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Dowdy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Dowdy (born 1975), American baseball umpire * Bill Dowdy (born 1933), American musician * Cecil Dowdy (1945–2002), American football player * Helen Dowdy, American actress * Homer Dowdy (1922–2002), American writer * John Dowdy (1912–1995), American politician * Kyle Dowdy (born 1993), American baseball player * Nancy M. Dowdy, American nuclear physicist * Wayne Dowdy (born 1943), American politician See also * Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium is the on-campus football facility at East Carolina University for the East Carolina Pirates in Greenville, North Carolina. The official capacity of the stadium is 51,000, tying it for the second largest college stadium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Dowdy
Adam Matthew Dowdy (born January 9, 1975) is an American former professional baseball umpire. He worked more than 400 games as a Major League Baseball reserve umpire between 2002 and 2007. Professional umpiring career Dowdy graduated from the Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring in 1995, where he would return as an instructor from 1996 to 2004. Dowdy worked in Class A baseball from 1995 to 1998, umpiring in the Gulf Coast League, Northwest League, Midwest League and Florida State League. In 1999 and 2000, Dowdy umpired in the Class Double-A Eastern League before a promotion to Triple-A baseball. Dowdy was contracted to the Pacific Coast League 2001-2005 and International League 2006–2008. Dowdy umpired the Florida Instructional League in 2000 and the Arizona Fall League 2001–2003. Notable games Dowdy was selected to umpire minor league championships in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2008. Dowdy was selected to umpire All-Star Games in 1997, 2000, and 2005. Dowdy was at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Dowdy
Bill Dowdy (August 15, 1932 – May 12, 2017) was an American jazz musician and teacher. He was the drummer with the jazz trio, The Three Sounds. The Three Sounds recorded over ten jazz albums from the 1950s through the early 1970s and played with Lester Young, Lou Donaldson, Nat Adderley, Johnny Griffin, Anita O'Day and Sonny Stitt among others. Biography Bill Dowdy was born in Osceola, Arkansas. He moved with his family to Benton Harbor, Michigan when he was six months old. At a young age he would beat on things as if he were playing the drums, an indication of his future musical career. In high school he learned to play the piano and the drums. He had a group called Club 49 Trio in 1949 which group played on the radio in Chicago. After Dowdy started his own music group, he moved to Battle Creek and joined a band before being drafted by the Army. Afterwards he moved to Chicago and took private lessons to improve his musical skills. Over time Dowdy became a professional drum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Dowdy
Cecil Dowdy (May 9, 1945 – November 24, 2002) was an American college football player and businessman. He played offensive tackle for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide from 1964 through 1966. He was a member of both the 1964 and 1965 national championship teams. Dowdy was also a unanimous selection to the 1966 College Football All-America Team. Playing career College After a successful high school playing career at Cherokee Vocational High School that culminated with his selection to the 16th annual AHSAA All-Star Game in 1963, Dowdy enrolled at the University of Alabama with an athletic scholarship to play on the football team. After he played on the freshman football squad for the 1963 season, Dowdy stated as an offensive tackle for the three years that followed. Over those three seasons, Alabama amassed an overall record of 30 wins, two losses and one tie (30–2–1) and won three Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships and two national championships. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Dowdy
Helen Dowdy was a Broadway theatre, Broadway actress and singer who played the role of Queenie in the 1946 revival of Jerome Kern, Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, Hammerstein's ''Show Boat'' (a role originally played by Tess Gardella in 1927). She was born in New York City. Dowdy created the roles of Lily and the Strawberry Woman in George Gershwin's ''Porgy and Bess'' — roles she played for nearly twenty years in several productions. In the 1951 so-called "complete" recording of the opera, she sang both roles as well as that of Maria. In 1944, Dowdy performed with Katherine Dunham, troupe on tour. Dowdy also appeared on television on the October 17, 1957, episode of ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' as the Stout Angel in a television production of Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ''The Green Pastures''. References External links * * African-American actresses American musical theatre actresses Actresses from New York City Year of birth missing Possibly livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dowdy
John Vernard Dowdy (February 11, 1912 – April 12, 1995) was an American politician. Dowdy was a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from the 7th District of Texas from 1952 to 1967 and then served as a congressman from the 2nd District of Texas until 1973, when he decided to retire under indictment for bribery. During his political campaigns his commercials featured the tune "Are You From Dixie" but with the words "Are you for Dowdy, John Dowdy, We'll I'm for Dowdy, too!". According to prosecutors, he accepted a $25,000 bribe to intervene in the federal investigation of Monarch Construction Company of Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1971, Dowdy was convicted on eight counts: two of conspiracy, one of transporting a bribe over state lines, and five of perjury. In 1973, after Dowdy retired from Congress, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, overturned the bribery and conspiracy convictions. Dowdy still served a sentence in pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Dowdy
Kyle Alexander Dowdy (born February 3, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He has previously played in MLB for the Texas Rangers and Cincinnati Reds. Amateur career Dowdy graduated from Francis Parker School in San Diego, California, in 2011. Undrafted out of high school in the 2011 MLB draft, he enrolled at the University of Hawaii where he played college baseball for the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. In 2012, as a freshman, he appeared in 13 games, going 2–3 with a 3.06 earned run average (ERA). Following his freshman year, Dowdy transferred to Orange Coast College. As a sophomore in 2013, he had a 6–3 record with a 2.38 ERA, striking out 62 batters in 75.2 innings. He transferred to the University of Houston following his sophomore season. He was forced to sit out the 2014 campaign after undergoing Tommy John surgery. In 2015, as a redshirt junior, Dowdy was 9–2 with a 2.45 ERA in 19 games, including 12 starts. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy M
Nancy may refer to: Places France * Nancy, France, a city in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and formerly the capital of the duchy of Lorraine ** Arrondissement of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy ** École de Nancy, the spearhead of the Art Nouveau in France ** Musée de l'École de Nancy, a museum * Nancy-sur-Cluses, Haute-Savoie United States * Nancy, Kentucky * Mount Nancy, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire * Nancy, Virginia People * Nancy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Nancy (singer) (born Nancy Jewel McDonie), member of Momoland * Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021), French philosopher * Nazmun Munira Nancy, Bangladeshi singer Vessels * * Nancy (1803 ship), ''Nancy'' (1803 ship), a sloop wrecked near Jervis Bay in 1805 * Nancy (1789 ship), ''Nancy'' (1789 ship), a schooner built in Detroit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Dowdy
Charles Wayne Dowdy (born July 27, 1943) is an American politician, lawyer and jurist from Mississippi. He was first elected in a 1981 special election and served four terms in the United States House of Representatives. He later served as chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party. Early life Dowdy was born in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia. He grew up in the Methodist Church and is a graduate of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He set up a law practice in Mississippi and purchased two local radio stations. He entered politics and was elected as mayor of McComb, Mississippi, serving from 1978 to 1981. Political career On July 7, 1981, Dowdy was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in a special election for the 4th District. In this election the Democrats recaptured a Southern district from the Republicans, in a period when the white electorate in the South was shifting to the Republican Party. Dowdy carefully managed to avoid drawing stron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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