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John Graves (17th-century Writer)
John Graves may refer to: * John Graves (American football) (born 1987), American football defensive tackle * John Graves (author) (1920–2013), U.S. author * John Graves (racing driver), American racing driver * John Graves (rugby league) (1926–1983), Australian rugby league footballer * John George Graves (1866–1945), English entrepreneur * John T. Graves (1806–1870), Irish mathematician * John Temple Graves (1856–1925), American politician * John Thomas Graves (Confederate soldier) (1842–1950), last surviving Confederate soldier from the American Civil War * John Woodcock Graves (1795–1886), Anglo-Australian composer and poet * Tom Graves (John Thomas Graves, Jr., born 1970), U.S. politician from georgia See also * John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806), Canadian lieutenant governor * John Graves, a fictional character in ''15 Maiden Lane ''15 Maiden Lane'' is a 1936 American crime film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Claire Trevor, Cesar Romero, and Lloyd Nolan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graves (American Football)
John Graves (born June 25, 1987) is a former American football defensive tackle who played with the Seattle Seahawks. Early years Graves attended Meadowbrook High School (North Chesterfield, Virginia), Meadowbrook High School, where he was selected to the All-America team by PrepStar and SuperPrep. College career Graves played under Frank Beamer at Virginia Tech for five seasons from 2006-2010. Though he initially played at defensive tackle, during the 2009 offseason, coaches Charley Wiles and Bud Foster moved him to defensive end, where he played during his fifth season. Graves was a captain as a senior. Though Graves was regarded by teammates as being somewhat wild, he was described by coach Charley Wiles as being a natural leader and one of a strong work ethic. After Tech's loss to 2010 James Madison Dukes football team, James Madison in 2010, Graves was immediately back in the film room getting ready for the next game. Professional career Graves was not selected in the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graves (author)
John Alexander Graves III (August 6, 1920 – July 31, 2013) was an American writer known for his book '' Goodbye to a River''. Biography Early life As a child growing up in Fort Worth and at his grandfather's ranch in Cuero, Graves was keenly interested in the landscape around him. He graduated from Rice Institute (now Rice University) in 1942. He subsequently served as a captain in the Marine Corps during World War II, until being wounded by a Japanese grenade on the island of Saipan. After the war, he went to graduate school at Columbia University, receiving his master's degree in 1948. While still at Columbia, in 1947, he published the short story "Quarry" in ''The New Yorker''; he continued to publish fiction in magazines through the 1950s. Adult life Following an early marriage and divorce, he traveled widely, spending considerable time in Spain and the Canary Islands, but returned to Texas in 1957 to care for his father, who was gravely ill. According to the Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graves (racing Driver)
John Graves is an American former racing driver from Miami, Florida. He won the 1977 24 Hours of Daytona teaming with owner-driver Dave Helmick and Porsche factory driver Hurley Haywood in a two-year-old Porsche Carrera RSR entered as "Ecurie Escargot". Graves drove in a number of other high-profile sports car races of the era including the 12 Hours of Sebring The 12 Hours of Sebring is an annual motorsport endurance race for sports cars held at Sebring International Raceway, on the site of the former Hendricks Army Airfield World War II air base in Sebring, Florida, US. The event is the second round ..., usually teaming with Helmick. ''Racing Sports Cars'', Retrieved 2009-10-30 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graves (rugby League)
John (Johnny) Graves (19 January 1926 – 23 July 1983) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. An Australian international representative goal-kicking , he played his club football for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, with whom he won back-to-back premierships in 1950–51. Club career Known as "Whacka", Graves commenced his footballing in Newcastle, New South Wales and came to the attention of Sydney talent scouts when he scored two tries in his international debut representing Newcastle against a touring British side in 1946. Graves joined South Sydney in 1947 and after only four first grade games was selected for New South Wales. He formed a strong backline pairing with Clive Churchill and was victorious in Grand Finals with Souths in 1950 (scoring two tries) and in 1951 (scoring four tries). Graves was appointed captain-coach of Cootamundra in 1954. The team won the Group 9 premiership. Representative career He debuted for Australia a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John George Graves
John George Graves (1866–1945) was a successful English entrepreneur and public benefactor. He became Sheffield's Lord Mayor and an Alderman in 1926 and he was given Freedom of the City in 1929. He was born in Lincolnshire in 1866 and died in 1945, having settled in Sheffield. Early life Graves was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire in 1866, the eldest of three children of Thomas and Julia Graves. When he was 8 years old, the family moved to Heckmondwyke, where his father operated a butchers shop. He attended Batley Grammar School until the age of fourteen, before moving to Sheffield. Career Graves moved to Sheffield to become an apprentice watchmaker. He was apprenticed to W. Wichman of Gibraltar Street. He then set up one of Britain's first mail order businesses, selling first watches and then a wide range of goods. The company employed, at its peak, 3,000 people in Sheffield and had an annual turnover of £1 million. The company was absorbed by Great Universal S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John T
