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Drue
Drue is a name. Notable people with this name include: Surname * Kerry Drue, American lawyer * Thomas Drue (1586–1627), English playwright Given name * Drue Chrisman (born 1997), American football player * Drue Cressener Cressener (1642–1718), English clergyman * Drue Drury (courtier) (1531–1617), English courtier * Sir Drue Drury, 1st Baronet (1588–1632), English MP * Drue Heinz (1915–2018), American actress * Drue Kataoka, Japanese visual artist * Drue Le Guier (born 1959), Australian swimmer * Drue Leyton (1903–1997), American actress and member of the French Resistance * Drue Pearce (born 1951), American businesswoman and politician * Drue Smith (died 2001), American journalist * Drue Tranquill (born 1995), American American football player * Drue Vitter (1942–2004), American politician See also * Drew (name) Drew () is both a surname and a given name. A son of Charlemagne had that name, and it became popular in France as Dreus and Drues. Another source ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Smith
Drue Smith was an American journalist and broadcaster born in Chattanooga, Tennessee around the close of World War I. Her precise birth date has never been made public and has not been revealed since her death at her request. She has stated that "I'm terrible with years. I don't keep 'em." She married her husband, Roy Blaney Smith, on September 6, 1934, and later on in their life gave birth to their daughter Drucilla Smith Fuller. Drue Smith died on December 27, 2001, as a result of heart failure. It is safe to assume that she died around the ages between 81 or 84 as the end of World War I was 1918. Life Drue was interested in journalism throughout her early years at Girls Preparatory School and her college years at the University of Chattanooga. Her career in journalism began when a teacher told her to write about the school events that were taking place for her local newspaper. As a result of doing this, Drue Smith became inspired to write as a career and for a living. She was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Heinz
Drue Heinz, DBE (born Doreen Mary English; March 8, 1915 – March 30, 2018) was a British-born American actress, philanthropist, arts patron, and socialite. She was the publisher of the literary magazine ''The Paris Review'' (1993 to 2007), co-founded Ecco Press, founded literary retreats and endowed the Drue Heinz Literature Prize among others. She was married to H. J. Heinz II, president of Heinz. Biography Born Doreen Mary English in Norfolk, England to Patrick Harry English, an army officer, and Edith English (née Wodehouse), she first married John Mackenzie Robertson with whom she had one daughter, Wendy Mackenzie. Her second husband was Dale Wilford Maher, the first Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Johannesburg, South Africa (died 1948).''Who Was Who in America with World Notables'', Vol. 2, The A.N. Marquis Co., Chicago, 1949, page 341. They had a daughter Marigold Randall. In 1953, Drue became the third wife of H. J. Heinz II (1908–87), then president of Heinz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Tranquill
Drue Tranquill (born August 15, 1995) is an American football linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, Notre Dame. Early years Tranquill attended Carroll High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana), Carroll High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As a senior in 2013, Tranquill made 75 tackles, including 16 tackles for loss, to go with four sacks and an interception as a linebacker. He added 1,420 yards and 28 touchdowns on 114 carries on the ground as a running back, along with 16 receptions for 348 yards and five touchdowns. Tranquill was a four-star recruit coming out of high school, and received offers from several major programs, mostly in the Big Ten Conference. He verbally committed to Purdue University to play college football, but later decommitted and ultimately signed with the University of Notre Dame. Tranquill's younger brother, Justin, played safety (gridiron football position), s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Chrisman
Drue Chrisman (born 1997) is an American football punter for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ohio State and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cincinnati Bengals after the 2021 NFL Draft. College career Chrisman was ranked as a threestar recruit by 247Sports.com coming out of high school. He committed to Ohio State on May 5, 2015. Professional career Cincinnati Bengals Chrisman was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cincinnati Bengals on May 2, 2021. He was waived on August 31, 2021 and re-signed to the practice squad the next day. He was released on September 7, 2021. He was re-signed to the practice squad on October 5, 2021. He was released on October 12, 2021. Pittsburgh Steelers On December 8, 2021, Chrisman was signed to the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad, but released two days later. Cincinnati Bengals (second stint) On December 14, 2021, Chrisman was signed to the Cincinnati Bengals practic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Kataoka
Drue Kataoka is a Japanese American visual artist, known for her Sumi-e art. In 2012, she was chosen Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos. She is based in Silicon Valley, California. Early life and education Kataoka was born in Tokyo, Japan and lived there until age 5. Her family moved to Washington D.C., then onto Seattle and later to Silicon Valley. Her father Tetsuya Kataoka is a political scientist, and research fellow at Hoover Institution, and her mother Barbara Kataoka (née Slavin) worked in the Communications department at Stanford University. She attended high school at Sacred Heart Preparatory a private school in Atherton, California and graduated high school in 1996. Kataoka attended college at Stanford University, where she majored in Art History and graduated in 2000. She participated in Stanford Jazz Band, where she played the flute. She began her art education in Sumi-e early in Japan and later in the US, earning her han (signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Pearce
Drue Pearce (born April 2, 1951) is an American businesswoman and politician. She is currently Director, Government Affairs at Holland & Hart, LLP. Early life and education Born in Fairfield, Illinois, Pearce received her bachelor's degree in biological science from Indiana University in 1973. She then received her master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1984. In 1989, Pearce completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Career Pearce lived in Anchorage, Alaska and was in the banking and real estate business. From 1985 to 1989, Pearce served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was a Republican. Then, from 1989 to 2001, Pearce served in the Alaska State Senate and was president of the senate in 1995 and 1999. In 2001, Pearce resigned from the Alaska Senate to be the senior advisor on Alaska Affairs to the Secretary of the United States Department of Interior The United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Drue
Thomas Drue or Drewe (c.1586–1627) was an English Protestant playwright. He wrote ''The Life of the Duchess of Suffolk''. It has also been suggested that he wrote '' The Bloody Banquet'' (By T. D.,’ 1620, 4to)., However others have attributed it to Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. An unpublished play, the ‘Woman's Mistake,’ is ascribed in the ‘Stationers' Registers,’ 9 Sept. 1653, to Robert Davenport and Drue. Possibly the dramatist may be the Thomas Drewe who in 1621 translated and published ''Daniel Ben Alexander, the converted Jew, first written in Syriacke and High Dutch by himselfe''. ''The Life of Katherine Willoughby, the Duchess of Suffolk'' Drue is the author of a historical play, ‘The Life of the Dvtches of Svffolke,’ 1631, 4to, which has been wrongly attributed by Gerard Langbaine and others to Thomas Heywood. The play was published anonymously, but it is assigned to Drue in the ‘Stationers Registers’ (under date 13 November 1629) and in Sir Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Drue Drury, 1st Baronet
Sir Drue Drury, 1st Baronet (7 October 1588 – 23 April 1632) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1624. Drury was the son of Sir Drue Drury of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire and of Linstead, Kent and his second wife Catharine Finch, daughter of William Finch, of Linstead. His father was a gentlemen usher to Queen Elizabeth. He was admitted at Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is the oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Today, Peterhouse has 254 undergraduates, 116 full-time graduate students and 54 fellows. It is quite ... in 1607. In 1617 he succeeded to the estates of his father. He also possessed an estate at Riddlesworth, Norfolk. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency), Norfolk. He was elected MP for Thetford (UK Parliament constituency), Thetford in 1624. He was created a Drury baronets, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Leyton
Drue Leyton (born Dorothy Elizabeth Blackman; 12 June 1903 – 8 February 1997) was an American actress and member of the French Resistance. She also was billed as Freya Leigh. Early years Leyton was born in California (or Somers, Wisconsin) but lived with her family in Mexico, where her father was a mining engineer. She was educated at the Bennett School for Girls in Millbrook, New York; a school in Lausanne, Switzerland; and at the Sorbonne. Acting She became an actress after a failed marriage and acted in ''Green Grow the Lilacs'' on Broadway and several Charlie Chan films. Her Broadway credits also included ''Red Harvest'' (1937), ''A Hero Is Born'' (1937), and ''We Are No Longer Children'' (1932), for which she was billed as Freya Leigh. In 1937, Leyton acted in a Works Progress Administration Theatre Project in New York. She went from there to England, where she performed in '' Golden Boy''. French resistance In 1937, Leyton moved to Paris with her future husband Jacq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Drury (courtier)
Sir Drue Drury (c. 1531 – 29 April 1617) was the son of Sir Robert Drury (c. 1503 – 1577), the grandson of Sir Robert Drury (c. 1456 – 2 March 1535), Speaker of the House of Commons, and the nephew of Sir William Drury. He was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1562 and 1584. Early life Drury was the fifth but third surviving son of Sir Robert Drury (c. 1503 – 1577) of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire, and Elizabeth Brudenell, the daughter of Edmund Brudenell of Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. He was the grandson of Sir Robert Drury (c. 1456 – 2 March 1535), Speaker of the House of Commons in 1495. He was a brother of Sir Robert Drury (1525–1593) and Sir William Drury (2 October 1527 – 13 October 1579). Drury matriculated from St Edmund's Hostel, Cambridge in Autumn 1544. Public life Drury was elected Member of Parliament for Mitchell in 1559 and for Camelford in 1562. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 157 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Le Guier
Drue Le Guier (born 2 May 1959) is an Australian former swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phi .... References External links * 1959 births Living people Australian female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Australia Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian women {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drue Vitter
Drue J. Vitter (July 21, 1942 – October 8, 2004) was an American politician who served in the South Dakota Senate from 1997 until his death in 2004. He died at the age of 62 in at his home in Hill City, South Dakota Hill City is the oldest existing city in Pennington County, South Dakota, Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 872 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Hill City is located southwest of Rapid City, South Da .... References External links * 1942 births 2004 deaths Republican Party South Dakota state senators People from Hill City, South Dakota 20th-century American legislators {{SouthDakota-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |