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Thomas Tierney (musician)
Thomas Tierney may refer to: * Thomas Tierney (mayor), mayor of Galway, Ireland * Thomas J. Tierney, American business executive, formerly chairman of eBay * Thomas M. Tierney, American administrator, director of the Bureau of Health Insurance {{hndis, Tierney, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tierney (mayor)
Thomas Tierney (1916 – 22 February 1998) previous Mayor of Galway, Ireland. Biography Early life Tierney was born in Galway's Mainguard Street, the son of John Tierney of Hollymount, County Mayo, and Ellen Kinnevey of Roscahill, County Galway. 'Tommy' was one of 3 children, and he had one brother and one sister. The family ran a grocery, and after the early death of his father, the business was sold and Ellen re-joined her first profession, nursing. Career Tierney began working for CIÉ shortly after leaving school, and was to become a prominent member of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, holding the roles of branch secretary and vice-president. His work in trade unionism brought him into politics and in 1960 he was elected to Galway Corporation where he became Mayor as an independent labour candidate in 1967, the first of the kind in Galway. He made industrial unrest and unemployment his priority, and was proud of the fact that while he was Mayor, no industrial a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination, nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African Americans, African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and has been its List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office, longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. He has also been the Court's oldest member since Stephen Breyer retired in 2022. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah, Georgia. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but became dissatisfied with its efforts to combat racism and abandoned his aspiration to join the clergy. He gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
