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# Edmund O'Connor

Edmund O'Connor (November 1848 – July 15, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was President pro tempore of the New York State Senate in 1895.

## Early life

Edward O'Connor was born in November 1848 near Mallow, County Cork, Ireland. In the spring of 1851, the family moved to the United States and settled at Little Falls, New York. After the death of his father in 1862, he began to work at a railroad blacksmith shop in Little Falls. He attended local public and parochial schools in Little Falls and studied at Little Falls Academy and Delhi Academy from where he graduated in 1868. Then he studied law in the office of Judge Rollin H. Smith in Little Falls, was admitted to the bar in October 1870 in Oswego, New York.

## Career

In 1873, O'Connor moved to Binghamton and started law firm Ludden & O'Connor with William J. Ludden, later a judge in Troy. In 1876, he was elected city attorney and dissolved his partnership. He practiced alone afterward. From 1880 on, he was a trustee of the Binghamton State Asylum. In 1881, he was elected as chairman of the auditing committee of the asylum. In 1897, he was appointed as attorney for the board of the asylum by Governor Black.
He was a Republican member of the New York State Senate from 1890 to 1895, sitting in the 113th, 114th, 115th, 116th (all four 24th D.), 117th and 118th New York State Legislatures (both 25th D.); and was president pro tempore in 1895. In 1890, he was chairman of the committee on commerce and navigation. He was a member of the Lexow investigation committee. He introduced a bill for the "equal division of the election offices of the state between the Republican and Democratic parties".
In the session of 1892, when Republican leader, he made a strong but unsuccessful fight against the re-apportionment of the state, and for his refusal to vote on an enumeration bill (voting reapportionment) he and two other senators were declared guilty of contempt by Lt. Gov. William F. Sheehan and their names taken from the roll. But they were supported by the judiciary committee in their position, were purged of contempt and their names restored.
After leaving the senate, O'Connor continued his law practice.

## Personal life

O'Connor married Bridget Murphy of Deposit on November 17, 1880. They had four children, Edmund, Helen, William and Florence. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. His brother William O'Connor was a port warden of the Port of New York.
O'Connor died on July 15, 1898, at his home at 132 Prospect Avenue in Binghamton. He was buried at the Catholic Cemetery in Binghamton.
# Paul Tittl

Paul Tittl (born November 23, 1961) is an American Republican politician and businessman.
From Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Tittl owns Vacuum & Sew Center and Paintball Paul's. Tittl also served on the Manitowoc County Board of Supervisor and Manitowoc Common Council. In November 2012, Tittl was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican.

## Political career

In 2006, Tittl made his first run for public office in challenging incumbent legislator Bob Ziegelbauer, but was defeated.
In 2020, Tittl and another Republican legislator, Shae Sortwell, erected a Christmas tree in the capitol rotunda, which had been prohibited by governor Tony Evers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Tittl and Sortwell had erected the display after failing to acquire the proper permits to put up the tree.

## Personal life and family

Titltl is married and has two children and three grandchildren.

## Electoral history
### Wisconsin Assembly (2006)

| Year | Election | Date | Elected | Elected | Elected | Elected | Defeated | Defeated | Defeated | Defeated | Total | Plurality |
| 2006 | General | Nov. 7 | Bob Ziegelbauer (inc) | Democratic | 11,163 | 54.00% | Paul Tittl | Rep. | 8,557 | 41.39% | 20,672 | 2,606 |

