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John Weber (other)
Jo(h)n Web(b)er may refer to: Politicians * John B. Weber (1842–1926), U.S. Representative from New York *Vin Weber (John Vincent Weber, born 1952), former Republican congressman from Minnesota *John Weber (Pennsylvania politician) (1768–1815), speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1810–1812 *Jon Weber (politician), member of the Idaho House of Representatives *John Webber (politician), member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Others *John Ferdinand Webber (c. 1790–1882), Texan pioneer and conductor on the southern Underground Railroad with his wife *John Henry Weber (1779–1859), Danish-born, American fur trader and explorer *John Webber (1752–1793), English artist and explorer *Jon Weber (musician) (born 1961), American jazz pianist *John Webber (musician) (born 1965), American jazz bassist *Jon Weber (baseball) (born 1978), baseball player *John Weber (darts player) (born 1972), Australian darts player See also * Weber Weber (, or ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John B
John Bryn Williams (born 1977), known as John B, is an English disc jockey and electronic music producer. He is widely recognised for his eccentric clothing and wild hair and his production of several cutting edge drum and bass tracks. John B ranked number 76 in ''DJ Magazine''s 2010 Top 100 DJs annual poll, announced on 27 October 2010. Career Williams was born on 12 July 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He started producing music around the age of 14, and now is the head of drum and bass record label Beta Recordings, together with its more specialist drum and bass sub-labels Nu Electro, Tangent, and Chihuahua. He also has releases on Formation Records, Metalheadz and Planet Mu. Williams was ranked 92nd drum and bass DJ on the 2009 ''DJ Magazine'' top 100. Style While his trademark sound has evolved through the years, it generally involves female vocals and trance-like synths (a style which has been dubbed "trance and bass", "trancestep" and "futurestep" by listeners). His m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vin Weber
John Vincent Weber (born July 24, 1952) is an American politician, lobbyist and former Republican Congressman from Minnesota. Early life and education Weber was born in Slayton, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities from 1970 to 1974. Career Weber was press secretary to Representative Tom Hagedorn from 1974 to 1975 and a senior aide to Senator Rudy Boschwitz from 1977 to 1980. He had been the co-publisher of Murray County newspaper from 1976 to 1978 and the president of Weber Publishing Company. Weber was a delegate to the Minnesota State Republican conventions in 1972 and 1978. In 1980, at the age of 28, he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, defeating Archie Baumann, 53% to 47%. Baumann had been an aide to former Representative Richard Nolan. Weber chose not to run for reelection in 1992 and retired from Congress following the House banking scandal, in which he was implicated for writing 125 bad checks worth nearly $48,000. As se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Weber (Pennsylvania Politician)
John Weber (1768–1815) was an American politician who served as the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1810. John Weber was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Montgomery County in 1806 and served through 1811. See also * List of speakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives References Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Speakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Pennsylvania Whigs 19th-century American politicians 1768 births 1815 deaths {{Pennsylvania-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Weber (politician)
Jon Weber is an American politician and businessman serving as a member of the Idaho House of Representatives from the 34th district. He assumed office on December 1, 2020. Early life and education Weber was raised in Michigan. He studied business at Ricks College and Utah State University, but did not earn a degree. Career Weber has owned and operated several businesses and served as chairman of the Madison County Commission. He was elected to the Idaho House of Representatives in November 2020, succeeding Doug Ricks Doug Ricks is an American businessman and politician serving as a Republican member of the Idaho Senate from the 34th district. Ricks previously served in the Idaho House of Representatives from 2018 to 2020. Early life and education Ricks was .... References Living people Republican Party members of the Idaho House of Representatives Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American politicians {{Idaho-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Webber (politician)
John Webber (1841 – 12 March 1904) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Early life Webber was born in Kingsbrompton, Somerset, in 1841 to Thomas Webber and his wife Ann (née Burston). Webber married Henrietta Wells, in 1869 at Wanganella, New South Wales. Politics Webber was a member of the Bulloo Divisional Board, the Rabbit Board, and from May 1899 till his death a member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Later life Webber died on 12 March 1904 at St Helen's Private Hospital in Brisbane, following a long illness.., and was buried in Toowong Cemetery but later exhumed for burial in Thargomindah Thargomindah (frequently shortened to Thargo) is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Bulloo, Queensland, Australia. The town of Thargomindah is the administrative centre for the Shire of Bulloo. In the , Thargomindah had a population o ... with his wife. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ferdinand Webber
