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Crenshaw (surname)
Crenshaw is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ander Crenshaw (born 1944), American politician * Anderson Crenshaw (1783–1847), American jurist * Ben Crenshaw (born 1952), American professional golfer * Caroline A. Crenshaw, American lawyer * Claude J. Crenshaw, American Air Force officer and flying ace * Dan Crenshaw (born 1984), American politician * Dave Crenshaw (born 1975), American author * George L. Crenshaw (1855–1937), American real estate developer and banker * James L. Crenshaw, American biblical professor * John Crenshaw (1797–1871), American landowner and slave trader * John Bascom Crenshaw (1861–1942), American athlete * John T. Crenshaw (1820–1863), American soldier * Kimberlé Crenshaw (born 1959), American lawyer * Leon Crenshaw (1943–2008), American football player * Marshall Crenshaw (born 1953), American singer, songwriter and guitarist * Martha Crenshaw (born 1945), American professor * Marvin Crenshaw (born 1952), American f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ander Crenshaw
Alexander Mann "Ander" Crenshaw (born September 1, 1944) is an American banker, attorney, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2001 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. Crenshaw retired from Congress when his term ended on January 3, 2017. Early life, education and career Crenshaw was born in Jacksonville, and earned his (B.A.) at the University of Georgia in 1966 and later received his J.D. degree from the University of Florida. He was an investment banker before being elected to Congress. Crenshaw served in the Florida State House of Representatives from 1972 to 1978 and in the Florida State Senate from 1986 to 1994. He was the first Republican Senate president in 118 years. Crenshaw was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2000. Early political career Statewide runs 1978 In 1978, Crenshaw won the Republican primary for Florida Secretary of State. He lost the general election to Democrat George Firestone. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Crenshaw
Leon Crenshaw (July 14, 1943 − August 22, 2008) was a defensive tackle in the National Football League. Biography Crenshaw was born in Greenville, Alabama. Career Crenshaw played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1968 NFL season. He played at the collegiate level at Tuskegee University. See also *List of Green Bay Packers players The following is a list of notable past or present players of the Green Bay Packers professional American football team. All-time roster * Green Bay Packers players: A-D * Green Bay Packers players: E-K * Green Bay Packers players: L-R * Green Bay ... References People from Greenville, Alabama Green Bay Packers players American football defensive tackles Players of American football from Alabama Tuskegee Golden Tigers football players 1943 births 2008 deaths {{defensive-lineman-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Investigators
The Three Investigators is an American juvenile detective book series first published as "''Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators''". It was created by Robert Arthur Jr., who believed involving a famous person such as movie director Alfred Hitchcock would attract attention. Random House is the U.S. publisher and still has some of the rights to the books. Other rights are possessed by the heirs of Robert Arthur, Jr. and the German publisher Kosmos. The characters known as the "Three Investigators" are three boys named Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw and Bob Andrews. As the series has become very popular in Germany, several stories have been produced directly for the German market. Most of the mysteries involved investigation of baffling phenomena (e.g., an ancient Egyptian mummy that apparently whispered and a human skull that seemed to talk). Original editions The original series was published from 1964 to 1987 and comprised 43 finished books, one unfinished story (''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Crenshaw
The Three Investigators is an American juvenile detective book series first published as "''Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators''". It was created by Robert Arthur Jr., who believed involving a famous person such as movie director Alfred Hitchcock would attract attention. Random House is the U.S. publisher and still has some of the rights to the books. Other rights are possessed by the heirs of Robert Arthur, Jr. and the German publisher Kosmos. The characters known as the "Three Investigators" are three boys named Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw and Bob Andrews. As the series has become very popular in Germany, several stories have been produced directly for the German market. Most of the mysteries involved investigation of baffling phenomena (e.g., an ancient Egyptian mummy that apparently whispered and a human skull that seemed to talk). Original editions The original series was published from 1964 to 1987 and comprised 43 finished books, one unfinished story (''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis Crenshaw
Willis Clarence Crenshaw (born July 16, 1941) is a former National Football League (NFL) running back from 1964 through 1970. High school and college career Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Crenshaw played for Soldan High School and Kansas State University, where he started out at wide receiver and was a star player;"The Top 100 St. Louis Football Cardinals (90-81): 88. Willis Crenshaw (RB)" ''The Big Red Zone'', August 14, 2019. played in the 1963 College All Star Football Game. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waverly D
Waverly may refer to: Education ;United States * Waverly Community Schools, a school district located in Lansing, Michigan * Waverly School District 145, Nebraska * Waverly Central School District, New York * Waverly High School (other) * The Waverly School, a private school in Pasadena, California Hotels * Hotel Waverly, Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Hotel Waverly (New Bedford, Massachusetts), United States, on the National Register of Historic Places * The Waverly, Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, a historic hotel on the National Register of Historic Places Places ;United States * Waverly, Alabama, a town * Waverly, Colorado, an unincorporated community * Waverly, Florida, a census-designated place * Waverly, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Waverly, Illinois, a small city * Waverly Lake, Illinois, a reservoir * Waverly, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Waverly, Iowa, a city * Waverly, Kansas, a city * Waverly, Kentucky, a city * Waverly, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Crenshaw
