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Vernon Jordan, 1998 News

close friend and adviser of President Clinton, was accused of aiding in a cover-up of the President's affair with Monica Lewinsky. Ultimately, the allegations that Jordan asked Lewinsky to…

Vernon Baker, 1997 News

77-year-old veteran, one of seven black soldiers who received the Congressional Medal of Honor in January 1997 for his role in World War II. Baker is the only one still alive.

Vernon Walters 2002 Deaths

Vernon WaltersAge: 85 public official and general who served under President Nixon as the deputy director of the CIA and under Reagan as ambassador to the UN. In all, Walters worked for seven…

John Vernon 2005 Deaths

John VernonAge: 72 Canadian actor who played Dean Wormer in the 1978 hit Animal House. Died: Los Angeles, Feb. 1, 2005Luther VandrossR - ZSimon Waronker

Khosrow I

(Encyclopedia) Khosrow I (Khosrow Anüshirvan)Khosrow Ikhŏsrōˈ; ăn&oomacr;shĭrvänˈ [key], d. 579, king of Persia (531–79), greatest of the Sassanid, or Sassanian, monarchs. He is also known as…

Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

(Encyclopedia) Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877–1934, American historian, an authority on the antebellum South, b. La Grange, Ga. After teaching at the Univ. of Wisconsin (1902–8), he was professor of…

Biographies: Selected Biographies A to Z: V

Selected Biographies A to ZA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z More Biographies Don't see the biography you're looking for? Search 30,000+ biographies Biographies by…

Welby, Justin Portal

(Encyclopedia) Welby, Justin Portal, 1956–, archbishop of Canterbury (2013–), b. London, grad. Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1978). An oil executive until 1989, he studied theology at St. John's…

Smith, Vernon Lomax

(Encyclopedia) Smith, Vernon Lomax, 1927–, American economist, b. Wichita, Kans., Ph.D. Harvard, 1955. He has taught at Purdue Univ. (1955–67), the Univ. of Massachusetts (1968–75), the Univ. of…

Adams, Doc

(Encyclopedia) Adams, Doc (Daniel Lucius Adams), 1814–1899, American baseball player and team executive, b. Mont Vernon, N.H., grad. Yale (1835), Harvard Medical School (1838). After working in his…