Oliver Newman (other)
Oliver Newman may refer to: * Oliver Peck Newman, president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia * Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman (born 1941) is an Australian metallurgist, administrator and amateur ornithologist who has worked for many years with Pasminco EZ Ltd in Tasmania and Newcastle, New South Wales. In Tasmania he was involved with stu ...

Oliver Peck Newman
Oliver Peck Newman (1877-1956) was a Washington, DC politician who served as the 11th president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from 1913 to 1917. He was also an advisor to Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dominican Republic leader Rafael L. Trujillo. Early life Newman, the son of George C. Newman was born in Lincoln, NE in 1877. His family moved to Des Moines, IA in 1884 where he attended school until 1897 when he left for West Point. After a year at the military academy he was dismissed for failing mathematics. He then moved to Albany and drilled a unit for service in the Spanish-American War, but they never departed. He moved back to Des Moines and became a journalist. He moved to Washington, DC in 1901 to work for the Washington Post and then to New Mexico in 1902 to serve as the assistant architect of the sanitarium for lung disease built near Fort Stanton, NM. He then worked at a number of newspapers around the country an ...
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