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John Kline (other)
John Kline is the name of: * John Kline (basketball) (floruit, fl. 1950s), retired Harlem Globetrotter (1953–1959) who founded the Black Legends of Professional Basketball in 1996 * John Kline (politician) (born 1947), American congressman from Minnesota * John Robert Kline (1891–1955), American mathematician * John Kline (elder) (1797-1864), American church elder See also *John Klein (other) {{hndis, Kline, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kline (basketball)
John Kline (November 18, 1931 – July 26, 2018) was an American basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters (1953–1959) who founded the Black Legends of Professional Basketball in 1996. Kline was a high-leaping 6-foot-3 star nicknamed Jumpin’ Johnny at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) in Detroit, because of his poor grades he dropped out of Wayne State to join the Globetrotters in 1953. During the six years with the Globetrotters, he had helped the team to win the "World Series of Basketball" against the College All-Americans, and in 1959 achieved their first undefeated season with 441 wins. In 1959 he left the Globetrotters and for the season 1960–61 he played in Pennsylvania for the Sunbury Mercuries of the Eastern Professional Basketball League, a rung below the N.B.A. The 60's was a lost decade for Kline as he struggled with a drug addiction for almost eight years. He resumed his education at the Wayne State, where he received bachelor's and master's de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kline (politician)
John Paul Kline Jr. (born September 6, 1947) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from from 2003 to 2017. The district included most of the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities. A member of the Republican Party, Kline served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce from 2011 until 2017. Kline retired from Congress at the end of his term in January of 2017. Early life and education Kline was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the son of Litta Belle (née Rodman) and John Paul Kline, Sr. He is a 1965 graduate of W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. He earned a B.A. in biology at Rice University in 1969 and a Master of Public Administration from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in 1988. Career Before his election to Congress, Kline was a 25-year career commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corpos, where he was a senior military aide to Presidents Carter and Reagan and was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robert Kline
John Robert Kline (December 7, 1891 – May 2, 1955) was an American mathematician and educator. One of three children born to Henry K. Kline (1862–1923) and Emma M. Kline (1869–1948), he was Professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1920–1955. A Ph.D. student of Robert Lee Moore, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1925, later Chairman of the Department of Mathematics from 1933–1954, and Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics from 1941–1955. His doctoral students include Lida Barrett, Arthur Milgram, Athanasios Papoulis, Dudley Weldon Woodard, Leo Zippin, and William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor. at the |
John Kline (elder)
Church of the Brethren historian Donald F. Durnbaugh has described John Kline as "arguably the most beloved personality in Brethren History." Kline was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania on 17 June 1797, the son of John Kline (1763–1844) and Mary Hershey Kline (1770–1850). While he was still a boy, the family moved to Rockingham County, Virginia. On 18 March 1818, before he was twenty-one, he married Anna Wampler (1796–1885), the daughter of John Wampler and Magdalene Garber Wampler. He bought a farm on Linville Creek in what is now the town of Broadway, about five miles north of Harrisonburg, Virginia. He and his wife had only one child, a baby daughter, born on 15 March 1819, who did not live and was unnamed. At some point Kline joined the German Baptist Brethren church. In 1827, he was chosen to serve as deacon by the Linville Creek congregation of the church. He was "called" to the preaching ministry in 1830 and like other Brethren ministers of his day, he serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
