Steve Godsey
Steve Godsey( born June 25, 1955) was the County Mayor of Sullivan County, Tennessee from 2006 until 2014 when Richard Venable was elected.
He was also a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Richard N. Venable
Richard N. Venable( 1756–1838) was a nineteenth- century American politician from Virginia.
Richard Venable
Richard Venable( born October 2, 1944) is an American politician currently serving as Sullivan County Mayor.
He was county mayor of Sullivan County, Tennessee and is a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
While county mayor, he was chairman of the Sullivan County Board of Commissioners commonly called the County Commission.
He lost his Republican Party nomination bid in first congressional district race to replace the retiring Bill Jenkins to David Davis.
At the end of the race, Venable waited two weeks on official election results to concede his loss.
Unofficial results were inconsistent, varying from a margin of 512 votes to 576 votes, but the Davis win was confirmed by election officials.
Turnout was lower than expected in Venable's home county of Sullivan.
In addition, voters faced wait times in excess of two hours in 90- degree weather.
Some left before casting votes, citing physical disabilities or responsibilities to family or employer.
A long ballot, including judgeship retention questions, and new voting machines, mandated to meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements by the federal government in time for this election, may have caused voters to take more time at the voting booth.
Among Venable supporters and campaigners, questions were repeatedly raised as to why more machines were not provided when, as the story goes, 80 remained unpacked, and why paper ballots were not issued in lieu of distributing unused machines.
However, election officials said nowhere near 80 machines were unused.
And media accounts in the Bristol Herald Courier and Kingsport Times- News, among others, indicated the long lines and snafus were statewide, although they were especially troublesome in Sullivan County and the 1st Congressional District because of the race for Congress.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Robert C. Bassett
Robert C. Bassett( March 2, 1911 – May 5, 2000) was a newspaper publisher, lawyer, and advisor to U.S. Presidents Harry S. Truman and Richard Nixon.
Mauno Hartman
Mauno Runar Hartman (5 July 1930 – 18 July 2017) was a Finnish sculptor.
He is best known for his large works made of logs.
The largest of them is high Stockhimmel.
Hartman studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki from 1950 to 1954.
After that he traveled abroad for three years and searched for his own expression.
In 1960 he saw a house being dismantled, and the abstract shape gave him a vision of what he wanted to do.
After that he used old logs as material for his sculptures.
One of the highlights of Hartman's career was the use of his work as the stage set of the opera "Viimeiset kiusaukset" by Joonas Kokkonen.
The opera is about Paavo Ruotsalainen.
Hartman donated a collection of his works to the city of Lahti in 1993.
He had offered the collection to the city of Turku, but Turku could not commit to exhibit the large works in public.
Anja Meldo
Anja Meldo( born 1945) is a Finnish orienteering competitor.
She received a silver medal in the" relay" event at the 1966 World Orienteering Championships in Fiskars together with Pirjo Ruotsalainen and Raila Hovi.
Paavo Ruotsalainen
Påhl Henrik" Paavo" Ruotsalainen( 9 July 1777 – 27 January 1852) was a Finnish farmer and lay preacher who became the leader of the revivalist Awakening religious movement in Finland.
Deborah Voigt
Deborah Voigt( born August 4, 1960) is an American dramatic soprano who has sung roles in operas by Wagner and Richard Strauss.
Richard (II), bishop of Bayeux
Richard de Douvres, also known as Ricardus and Richard of Dover was a bishop of Bayeux at the beginning of the 12th century.

Question: Were Paavo Ruotsalainen and Richard Venable of the same nationality?
Answer: no