John Johnston Parker (1885 - 1958)

American Jurist. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1907, received a law degree in 1908, and became an attorney. A Republican, he ran unsuccessfully for a number of offices during the post-Reconstruction era when North Carolina was dominated by Democrats, including a 1920 campaign for Governor. From 1923 to 1925 he was […]

Harold R. Foster (1892 - 1982)

Cartoonist, he drew the “Tarzan” comic strip from 1931-37.  In 1937, he created and drew “Prince Valiant” comic strip. (bio by: Ginny M)

Judge Isaac Charles Parker (1838 - 1896)

US District Court Judge,  Folk Figure. The youngest son of Joseph and Jane Parker was born in a log cabin outside of Barnesville,  Ohio. He attended the local schools and taught himself law. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1859 at the age of 21. Shortly thereafter he relocated to Saint Joseph Missouri, […]

Mariano Fortuny (1838 - 1874)

Spanish Painter in the 19th century. Among his works are “Marroquíes,” “La Odalisca,” “La Batalla de Tetuán,” “Viejo Desnudo al Sol,” and “La Vicaría.” (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

Edwin Austin Forbes (1970 - 1895)

Artist. Born in New York, he began studying art in 1857 at the National Academy of Design in New York City, specializing in animal art. His instructor, Arthur F. Tait, achieved notice creating horse racing and country scenes for the Currier & Ives firm. In latter years features of Tait’s instruction were apparent in Forbes’s […]

Jean-Baptiste Papin (1756 - 1809)

Count de Saint-Christau. Lawyer, promoted to Count in 1808. Entered Pantheon 1809. (bio by: David Conway)

Carles Fontserè (1916 - 2007)

Artist. A native of Catalunya, Spain, Fontseré was the last survivor of the Republican Generation of Artists. Widely known internationally, he is probably best remembered by his propaganda posters during Spanish Civil War. Forced into exile, he then moved to Mexico and later to New York, where he developed a successful career from 1950 to […]

Commodore Perry Owens (1852 - 1919)

Folk Figure. C.P. Owens was the sheriff of Navajo County, Arizona on September 4, 1887 when he went to a house in Holbrook to arrest Andy Cooper. Cooper, whose real name was Blevins, was wanted in connection with the troubles associated with the Pleasant Valley War, a cattle range dispute sometimes called the Graham-Tewksbury feud. […]

Roberto Fontanarrosa (1944 - 2007)

Cartoonist, humorist and writer.  He began his career in the 1970s and is well known in Latin America and Europe for his two most popular characters “Boogie El Aceitoso” and “Inodoro Pereyra.”  He is well remembered for his passion for soccer, his short story “19 de diciembre de 1971” is a classic in the Argentine […]

Charles Herman Older (1917 - 2006)

Superior Court Justice.  It was early in his career as a Los Angeles judge that he presided over the bizarre Charles Manson mass murder trial,  which lasted ten months during 1970 and 1971. At one point Manson tried to attack him, leaping from his seat at the defense table towards the Older, but was stopped […]

Jean-Miche Folon (1934 - 2005)

Artist. An architectural school dropout, he went on to be a versatile artist, painter, cartoonist, sculptor and one of the world’s best known commercial artists. His work appears throughout the world in galleries, magazines and on murals in subway stations. In 1969, he had his first one man show in the United States followed by […]

Charles Fenton Mercer “Pete Whetstone” Noland (1970 - 1858)

Western Literary Figure. Born on August 23, 1810, in Aldie, Virginia, he was an orator most noted for writing yarns of rural frontier life under the pen name “Pete Whetstone”. After some time at West point, he studied law and became a lawyer in 1825. He entered into Arkansas politics, but after he killed Governor […]

Michel Fokine (1880 - 1942)

Ballet Choreographer. Born of a prosperous middle-class family and entered the Imperial Ballet School at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1889, where he distinguished himself for the breadth of his interests and studies. Fokine was talented not only as a dancer but also as a student of music and painting. He had a fresh and inquiring […]

Sir Michael Patrick Nolan (1928 - 2007)

English Jurist.  Baron Nolan,  author of the Nolan Report. He was educated at Ampleforth College and, following national service with the Royal Artillery, studied law at Wadham College, Oxford. He began practicing at the Middle Temple in 1953, specializing in tax law. He was made a Queen’s Council in 1968 and a member of the […]

Maurice H. Fleishman (1909 - 2009)

