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Andrew Young (other)
Andrew Young (born 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former congressman, and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Andrew or Andy Young may also refer to: Politics and law * Andrew Young (British politician) (1858–1943), British MP * Andrew Robert Young (born 1961), American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso Sports * A. S. "Doc" Young (Andrew Spurgeon Young) (1919–1996), African American sports journalist * Andy Young (footballer) (1925–2008), Scottish footballer * Andrew Young (skier) (born 1992), Scottish Olympic cross-country skier * Andrew Young (baseball) (born 1994), American baseball player Others * Andrew Young (poet, born 1807) (1807–1889), Scottish poet and hymnwriter * Andrew J. Young (Medal of Honor) (1837–1910), American soldier in the American Civil War * Andrew Douglas Young (1881–1950), Australian stockbroker * Andrew Young (poet, born 1885) (1885–1971), Scottish clergyman and poet * Andrew Young (mathematician) (1891 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. Young later became active in politics, serving as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia, United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter Administration, and 55th Mayor of Atlanta. Since leaving office, Young has founded or served in many organizations working on issues of public policy and political lobbying. Early life Andrew Young was born on March 12, 1932, in New Orleans, to Daisy Young, a schoolteacher, and Andrew Jackson Young, a dentist. Young's father hired a professional boxer to teach Andrew and his brother to defend themselves. In a 1964 interview with author Robert Penn Warren for his book, ''Who Speaks for the Negro?,'' Young recalls the tensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Young (British Politician)
Andrew Young, JP (1858–17 February 1943) was a British teacher and magistrate who served as MP for Glasgow Partick from 1923 to 1924. Biography Prior to entering politics, Young worked as a shoemaker, map-mounter, joiner, and a compositor before becoming a teacher. In December 1881, he took up a teaching position at Edinburgh's North Canongate School, situated in the Canongate slum district. From 1895, Young served as the school's headmaster, a position he held for 27 years till the year 1922. In 1944, following his death, he left £100 in a charitable trust which is annually distributed to schools. Young was considered active in the Edinburgh Labour movement, and stood as a Socialist MP for the Glasgow Partick constituency in the 1923 general election. He lost the seat in the general election held the next year. Moreover, he served on the Town Council of Edinburgh in 1926 on various committees dealing with issues such as housing and public health. Young was addition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Robert Young
Andrew Robert Young (born April 18, 1961) is an American diplomat who has served as United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso from 2016 to 2020. He attended University of California Berkeley and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He was confirmed as ambassador on September 28, 2016, and succeeded Tulinabo S. Mushingi. Consular career Young's first posting after joining the United States Foreign Service, U.S. Foreign Service in 1991 was as a consular officer in British Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He then transferred to Washington, D.C., in 1993 to work at the India and Bhutan Desk in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Bureau of South Asian Affairs. In 1995, Young was made political and economic section chief in Mumbai, Bombay, India, and two years later was assigned to the post of Foreign Service Officer, political officer in Yangon, Rangoon, Myanmar. From 2000 to 2003 Young served as deputy principal officer in Auckland, New Zealand, after which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Young (footballer)
Andy Young (21 June 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Scottish footballer who played as a wing half for Celtic and Raith Rovers Raith Rovers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the town of Kirkcaldy, Fife. The club was founded in 1883 and currently competes in the Scottish Championship as a member of the Scottish Professional Football Leagu .... External links Obituaryat ''The Scotsman'' * 1925 births 2008 deaths Footballers from Fife Men's association football wing halves Scottish men's footballers Scottish Football League players Celtic F.C. players Raith Rovers F.C. players {{Scotland-footy-midfielder-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Young (skier)
Andrew "Andy" Young (born 12 February 1992) is a Scottish cross-country skier. He competed for Great Britain in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, finishing in 74th place in the 15km freestyle. In 2008, he became the youngest skier to compete in a World Cup event. At the 2010 Games, Young finished 14th in the team sprint event and 60th in the individual sprint event. For the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009, he finished 14th in the 4 × 10 km relay and 98th in the individual sprint event. Young also competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics, where he finished 37th in the 15km classical competition. Young took his first top 10 finish in the Cross-Country Skiing World Cup in December 2015, when he finished in ninth place at a freestyle sprint competition in Davos, Switzerland. On 19 December 2015 he took Great Britain's first World Cup podium when he finished third in a sprint event in a 2015–16 FIS Cross-Country World Cup competition in Toblach, Italy. Young achiev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Young (baseball)