### Wisconsin Assembly (2012–present)

| Year | Election | Date | Elected | Elected | Elected | Elected | Defeated | Defeated | Defeated | Defeated | Total | Plurality |
| 2012 | Primary | Aug. 14 | Paul Tittl | Republican | 3,589 | 53.21% | Mike Howe | Rep. | 1,362 | 31.96% | 6,745 | 2,227 |
| 2012 | Primary | Aug. 14 | Paul Tittl | Republican | 3,589 | 53.21% | Barry Nelson | Rep. | 1,066 | 15.80% | 6,745 | 2,227 |
| 2012 | Primary | Aug. 14 | Paul Tittl | Republican | 3,589 | 53.21% | Jason J. Sladky | Rep. | 723 | 10.72% | 6,745 | 2,227 |
| 2012 | General | Nov. 6 | Paul Tittl | Republican | 16,287 | 57.56% | Jim Brey | Dem. | 11,947 | 42.22% | 28,295 | 4,340 |
| 2014 | General | Nov. 4 | Paul Tittl (inc) | Republican | 17,042 | 100.0% | --Unopposed-- | --Unopposed-- | --Unopposed-- | --Unopposed-- | 17,042 | N/A |
| 2016 | General | Nov. 8 | Paul Tittl (inc) | Republican | 17,325 | 64.97% | Ronald J. Kossik | Dem. | 9,305 | 34.89% | 26,667 | 8,020 |
| 2018 | General | Nov. 6 | Paul Tittl (inc) | Republican | 14,785 | 62.02% | Jennifer Estrada | Dem. | 9,042 | 37.93% | 23,838 | 5,743 |
| 2020 | General | Nov. 3 | Paul Tittl (inc) | Republican | 19,593 | 64.63% | Kerry Trask | Dem. | 10,703 | 35.31% | 30,314 | 8,890 |
| 2022 | General | Nov. 8 | Paul Tittl (inc) | Republican | 19,344 | 97.11% | --Unopposed-- | --Unopposed-- | --Unopposed-- | --Unopposed-- | 19,919 | 18,769 |
| 2024 | Primary | Aug. 13 | Paul Tittl (inc) | Republican | 4,203 | 59.65% | David Wage | Rep. | 2,833 | 40.21% | 7,046 | 1,370 |
| 2024 | General | Nov. 5 | Paul Tittl (inc) | Republican | 19,587 | 61.72% | Stephen R. Welch | Dem. | 12,123 | 38.20% | 31,736 | 7,464 |
# Dan Quart

Dan Quart (born May 29, 1972) is an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the New York State Assembly representing District 73 which includes parts of the Upper East Side and Midtown East areas in the Manhattan, New York City, New York. He was originally elected in a special election in 2011 following the resignation of Jonathan Bing. On December 23, 2021 he announced his plan to step down at the end of his current term.

## Early life and education

Quart was born in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. He grew up in Mitchell-Lama Housing. His father was a teacher for 41 years and a member of the United Federation of Teachers.

## Career

After being admitted to the bar, Quart worked as a volunteer lawyer for Legal Aid's Housing Division. In 2003, he was awarded the Pro Bono Publico Award by New York State Chief Judge Judith Kaye for his commitment to providing legal services to the poor.
Before his election to the State Assembly, Quart served on Manhattan Community Board 8 for eight years, where he was co-chair of the Transportation Committee and the chair of the board's Second Ave Subway Task force. When the project stalled, he helped secure $1 billion in funding.
In 2005, he finished second in the Democratic primary for City Council to Jessica Lappin.
Quart was elected to the New York State Assembly in 2011. He has introduced legislation to end cash bail, reform campaign finance laws for District Attorneys races, and hold reckless drivers accountable. He was part of a 7-year effort to repeal New York's gravity knife ban, a state law found unconstitutional by a Manhattan federal court judge.
In 2012, he was named one of City & State's "40 under 40" people who are young and influential in New York City politics.
In 2021, he ran for Manhattan District Attorney, losing in the Democratic primary to Alvin Bragg.
He continues to do criminal defense work while serving in the assembly.

## Personal life

Quart resides on the Upper East Side with his wife Miriam, and their two children.
# William W. Van Ness

William W. Van Ness (1776–1823) was a New York lawyer, state judge and legislator. From Claverack, New York, he studied law with John Bay of that same town, and was admitted to the bar in 1792. He served in the state assembly from 1804 to 1806, and on the Supreme Court bench of the state from 1807 to 1822. Van Ness was also a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1821, but was part of the minority which did not approve of the final draft. In 1820, Van Ness stood trial for impeachment on claims that he had used his position to obtain a bank charter. He was acquitted, but his health suffered after the experience. He died in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 27, 1823. His body is interred at Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack.
Van Ness married his wife Jane in 1796, and had five children. His house in Claverack, the William W. Van Ness House and also known as "Talavera", was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
# Amédée Gaboury

Amédée Gaboury (French pronunciation:; March 26, 1838 – June 11, 1912) was a physician and political figure in Quebec. He represented Laval in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1883 to 1884 as a Liberal.
He was born in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Baptiste Gaboury and Rosalie Ayet dit Malo. He was educated at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe and the Victoria School of Medicine at Montreal. He qualified as a doctor in 1862 and set up practice at Saint-Martin. Martin was married twice: to Virginie Lavoie in 1873 and later to Rosalie Picard. He was elected in an 1883 by-election held after the election of Pierre-Évariste Leblanc was declared invalid. His election was overturned by the Quebec Superior Court in 1884 and he lost the subsequent by-election to Leblanc. He died in Saint-Martin at the age of 73.
His brother Tancrède-Charles also served in the Quebec assembly.
# Elizabeth Sewell (activist)

Elizabeth Sewell (1940–1988) was a New Zealand activist in the feminist movement in the 1970s and 1980s. She was the first head of the Ministry for Consumer Affairs.

