Famous People with Name Terence

Terence "Terry" Neilson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Terence "Terry" Neilson: is a canadian sailor.

Terence Vincent "Terry" Powderly            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Terence Vincent "Terry" Powderly: was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, the son of Irish Catholic immigrants. He was a highly visible national spokesman for the working man as head of the Knights of Labor from 1879 until 1893. Although the Knights claimed over 600,000 members at its peak

Terence J. Quinn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Terence J. Quinn: was a United States Representative from New York.Quinn was a member of the common council of Albany 1869-1872. He was elected a member of the State assembly in 1873. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth (45th) Congress and served from March 4,

Terence James "Terry" Nugent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Terence James "Terry" Nugent: was a barrister, lawyer, World War II era soldier a Canadian federal politician from 1958 to 1968 and an alderman in the city of Edmonton, Alberta from 1968 - 1971.Nugent first ran as a Progressive Conservative for a Canadian House of Commons seat in the Edmonton—Strathcona district for the 1957 federal election. He was defeated by Social Credit candidate Sydney Thompson and finish third out of fourth place behind defeated incumbent Member of Parliament Richmond Hanna. Nugent ran for office again a year later in the 1958 federal election winning with a landslide defeating both Hanna and Thompson in a rematch to win his first term in office. The same election saw Nugent's party, which had been in power for a year with a minority government led by John Diefenbaker, returned with the largest majority government in Canadian history.

Terence James "Terry" Cavanagh            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Terence James "Terry" Cavanagh: is a Canadian politician, municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta, who served as mayor. He was Edmonton's first native-born mayor. Cavanagh entered politics during the 1968 Edmonton election, when he ran for Edmonton City Council as an aldermanic candidate. He was defeated, finishing fourteenth of thirty-two candidates in an election in which the top twelve were elected. He was more successful during the 1971 election; Edmonton had adopted a ward system (in which three aldermen were elected in each of four wards) to replace the previous at-large method of election, and Cavanagh placed second of seventeen candidates in Ward 4. He was re-elected in the 1974 election, when he placed first of nine candidates. In 1988, Decore (who had been elected mayor in 1983) resigned to take a position as leader of the Alberta Liberal Party. Again Council chose Cavanagh to serve as interim mayor, and again he was defeated soundly when he sought re-election - this time, he finished with fewer than half the votes of Jan Reimer during the 1989 municipal election. He would win his old aldermanic seat back in the 1992 election, and would be re-elected in the 1995, 1998, 2001, and 2004 elections.