Title: Donald Phillip Verene
Content:  Verene is a lecturing academic at Emory University. He was Editor of Philosophy and Rhetoric from 1976 to 1987. From 1982 to 1988, he was the Chair of Emory's Department of Philosophy. Considered a worldwide authority on Giambattista Vico, he leads Emory's Center for Vico Studies and edits New Vico Studies. His wife, Molly Black Verene, serves as Assistant Director of the Center. He also serves on the Board of Visitors for Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia. Verene was a Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1988. He was a Visiting Scholar at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1996. He is also a Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Title: Russ Verney
Content:  In the early 1990s, Verney served as the Democratic Party State Treasurer in New Hampshire. By 1992, he was the party's executive director for the state. Later that year, he joined Ross Perot's campaign and worked as the candidate's spokesman and top advisor, helping the candidate win 19% of the popular vote and participation in a three-way presidential debate. After the campaign, he served as a coordinator and spokesman for Perot's organization United We Stand America, which opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement. By 1995, he was the organization's National Executive director. That same year, the group helped form the Reform Party of 
Title: Russ Verney
Content:  United States. Verney labeled this "the most significant thing that's happened in American politics in 130 years." Verney served as the party's first chairman and as director for Perot's 1996 presidential campaign. Under the party's banner, Perot won 8.4% of the national vote in the 1996 presidential election and in 1998, former wrestler Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota. After Ventura made comments in Playboy Magazine that offended some members of the party, Verney sent a letter to Governor Ventura, asking for his resignation from the party for his comments "about religion, sexual assault, overweight people, drugs, prostitution, women's undergarments and many other 
Title: Verne Orr
Content:  George Vernon Orr, Jr. (November 12, 1916 – November 27, 2008) was the 14th Secretary of the Air Force, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. From California, he was a businessman and educator who served in both state and national government positions.
Title: Russ Verney
Content:  [that] do not represent the values, principles or ethics upon which this party was built." In the letter, he admonished Ventura for bringing "shame to yourself and disgrace to the members of the Reform Party." Ventura had no response to the request. He did not run for re-election in 1999 as the party's chairman, commenting that it was time for someone else to hold the position. To his chagrin, Jack Gargan, a close ally of Jesse Ventura, was elected to the position. He sparred often with Verney, whom Gargan and Ventura felt had operated the party in a dictatorial fashion for too long.
Title: Vernon and Irene Castle
Content:  challenged on copyright grounds, and management cut it. In addition, her act in the show was scheduled for late in the evening, which conflicted with her early morning film work. As the show failed, she and others were let go by the producers. She later sued successfully, but by then the production company was bankrupt. For the rest of 1917, she made well-received appearances on behalf of war charities. On 15 February 1918, over Benbrook Field, a training field near Fort Worth, Texas, Vernon took emergency action shortly after takeoff to avoid a collision with another aircraft. His plane stalled, and he was 
Title: William Vernon
Content:  parameters. After moving closer to the heart of revolutionary activity, Vernon was appointed by the Continental Congress as the president of the Eastern Naval Board on May 6, 1777. This position was effectively the precursor to the Department of the Navy (effectively making Vernon the first Secretary of the Navy, before the position was officially established in the 1790s). In this position, Vernon was responsible for building and outfitting the ships of the colonial Navy for the duration of the American Revolution. Vernon was extremely dedicated to his duties; on several occasions, he actually contributed some of his own personal wealth to the cause with little chance of collecting interest or even repayment. After the Revolution, Vernon became involved in the Board of the Admiralty before returning to Newport.
Title: Forbes George Vernon
Content:  Frederick Houghton. Vernon's original homestead of 160 acre, near the city which bears his name, grew to become the 13,000 acre (53 km2) Coldstream Ranch, which he sold in 1891 to Lord Aberdeen. In 1876, he was named Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works in the provincial cabinet and served until 1878. He later served in the same cabinet post from 1887 to 1894. After retiring from politics, Vernon served as Agent General for the province of British Columbia in London from 1895 to 1899. He was married at Victoria 11 September 1877 to Katie Alma Branks of California; she died 31 March 1885 and was buried at Victoria. They had two daughters: Gladys Louise (1878–1892); and Beatrice Alma Ashley (1881–????), who went on to marry Captain Montague Furber. Vernon died in London in 1911. The northern Okanagan city of Vernon was named after him.
Title: Verne Orr
Content:  1985. After his Air Force service, Orr returned to Pasadena where he became a partner in Smith Orr & Associates, a planning and management consulting firm. In 1999, Orr accepted the position of dean at the University of La Verne's School of Business and International Studies. He served as dean the university until June 2002 when he retired as dean emeritus. In 2005, after working on his dissertation for 14 years, Orr was award a doctor of philosophy degree in politics and public policy from Claremont Graduate University. At the time, he was 88 years old. His doctoral dissertation was on the development of the B-1 bomber, a system he helped to procure as Secretary of the Air Force.
Title: Vern
Content:  known for The Teahouse of the August Moon ; Vernon Vern Stephens (1920–1968), American Major League Baseball player ; Verner E. Suomi (1915–1995), Finnish-American educator, inventor and scientist, considered the father of satellite meteorology ; Vern Swanson (born 1941), American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives ; Vern Taylor, Canadian figure skater (1970s) and coach ; Vern Terpstra (1927–2013), Professor Emeritus of international business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan ; Vern Tincher (born 1936), American politician, former member of the Indiana House of Representatives ; Delbert Lavern Vern Williams (1930–2006), American bluegrass musician Vern is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Vernon, Lavern or other names. People named Vern include: 

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": What was Ernest Verne vice president?
Answer: False