James Creighton (Manitoba Politician)
James Creighton may refer to: * Jim Creighton (1841–1862), baseball player * James Creighton (ice hockey) (1850–1930), Canadian ice hockey pioneer from Nova Scotia * James Edwin Creighton (1861–1924), American philosopher * James Forbes Creighton (1879–1944), physician and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada * Jimmy Creighton (1905–1990), ice hockey player * James M. Creighton (1856–1946), American architect in Arizona * Jim Creighton (basketball) Jim Creighton (born April 18, 1950) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'8" forward, Creighton played at the University of Colorado from 1969 to 1972, scoring 1,032 points in his college career. He was selected by the Seattl ...

Jim Creighton
James Creighton, Jr. (April 15, 1841 – October 18, 1862) was an American baseball player during the game's amateur era, and is considered by historians to be the sport's first superstar and one of its earliest paid competitors. In 1860 and 1862 he played for one of the most dominant teams of the era, the Excelsior of Brooklyn. He also was reputed to be a superb cricketer, and played in many amateur and professional cricket matches. During this early, pre-professional period of baseball's evolution, Creighton's pitching technique changed the sport from a game that showcased hitting, running, and fielding into a confrontation between the pitcher and batter. Under rules of the day, a pitcher was required to deliver the ball in an underhand motion with a stiff arm/stiff wrist movement. The intention was to induce the batter to swing and put the ball in play, thus initiating action on the diamond. Creighton's swift delivery was difficult for opposing batters to hit, beca ...
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James Creighton (ice Hockey)
James George Aylwin Creighton (June 12, 1850 – June 27, 1930) was a Canadian lawyer, engineer, journalist and athlete. He is credited with organizing the first recorded indoor ice hockey match at Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1875. He helped popularize the sport in Montreal and later in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada after he moved to Ottawa in 1882 where he served for 48 years as the law clerk to the Senate of Canada. Biography Creighton was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the eldest son of William Hudson Creighton and Anna Fairbanks, grandson of James G. A. Creighton, founder of the James G. A. Creighton and Son ship chandling and wholesale food business. He was educated at Halifax Grammar School, where he graduated at age 14, then earned an arts degree with honours from University of King's College in 1868. He then studied under Sandford Fleming, who as engineer-in-chief for the Intercolonial Railway, hired him to work on surveys in Nova Scotia. Creighton moved to Montreal in 18 ...
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James Edwin Creighton
James Edwin Creighton (April 8, 1861, Pictou, Nova Scotia – October 8, 1924, Ithaca, New York) was an American idealist philosopher, Cornell academic, founding president of the American Philosophical Association, and president (1902) of the American Philosophical Society. Biography Creighton graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Dalhousie College, Halifax, in 1887, and became a student at the foreign universities of Leipzig and Berlin. Later he came to Cornell University as a graduate student, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy there in 1892. From 1889 to 1892, Dean Creighton was an instructor in philosophy at Cornell, being advanced during the three following years to an associate professorship. He had been Sage professor of logic and metaphysics since 1895, and acted from 1914 to 1923 as Dean of the Graduate School at Cornell. As an author, he was best known to students through his “Introductory Logic,” first published in 1898, which is widely employed as a colle ...
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James Forbes Creighton
James Forbes Creighton (November 2, 1879 – May 5, 1944https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54101362/james-forbes-creighton) was a physician and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Estevan from 1925 to 1929 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as an independent member. He was born in Wingham, Ontario, the son of John Creighton and Agnes McCallum, and was educated in Alexander, Manitoba ''For the municipality, see: the Rural Municipality of Alexander'' Alexander, Manitoba is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district on Highway 1 west of Brandon located in the Rural Municipality of Whitehead. The post offi ... and at Manitoba University. In 1905, he married Agnes M. Cross. Creighton served in South Africa from 1899 to 1902 and was a member of an ambulance unit during World War I. He lived in Estevan, Saskatchewan. Creighton opened Estevan's first modern hospital in 1924. Creighton Lodge nursing home in Estevan was named in hi ...
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Jimmy Creighton
James Albert Creighton (November 18, 1905 – May 29, 1990) was an ice hockey player and politician from Brandon, Manitoba. Creighton played eleven games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Falcons in 1931, scoring one goal and receiving one minor penalty. He was traded to the New York Americans in December 1931, but never played for the team. He later worked in the IHL and the Can-Am Leagues. Creighton became a professional hockey referee after retiring as a player, and later worked as a general insurance salesman. He served as an alderman in Brandon in 1946, 1948 and 1949, and was mayor of the city from 1952 to 1955 and from 1958 to 1961. Creighton won the Liberal-Progressive nomination for Brandon City in the 1953 provincial election, defeating W.A. Wood and J.C. MacDonald at a contested meeting. He lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Reginald Lissaman in the general election, receiving 3,063 votes (40.13%) on the first count and losing on the secon ...
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James M
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ...
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