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Temple Graves
John Temple Graves (November 9, 1856 – August 8, 1925) was an American newspaper editor who is best known for being the vice presidential nominee of the Independence Party in the presidential election of 1908. Biography Graves was born in 1856 in Willington, South Carolina, to General James Porterfield Graves (1820–1914) and Katherine Floride Townes (1827–1858). He was related to the Calhoun family, a prominent family in 18th and 19th-century American politics, and was the great-grandnephew of John C. Calhoun, who served as Vice President of the United States from 1825 until 1832. He served as a presidential elector for Florida in 1884 and for Georgia in 1888. He was an Atlantan. In a speech in Chautauqua, New York, he denounced allowing African-Americans to vote: "This is a white man's government, and it will remain so forever, for God Almighty has stamped his seal and sign of sovereignty upon the Anglo-Saxon tribe." In 1903, Graves made a statement defending ly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thomas Graves (Confederate Soldier)
John Thomas Graves (1 January 1842– 9 May 1950) was one of the last surviving Confederate soldiers from the American Civil War. Graves was a member of General Joseph O. Shelby's Iron Brigade. He was wounded in action during the Battle of Lexington (Missouri), September 12, 1861. He died at the Confederate Soldiers Home at Higginsville, Missouri Higginsville is a city in Lafayette County, Missouri, Lafayette County, Missouri, within the United States. The population was 4,797 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Higginsville was founded in 1869 and named after Harvey Hi ..., in 1950 at the age of 108. He is buried in Confederate Cemetery, Higginsville, Missouri. See also ReferencesMissouri State Parks Confederate States Army soldiers People of Missouri in the American Civil War 1842 births 1950 deaths People from Pike County, Missouri People from Higginsville, Missouri {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Woodcock Graves
John Woodcock Graves (9 February 1795 – 17 August 1886) was a composer and author of " D'ye ken John Peel". Life Graves was born in Wigton, Cumberland, England, the son of Joseph Graves, a plumber, glazier and ironmonger and his wife Ann, ''née'' Matthews. His father died when he was nine years old and he had comparatively little education. At 14 he began to work for an uncle in Cockermouth who was a house, sign, and coach painter, but he learnt little from him. He owed more to an old bachelor, Joseph Falder, a friend of John Dalton the scientist. Graves afterwards said of Falder "he fixed in me a love of truth, and bent my purpose to pursue it". Graves did some drawing, and at one time wished to study art, but his circumstances did not allow of this, and he became a woollen miller at Caldbeck. There he was friendly with John Peel (1776-1854), with whom he hunted. He was sitting in his parlour one evening with Peel when Graves's little daughter came in and said, "Father what ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Graves
John Thomas Graves Jr. (born February 3, 1970) is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2013 to 2020. Graves previously served one term as the U.S. representative for from 2010 to 2013, following his victory in a special election held to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Nathan Deal. Before his election to Congress, Graves served as a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2003 to 2010. Graves chose not to run for re-election in 2020, and resigned from the House of Representatives on October 4, 2020. Early life, education, and business career Tom Graves was born in St. Petersburg, Florida on February 3, 1970. He graduated from Cass High School in Cartersville, Georgia, where he played linebacker and offensive guard on the school football team. Graves earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia. After college, he bought a landscaping company before worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (U
Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the country in the Caucasus ** Kingdom of Georgia, a medieval kingdom ** Georgia within the Russian Empire ** Democratic Republic of Georgia, established following the Russian Revolution ** Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent of the Soviet Union * Related to the US state ** Province of Georgia, one of the thirteen American colonies established by Great Britain in what became the United States ** Georgia in the American Civil War, the State of Georgia within the Confederate States of America. Other places * 359 Georgia, an asteroid * New Georgia, Solomon Islands * South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Canada * Georgia Street, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada * Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada United K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the Drainage basin, watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York, Upper Canada, York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English law, English common law, and fee simple, freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Canada. His long-term goal was the development of Upper Canada (Ontario) as a model community built on aristocratic and conservative principles, designed to demonstrate the superiority of those principles to the republicanism of the United States. His energetic efforts were only partially successful in establishing a local gentry, a thriving Church of England, and an anti-American coalition with select indigenous nations. He is seen by many Canadians as a founding figure in Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
