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John Griffin (Canadian Journalist)
John Griffin may refer to: Lawyers *John Griffin (judge) (1774/1779 – after 1823), American jurist and member of the Michigan Territorial Supreme Court, 1806–1823 *John Bowes Griffin (1903–1992), British lawyer, Chief Justice of Uganda and first Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament Politicians *John Griffin (Allegany County, New York) (c. 1771–1846), New York politician * John Griffin (MP) (fl. 1414), English politician * John Gardner Griffin (1815–?), Wisconsin and Connecticut politician * John K. Griffin (1789–1841), U.S. Congressman from South Carolina, 1831–1841 *John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), American surgeon and politician in Los Angeles * John W. Griffin (politician) (1927–2006), American local political figure in Ohio Sports personalities *John Griffin (alpine skier) (1930–2005), Canadian alpine skier * John Griffin (baseball) (1913–1984), American baseball player * John Griffin (basketball) (born 1956), American college basketball player and coach * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffin (judge)
John Griffin (born 1774 or 1779 – death unknown) was an American judge. He was one of the original judges of the Supreme Court of Michigan Territory. Griffin was born in either Scotland or Virginia.Chardavoyne says Griffin was born in Scotland. Burton and Ross say he was a native of Virginia, while the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society states that Griffin was born in Virginia. His father was Cyrus Griffin, the last president of the Continental Congress, and his mother was the daughter of a Scottish baron. He graduated from the College of William and Mary and studied law, and was appointed a judge in the Indiana Territory in 1800 by President John Adams. He did not like the climate, and in 1806 his father convinced President Thomas Jefferson to transfer him to the Supreme Court of the recently created Michigan Territory. While on the court in Michigan, he generally deferred to the opinions of Chief Justice Augustus Woodward Augustus Brevoort Woodward (born Elias Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffin (running Back)
John Anthony Griffin (born December 17, 1988) is an American football running back, who most recently played for the Omaha Mammoths of the Fall Experimental Football League The Fall Experimental Football League (FXFL) was a professional football minor league that played two seasons in 2014 and 2015. This league's stated goal was to become a professional feeder-system for the National Football League (NFL). The lea .... He signed with the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Northeastern Huskies football, Northeastern until transferring to the University of Massachusetts for his senior season. High school career He attended Oakmont Regional High School in Massachusetts where he just played one year on the varsity team. He broke the high school record for touchdowns in a single season with 25. He won a state title in the 100 meter dash and holds his highschool 100 meter and long jump record. College career He played his first th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffin Carlisle
John Griffin Carlisle (September 5, 1834July 31, 1910) was an American politician from the commonwealth of Kentucky and was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives seven times, first in 1876, and served as Speaker of the House, from 1883 to 1889. He subsequently served as a U.S. senator from Kentucky, from 1890 to 1893, and then as Secretary of the Treasury, from 1893 to 1897, during the Panic of 1893. As a Bourbon Democrat he was a leader of the conservative, pro-business wing of the party, along with President Grover Cleveland. Biography Carlisle was born in what is now Kenton County, Kentucky. He was well educated and took a post as a teacher in Covington, Kentucky. His father died in 1853 and he was left to support his family. He studied law under John W. Stevenson, and joined the law firm of William Kinkeard in Covington at the age of 23. Carlisle married Mary Jane Goodson on January 15, 1857, and they had five child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Colahan Griffin Nature Reserve
The John Colahan Griffin Nature Reserve is a 96 ha conservation reserve in north-central Victoria, south-eastern Australia. It lies 185 km north-west of Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met .... It was acquired in 2011 by Bush Heritage Australia as a result of a legacy from John Colahan Griffin. Description The reserve lies between St Arnaud Range National Park and Dalyenong Nature Conservation Reserve. It contains Old-growth forest, old-growth eucalypt woodland, including Eucalyptus goniocalyx, long-leaved box and Eucalyptus leucoxylon, yellow gum trees, some of which are very large and likely to be over 300 years old. Flora and fauna Vegetation communities represented are grassy woodland, heathy dry forest, Box-Ironbark forest, box-ironbark forest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
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 Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffin (businessman)
John Patrick Griffin (born 1 August 1942) is a British businessman. He is the founder of Addison Lee cab and courier company. Early life John Patrick Griffin was born on 1 August 1942 in the UK to a civil engineering contractor father. He was raised in Kilburn from 9 years old attending Finchley Catholic High School. However, he left school with no qualifications after contracting tuberculosis from drinking the milk of a cow he had milked on a school visit to a farm. Career While Griffin was training as an accountant, his father's road and sewer building business got into financial difficulty.My first million: John Griffin ''The Financial Times'', July 7, 2011 Griffin left accountancy training to help salvage the business, with some success. During th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Griffin
