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Bill Jenkins (other)
Bill Jenkins may refer to: * Bill Jenkins (politician) (born 1936), American politician *Bill Jenkins (drag racer) (1930–2012), American drag racer *Bill Jenkins (Royal Marines officer) (1925–2002), youngest Royal Marine to win a DSO in the Second World War *Bill Jenkins (epidemiologist) (1945–2019), government whistleblower *Bill Jenkins (bishop) (born 1963), American bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church *Bill Jenkins (voice actor), American voice actor for Funimation See also *Bill Jenkings (1915–1996), Australian news reporter *Billy Jenkins (other) Billy Jenkins may refer to: * Billy Jenkins (rugby union) (1885-1956), Welsh international forward, played club rugby for Swansea * Billy Jenkins (musician) (born 1956), English blues guitarist, composer, and bandleader * Billy Jenkins (American f ... * William Jenkins (other) {{hndis, Jenkins, Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Jenkins (politician)
William Lewis Jenkins (born November 29, 1936) is an American politician from the state of Tennessee. He represented the state's 1st Congressional district, centered on the Tri-Citiesmap, from 1997 until his successor was sworn in on January 3, 2007. Background and education Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan, to parents from Rogersville, Tennessee. He is a seventh-generation Tennessean. He served in the United States Army from 1959 to 1960, and graduated from Tennessee Technological University and the University of Tennessee College of Law. Political career Jenkins was elected to the Tennessee General Assembly as a Republican in 1962 and he served as Speaker of the House from 1969 to 1971—the first Republican to hold that position since a few years after Reconstruction, and the last one until Kent Williams in 2009. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Governor of Tennessee in 1970, was a Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Conservation, serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Jenkins (drag Racer)
William Tyler Jenkins (December 22, 1930 – March 29, 2012), nicknamed "Grumpy" or "The Grump", was an engine builder and drag racer. Between 1965 and 1975, he won a total of thirteen NHRA events.Biography at the , Retrieved December 26, 2007 Most of these wins were won with a four-speed . In 1972 he recorded 250 straight passes without missing a shift. He was formally t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Jenkins (Royal Marines Officer)
Captain William Glyn Jenkins (28 March 1925 – 24 October 2002) was a Royal Marines officer and academic. He was the youngest Royal Marine to win the Distinguished Service Order in the Second World War, and later became senior lecturer in international affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Early life Jenkins was born at Morpeth in Northumberland. He was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, where he won a bursary, and, in October 1942, he gained a Macbride Open Scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, to read geography. Jenkins cut short his studies after a year and applied to join the Royal Navy; but he failed his medical because of slight colour-blindness and joined the Royal Marines in August 1943. After passing through Officer Cadet Training Unit, he was commissioned early in 1944 and posted to the Commando Basic Training Centre at Achnacarry, north of Fort William in the Highlands. Second World War After gaining his green beret, Jenkins was post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Jenkins (epidemiologist)
William Carter Jenkins (July 26, 1945 – February 17, 2019) was an American public health researcher and academic. Jenkins worked as a statistician at the United States Public Health Service in the 1960s, and is best known for trying to halt the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in 1969. He spent the rest of his career fighting racism in the U.S. healthcare system, working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the early days of the AIDS crisis, and overseeing the government benefits program for survivors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Life and career Jenkins graduated from historically black Morehouse College with a degree in mathematics in 1967, and he earned a master's in biostatistics from Georgetown University in 1974, a master's in public health from the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in 1977, and a PhD in epidemiology from UNC in 1983. He was one of the first cadre of African Americans recruited to the United States Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Jenkins (bishop)
William Alan "Bill" Jenkins Sr. (born 1963) is an American Anglicanism, Anglican bishop. He is currently bishop, bishop coadjutor of the Reformed Episcopal Church's Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (NEMA). He was previously Canon (clergy), canon to the ordinary in the diocese. Early life, education, and family Jenkins was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, in 1963, and was raised in a congregation of the Fundamentalism, fundamentalist Evangelical Methodist Church of America. He received a bachelor's degree in religious education and pastoral studies from Manahath School of Theology, the denominational school in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and studied for a master's degree in religious education at Manahath. According to Jenkins, his thesis was rejected because he had moved away from the school's fundamentalist and Premillennialism, premillennial theology. Before he could complete his degree, the institution closed and relocated to Virginia as Breckbill Bible College. Jenki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funimation
Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes in the dubbing and distribution of East Asian media, with a long history of working with Japanese anime. The company was founded in May 1994 as Funimation Productions by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy Brennan in Silicon Valley, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company, which then relocated to North Richland Hills, later to Flower Mound, Texas, and after that in Coppell, Texas. Funimation was one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America. It licensed popular series, such as ''Dragon Ball'', ''One Piece'', ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', ''My Hero Academia'', '' Attack on Titan'', ''Fairy Tail'', '' Black Clover'', ''Fruits Basket'', '' Assassination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Jenkings
William Charles Jenkings (1915 – 12 May 1996) was an Australian writer, newspaper reporter, and a well known Bondi Beach personality. Career Jenkings was a news and crime reporter for the Sydney newspaper ''The Daily Mirror'', having joined the paper in 1944. ''The Daily Mirror'' was then owned by Ezra Norton and was later owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd. Jenkings worked as a reporter there until his retirement in 1991. Jenkings made and maintained legendary contacts both in the underworld and the police force, and was regarded as the foremost crime reporter in Sydney for over 50 years. He covered high-profile cases during the 1950s and 1960s, including the Graeme Thorne kidnapping, the Bogle-Chandler case, and the Wanda Beach Murders. One of his sources, Detective Ray "Gunner" Kelly, benefited greatly from the publicity, becoming one of Australia's best-known policemen. Jenkings was also unabashed at his support for several of the men he'd met in his working life. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Jenkins (other)
Billy Jenkins may refer to: * Billy Jenkins (rugby union) (1885-1956), Welsh international forward, played club rugby for Swansea * Billy Jenkins (musician) (born 1956), English blues guitarist, composer, and bandleader * Billy Jenkins (American football) Billy Leon Jenkins Jr. (born July 8, 1974 in Los Angeles, California) is a former professional American football defensive back in the National Football League. He played for the St. Louis Rams (1997–1999), the Denver Broncos (2000–2001), the ... (born 1974), American football defensive back * Billy Jenkins (Australian footballer) (born 1914), Australian rules footballer * Billy Jenkins (actor) (born 2007), British actor See also * Bill Jenkins (other) * William Jenkins (other) {{hndis, Jenkins, Billy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
