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Henry Wilson (nascido Jeremiah Jones Colbath) (Farmington, 16 de fevereiro de 1812 — Washington, D.C., 22 de novembro de 1875), foi o 18º vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos (1873 a 1875 ) e senador por Massachusetts (1855 a 1873).
The New York Times. Primary. External links. 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.
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- Later Years and Death
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Willson was born into a prominent show business family in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. His father, Horace, was the vice-president of the Columbia Phonograph Company and advanced to the presidency in 1922. Willson came in close contact with many Broadway theatre, opera, and vaudeville performers. Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, and Fred Stone numbered among t...
In 1933, Willson traveled to Hollywood by steamship via the Panama Canal. On board he cultivated a friendship with Bing Crosby's wife, Dixie Lee, who introduced him to the Hollywood elite and secured him a job with Photoplay, where his first article was about the newborn Gary Crosby. He began writing for The Hollywood Reporter and the New Movie Mag...
In his later years, Willson struggled with drug addiction, alcoholism, paranoia, and weight problems. As his own homosexuality had become public knowledge, many of his clients, both gay and straight, distanced themselves from him for fear of being branded the same. In 1974, the unemployed and destitute agent moved into the Motion Picture & Televisi...
Willson is portrayed by Jim Parsons in the 2020 Netflix miniseries Hollywood, a counterfactual re-imagining of post World War IIHollywood.
Richard Barrios, Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall(2002).Robert Hofler, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson. Carroll & Graf, 2005, ISBN 0-7867-1607-XIn office. 21 February 1922 – 22 June 1922. Preceded by. Thomas Watters Brown. Succeeded by. John Simms. 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.
13 de mai. de 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.
Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, GCB, GBE, DSO (5 September 1881 – 31 December 1964), also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer War and then during the First World War on the Somme and at Passchendaele .
16 de abr. de 2024 · United States. slavery. Henry Wilson (born Feb. 16, 1812, Farmington, N.H., U.S.—died Nov. 22, 1875, Washington, D.C.) 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.
