2021 | Black Reel Awards | Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress, Drama Series | P-Valley | Nominated |
| 2023 | NAACP Image Awards | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | P-Valley | Nominated |
| 2023 | Black Reel Awards | Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Drama Series | P-Valley | Nominated |
# Kanchhi

Kanchhi (Nepali: कान्छी) is a 1984 Nepali film directed by B.S. Thapa and produced by Bhagawan Das Shrestha. The film was a major hit in Nepal.
The 1984 release, Nepali movie ‘Kanchhi’ was one of the very successful movies at that time. The movie featured actors like Shiva Shrestha, Sharmila Malla (debut), Sushma Shahi, and Mausami Malla (debut) in leading roles.

## Cast and crew

Movie: KANCHHI
Banner: Om Production Pvt. Ltd.
Music: Gopal Yonjan
Lyrics: Gopal Yonjan Kanchhi
Cast: Shiva Shrestha, Sharmila Shah (now Sharmila Malla), Sushma Shahi, Shanti Maskey, Murali Dhar, Sushila Raimajhi, Sagar Thapa, Shaarada Basnet, Riddi Charan Shrestha, Ananda Thapa, Pragya Ratna Bajracharya, Baal Kumari, B.S Thapa, Gautam Tuladhar, Gopal Bhutani
Background Score: Manohari Singh
Playback Singer: Narayan Gopal, Aruna Lama, Gopal Yonjan, Prasad Shrestha, Prakash Shrestha, Sukhmit Adhikari, Bimala Rai
Dialogue: Chetan Karki Dance
Direction: Basanta Rayamajhi
Editing: K. Nanda
Camera: Ramchandra
Music: Gopal Yonjan
Producer: Bhagawan Shrestha
Co-Producer: Tirthalal Pradhan
Story/Script/Direction: B.S. Thapa
Audio Video by Budhasubba Music Centre.
Equipments: Royal Nepal Film Academy, Kathmandu
Lights: Ghan Shyam Daiwagya
Song Recording: Vibration Studio(Culcutta)
Sound Recording: Bombay Sound Service
Makeup: Dilip Kamble
Wardrobe: Baal Kumari Tailors

## Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by Gopal Yonzon.

## Production

B.S. Thapa was the director, story writer and dialogue writer of the film. The film shooting took place in Pokhara, Nepal and in India.
# Lies and Truth

"Lies and Truth" is the seventh single by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on November 21, 1996 it reached number 6 on the Oricon chart. The single was re-released on August 30, 2006.

## Track listing

| # | Title | Lyrics | Music |
| 1 | "Lies and Truth" | Hyde | Ken |
| 2 | "Sai wa Nagerareta (賽は投げられた, The Die was Cast) | Hyde | Ken |
| 3 | "Lies and Truth (Hydeless Version)" | ‐ | Ken |

## Chart positions

| Chart (1996) | Peak position |
| Japan Oricon | 6 |
# Andrzej Przeździecki

Andrzej Przeździecki (28 November 1926 – 6 January 2011) was a Polish fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
# John Wright (Tasmanian politician)

John Forsyth Wright (29 June 1892 – 16 January 1947) was an Australian politician. Born at Castra, Tasmania, he was the elder brother of Roy Douglas Wright and Senator Reginald Wright, both of whom were knighted. He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Darwin in 1940, in a recount following the resignation of Frank Edwards. Defeated in 1941, he died in 1947 at Ulverstone.
# Ezzatollah Siamak

Ezzatollah Siamak (persisk:عزت‌الله سیامک) Died on Tuesday 19 October 1954, was a colonel in the Gendarmerie and one of the founders of the Military Organization of the Tudeh Party of Iran, also serving as a member of its secretariat.

## Background

The Military Organization of the Tudeh Party was established in 1944 by Abdolsamad Kambakhsh, Ezzatollah Siamak, and Khosro Roozbeh. Despite the repercussions resulting from the suppression of the military branch of the Tudeh Party after the uprisings of the Khorasan officers and the Azerbaijan events in 1946–47, leading to their crackdown, forced migration, and escape to the Soviet Union, the presence of Colonel Siamak, Khosrow Roozbeh, and Colonel Mohammad Ali Mobasheri, who remained safe from army arrests, ensured the core of the Military Organization of the Tudeh Party was preserved, allowing it to continue its covert activities.
Ultimately, with the accidental arrest of one of the Tudeh officers in August 1954, the Military Organization of the Tudeh Party was exposed. Most of them were arrested, executed, or imprisoned, and the remaining members fled Iran.
Colonel Siamak was among the detainees sentenced to death in a military court and, on October 19, 1954, was executed in the field of the 2nd Armored Brigade alongside nine others, marking the first group of Tudeh officers to face the firing squad.
Ahmad Shamlou dedicated his poem "Saat-e Edam" (The Execution Hour) as a lament and tribute to Colonel Siamak. The Persian song Mara Beboos has mistakenly been attributed to Colonel Siamak and circulated with the claim that he composed it for his daughter just before the execution. Another version suggests that this song was composed by Colonel Mobasheri for Colonel Siamak. However, the coincidence of the song's release which was actually composed by Heydar Raqabi with the execution of officers and the specific political conditions of that time, given the song's content, contributed to these rumors.
Colonel Siamak's body was delivered to his family for burial after the execution and laid to rest in the Imamzadeh Abdullah cemetery in Rey, Tehran.
# Clement Dowd

Clement Dowd (August 27, 1832 – April 15, 1898) was a Democratic politician in North Carolina who served as Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1869 to 1871 and as a U.S. Representative from 1881 to 1885.
Dowd was born at Richland Creek, in Moore County, NC, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1856. He served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. An attorney, bank president and one-time newspaper editor, Dowd was a law partner of North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance.
After serving as a city alderman, Dowd was the first mayor of Charlotte elected after the Civil War (his predecessor had been appointed by the state governor). While Dowd was mayor of Charlotte, the city police department was established and a new city charter was adopted.
He served two terms in Congress but chose not to run for re-election in 1884. Dowd worked as the federal tax collector for North Carolina in 1886-1887. He then returned to the practice of law and died in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 15, 1898.