## Career

Sewell was a manufacturing jeweller and feminist in Christchurch setting up the Pregnancy Advisory Service in 1974. She was instrumental in the creation and operation of the Christchurch office of Sisters Overseas Service (SOS), an organisation which supported women to travel to Sydney for abortions in the late 1970s. She supervised two paid employees and volunteers as well as handling publicity and counselling of women. She was one of the organisers of the 1977 United Women's Convention, moving to Wellington in 1979 to become a researcher and private secretary to the Member of Parliament Marilyn Waring.
In the early 1980s she was National Executive Director of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) as well as being active in the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL).
In 1986 she became the first General Manager of the newly formed Ministry of Consumer Affairs where she strove to move consumer affairs closer to the community and have government recognise the work of the Citizens Advice Bureaus. She also worked to improve Standards for the consumer and addressed the International Organization for Standardization in Toronto in 1987.

## Personal life

Sewell was divorced after being married for ten years and had three children.
# Eugene F. Bannigan

Eugene F. Bannigan (December 16, 1911 – July 4, 1958) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

## Life

He was born on December 16, 1911, in Brooklyn, New York City. He attended St. Theresa's Parochial School and Xavier High School. He graduated from Manhattan College and St. John's University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar, practiced law in Brooklyn, and entered politics as a Democrat.
Bannigan was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1941 until his death in 1958, sitting in the 163rd, 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th, 169th, 170th and 171st New York State Legislatures. He was Minority Leader from 1953 to 1958.
He died on July 4, 1958, of heart disease.

## Sources

* ↑ New York Red Book (1958–1959; pg. 164)
* ↑ EUGENE BANNIGAN, Democratic Minority Leader of State Assembly in The New York Times on July 5, 1958 (subscription required)
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# Leo Portnoff

Leo Portnoff (1875 – 1940) was a musician, teacher, and composer. Born in Kyiv, he was a professor at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin from 1906 to 1915. He arrived in the United States in 1922. He initially resided in Brooklyn, and later moved to Florida to teach music at the University of Miami. Portnoff died in Miami, Florida.

## Selected Works

* Concertino, Op. 13 for violin and piano
* Concertino, Op. 14 for violin and piano
* Die Gazelle for violin and piano
* Minuet in Old Style for violin and piano
* On the Dnieper for orchestra
* Russian Fantasia No. 1 in A minor for violin and piano
* Russian Fantasia No. 2 in D minor for violin and piano
* Russian Fantasia No. 3 in A minor for violin and piano
* Russian Fantasia No. 4 in E minor for violin and piano
* Waving Fields for violin and piano
# Robbert-Kees Boer

Robbert-Kees Boer (born 18 October 1981 in Woubrugge) is a Dutch speed skater. He was a national short-track team member between 1997 and 2006). He was twice the formal Dutch record holder in 1500m short track speed skating (2004 Madison, and 2006 Bormio, Italy).

## Family

Robbert-Kees Boer is the cousin of Margot Boer.
# Hans Valla

Hans Valla (1 May 1909 – 21 December 1978) was an Austrian weightlifter, who competed in the middleweight class and represented Austria at international competitions. He won the bronze medal at the 1937 World Weightlifting Championships in the 75 kg category. He also competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
# Georg Stadtmüller

Georg Stadtmüller (Bürstadt, Hessen, 17 March 1909 – Passau, 1 November 1985) was a German historian and Albanologist.

## Biography

He studied German history, classic and oriental philology and history in Freiburg in period 1927–1931. He was president of History department on Munich University, specialist for history of European Orient and history of Albanians. In his 1942 work he published the controversial thesis in which he traced the origin of Albanians back to the region of Mat. Stadtmüller and later Stavro Skendi supported the controversial assertion about crypto-religious groups existing in the Balkans in all places where the population converted to Islam. Stadtmüller founded the Albanian Institute in Munich, Germany, in 1963. Stadtmüller is the author of the hypothesis that Mat valley was summer pasturage for early Albanians. According to this hypothesis Albanian language does not have loan words for flora and fauna found above 900m because this valley is situated in more than 1,000 m altitude and surrounded by mountains, admitting that flora and fauna found in lower ranges have loanwords originating in Slavic languages.

