Famous People with Name Thornton

Thornton John Kipper            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thornton John Kipper: (September 27, 1928 - March 29, 2006) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1953 through 1955 for the Philadelphia Phillies. Listed at 6' 3", 190 lb., Kipper batted and threw right-handed.

Thornton Starr Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thornton Starr Lee: (September 13, 1906 - June 9, 1997), also nicknamed "Lefty", was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1933-36), Chicago White Sox (1937-47) and New York Giants (1948)

Jessy Quinn Thornton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jessy Quinn Thornton: was an American settler of Oregon, active in political, legal, and educational circles. He served as the 5th Supreme Judge of the Provisional Government of Oregon, presented Oregon's petition for official territorial status to Congress, served in the Oreg

Robert Y. Thornton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Y. Thornton: was an attorney, politician, and jurist in the U.S. state of Oregon. A Democrat, he was the second-longest serving Oregon Attorney General in the state's history, holding that office from 1953 to 1969. His 16-year tenure was second only to Republican Isaa

John Randolph Thornton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Randolph Thornton: was a United States Senator from Louisiana. He enlisted in the Confederate States Army and served until the close of the Civil War in Company B, Second Louisiana Cavalry. He engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1877, studied law, was admitted to the bar

John Thornton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Thornton: was an American-born merchant, farmer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Stanstead in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1875 to 1878 and from 1881 to 1886 as a Conservative.

Charles Jonas Thornton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Jonas Thornton: was a political figure in Durham, Ontario. Thornton first ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a Patrons of Industry candidate in Durham West during the 1896 federal election but fared poorly comining in third place with less than 500 votes. He was elected as the Conservative MP for Durham West in the 1900 federal election. His election was declared void in October 1901 and his seat declared vacant. A by-election was held in January 1902 in which his Liberal opponent defeated Thornton by 28 votes. He returned to the House of Commons in the 1908 federal election, this time representing Durham, and was re-elected in the 1911 federal election. Thornton remained in parliament until the 1917 federal election in which he stepped aside so that the wartime Union Government which Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden had formed could run Liberal-Unionist Newton Wesley Rowell as a pro-Government candidate.