Architect. Fleishman, who graduated from McGill University’s School of Architecture in Montreal, Canada, was best known for his ‘mid century’ modern style of civic buildings in Southern California.  Among his most notable designs are the Marina Del Rey Yacht Club (1965), Santa Monica Municipal Courts (1968), Beverly Hills Municipal Courts (1970), Malibu Administrative Center (1970) […]

Col Evett Dumas Nix (1861 - 1946)

US Marshal. The son of a Confederate army officer,  he moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1889.  He ran a grocery store before he was appointed the first United States marshal over the lawless Oklahoma Territory by President Grover Cleveland. Nix hired the famous Three Guardsmen (Bill Tilghman, Heck Thomas, and Chris Madsen) and supervised over […]

Max Fleischer (1883 - 1972)

Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney’s strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture. Four of […]

John Randolph Neal (1876 - 1959)

Lawyer. He was the chief defense for John Thomas Scopes in the 1925 Scopes Trial, and was later joined by Clarence Darrow. Prior to this he had successfully won a seat in the General Assembly and two years later he won election to the Tennessee Senate. He was also a former University of Tennessee Law […]

John Flaxman (1755 - 1826)

Artist. Considered as one of the greatest British sculptor of his day, particularly renowned for his church memorials.

James Foster Neal (1929 - 2010)

American Trial Lawyer. He was considered one of the nation’s most outstanding prosecuting and defense attorneys. He attended the University of Wyoming on a football scholarship before joining the United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. Following military service, he attended Vanderbilt and Georgetown Universities, earning advanced degrees in law. He served as a […]

James Montgomery Flagg (1877 - 1960)

Illustrator.  He created the 1917 World War I United States Army recruitment poster that depicted “Uncle Sam” pointing at the viewer with the caption “I Want YOU for U.S. Army”, a work that has become famous and iconic in American history. Born in Pelham Manor, New York, he began to draw at a young age, […]

Michael A. Musmanno (1897 - 1968)

Nuremberg Judge. Born in Stowe Township, Pennsylvania, he was lawyer in Pittsburgh,  in the 1920s and was elected to the State Legislature as a Republican in 1928. During the 1930s, he was serving as an officer in the US Navy Reserves and as a judge in courts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. When World War II […]

Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick (1891 - 1969)

Cartoonist. In 1913 he began to work for the St. Louis Dispatch in St. Louis, Missouri, as a cartoonist. During his time at the newspaper he created some 14,000 editorial drawings that were championed toward the underdog types. In 1926 and 1955 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his drawings. He retired in 1958 after […]

Constance Baker Motley (1921 - 2005)

Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890 - 1956)

Artist.  A loner and shy person, he spent almost his whole life in Winnipeg painting, drawing and sketching quiet contemplative scenes.  He spent his childhood summers on his grandmother’s Manitoba farm where he developed a deep love for Canada’s prairies.  He studied art in Winnipeg, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then in New York City, New York […]

Harry Nicholson Morse (1835 - 1912)

Western Lawman. Born in New York City, he relocated to California to search for gold in the 1850s. By the 1870s, he was serving as a constable in the area of San Francisco when he was elected Alameda County Sheriff. Respected as a fine peace officer, he was best known for the capture of the […]

Harry Conway “Bud” Fisher (1885 - 1954)

Cartoonist. He was the creator of the cartoon “Mutt and Jeff”, which would become the first to achieve success as a daily newspaper comic strip. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was educated in the city public schools prior to attending the University of Chicago. In 1905 he left Chicago for California, where he joined the” […]

Vincent de Moro-Giafferi (1878 - 1956)

Criminal Lawyer. Vincent served in the French army in World War I, and was an officer of the Legion of Honor. He held the Croix de guerre. One of the most famous criminal lawyers of his era, he acquired a reputation that was global in scope. Courtrooms were packed with other lawyers, and the general […]

Lothar Fischer (1933 - 2004)

Artist. Born in Germershaim near Karlsruhe, he was one of Germany’s most acclaimed sculptors known for abstact human figures in clay, bronze and iron. Awarded numerous prizes in Germany and Europe for his art. A member of the German Artists federation from 1963 to 1994 and was professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin […]

Lester Moore (1970 - 1970)

Western Figure. In the late 1880s, Lester Moore worked as a Wells Fargo Station Agent in the Mexico-United States border town of Naco, Arizona. One day a man named Hank Dunstan arrived at the Wells Fargo station to pick up a package he was expecting. When Moore handed him a badly battered and mangled package, […]