## Selected works

* Michael Choniates, Metropolit von Athen. 1934 by Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum
* Georg Stadtmüller; Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum; Ya'Itopyā 'ortodoks tawāhedo béta kerestiyān; Jacob (of Serug); Sebastian Euringer (1934). De Oriente: documenta, studia et libri ... Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum.
* Forschung zur albanischen Frühgeschichte, Budapest, 1942
* Die Islamisierung bei den Albanern
* Geschichte Südosteuropas, Munich, 1950
* Altheidnischer Volksglaube und Christianisierung in Albanien. Pont. Inst. Orientalium Stud. 1954.
* Das albanische Nationalkonzil vom Jahre 1703, Orientalia Christiana Periodica. XXII (1956),
* Research in Early Albanian History (1942)
* Saeculum. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. 1974. ISSN 0080-5319.
# Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1561–1622)

Johanetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein (15 February 1561 – 13 April 1622) was a German countess of the house of Sayn-Wittgenstein, who became the third wife of Count John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg.

## Live

Johanetta was born in 1561, the first child of Count Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1532–1605) and his first wife, Anna of Solms-Braunfels (1538–1565). Anna was a relative of the later Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602–1675). She was most likely named after her grandmother Johannetta of Isenburg-Neumagen (1500–1563), daughter of Salentin VII, lord of Isenburg and Neumagen (1462–1533).
His father was raised in Wittgenstein Castle, near Bad Laasphe. After his marriage he and his family settled in a Castle in the country near the city of Berleburg. Her mother gave birth to two more children, Juliana in 1562 and George II in 1565, before she died in 1565.
Her father Louis I remarried Elisabeth of Solms-Laubach (1549–1599), daughter of Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach. She gave birth to another 19 children, of which some died young. They grew up at the ancestral Wittgenstein Castle on a hilltop overlooking Bad Laasphe to a former hunting lodge near Berleburg.
In 1586 at the 14th of June at Dillenburg Castle at the age of 25 she married Count John VI, the eldest son of William the Rich and Juliana of Stolberg, who was 50 years old by then.

### Family

John and Johanetta had the following children:
* George Louis (12 April 1588 – 16 April 1588).
* Prince John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar (6 August 1590 – 10 March 1653).
* Johannette Elisabeth (13 February 1593 – 13 September 1654), married on 16 December 1616 to Count Conrad Gumprecht of Bentheim-Limburg.
* Anna (24 November 1594 – 11 February 1660), married on 19 June 1619 to Count Philip Ernest of Isenburg-Birstein.
* Magdalene (13 November 1595 – 31 July 1633), married on 29 May 1624 to Count George Albert I of Erbach.
* Anna Amalie (19 July 1599 – 4 May 1667), married on 25 November 1648 to Count William Otto of Isenburg-Birstein.
* Juliane (9 June 1602 – 26 August 1602).
# Manfred Bock

Manfred Bock (28 May 1941 – 31 October 2010) was a German track and field athlete who started for West Germany at the European Championship of 1962 and received the bronze medal in the Decathlon. He was born in Hamburg. In the 1960 Olympic Games, he took 10th place.
Manfred Bock was a member of the Hamburg SV. During his racing career Bock stood 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) high and weighed 90 kg (200 lb). Bock died in October 2010 in Uetersen.

## Tables

* 1960 Olympic Games: (6894 points, 7006 points on the 1985 table: 11.4 s - 6.79 m - 12.03 m - 1.85 m - 50.5 s - 16.1 s - 37.69 s - 3.90 m - 63.63 m - 4:27.6 min)
* 1962 European Championship: (7835 points, 7565 on the 1985 table: 10.8 s - 6.96 m - 13.25 m - 1.86 m - 48.6 s - 14.7 s - 39.47 m - 3.90 m - 62.85 m - 4:22.9 min)
# Johann Wilhelm Sturm

Johann Wilhelm Sturm (19 July 1808 – 7 January 1865) was a German botanist.
The standard author abbreviation J.W.Sturm is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

## Works

* With Jacob Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit beschreibungen - Nuremberg, 1817
* Nymphaea semiaperta Klinggraff, eine fur Bayern neue pflanze, bei Nurnberg aufgefunden - Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg, Nuremberg, 1858
* Ophioglosseae, Marattiaceae, Osmundaceae, Schizaeaceae, Gleicheniaceae, Hymeanophylleae - in Flora brasiliensis, Leipzig, 1854
# Thomas Bondhus

Thomas Bondhus (February 3, 1880 – January 5, 1954) was a state representative for Minnesota's 10th district serving Cottonwood County.