Roberta P. Crenshaw (April 17, 1914 - February 8, 2005) was an American civic leader and philanthropist. Crenshaw campaigned for over 60 years to preserve parkland in Austin, Texas and supported Austin-area cultural institutions. Early life and education Roberta Purvis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on April 17, 1914. She came to Austin, Texas in 1932 to attend the University of Texas. She graduated with a liberal arts degree and served the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority as president. She married cotton exporter and oilman Malcolm Hiram Reed, with whom she had two daughters. After his unexpected death in 1945, she married attorney Fagan Dickson, who she divorced in 1974. In 1975, she married lawyer Charles Edward Crenshaw, becoming stepmother to golfer Ben Crenshaw. Career Crenshaw was appointed by Austin City Council to the Parks Board in 1952, which was at that time under the Public Works Department. Crenshaw helped push for the parks department to be joined with the recreation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Crenshaw
Robert Crenshaw is an American drummer, recording artist, author, and robotics instructor/trainer. He is known primarily for his solo recordings and his years in his brother Marshall Crenshaw's band. Biography Early years Crenshaw grew up outside of Detroit in Berkley, Michigan. His parents and three brothers (Marshall, Mitchell, and John) were musically inclined. He was gifted his first drums at age 9, a red Trixon set. Crenshaw's first band Rasputin included younger brothers of members of Marshall's band Astigafa. In his teens he was drummer for Denny and the Robots, an oldies band. In 1976, Crenshaw and his lifelong friend Stewart Simon studied recording engineering at the Institute of Audio Research in New York City. Marshall Crenshaw Band After Marshall Crenshaw finished his involvement in '' Beatlemania'', he recruited Robert as drummer for his new band, along with bassist Chris Donato. Marshall signed with Warner Brothers in 1981, and the trio recorded the album ''Marsha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mic Crenshaw
Mic Crenshaw (born 1970) is an American recording artist, political activist, and educator living in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Mic Crenshaw creates music and musical platforms that connect artists across political and geographic boundaries. Biography Crenshaw was born on the South Side of Chicago in 1970. He graduated high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he became a leading voice for social equity and racial justice. In 1992, he moved to Portland, Oregon to focus anti-racist activism into music and music education. Over the last twenty years he has recorded and produced more than ten albums. Mic Crenshaw recorded and performed with Dead Prez and Immortal Technique, and in 1994 formed the Portland-based hip hop group Hungry Mob as its frontman. In 2001, Mic Crenshaw won the Portland Poetry Slam and finished as a national finalist. He has served as co-manager of KBOO Community Radio twice since 2015. Activism In his teenage years, Crenshaw confronted white supre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Mayo Crenshaw until returning to the United States in 1914. They had two children Richard Parker (1902) and Ellen Wise (19 ...
Mary Lyons Mayo Crenshaw (August 5, 1875 - November 6, 1951) was an American author and civil servant who edited the book ''An American lady in Paris'', a travel journal about her great-grandmother Abigail Dehart Mayo's journey to Paris in 1828. Life and work She was born in 1875 to William Carrington Mayo and Margaretta Ellen Wise Mayo, the granddaughter of Virginia Governor Henry Alexander Wise. She lived in Washington D. C. She was married to Richard Parker Crenshaw, a mining engineer, on October 16, 1902, and the couple moved to Cuba in 1904 where he worked in the Camoa quarry. The family lived in Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin Crenshaw
Marvin Crenshaw (born February 3, 1952) is a former American football offensive tackle who played college football at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and attended Woodward High School in Toledo, Ohio, where he was named All-City and All-City Academic in football and basketball. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the sixth round of the 1975 NFL Draft The 1975 National Football League draft was held January 28–29, 1975, at the New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center in New York City, New York. With the first overall pick of the draft, the Atlanta Falcons selected quarterback Steve Bartko .... He was a consensus All-American in 1974. He was also named first-team All- Big Eight in 1974. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Crenshaw, Marvin Living people 1952 births American football offensive tackles African-American players of American football Nebraska Cornhuskers football players All-American college football players Players of American football from Toled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Crenshaw
Martha Crenshaw Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (born September 2, 1945) is a political scientist who is prominent for her research on terrorism. She is professor of political science at Stanford University since 2007, as well as senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and Center for International Security and Cooperation, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Martha Crenshaw was one of the pioneers in terrorism studies along with Paul Wilkinson (academic), Paul Wilkinson, Ariel Merari, Bruce Hoffman and Alex P. Schmid, Alex Schmid. She has a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1967. In 1973, she obtained a Ph.D from the Department of Government at the University of Virginia in 1973. From 1977 to 78 she earned National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and was fellow at Fellow, Richardson Institute, Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research. Marth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