Andrew Jacob Young (born May 10, 1994) is an American professional baseball infielder who is a free agent. He made his MLB debut for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2020. Amateur career Young attended West Fargo High School in West Fargo, North Dakota. As a senior in 2012, he was named the North Dakota Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year after he batted .389 with six home runs and 38 RBIs alongside pitching to a 5-0 record with a 1.47 ERA. Undrafted out of high school in the 2012 Major League Baseball draft, he enrolled at the University of Jamestown to play college baseball. After his freshman year, he transferred to Neosho County Community College. Following his sophomore season at Neosho, Young enrolled at Indiana State University. In 2015, as a junior at Indiana State, he batted .296 with seven home runs and 42 RBIs in 54 games and was awarded Missouri Valley Conference Honorable Mention. As a senior in 2016, Young slashed .299/.414/.480 with six home runs and 34 RBIs in 56 game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Young (poet, Born 1807)
Andrew Young FRSE (1807–1889) was a Scottish schoolmaster and poet, known as the author of the hymn "There Is a Happy Land". Life The second son of David Young, a teacher in Edinburgh, he was born in Edinburgh on 23 April 1807. He studied the arts and theology at the University of Edinburgh, where he won John Wilson's prize for the best poem on the "Scottish Highlands". In 1828 Young was appointed by the town council of Edinburgh headmaster of Niddrie Street school, where he taught for 12 years, starting with 90 pupils and leaving with 600. In 1840 he became head English master of Madras College, St Andrews, from which he retired in 1853 moving back to Edinburgh, where he was until his death. In Edinburgh he was superintendent of the Greenside parish Sabbath school, being also actively engaged in other philanthropic work. He lived at 22 Elm Row at the top of Leith Walk. He attended Greenside Church on nearby Calton Hill. He was made a member of the Kirk Session in 1875 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew J
Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived from the el, Ἀνδρέας, ''Andreas'', itself related to grc, ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew. Popularity Australia In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia. In 1999, it was the 19th most common name, while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name. Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing. In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy in the 1970s. Canada Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Douglas Young
Andrew Douglas Young (1881 – 22 June 1950), commonly referred to as A. D. Young, was an accountant and stockbroker in South Australia. History Young was born at Eaglehawk, Bendigo, in 1881. He left for Adelaide to take up a position of manager for Walkley & Davies, and in 1913 entered business as a stockbroker on his own account. He was elected a member of the Adelaide Stock Exchange in 1909 and to the committee in 1922. He was elected chairman of the Adelaide Stock Exchange in 1932 and held the post until 1948, when he retired. He was appointed a director of the State Bank of South Australia in 1934 on account of his intimate knowledge of financial dealings, and his advice was sought by all sections of the business community, including forensic examination of stockbrokers' books. Young was a keen member of the South Australian Caledonian Society, and was auditor and secretary of the society for many years. He was elected Chief in 1925, and held that post until 1928. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Young (poet, Born 1885)
Andrew John Young (29 April 1885 – 25 November 1971) was a Scottish poet and clergyman although recognition of his poetry was slow to develop. Life Andrew Young was born to the stationmaster of Elgin in Scotland in 1885. Two years later his father moved to Edinburgh, where young Andrew attended the Royal High School and later took an arts degree at the University of Edinburgh. The disappearance of his brother David in discreditable circumstances in 1907 so affected him that he gave up his intention to become a barrister and instead studied theology at the local New College. Old habits died hard, however, and his first collection of poems, ''Songs of Night'', a work of Swinburnean aestheticism, was published in 1910 at his father's expense - pillar of the presbytery though he was. Ordained into the United Free Church of Scotland in 1912, Young was appointed two years later to his first ministry in the village of Temple, Midlothian, and married Janet Green, who was lecturi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Young (mathematician)
Andrew White Young (10 October 1891 – 20 July 1968) was a Scottish mathematician, natural scientist, and lawyer. He conducted research on ''Temperature Seiches in Loch Earn'' and presented papers on Mathieu function and Lagrange polynomials. He was elected a Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1937. Life Young was born on 10 October 1891 in Roxburghshire, Scotland. His father was Thomas Young, a schoolmaster at Lanton. His early education was at Townshead Public School, Montrose, Broughton High School, Edinburgh and finally George Watson's College where he showed an aptitude for a wide range of subjects, including English, Latin, Greek and Mathematics. At Edinburg University he obtained an MA (first class) in Mathematics (July 1913) and a BSc (special distinction) in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (1914). In 1913 he was awarded the Donald Fraser Bursary (Experimental Physics) and the Vans Dunlop Scholarship (Mathematics), among others. In 1913, Young joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Young (psychologist)
Andrew William Young is a British cognitive neuropsychologist whose primary research has been on face perception. Career Young obtained a BSc (Psychology) from Bedford College, London in 1971 followed by a PhD from the University of Warwick in 1974. He initially worked as a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen (1974-1976) and at the University of Lancaster (1976-1989). He then moved to the University of Durham as Professor (1989-1993) followed by four years at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of York. Research He has conducted research on aspects of face perception. This has included functional neuroimaging and studies of people with different types of brain injury and psychiatric conditions. He has discussed his work at different forums. He has been President of the Experimental Psychology Society and the Psychology Section of the British Association for the Advancement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