## Personal life

Bondhus was born on February 3, 1880, in Clinton County, Iowa He moved to Ida County with his parents when he was 3 years old and moved to Minnesota's Cottonwood County in 1895. He married Carrie T. Thompson in 1908 and had 7 children—4 boys and 3 girls. He resided in Storden, Minnesota, throughout his career as a legislator. In addition to government work, Bondhus worked as a farmer and served as secretary of Westbrook Mutual Insurance Co., Storden Co-Operative Company, and Local Township Mutual Insurance Company. He died on January 5, 1954.

## Education

Bondhus attended a public school prior to attending college. He attended college at the Minneapolis Business College and also had schooling at Minneapolis Normal School.

## State Legislature

Bondhus served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1937 to 1952. He was preceded by C. A. Halverson and succeeded by Sam Franz. He was elected in nonpartisan elections, but he caucused in the conservative caucus.

## Other government service

In addition to his service in the legislature, Bondhus served as both Township Treasurer and Township Assessor for Amo Township. He also served as assistant postmaster in Westbrook, Minnesota.
# Hans Platz

Hans Platz (13 December 1919 – 22 October 1988) was a German chess player.

## Biography

Hans Platz was started in 1938 as an 18-year-old for Magdeburg in Bernburg chess tournament. In the 1950s he was one of the leading East Germany chess players. In 1951, in Schwerin Hans Platz won bronze medal in East Germany Chess Championship. Later he worked as association chess trainer in the East German Chess Federation.
Hans Platz played for East Germany in the Chess Olympiads:
* In 1952, at third board in the 10th Chess Olympiad in Helsinki (+6, =3, -6),
* In 1956, at second reserve board in the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+4, =4, -2).
# A. B. Comfort

Arthur Blaine Comfort (May 8, 1884 – October 1974) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1943 to 1961 for District 26.
# Clyde V. Tisdale

Clyde Vernon Tisdale (March 24, 1890 – January 31, 1975) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives and Washington State Senate.
# Taylor's University

Taylor's University (commonly referred to as Taylor's) is a private university in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. It is Malaysia's top private university based on the QS World University Rankings.
It was founded in 1969 as a college, was awarded university college status in 2006, and university status in 2010.
Taylor's University is a member of the Taylor's Education Group, which also includes British University Vietnam, Taylor’s College, Garden International School, Nexus International School, Australian International School Malaysia, and Taylor’s International School.

## History

In 2006, Taylor’s was granted ‘University College’ status, which resulted in two distinct identities under the tertiary arm of the brand – Taylor’s College and Taylor’s University College.
Work commenced to build the RM450 million Taylor's University Lakeside Campus, in Subang Jaya, in early 2007 and was completed in January 2010.
Officially awarded as a full-fledged university status in September 2010 by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, Taylor’s is now one of the nation’s leading private higher education institutions.

## Lakeside Campus

In 2011, Taylor’s received the Special Honour Award from the Institute of Landscape Architects Malaysia in Category 3: Professional Awards in Landscape Design and Planning. The Lakeside Campus was awarded in all three building categories of Interior Design, Architecture and Landscape.

## Notable alumni
### Business

* Khalila Mbowe, founder and chief executive officer of Unleashed Africa Company Limited

### Sports

* Syakilla Salni Jefry Krisnan, gold medalist, 2014 Asian Games

### Media and entertainment

* Vanessa Tevi Kumares, Miss Universe Malaysia 2015
* Charmaine Chew, Miss Universe Malaysia 2018 finalist, Miss International 2019 finalist
* Darius Shu, cinematographer and filmmaker
* Serene Lim Shyi Yee (zh), actor

### Others

* Ainan Celeste Cawley, Singaporean child prodigy
# Sverre N. Omdahl

Sverre N. Omdahl (died 1970 at the age of 61) was an agriculture official and state legislator in Washington State. He served as the state's director of agriculture.
He served in the Washington House of Representatives in 1948. He was succeeded by Emma Ridgway in 1949.
He was a candidate for a state senate seat in 1948. He served on Governor Arthur B. Langlie's staff.