Records of the National Archives and Records Administration. 1789 - 2007. Moving Images Relating to National Archives Activities and Events. 1985 - 1995. GENERAL WAINWRIGHT UNVEILS JAPANESE SURRENDER DOCUMENTS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
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Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was born on January 6, 1882, in a rural area of Roane County, Tennessee. At age five, Rayburn, along with his parents and nine siblings, moved to a forty-acre cotton farm in Flag Springs, Texas. One more child was born after the move to Texas, and every member of the family had to do their share to make the farm profitable. Rayburn's interest in government coincided with the family's move, and it has been suggested that his curiosity intensified due to the "great golden...
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953
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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (b. August 23, 1883, Walla Walla, WA–d. September 2, 1953, San Antonio, TX) was a career American army officer and the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. The son of Army officer during Spanish-American War Robert Powell Page Wainwright and grandson of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright II, Lieutenant in Civil War, he attended West Point. Wainwright was promoted to major during World War I....
