Gaddis (surname)

	Gaddis (surname) Gaddis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * C. J. Gaddis (born 1985), America football player * Christian Gaddis (born 1984), American football player * Gadabout Gaddis (1896-1986), American television fisherman * Hunter Gaddis (born 1998), American baseball player * John Lewis Gaddis (born 1939),American historian of the Cold War and grand strategy * Miranda Gaddis, American crime victim * Thomas E. Gaddis (1908–1984), American author * Vincent Gaddis (1913–1997), American author * William Gaddis (1922-1998), American novelist See also * Gaddis Smith George Gaddis Smith (December 9, 1932 – December 2, 2022) was an American historian who was the Larned Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and an expert on U.S. foreign relations and maritime history. Biography Born in Newark, New J ... (1932-2022), American historian {{Surname, Gaddis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Christian Gaddis Christian Gaddis (born October 5, 1984, in Jacksonville, Florida) is a former American football center for the National Football League (NFL) . He was signed by the Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Villanova. Gaddis has also been a member of the Cleveland Browns, Indianapolis Colts, and New York Sentinels. Early life Gaddis attended Miami Country Day School in Miami, Florida, where he earned varsity letters in football, basketball and lacrosse. He was named to the All-Conference Team as a senior, was the team MVP in 2001, a first-team All-Dade County football performer in 2000 and 2001 and named second-team All-State in both 2000 and 2001. He totaled 232 tackles, 16 sacks, 10 forced fumbles and seven fumble recoveries during his high school career. College career As a senior in 2006, Gaddis served as team captain, earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 accolades and started all 11 games at center. He finished his Wildcat career starting 33 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gadabout Gaddis __NOTOC__ Roscoe Vernon Gaddis (January 28, 1896 – October 21, 1986), known professionally as Gadabout Gaddis, was a 20th-century American fisherman and television pioneer. Gaddis was born in Mattoon, Illinois and was nicknamed Gadabout by a boss who said he could never find him.Hobson, Dick. (1966, April 2-8). ''One day, Gadabout Gaddis posted a sign GONE FISHING and that was 56 years ago''. TV Guide, pp 24-26. Gaddis, an avid fisherman since his youth in Illinois, was also a pilot and adventurer. He began his career in the early days of television by showing his home movies of his fishing expeditions. In 1939 he briefly hosted a program about fishing on General Electric's experimental TV station W2XAD in Schenectady, New York. When W2XAD became WRGB in the mid-1940s, Gaddis returned to the station to host ''Outdoors with Liberty Mutual'', which was only the second sponsored television show (Lowell Thomas's being the first). The show was eventually carried on 73 stations. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hunter Gaddis Hunter Reid Gaddis (born April 9, 1998) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022. Amateur career Gaddis attended Sequoyah High School in Canton, Georgia, and enrolled at Georgia State University to play college baseball for the Georgia State Panthers. As a sophomore, he was named second team All-Sun Belt Conference after he went 9–4 with a 2.95 earned run average (ERA) with 98 strikeouts. In 2018, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Gaddis repeated as a second team All-Sun Belt selection as a junior despite a 1–7 record and led the conference with 112 strikeouts. Professional career The Cleveland Indians selected Gaddis in the fifth round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft. After signing with the team he was initially assigned to the Arizona League Indians before being promoted to the Class A Short-Season Mahoning Valley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is an American international relations scholar, military historian, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by ''The New York Times''. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. '' George F. Kennan: An American Life'' (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Biography Gaddis was born in Cotulla, Texas, in 1941. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his BA in 1963, MA in 1965, and PhD in 1968, the latter under the direction of Robert Divine. Gaddis then taught briefly at Indiana University Southeast, before joining The Ohio University in 1969. At Ohio, he founded and directed the Contemporary History Institute, and was named a distingu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Miranda Gaddis Ward Francis Weaver III (born April 6, 1963) is an American convicted murderer. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for sexual assault, rape, attempted murder, and the murders of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis in Oregon City, Oregon. Raised in Northern California by his mother, Weaver had a tumultuous childhood; his father, Ward Weaver Jr., was convicted in 1984 of a double-murder. After a stint in the U.S. Navy Reserve, Weaver was convicted of assaulting two teenage girls in Fairfield, California in 1988. In January 2002, twelve-year-old Ashley Pond disappeared en route to her bus stop in Oregon City, near Weaver's residence. Two months later, Pond's classmate, thirteen-year-old Miranda Gaddis, also vanished under mysterious circumstances. The disappearances received international media attention, and were profiled on various television programs, including ''Unsolved Mysteries''. The remains of both girls were discovered on Weaver's property in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas E Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Vincent Gaddis Vincent Hayes Gaddis (December 28, 1913 – February 26, 1997) was an American author who invented the phrase "Bermuda Triangle", which he used first in the cover article for the 1964 February issue of the magazine ''Argosy''. He popularized many stories about anomalous and paranormal phenomena in a style similar to that of Charles Fort. Career Gaddis was born in Ohio to Tilden H. and Alice M. (Smith) Gaddis. He married Margaret Paine Rea on July 14, 1947. Gaddis worked as a newspaper reporter and writer-editor for a Warsaw, Indiana, radio station from 1947 to 1952. He was a feature writer for the ''Elkhart Truth'', a daily newspaper in Elkhart, Indiana, from 1952 to 1959. He then worked as a public relations writer for Studebaker-Packard Corporation and Mercedes Benz Sales in South Bend, Indiana. In 1962 he became a freelance writer. He died in Eureka, California. Reception Gaddis' statements on the Bermuda Triangle and spontaneous human combustion have been criticized b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	William Gaddis William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, ''The Recognitions'', was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, ''J R'' and ''A Frolic of His Own'', won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. National Book Foundation: Awards"National Book Award Winners: 1950–2009" Retrieved March 28, 2012. A collection of his essays was published posthumously as '' The Rush for Second Place'' (2002). ''The Letters of William Gaddis'' was published by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013. A MacArthur Fellow, Gaddis is widely considered one of the first and most important American postmodern writers."William Gaddis: A Portfolio," ''Conjunctions'' 41 (2003), 373–415. Life and career Gaddis was born in New York City to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked "on Wall Street and in politics", and Edith (Charles) Gaddis, who worked her way up from being secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]