Waldron
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- Adelbert WaldronAdelbert WaldronStaff Sergeant Adelbert F. Waldron, or Adelbert F. Waldron III, was a United States Army sniper serving during the Vietnam War . Although little known, Waldron holds the record for confirmed kills by any American sniper in history at 109. Carlos Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills, Eric R...
, United States Army sniper - Alfred M. WaldronAlfred M. WaldronAlfred Marpole Waldron was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania....
, United States politician - Caroline Waldron, British actress
- Duncan WaldronDuncan WaldronDuncan Waldron is a photographer and amateur astronomer.Duncan Waldron was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His first job was creating high quality reproductions of astronomical plates for the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh...
, astronomer and photographer - Henry WaldronHenry WaldronHenry Waldron was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Waldron was born in Albany, New York. He attended Albany Academy and graduated from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1836. He moved to Michigan in 1837 and was employed as a civil engineer in railroad work...
, United States politician - Irv WaldronIrv WaldronIrving J. Waldron was a Major League Baseball player. He played outfield for the Milwaukee Brewers and the Washington Senators in the 1901 season. He was born in Hillside, New York on January 21, 1876. Waldron played 141 games in 1901, his only season. He got 186 hits with an average of .311. Irv...
, baseball player - John C. WaldronJohn C. WaldronJohn Charles Waldron was a United States Navy aviator who led a squadron of torpedo bombers in World War II...
, United States Navy aviator - Jeremy WaldronJeremy WaldronJeremy Waldron is professor of law and philosophy at the New York University School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford University.-Career:...
, legal philosopher - Kathleen WaldronKathleen WaldronDr. Kathleen M. Waldron is an American author, financial executive and educator. She is currently the seventh president of William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. From 2004 to 2009, she served as the president of Baruch College of the City University of New York, succeeding Edward Regan,...
, president of Baruch College of the City University of New York - Mal WaldronMal WaldronMalcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...
, composer and pianist - Major Richard WaldronRichard WaldronMajor Richard Waldron dominated the society and economy of early colonial Dover, New Hampshire and had a substantial presence in greater New Hampshire and in neighbouring Massachusetts...
, second "president" of Colonial New Hampshire - Richard Waldron (Colonel)Richard Waldron (Colonel)Richard, son of the Major of the same name, maintained the position of the Waldron family in Dover and colonial New Hampshire through intermarriage with other leading families and inheritance or purchase of many of the positions once held by his father...
, prominent officeholder in colonial New Hampshire - Richard Waldron (Secretary)Richard Waldron (Secretary)Richard Waldron was a major opponent of the Wentworth oligarchy in colonial New Hampshire. He supported a continued political subordination of New Hampshire to Massachusetts and opposed moves to separation from this traditional senior partner...
, leading opponent of the Wentworth oligarchy in colonial New Hampshire - Richard Waldron IVRichard Waldron IVRichard Waldron IVs 1735 handwritten transcript of Harvard College laws or regulations is considered the earliest extant example of the use of the slang word "John" to describe a washroom or bathroom or privy.-Birth and parentage:...
, 1735 college student and first writer known to use word John for privy - Richard Russell WaldronRichard Russell WaldronRichard Russell Waldron was a purser "and special agent" in the Wilkes Expedition, together with younger brother Thomas Westbrook Waldron . Cape Waldron in Antarctica, and perhaps Waldron Island in Washington state, were named after him. Waldron Ledge overlooking the Hawaiian Kilauea Crater is...
, purser and special agent to the Wilkes Expedition - Thomas Westbrook WaldronThomas Westbrook WaldronThomas Westbrook Waldron, a captain in the 1745 expedition against the Fortress of Louisbourg, afterwards a commissioner at Albany, New York, a Royal councillor in 1782 and later described as a Colonel, abandoned a close friendship with the last royal governor of colonial New Hampshire, John...
, Militia captain at siege of Louisburg (1745), royal New Hampshire councillor, patriot - Thomas Westbrook Waldron (consul)Thomas Westbrook Waldron (consul)]Thomas Westbrook Waldron was a captain's clerk on the Wilkes Expedition, and the first United States consul to Hong Kong. His service to the United States consular service was honoured by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a ceremony in 2009...
, first U.S. consul to Hong Kong, captain's secretary to the Wilkes Expedition - Thomas Westbrook Waldron (Canada)Thomas Westbrook Waldron (Canada)Thomas Westbrook Waldron was the first of his New Hampshire family to immigrate to Canada and was an early resident and farmer of Charlotte County, New Brunswick. He was the senior grandson of his namesake grandfather, yet moved away from his first homeland, where his family had been prominent. ...
, first Waldron family member to settle in what is now Canada - Daniel WaldronDaniel WaldronDaniel Waldron was the fifth and last generation of his family to hold the substantial Waldron estate in Dover, New Hampshire. With his bankruptcy Dover realized a new life and economy as a center of textile manufacturing.-Birth and inheritance:...
, last holder of extensive Waldron real estate in Dover, New Hampshire
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- Waldron, ArkansasWaldron, ArkansasWaldron is a city in Scott County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 3,508 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Scott County.-Geography:Waldron is located at ....
- Aroma Park, IllinoisAroma Park, IllinoisAroma Park is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, along the Kankakee River opposite the mouth of the Iroquois River. Aroma Park's population was 821 at the 2000 census...
(formerly known as Waldron) - Waldron, IndianaWaldron, IndianaWaldron is an unincorporated town in Liberty Township, Shelby County, Indiana.-Schools:Waldron Junior Senior High School and Waldron Elementary School are both located in the town of Waldron. They are a part of the Shelby Eastern School District ....
- Waldron, KansasWaldron, KansasWaldron is a city in Harper County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11.-History:The ashes of evangelist Tammy Faye Messner were interred in the Messner family plot in Waldron in 2007.-Geography:...
- Waldron, MichiganWaldron, MichiganWaldron is a village in Wright Township, Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 590 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...
- Heathfield and WaldronHeathfield and WaldronHeathfield and Waldron is a civil parish within the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. Heathfield is surrounded by the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.-Governance:...
, Civil Parish of East Sussex, England - Waldron, WashingtonWaldron, WashingtonWaldron, or Waldron Island, is an unincorporated town in San Juan County, Washington, United States. Although Waldron is not specifically tracked by the Census, the ZIP code is 98297, and this ZIP code is coextensive with Waldron Island...
, also known as Waldron Island - Cape WaldronCape WaldronCape Waldron is an ice-covered cape in Antarctica, just westward of Totten Glacier. It was delineated by G.D. Blodgett from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump , and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for R.R. Waldron, purser on the sloop USS Vincennes of the...
, Antarctica - Waldron Ledge, Hawaii
See also
- The Waldron War, 1870s conflict in Arkansas