John Townsend
Wikimedia disambiguation page
John Townsend may refer to:
Politicians
John Townsend (MP for Warwick), English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1597 to 1614
John Townsend (Irish politician) (1737–1810), Irish MP for Dingle, Doneraile and Castlemartyr
John Townsend (mayor) (1783–1854), 37th mayor of Albany, NY
John Townsend (New York City) (1789–1863), New York politician
John Townsend (MP for Greenwich) (1819–1892), British politician and member of Parliament for Greenwich
John Selby Townsend (1824–1892), American Democrat legislator and jurist from Iowa
John G. Townsend Jr. (1871–1964), American businessman and politician, governor and senator from Delaware
John Townsend (Wisconsin politician) (born 1938), Wisconsin politician
Scientists
John Kirk Townsend (1809–1851), American naturalist
John Sealy Townsend (1868–1957), Irish physicist
John W. Townsend Jr.
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