Silvia Hector Webber (1807 – ca. 1892) and John Fernando Webber (ca. 1786–1795 – 1882) were a mixed-race couple who were among the initial settlers in Austin's Colony in Travis County, Texas. John, previously a private and a medic during the War of 1812, was the first non-native resident and the founder of Webber's Prairie, where he had established a fort. The town was later named Webberville, Texas. The Webbers secured the freedom of Silvia and their children ultimately by giving up much of their Webberville property. The family was subject to cruel racial prejudice and their children were unable to attend school with white children. The Webbers hired a live-in private tutor. When the Republic of Texas was founded in 1836, it became a republic that protected the institution of slavery and banned free Black people from residing inside its borders. The Webbers were subject to increasingly dangerous persecution and the family became afraid that Silvia and the children could face ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Weber
John Henry Weber (1779–1859) was an American fur trader and explorer. Weber was active in the early years of the fur trade, exploring territory in the Rocky Mountains and areas in the current state of Utah. The Weber River, Weber State University, and Weber County, Utah were named for Weber. Early life John Henry Weber was born in the town of Altona, Hamburg, Altona, then part of Denmark and now a borough of Hamburg in Germany. Weber immigrated to the United States where he was hired by the United States Army Ordnance Department to keep records for the government-owned lead mines in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. Into the Fur Trade Weber became acquainted with William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry (fur trader), Andrew Henry who conducted the beaver trade in the drainage of the Upper Missouri River. He joined a Rocky Mountain Fur Company expedition which departed St. Louis, Missouri in the spring of 1822. Other trappers in this group included: Jim Bridger, David Jackson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Webber
John Webber (6 October 1751 – 29 May 1793) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska. Biography Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris. His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744. Webber served as official artist on James Cook's third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–1880) aboard . At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of "A Man of Van Diemen's Land" and "A Woman of Van Diemen's Land". He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Weber (musician)
Jon Weber (born 1961, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a New York City and Chicago-based jazz pianist and composer whose compositions and performances have met critical and popular acclaim in many countries around the world. Largely self-taught, Weber has perfect pitch and remarkable melodic recall. He serves as host of '' Piano Jazz With Jon Weber'' on NPR. Early life Weber began playing at a very young age. He lived and performed for many years in Chicago, and currently resides in New York City. He has performed and recorded with a broad range of musicians in the United States, Europe, India, Japan, and Australia. Later life and career Weber's album ''Jazz Wagon'' was released in 1993, followed by a live album, ''Flying Keys'', and ''It's Never Quite the Same'', an album of tunes by composers Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. His most recent album, '' Simple Complex'', features his own compositions. It was released in 2004 with Weber on piano, drummer Mark Walker, Eric Alexander on sax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Webber (musician)
John Robert Webber (born August 5, 1965) is an American jazz double-bassist. Early life and education Webber was born in St. Louis. He first learned to play bass guitar before switching to stand-up bass at age 15. He attended Northern Illinois University and Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he worked with Von Freeman and Brad Goode. Career Webber relocated to New York City in 1987 and played with Bill Hardman, Junior Cook, Tardo Hammer, John Marshall, and Michael Weiss before the end of the decade. In the 1990s he played with Christopher Hollyday, Johnny Griffin, Jimmy Cobb, Lou Donaldson, David Hazeltine, Diana Krall, Annie Ross, Mike LeDonne, Peter Bernstein, Eric Alexander, Chris Flory, Doug Lawrence, Etta Jones, Jim Rotondi, Ryan Kisor, and Horace Silver. Discography As sideman With Eric Alexander *'' Straight Up'' (Delmark, 1992) *'' Mode for Mabes'' (Delmark, 1997) *''Summit Meeting'' (Milestone, 2001) *'' Dead Center'' (HighNote, 2004) *''Sunday in New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Weber (baseball)
Jonathan Brian Weber (born January 20, 1978 in Lakewood, California) is a professional baseball player. An outfielder, Weber bats and throws left-handed. Considered a journeyman, Weber has played professionally in minor league baseball since 1999, without playing in Major League Baseball. Weber played collegiately for Los Angeles Harbor College and Texas Tech University before embarking on his professional career in 1999. As a professional, he played in the minor league organizations of the Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Yankees, and Detroit Tigers. He has also played independent league baseball in the unaffiliated Frontier League, Northern League, and American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. Weber has competed for the United States national baseball team, winning the gold medal at the 2009 Baseball World Cup. Amateur career Weber was born in Lakewood, California. He attended Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Weber (darts Player)
Johnny "John" Weber (born 29 November 1972) is a former professional Australian darts player. Career In 2011, Weber won his first title by claiming the Victorian Easter Open with a 7–2 victory over Jamie Browne in the final. In 2014 he began playing more in Australian Grand Prix Tour events, winning the Mittagong RSL Open 1, Southern Illawarra Open 1 and Warilla Bowls Club Open. Weber qualified for the Sydney Darts Masters and lost 6–1 to Stephen Bunting in the first round. He took the first five legs against Rob Szabo in the final of the Oceanic Masters and won 8–2. The title earned him a place in the first round of the 2015 World Championship, where he lost 3–1 against Terry Jenkins in the first round. Weber won three times on the 2015 Australian Grand Prix Pro Tour, as well as losing in five finals to finish second on the Order of Merit. In 2016 he was defeated 6–5 in the final of the Chester Hill Open by Corey Cadby and won the Australian Masters by beating Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |