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Gantt (surname)
Gantt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bob Gantt (1922–1994), American basketball player * David F. Gantt (1941–2020), member of the New York State Assembly * Edward Gantt (1746–1837), American Episcopal clergyman * Fred Gantt (1922–2002), American basketball player * Harvey Gantt (born 1943), architect and politician * Henry Gantt (1861–1919), mechanical engineer and management consultant * Love Gantt (1875–1935), American physician * W. Horsley Gantt William Andrew Horsley Gantt (24 October 1892 – 26 February 1980) was an American physiologist and psychiatrist. At the time of his death in 1980, he was one of only two surviving students of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. He spent fifty-six ...
(1892–1980), American psychologist and physiologist {{surname, Gantt ...
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Bob Gantt
Robert M. Gantt Jr. (June 22, 1922 – October 25, 1994) was an American professional basketball player. He played for one season with the Washington Capitols of the Basketball Association of America during the 1946–47 season. Gantt played college basketball for Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James .... He is a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. BAA career statistics Regular season Playoffs References External links Duke Athletic HOF profile 1922 births 1994 deaths American football ends American men's basketball players Centers (basketball) Forwards (basketball) Duke Blue Devils football players Duke Blue Devils men's basketball players Duke Blue Devils men's track and field athletes Washington Capitols players P ...
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David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and Lyre, harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges David and Jonathan, a notably close friendship with Jonathan (1 Samuel), Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistin ...
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Edward Gantt
Edward Gantt (died 1837) was an Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal clergyman who served as Chaplain of the Senate of the United States (1801–1804). Early life Edward Gantt was born , the son of Rachel Smith and Thomas Gantt III. He received his bachelor of arts from Princeton University in 1762, and thereafter studied medicine with Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia and in Edinburgh. He also studied at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands where he matriculated 6 April 1767. Gantt received the degree of M.D. on this University 17 April 1767 The title description of his thesis is: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de variolis, quam,…, ex Auctoritate Magnifici Rectoris, Davidis Ruhnkeniii, …, Eruditorum Examini submittit Eduardus Gantt, A.B. Anglo-Americanus…. - Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Theodorum Haak, 1767. - 33 p. + [1] p. ; 4oct. Variolis = Smallpox. Later he was entering in the practice of medicine in Somerset County, Maryland. Sensing a call to ministry, he w ...
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Fred Gantt
Frederick William Gantt (November 27, 1922 – January 11, 2002) was an American professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ... player. He played for the Sheboygan Red Skins in the National Basketball League during the 1947–48 season and averaged 1.8 points per game. References 1922 births 2002 deaths American men's basketball players Basketball players from Richmond, Virginia Guards (basketball) Forwards (basketball) Richmond Spiders men's basketball players Sheboygan Red Skins players {{1920s-US-basketball-bio-stub ...
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Harvey Gantt
Harvey Bernard Gantt (born January 14, 1943) is an American architect and Democratic politician active in North Carolina. The first African-American student admitted to Clemson University after attending Iowa State University, Gantt graduated with honors in architecture, earned a master's at MIT, and established an architectural practice in Charlotte with a partner. Gantt entered local politics, where he was elected to the city council, serving from 1974 to 1983. He was elected to two terms as the first black Mayor of Charlotte from 1983 to 1987. In 1990 and 1996, Gantt was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, losing to incumbent Republican Jesse Helms both times. Early life and education Gantt was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Wilhelminia and Christopher C. Gantt, a shipyard worker. He started to participate in civil rights activism in high school. In 1963, he was the first African American to be admitted to Clemson University in South Carolina. He received a d ...
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Henry Gantt
Henry Laurence Gantt (; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management. He created the Gantt chart in the 1910s. Gantt charts were employed on major infrastructure projects including the Hoover Dam and Interstate highway system and continue to be an important tool in project management and program management. Biography Early life, education and family Gantt was born to a plantation family in Calvert County, Maryland at the outbreak of the American Civil War. When the war ended the family lost their slaves and land, and moved to Baltimore. He graduated from McDonogh School in 1878 and from Johns Hopkins University in 1880, and then returned to the McDonogh School to teach for three years. He subsequently received a Masters of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Henry Gantt married Mary E ...
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Love Gantt
Love Rosa Hirschmann Gantt (December 29, 1875 – November 16, 1935), was an American physician based in South Carolina. Early life and education Love Rosa Hirschmann was born in Camden, South Carolina, the daughter of Solomon Hirschmann and Lena Nachman Hirschmann. Her family was Jewish; her father was an immigrant from central Europe. Educated in the Charleston, South Carolina public schools, she was one of the first two women to graduate from the Medical College of South Carolina when she finished her medical degree there in 1901. She then trained at the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute under the supervision of Jacob Hermann Knapp, and at the New York University Eye and Ear Clinic. Career Upon her return to South Carolina, Hirschmann briefly became the staff physician at Winthrop College before leaving to marry Robert Joseph Gantt. She set up a private practice in 1905 in ophthalmology and otolaryngology and began a second career of public service. She was the ...
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