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(Encyclopedia) à Becket, Thomas: see Thomas à Becket, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Becket, Thomas: see Thomas à Becket, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Sumter, Thomas, 1734–1832, American Revolutionary officer, b. near Charlottesville, Va. He served with Edward Braddock (1755) and John Forbes (1758) in their expeditions against Fort Duquesne in the...

(Encyclopedia) Thomas, Lewis, 1913–93, American physician and biologist, b. Flushing, New York. In his youth he often accompanied his physician father on his rounds and decided early on to be a doctor or a writer....

(Encyclopedia) Egerton, Thomas: see Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Hicks, Thomas Holliday, 1798–1865, American statesman, b. Dorchester co., Md. In 1857 he was elected governor of Maryland as a Know-Nothing. After the states of the lower South seceded in 1860–61,...

(Encyclopedia) Dewey, Thomas Edmund, 1902–71, American political figure, governor (1943–55) of New York, b. Owosso, Mich. Admitted (1925) to the bar, Dewey practiced law and in 1931 became chief assistant U.S. a...

(Encyclopedia) Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, 1922–96, American philosopher and historian of science, b. Cincinnati, Ohio. He trained as a physicist at Harvard (Ph.D. 1949), where he taught the history of science from 1948 ...

(Encyclopedia) Butler, Thomas: see Ossory, Thomas Butler, earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Mowbray, Thomas: see Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of. ...