John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Nicknamed "the Little Giant" for his short stature and forceful playing, Griffin's career began in the mid-1940s and continued until the month of his death. A pioneering figure in hard bop, Griffin recorded prolifically as a bandleader in addition to stints with pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, in partnership with fellow tenor Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and as a member of the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band after he moved to Europe in the 1960s. In 1995, Griffin was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. Early life and career Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto saxophone. While still at high school at the age of 15, Griffin was playing with T-Bone Walker in a band led by Walker's brother. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith Griffin
John Smith Griffin (1807–1899) was an American missionary in Oregon Country who participated at the Champoeg Meetings that created the Provisional Government of Oregon in 1843. In Oregon he served as a tutor at Fort Vancouver and later organized a church on the Tualatin Plains in the Tualatin Valley. Early life On November 23, 1807, John Griffin was born in Castleton, Vermont, to parents who immigrated from England.Corning, Howard M. (1956). ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 104. In New England and Ohio he received an education in both the schools and seminaries. Griffin was then ordained a minister and sent to Litchfield County, Connecticut. His church, the Congregational Church, then sent him as an unaffiliated missionary to Oregon Country to convert Native Americans. Oregon Griffin arrived in Oregon in 1839 and stayed at the Whitman Mission the first year before moving to the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River. Stay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Joseph Griffin
John Joseph Griffin (1802 – 9 June 1877) was an English chemist and publisher. Life Griffin was born in 1802 in Shoreditch, London, the son of a bookseller and publisher. The family moved to Glasgow when he was young. In present-day his family members still live in, Although some are spread out in Yorkshire and Grimsby, England, and he studied at the Andersonian Institution. He also received training in chemistry at Paris and at Heidelberg. In 1832 he married Mary Ann Holder, with whom he had twelve children, including William Griffin, FCS, and Charles Griffin, FSA. Griffin died at his residence, Park Road, Haverstock Hill, on 9 June 1877. Work Griffin commenced business in Glasgow as a bookseller, publisher, and dealer in chemical apparatus, in partnership with his eldest brother. While still a young man he published a translation of Heinrich Rose's ''Handbuch der analytischen Chemie''. Griffin also partly edited the ''Encyclopædia Metropolitana'', of which his firm we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Howard Griffin
John Howard Griffin (June 16, 1920 – September 9, 1980) was an American journalist and author from Texas who wrote about and championed racial equality. He is best known for his 1959 project to temporarily pass as a African Americans, black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and Racial segregation in the United States, segregation from the other side of the Color line (civil rights issue), color line first-hand. He first published a series of articles on his experience in Sepia (magazine), ''Sepia'' magazine, which had underwritten the project, then later published an expanded account in book form, under the title ''Black Like Me'' (1961). This was later adapted into a Black Like Me (film), 1964 film of the same name. A 50th anniversary edition of the book was published in 2011 by Wings Press. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard De Walden
Field Marshal John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, 1st Baron Braybrooke (13 March 1719 – 25 May 1797), (born Whitwell), KB, of Audley End in Essex, was a British nobleman and soldier. He served as a junior officer with the Pragmatic Army in the Netherlands and Germany during the War of the Austrian Succession. After changing his surname to Griffin in 1749, he commanded a brigade of at least four battalions at the Battle of Corbach in July 1760 during the Seven Years' War. He also commanded a brigade at the Battle of Warburg and was wounded at the Battle of Kloster Kampen. Origins He was born John Griffin Whitwell, the son of William Whitwell by his wife Anne Griffin, sister and sole heiress of Edward Griffin, 3rd Baron Griffin of Braybrooke, and granddaughter of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk and 3rd Baron Howard de Walden (1619–1689). Career Whitwell was educated at Winchester College and commissioned as an ensign in the 3rd regiment of Foot Guards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corn Griffin
John Charles "Corn" Griffin (July 24, 1911 – January 9, 1973) was an American heavyweight boxer whose career lasted from 1930 to 1936 and included the memorable June 14, 1934 TKO loss to James J. Braddock, recreated for the 2005 film '' Cinderella Man''. A native of Florida, Griffin was born in Blountstown, a small community which is the county seat of Calhoun County. After winning his first fight, a 1930 bout with Charles "Ranger" Pond, he turned professional in 1931 with much promise, but was KO'd by Bob Godwin in 1933. The heavily publicized fight with Braddock in Madison Square Garden the following year was the highlight of his career and, as dramatized in ''Cinderella Man'', had Russell Crowe (as Braddock) punching it out with Polish boxer Art Binkowski, portraying Griffin. During his professional career he also served as a sparring partner for former world heavyweight boxing champion Primo Carnera and, following his final bout, a 1936 Fourth of July loss to Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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