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Foshee Manufacturing Company
Foshee may refer to: People * Douglas Foshee, American businessman * Edgar Foshee, American military officer * Eugene Crum Foshee (1937-2017), American politician * Paul Foshee (1932–2020), American politician * Taryn Foshee (born 1985), American beauty queen * Thuong Nguyen Cuc Foshee, Vietnamese-American human rights activist Places ;United States * Foshee, Alabama Foshee is an unincorporated community in Escambia County, Alabama, United States between Brewton and Pollard on U.S. Route 29. Foshee was founded as a sawmill town and named after Stewart J. Foshee, who owned several sawmills in Escambia Count ... * Fosheeton, Alabama {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Foshee
Douglas Foshee is an American businessman. Career Foshee earned a bachelor's degree from Southwest Texas State University in 1982 and an MBA from Rice University in 1992. Foshee worked for ARCO International Oil and Gas as an energy lender and served as CEO of Torch Energy Advisors. Foshee became CEO of Nuevo Energy in 1997, but quit in 2000 after Nuevo's board decided to pay his bonus in stock options instead of in cash. In 2001, Foshee became the CFO of Halliburton, where he handled an SEC investigation and litigation regarding asbestos. In 2003, El Paso Corp. hired Foshee as its CEO. In 2012, Foshee served as the lead negotiator for El Paso in Kinder Morgan's purchase of El Paso. Shareholders of El Paso sued to stop the merger, alleging that Foshee had failed to get the best price for El Paso, but Delaware judge Leo E. Strine Jr. allowed the deal to go through. Foshee has served as a director or trustee for Cameron International Cameron International Corporation (forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Foshee
Sergeant Major Edgar Foshee, a devout anti-communist, served as a combat medic in the U.S. Army Special Forces. His former wife Thuong Nguyen Cuc Foshee was held without formal charge by the government of Vietnam starting in September 2005. She was eventually convicted of terrorism and returned to the United States in November 2006 after her early release for medical problems. Biography In 1974, he retired from the United States Army, and later retired as an agent from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He had served in Vietnam with both organizations, assisting the South Vietnamese government against the Communist North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong agents. He owned a construction company until 1980, and retired with his wife to Florida. On April 30, 1995, he was appointed Chairman of the International Committee of an exiled anti-communist Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Crum Foshee
Eugene Crum Foshee, Sr. (December 13, 1937 – March 18, 2017) was an American politician. Born in Red Level, Covington County, Alabama, Foshee owned a cotton and peanut farm in Red Level. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1966 to 1970 and was a Democrat Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic .... Foshee then served in the Alabama Senate and retired in 1994. After he retired, Foshee was a consultant in government relations. Notes External links * 1937 births 2017 deaths People from Covington County, Alabama Farmers from Alabama Democratic Party Alabama state senators Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives {{Alabama-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Foshee
Paul Lee Foshee (November 12, 1932 – November 8, 2020) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and as a member of the Louisiana State Senate. Foshee was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana, the son of Mamie Lee Smith and George W. Foshee. He attended Natchitoches Central High School, where he graduated in 1950. He then worked as a crop duster at his own business, Foshee Dusting Company. He attended Northwestern State University, earning a bachelor's degree in business in 1961. In 1960 Foshee was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives, serving until 1964. In 1972 Foshee was elected to the Louisiana State Senate, where he served until 1976. Foshee died in November 2020 at his home in Natchitoches, Louisiana, at the age of 87. He was buried in Fern Park Cemetery. References 1932 births 2020 deaths 20th-century American politicians Politicians from Natchitoches, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taryn Foshee
Taryn Leigh Foshee (born April 3, 1985), a Clinton, Mississippi native, is a beauty queen who won the 2003 Miss Clinton pageant while a pupil at Hillcrest Christian School and received a commendation from the Mississippi Legislature. Subsequently, Foshee won the 2006 Miss Mississippi Miss Mississippi is a scholarship pageant and a preliminary of Miss America. The contest began in 1934, has been held in Vicksburg since 1958, and provides more money than any other scholarship pageant in the Miss America Organization. Four M ... pageant, and later placed as third runner-up in the Miss America pageant on January 29, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Chris Joyner, Hattiesburg American, 15 February 2007 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thuong Nguyen Cuc Foshee
Thuong Nguyen Cuc Foshee ( Vietnamese: ''Thương Nguyễn Cúc Foshee'') is a Vietnamese American who was held without formal charge by the government of Vietnam after her arrest in September 2005 on accusations of plotting to broadcast anti-communist radio messages under the direction of Government of Free Vietnam (GFVN), an anti-government group. She is divorced from GFVN representative Edgar Foshee. Their daughter Elizabeth McCausland, a lawyer, actively campaigned for her mother's freedom politically through United States government officials. Ms. Foshee was ultimately arrested and charged with conducting terrorist activities and went on trial November 10, 2006. She, along with six other defendants, was convicted and sentenced to 15 months with credit for time served. Early release Ms. Foshee had already been in prison for 14 months before her trial. But she was released four weeks early, reportedly after she wrote to the authorities asking to return to her family for medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foshee, Alabama
Foshee is an unincorporated community in Escambia County, Alabama, United States between Brewton and Pollard on U.S. Route 29. Foshee was founded as a sawmill town and named after Stewart J. Foshee, who owned several sawmills in Escambia County. Russell A. Alger and Martin Sullivan founded the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company in the late 1890s and began logging around Foshee. They used lumber from the mill to build a new sawmill in Florida, which eventually grew into the town of Century. A post office was operated in Foshee from 1914 to 1924. Notable person * Ed Morris, a Major League Baseball pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ... from 1922 to 1931. References Unincorporated communities in Alabama Unincorporated communities in Escambia County, Alaba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |