Dewey may refer to:
Places
In the United States
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Dewey, Arizona, a former unincorporated town, now part of the town of Dewey-Humboldt
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Wasco, California
Wasco (formerly, Dewey and Deweyville) is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, United States. Wasco is located northwest of Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield, at an elevation of . The population was 27,047 at the 20 ...
, formerly Dewey, a city
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Dewey, Idaho, a ghost town
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Dewey, Illinois, an unincorporated community
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Dewey, Indiana, an unincorporated community
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Dewey, Missouri, a ghost town
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Dewey, Montana, a census-designated place
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Dewey, Oklahoma
Dewey is a city in Washington County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,179 at the 2000 census and 3,432 at the 2010 census, an increase of 8 percent. It is located near the north side of Bartlesville.
History
In 1899, Jacob B ...
, a city
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Dewey, South Dakota
Dewey is an unincorporated community near the southwest corner of Custer County, South Dakota, United States, less than one mile from the Wyoming border in a prairie region of the Black Hills. There are approximately five or six homes in town. ...
, an unincorporated community
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Dewey, Utah, a ghost town
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Dewey, Skagit County, Washington, an unincorporated community
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Dewey, Wisconsin (disambiguation), various places
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Dewey County, Oklahoma
Dewey County is a county in the western part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,484. Its county seat is Taloga. The county was created in 1891 as "County D". In an 1898 election, county voters chose the ...
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Dewey County, South Dakota
Dewey County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,239. Its county seat is Timber Lake. The county was created in 1883 and organized in 1910. It was named for William P. Dewey, Territorial ...
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Dewey Lake
Dewey Lake, located near Prestonsburg, Kentucky in Floyd County, is part of the integrated flood reduction system operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the entire Ohio River Basin.
The lake was formed by impounding John's ...
, Kentucky
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Dewey Lake (St. Louis County, Minnesota)
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Dewey Marsh, Wisconsin
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Dewey Mountain
''There is another Dewey Mountain in Chittenden County, Vermont''
Dewey Mountain is a mountain in Franklin County, New York just south of the village of Saranac Lake. A hill that slopes down to Lake Flower
Lake Flower is a lake in Frankli ...
, in Saranac Lake, New York
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Dewey Beach, Delaware
Dewey Beach is an incorporated coastal town in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town is 341, an increase of 13.3% over the previous decade. It is part of the rapidly growing Cape ...
Canada
*Dewey, a former railway station near
McGregor, British Columbia
McGregor existed on the northeast side of the Fraser River north-northwest of the Bowron River confluence. Positioned between Sinclair Mills and Upper Fraser, in central British Columbia, the previous community has since dispersed. McGregor, as ...
People and fictional characters
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Dewey (given name)
Dewey is the masculine given name of Welsh origin, an Anglified spelling of ' Dewi', it is also used as a nickname.
Notable people with the name include:
* Dewey Balfa (1927–1992), American musician
* Dewey Bartlett (1919–1979), American p ...
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Dewey (surname) Dewey surname is of Welsh origin; the surname is an Anglified spelling of " Dewi".
It may refer to:
People
* Alvin Dewey (1912–1987), American special agent
* A. Peter Dewey (1916–1945), American colonel
* Charles Almon Dewey (1877–1958), ...
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George Dewey
George Dewey (December 26, 1837January 16, 1917) was Admiral of the Navy, the only person in United States history to have attained that rank. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War, wi ...
, Admiral of the US Navy
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John Dewey
John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and Education reform, educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
The overridi ...
, American philosopher and educator
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Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. He was a founder of the Lake Placid Club, a chief librarian a ...
, American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification
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Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th Governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in 1944 and ...
, American lawyer, prosecutor and governor of New York
Other uses
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Dewey (deer)
Dewey is the first cloned deer and was born on May 23, 2003. Specifically, he is a White-tailed Deer, or ''Odocoileus virginianus'', and was cloned from a dead buck by the Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or ...
, the first cloned deer
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Dewey Readmore Books
Dewey Readmore Books (November 18, 1987 – November 29, 2006) was the library cat of the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. Having been abandoned in the library's drop box in January 1988, he was adopted by the library and gained local attention fo ...
, a library cat in Spencer, Iowa, and subject of the 2008 non-fiction book
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World'', a 2008 non-fiction book
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Dewey (hill)
The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, prominence, and other criteria such as isolation. These lists are used for peak bagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt ...
, a classification of hills and mountains
See also
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Dewey Decimal Classification
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) (pronounced ) colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject. ...
, proprietary system of library classification
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Dewey Commission The Dewey Commission (officially the "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials") was initiated in March 1937 by the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky. It was named after its chairman, th ...
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Center for Dewey Studies
The Center for John Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) was established as the central home for the works and study of philosopher/educator John Dewey. Led by Larry Hickman, it self-describes as "the home of ongoing pub ...
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Dewey Square
Dewey Square is a square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts which lies at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue, Summer Street, Federal Street, Purchase Street and the John F. Kennedy Surface Road, with the Central Artery ( I-93) passing und ...
, Boston, Massachusetts
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Dewey & LeBoeuf
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP was a global law firm headquartered in New York City, United States. The firm was formed in 2007 through the merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae. Dewey & LeBoeuf was known for its corporate, insuran ...
, a law firm
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