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Bryan Wharton
Bryan Wharton (born 1939) is an internationally renowned photo-journalist and British photographer. He has won countless awards for his work for the Sunday Times. He has covered several topics including wars and natural disasters, but he is perhaps best known for his incisive portraits of well-known personalities, many of whom have become his closest friends.
External links.
- Collection of his photos
- National Portrait Gallery Sixities Style exhibition (Past exhibition archive)
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Thomas Wharton, the first President of Pennsylvania, died in office on May 23, 1778 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (The State government had evacuated to Lancaster during the British occupation of Philadelphia.) According to the provisions of the 1776 State Constitution Bryan assumed the duties of the late President. Some sources consider Bryan to have been merely the "Acting" President during the seven months that followed. Others—including the records of the Council itself—deny him even that title and continue to address him as simply