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Macarthur, Mary Reid

(Encyclopedia)Macarthur, Mary Reid, 1880–1921, British labor organizer, b. Glasgow, Scotland. Working in her father's draper's shop, she became prominent in the shop assistants' union. As the representative of th...

MacArthur, Arthur

(Encyclopedia)MacArthur, Arthur, 1845–1912, American army officer, b. Springfield, Mass.; father of Douglas MacArthur. Raised in Wisconsin, he served with the 24th Wisconsin Volunteers in the Civil War and fought...

MacArthur, Douglas

(Encyclopedia)MacArthur, Douglas, 1880–1964, American general, b. Little Rock, Ark.; son of Arthur MacArthur. At the beginning (1950) of the Korean War he was appointed commander of UN military forces in South ...

MacArthur Fellowships

(Encyclopedia)MacArthur Fellowships: see John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. ...

MacArthur Foundation

(Encyclopedia)MacArthur Foundation: see John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. ...

Reid, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Reid, Thomas, 1710–96, Scottish philosopher. He taught at King's College, Aberdeen, and at the Univ. of Glasgow. He is known as the founder of the common-sense school of philosophy, also known as th...

Reid, Whitelaw

(Encyclopedia)Reid, Whitelaw, 1837–1912, American journalist and diplomat, b. near Xenia, Ohio. His distinguished correspondence during the Civil War for the Cincinnati Gazette led Horace Greeley to make him mana...

Edwards, John Reid

(Encyclopedia)Edwards, John Reid (Johnny Reid Edwards), 1953–, U.S. politician, b. Seneca, S.C., grad. North Carolina State Univ. (B.A., 1974), Univ. of North Carolina (J.D., 1977). The son of a textile-mill work...

Reid, Thomas Mayne

(Encyclopedia)Reid, Thomas Mayne (Mayne Reid), 1818–83, British novelist, b. Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1840 and after various adventures in the West served as a lieutenant in the Mexican War. ...

Reid, Harry Mason, Jr.

(Encyclopedia)Reid, Harry Mason, Jr. 1939–2021, American politician, b. Searchlight, Nev., Utah State Univ. (); George Washington Univ. law school (1964). A Democra...