[1] John Stafford was born December 18, 1940, to a United States Marine Corps family at Parris Island, South Carolina.
His paternal ancestors were Irish Catholic migrants from County Wexford, and claim links to the Dukes of Buckingham.
The show played pop and folk, and early R&B songs on 45s and LPs of those earliest singers, most of whom are now in the R&B Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
[citation needed] Stafford met and knew many of those early pioneer artists—Ruthie Brown, The Platters, The Drifters, etc.—personally, from the Casino Royale in downtown DC in the 1950s.
MCAS and NAVARA and the Navy JAG Investigations Division included three of the most important cases arising during that war.
[citation needed] The case of US v. David Y. Przybycien led to setting the limit on how long a serviceman may be detained before trial at 90 days, or charges must be dismissed.
[citation needed] The case of US v. John Phillip Wass raised the issue of whether the United States was in "a time of war" in Vietnam, as Congress had not declared war (as required by the Constitution), but merely passed the infamous Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in a rush requested by President Lyndon Johnson, before any confirmation of the reality of the second alleged North Vietnamese attack on the destroyer USS Turner Joy could be confirmed.
He began in 1952 with Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the next 32 years for Republicans,[citation needed] beginning in 1979 as a National Vice-Chairman of Reagan Finance.
[1] He was also National Vice-Chairman of Reagan Finance in 1979,[1] and Special Counsel for the Chairman, Warren G. Magnuson, of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce.
[citation needed] Stafford won one of three Republican nominations for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2002 in the 13th District of Howard County.
[1][22][23] He voluntarily stepped aside for Sen. John Giannetti, the Democratic incumbent, when John offered to switch to the Republican party,[22][23] as reported by the "Laurel Leader" and by "The Washington Post" (for whom Stafford was a paper boy in 1953 in Chevy Chase DC) Maryland congressional elections.
The second-time Governor, Democrat Bill Egan, called a special hydrocarbon tax structure session of the Alaska Legislature and put that State on a sound financial footing ever since.