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Andrew Mamedoff
Flight lieutenantAndrew Beck Mamedoff (12 August 1912 – 8 October 1941), known as Andy, was an American pilot who flew with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain in World War II. He was one of 11 American pilots[1] who flew with RAF Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940, thereby qualifying for the Battle of Britain clasp to the 1939–45 campaign star.
Biography
He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire, in 1911 to Lev Mamedoff and Natalia Mamedoff (née Vonsiatsky). His father was an officer in the Special Corps of Gendarmes of the Russian Empire stationed in Poland,[2] while his uncle was Anastasy Vonsiatsky, a Russian fascist politician.
Mamedoff's family fled Russia after the Civil War, and lived in Europe for a short time. After Vonsiatsky had settled in Thompson, Connecticut, he convinced his wife to buy a neighboring farm for his sister's family.[3][4][5]
In Thompson, Mamedoff attended Tourtellotte Memorial High School.[6] He later enrolled in Br
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Andy Horowitz
Associate Professor and CT State Historian
Ph.D., Yale
Areas of Specialty
Modern U.S. history
Biography
Andy Horowitz is an Associate Professor of History and also serves as the Connecticut State Historian. Broadly, his work is meant to help people think through problems that are often imagined to be without precedent. A scholar of the modern United States, his research focuses on disasters and the questions they give rise to about race, class, community, trauma, inequality, the welfare state, extractive industry, metropolitan development, and environmental change. As a public historian, he works to support communities as they engage in acts of collective autobiography. Before joining the faculty at UConn, he was Associate Professor of History and the Paul and Debra Gibbons Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. Andy was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2014 and an M.S.L from Yale Law School in 2023, the latter with the support of a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Fo
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On November 26, 2000, Andrew H. Card, Jr., was appointed to be Chief of Staff in the presidential administration of Texas Governor George W. Bush. Mr. Card was chosen because of his impressive service record in the public and private sector, including serving in the administrations of two former presidents. Mr. Card's last day was April 14, 2006, making him the second-longest serving White House chief of staff.
From 1992 until 1993, Mr. Card served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George Bush. In August 1992, at the request of President Bush, Secretary Card coordinated the Administration's disaster relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. Later that year, Secretary Card directed President Bush's transition office during the transition from the Bush Administration to the Clinton Administration.
From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Card served in President Bush's administration as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff. He managed the daily operations of the White House staff and participated in the full range of economic, foreign, and domes
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