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Grey Ferris
Grey Flowers Ferris (May 31, 1946 – June 13, 2008) was an American attorney and politician who served two terms as a member of the Mississippi State Senate. He got his start by successfully running for student government president while an undergraduate at Tulane University and later attended the Tulane University Law School. Rising to chairman of the Senate's Education Committee, he ran for lieutenant governor in 1999 but lost in the Democratic primary to former state senator Amy Tuck. In 2009, Governor Haley Barbour signed a bill passed by the state legislature to name the Mississippi Board of Education's meeting room in Jackson after Ferris. Ferris married the former Jann Terral, an artist, in New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
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The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be used ...
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