“List of people from Demopolis, Alabama”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Demopolis, Alabama:

Athletics

Richard Basil, former head football coach at Savannah State University

Tommy Brooker, professional football player

Robbie Jones, football player, NY Giants, Alabama Crimson Tide

Andy Phillips, major league baseball player^[2]^[3]^[4]

Paul Phillips, major league baseball player^[5]

Theo Ratliff, professional basketball player

Emanuel Zanders, football player, New Orleans Saints, Jackson State

Literature

Wyatt Rainey Blassingame, author of more than 600 short stories and articles for national magazines, four adult novels and dozens of juvenile nonfiction books

James Haskins (1941-2005), author (Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, The Cotton Club, Black Music in America, Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions, The March on Washington, Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation)^[7]

Michelle Richmond (born 1970), fiction writer and essayist (The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Dream of the Blue Room)

Hudson Strode (1892-1976), teacher of creative writing at the University of Alabama from 1924-1964, honored by King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden for contributions strengthening cultural relations between the United States and Sweden^[8]

Politics

Richard Henry Clarke, U.S. Representative from 1889 to 1897

Lacey A. Collier, lawyer and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida

James T. Jones, U.S. Representative

Francis Strother Lyon, member of United States Congress and Confederate States Congress

Bill Owens, Massachusetts businessman and politician, born in Demopolis^[9]

Benjamin Glover Shields, U.S Representative and United States Ambassador to Venezuela

References

1. ^{{cite book |title=The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama |author=Marengo County Heritage Book Committee |year=2000 |publisher=Heritage Pub. Consultants |location=Clanton, Alabama |isbn=978-1-891647-58-1 |page=263 }}
2. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2008/06/25/2008-06-25_exyankee_andy_phillips_joins_mets_for_su.html | title=Ex-Yankee Andy Phillips joins Mets for Subway Series | publisher=Daily News | last=Rubin | first=Adam | date=2008-06-26 | accessdate=2008-06-26}}
3. ^{{cite web| url=http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/team/transactions.jsp?c_id=nym&year=2008&month=7 | title= Mets Transactions July 2008 | accessdate=2008-07-01}}
4. ^http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20101223/NEWS/101229875/1011?p=1&tc=pg Phillips ‘back home’ with Crimson Tide
5. ^{{cite news| url=http://blogs.denverpost.com/rockies/2009/11/20/rockies-bring-back-catcher-paul-phillips/ | work=Denver Post}}
6. ^Vetter, Jason (January 18, 1998). "Adventurer from Marengo Wanders into the Big Money: Jim Rogers started out selling peanuts at Little League games, then made a bonanza on Wall Street". Mobile Register.
7. ^Watkins, Mel. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/books/11haskins.html? "James Haskins, an Author on Black History, Dies at 63," New York Times (July 11, 2005).] Accessed Apr. 28, 2009.
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/academy/h_strode.html |title=Alabama Academy of Honor: Hudson Strode |publisher=www.archives.state.al.us |accessdate=2010-08-05 }}
9. ^'Public Officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1991-1992,' Massachusetts General Court: 1991, Biographical Sketch of Bill Owens, pg. 70
10. ^{{cite web|title = WALDO SEMON (1898-1999)|work = Inventor of the Week|publisher = Michigan Institute of Technology|date = November 1999|url = http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/semon.html|accessdate = 2007-12-13}}

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