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22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (UA) Battles/wars. American Civil War. Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873.
Henry Leroy Willson (July 31, 1911 – November 2, 1978) was an American Hollywood talent agent who played a large role in developing the beefcake craze of the 1950s.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
May 13, 2020 · Talent agent Henry Willson represented Hollywood hunks in the 1950s. Behind the scenes, he was a notorious casting couch predator. Willson was fiercely protective of his stars' secrets — even hiring members of the mafia to help him keep the truth from getting out.
Henry Wilson was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement. Wilson was the son of Winthrop Colbath, Jr., a labourer, and Abigail Witham. Indentured as a farm labourer at age.
Henry Wilson was an American general, senator, and later vice president who played a key role in the political lead up to the Civil War, handling military affairs during the war, and fighting for civil rights for all Americans during Reconstruction.
Jun 2, 2020 · Without Henry Willson, there is every chance that the former Roy Fitgerald might well have gone through life as a nondescript truck driver. Henry not only made him a superstar, he also used his considerable connections and expertise to keep Rock’s private life private.
Wilson joined the Republican Party in 1855, the same year the state legislature appointed him to the U.S. Senate. In Washington, D.C, he served in the Senate until he stepped down to become vice president in 1873.
Wilson introduced the first post war civil rights bill in 1865 and influenced Congress’s passage of constitutional amendments to guarantee citizenship rights to African Americans. Elected vice president in 1873, he became ill shortly after taking office and died on November 22, 1875.
May 6, 2020 · Here's who Willson was, and what happened to him. It's not an exaggeration to say that the talent agent Henry Willson invented Rock Hudson. Depicted by Jim Parsons in the Netflix show Hollywood, Willson was a powerful figure in 1940s Hollywood. He was also a controversial one.
