Researching William Poole
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 14429 people with the Poole surname? In that year Poole was ranked number 272 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Poole on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Poole and the Poole Family History
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Some Famous People called William Poole
William Poole (economist)
William Poole (born June 19, 1937) was the eleventh chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He took office on March 23, 1998 and began serving his full term on March 1, 2001. In 2007, he served as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, bringing his District's perspective to policy discussions in Washington. Poole stepped down from the Fed on March 31, 2008.
Poole is Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, Senior Advisor to Merk Investments and, as of fall 2008, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Delaware.
Source: William Poole (economist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Poole (Australian politician)
William Thomas Poole (1828 – 7 February 1902) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born in London to farmer Daniel Cluttenbuck Poole and Eliza Quiddington. He worked as a railway contractor from a young age and in 1851 was shipwrecked, penniless, in South Australia. He worked on New South Wales railways and settled in Sydney. On 31 December 1853 he married Emma Mary Slemmings, with whom he had five children; a second marriage on 21 June 1867 to Mary Sinclair Macfie produced a further six children. He worked as a district surveyor and also owned a sugar mill at Kempsey. In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for South Sydney, serving until his defeat in 1885. In 1891 he was elected to Redfern council, of which he was mayor from 1895 to 1896. Poole died at Redfern in 1902.
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