| LC control no. | nr 94014367 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Townsend, John G., 1871-1964 |
| Variant(s) | Townsend, John Gillis, 1871-1964 |
| See also | Delaware. Governor (1917-1921 : Townsend) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Dover (Del.) Washington (D.C.) London (England) |
| Located | Worcester County (Md.) Selbyville (Del.) |
| Birth date | 1871-05-31 |
| Death date | 1964-04-10 |
| Place of birth | Worcester County (Md.) |
| Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | agriculture banks and banking political science real property food industry and trade mills and mill-work lumber trade social problems |
| Affiliation | Townsend Inc. Eastern Shore Orchard Company Baltimore Trust of Selbyville Peninsula Real Estate Company Pennsylvania Railroad Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Delaware. General Assembly United States. Congress. Senate United Nations |
| Profession or occupation | telegraphers farmers fruit growers real estate agents bankers millers governors legislators |
| Found in | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Office of the President. Records, 1909-1952 (John G. Townsend; senator; born May 31, 1871 at Worcester, Md.; died April 1964; governor of Delaware, 1917-1921; U.S. senator from Delaware, 1929-42) OCLC, viewed January 6, 2022 (heading Townsend, John G., 1871-1964; usage John G. Townsend, Jr.) New York Times, April 11, 1964, viewed January 5, 2022 (John G. Townsend, Jr.; born May 31, 1871 in Bishop Station, MD; died April 10, 1964 in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia; lived in Selbyville (Del.); telegrapher for the Pennsylvania Railroad; farmed strawberries and became know as the "strawberry king"; owned and operated sawmills; acquired over 20,000 acres for farming and lumber; founded the Baltimore Trust Company of Selbyville, Delaware's second largest bank, in 1903; served in Delaware state legislature for one term starting in 1901; elected as a Republican governor of Delaware in 1916; served 2 terms in the United States Senate; pushed social reform legislation including women's suffrage; alternate delegate to the first meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations in London; only completed grade school; at the time of his death he headed agricultural, food processing, real estate and banking enterprises) <https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/11/archives/john-g-townsend-jr-92-dead-senator-from-delaware-in-30s-pashed.html> National Governor's Association website, viewed January 5, 2022 (Gov. John Gillis Townsend; governor of Delaware January 16, 1917-January 18, 1921; his company, Townsend Inc., largest poultry processor; his company Eastern Shore Orchard Company, second largest orchardist in the country; president and founder of the Baltimore Trust Company; president of Peninsula Real Estate Company) <https://www.nga.org/governor/john-gillis-townsend/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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