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Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873.
Henry Leroy Willson (July 31, 1911 – November 2, 1978) was an American Hollywood talent agent who played a large role in developing the beefcake craze of the 1950s.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
Apr 16, 2024 · Henry Wilson (born Feb. 16, 1812, Farmington, N.H., U.S.—died Nov. 22, 1875, Washington, D.C.) was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement.
May 13, 2020 · Talent agent Henry Willson represented Hollywood hunks in the 1950s. Behind the scenes, he was a notorious casting couch predator. Willson was fiercely protective of his stars' secrets — even hiring members of the mafia to help him keep the truth from getting out.
May 6, 2020 · Talent agent Henry Willson (Jim Parsons) is one of the real-life figures featured in Netflix's Hollywood. Willson and his client, Rock Hudson, had a complicated relationship. Hollywood tells much of Willson's story—but not all. Here's who Willson was, and what happened to him.
Wilson introduced the first post war civil rights bill in 1865 and influenced Congress’s passage of constitutional amendments to guarantee citizenship rights to African Americans. Elected vice president in 1873, he became ill shortly after taking office and died on November 22, 1875.
May 1, 2020 · Henry Willson, played by Jim Parsons in Netflix's 'Hollywood,' was a real life Hollywood agent. He represented Rock Hudson, just like in Ryan Murphy's show.
Jun 16, 2017 · In1837 Wilson was an unsuccessful candidate for the General Court of Massachusetts. 1 About this time his life changed. His friend, Erasmus Moore, organized a debating society in 1839. In the spring of 1840, Wilson had his first public politic debate on national issues.
Henry Wilson was an American general, senator, and later vice president who played a key role in the political lead up to the Civil War, handling military affairs during the war, and fighting for civil rights for all Americans during Reconstruction.
