151027-0234WilliamClayton
William Clayton was a business leader and government official. After dropping out of school, he became an expert stenographer and was a private secretary to Jerome Hall, a Saint Louis cotton merchant. In 1896, Clayton went to work for the American Cotton Co in New York, and became an assistant general manager in 1904. He then co-founded Anderson, Clayton and Company, a cotton marketing firm which eventually became the world's largest cotton-trading enterprise. President Truman appointed Clayton as the first Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, a post Clayton held for 1946-47. Clayton strongly supported American economic aid to rebuild Europe after World War II and had a major role in shaping the Marshall Plan in 1947. In 1963, when Clayton was in his eighties, President Kennedy asked him to work on the national export expansion program and the limited nuclear test ban treaty.
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151030-1567WilliamHobby
William Hobby was the publisher of the Houston Post and Hobby was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1914, then the 27th Governor of the Texas from 1917-1921. Hobby served as a member on the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College. The airport in Houston is named after him.
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151030-1569ThomasLubbock
Thomas Saltus Lubbock was a Texas Ranger and colonel in the Confederate army. His brother, Francis, was Governor of Texas. In 1835, Thomas moved from South Carolina to Louisiana, and when the Texas Revolution started, he marched to Nacogdoches, Texas and participated in the siege of San Antonio de Bexar. Later, he worked on a steamboat on the upper Brazos River, then joined the Texan Santa Fe Expedition as a lieutenant. He and his men were captured in New Mexico and confined in Mexico City. Lubbock escaped by jumping from the balcony and made his way back to Texas. During the Civil war, Lubbock, and a few other Texans became a band of rangers to scout for the Confederate Army. At one point, from the head of a company of Virginia cavalry, they charged a Union camp, captured two of the enemy, wounded a third, and captured ahorse and a Sharps rifle. Only then did they realize that the Virginians had not followed them in their attack.
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151030-1769DavidVetter
David Phillip Vetter suffered from severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a hereditary disease. Individuals born with SCID are abnormally susceptible to infections, and exposure to typically innocuous pathogens can be fatal. He spent his entire life in a hospital or home isolation chamber and was referred to as "the bubble boy" by the media. His parents had a previous child, also named David (Joseph), who had died at age 7 months from the same hereditary disease. Thus it was controversial, and received criticized, for them to have another child with a 50% probability of having the disease. Vetter later received a bone marrow transplant from his sister, but he became ill with infectious mononucleosis after a few months and died after 15 days. His autopsy revealed that the bone marrow had traces of a dormant virus, Epstein-Barr, which had been undetectable in the pre-transplant screening.
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