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    William Graham Claytor Jr. (March 14, 1912 – May 14, 1994) was an American attorney, United States Navy officer, and railroad, transportation and defense...
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  • large American railroads: W. Graham Claytor Jr. (1912–1994) headed the Southern Railway and later Amtrak. Robert B. Claytor (1922–1993) was president...
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  • Harris Boatwright Claytor (1888–1973), American poet Robert B. Claytor (1922–1993), American railroad administrator W. Graham Claytor (1886–1971), of Roanoke...
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  • brother, W. Graham Claytor Jr., who had been president of Southern Railway (U.S.) and later, CEO of Amtrak. He was the son of W. Graham Claytor (1886-1971)...
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    Charles William Duncan Jr. (September 9, 1926 – October 18, 2022) was an American businessman, administrator, and politician best known for serving as...
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    commander of the Bureau of Navigation (BuNav) from 1905 to 1906, reported: [W]ith each year that passes the need is painfully apparent for a military administrative...
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    the Southern's steam program started by the railroad's president, W. Graham Claytor Jr. in 1966 through Merriman's 4501 Corporation. Repainted in Southern's...
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    1959, Appalachian Power Company (APCO) vice president W. Graham Claytor Sr., the father of Claytor Jr., borrowed No. 611 to haul a special excursion train...
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    documentary titled USS Indianapolis: The Final Chapter. Biography portal W. Graham Claytor Jr. List of U.S. Navy losses in World War II United States military...
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  • Retrieved 13 April 2020. Nominations of Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. and W. Graham Claytor, Jr: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States...
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    locomotive excursion program was instituted under the presidency of W. Graham Claytor Jr., and included Southern veteran locomotives No. 630, No. 722, No...
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    concourse. In 1994, this new passenger concourse was renamed to honor W. Graham Claytor Jr., who served as Amtrak's president from 1982 to 1993. The decorative...
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    James R. Schlesinger Donald Rumsfeld Richard Nixon Gerald Ford 63 W. Graham Claytor Jr. 14 February 1977 24 August 1979 921 Harold Brown Jimmy Carter 64...
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    repair, and also in part to the efforts of attorney and railfan W. Graham Claytor Jr., who offered to salvage the locomotive from the scrap line. The...
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  • journalist Don Phillips of the Washington Post in a "Tribute to W. Graham Claytor, Jr." published May, 1994 L. Stanley Crane has announced publicly he...
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    survivors of the torpedoed cruiser Indianapolis. Her commanding officer, W. Graham Claytor Jr., approached at night and turned searchlights on the water and straight...
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    announced the nomination of Hidalgo as Secretary of the Navy, replacing W. Graham Claytor, Jr. One of his priorities was recruitment of Hispanics into the Navy...
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  • Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1908) 1994 – Cihat Arman, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1915) 1994 – W. Graham Claytor Jr., American...
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    475 Southern Railway 154 Southern Railway 385 Southern Railway 401 W. Graham Claytor Jr. Portals:  Trains  United States The ET&WNC originally offered Ks-1s...
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    Southern Railway 385 Southern Railway 401 Southern Railway 1401 W. Graham Claytor Jr. Portals:  Trains  United States Originally, the ET&WNC offered Ks-1s...
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  • 14 Les Brown, American band leader (d. 2001) W. Graham Claytor Jr., American railroad executive (d. 1994) W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator (d. 2010)...
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  • psychologist (b. 1902) Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist (b. 1910) May 14 – W. Graham Claytor Jr., American businessman and naval officer (b. 1914) May 15 Royal Dano...
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  • the Railroader of the Year. Brosnan was succeeded as President by W. Graham Claytor, Jr. He remained on the board of directors of the Southern until 1983...
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  • Chertoff W. Graham Claytor, Jr. Christopher Reid Cooper John Sherman Cooper J. Harry Covington Malik R. Dahlan Roderick Allen DeArment Joan Donoghue John W. Douglas...
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  • the first Inspector General at Amtrak by former Amtrak Chairman, W. Graham Claytor, Jr. in April 1989. Prior to serving as Inspector General, he had held...
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    year’s circus parade. Also in 1968, Southern Railway (SOU) president W. Graham Claytor Jr. sought to purchase No. 5629 for use in the SOU steam program while...
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    Club were a total loss and scrapped. The other damaged car; the W. Graham Claytor, Jr., was donated to the VMT. After the wreck, NS decided to limit the...
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    NYSDOT chief and the second-longest serving head of Amtrak, after W. Graham Claytor, Jr. in the 1980s. In 2014, Railway Age magazine named Boardman its...
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    Ford 17 Charles Duncan Jr. January 31, 1977 July 26, 1979 2 years, 176 days Harold Brown Jimmy Carter 18 W. Graham Claytor Jr. August 24, 1979 January...
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  • against the wishes of the Carter administration and Navy Secretary W. Graham Claytor Jr. In August 1979, McCain was promoted to naval captain, and became...
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