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Leavy
Leavy (Lee-Vee) is an Irish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bill Leavy, American football official * Calvin Leavy (1940–2010), American blues musician * Charles H. Leavy (1884–1952), American judge * Edward Leavy (born 1929), American judge * Jane Leavy Jane Leavy (born December 26, 1951) is an American sportswriter and feature writer, formerly with ''The Washington Post''. She writes primarily about baseball. Biography Jane Leavy was born December 26, 1951. She is originally from Roslyn, New Yo ..., American sportswriter and feature writer * Jim Leavy (1842–1882), Irish gunfighter in the Old West * Joseph Britton Leavy (1872–1921), American philatelist at the Smithsonian Institution * Stanley Leavy (1915–2016), American psychoanalyst See also * McLeavy {{surname Surnames of Scottish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Leavy
James H. Leavy (1842 – June 5, 1882) was an Irish gunfighter in the Old West. He is remembered today by Western historians for participating in at least two instances of a quick draw duel. In his time, Leavy was one of the most notorious gunmen in the Old West known for challenging other gunmen to a duel. He is featured in the book ''Deadly Dozen'', written by author Robert K. DeArment as one of the twelve most underrated gunmen of the 19th century West. Historian Erik J. Wright notes that Leavy's name was in fact spelled "Leavy" as it was spelled this way on a number of primary documents from his time in Nevada and Arizona. Early life Jim Leavy was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1842. While some historians claim Leavy was of Jewish descent, no proof of this exists. All contemporary sources spell his name "Leavy."LEAVY'S MURDERE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Leavy
Bill Leavy (pronounced LEE-vee; born February 13, 1947) is a retired American football official who officiated in the National Football League (NFL) from the 1995 through 2014 seasons, wore uniform number 127, and is also a retired San Jose, California police officer and firefighter, serving for 27 years. In his twenty-year NFL officiating career, Leavy was assigned to fifteen playoff games, including two Super Bowls. He was selected as a back judge on the Super Bowl XXXIV officiating crew in 2000 and most recently headed up the Super Bowl XL officiating crew as referee in 2006. Personal Early years Leavy is a 1965 graduate of Santa Barbara High School in Santa Barbara, California and a 1970 graduate of San Jose State University in San Jose, California where he earned a degree in law enforcement. Just before earning his degree, he joined the San Jose Police Department in September 1969. During his high school and college years, Leavy's athletic interests included swimming and foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Leavy
Calvin Leavy (April 20, 1940 – June 6, 2010) was an American soul-blues and electric blues singer and guitarist. He had a hit single in 1970, when "Cummins Prison Farm" peaked at number 40 on the US ''Billboard'' R&B chart and stayed on the chart for five weeks. Locally, it was number one on the chart of radio station WDIA, based in Memphis, Tennessee. Later in his life, Leavy became the first person indicted under the 1989 Arkansas "drug kingpin law". He died in prison. Biography Calvin James Leavy was born in Scott, Pulaski County, Arkansas, the youngest son of fifteen children. As a child he sang in his church choir. By adolescence, he was singing with various gospel ensembles in Little Rock. He formed the Leavy Brothers Band in 1954, and they were popular locally, before relocating to Fresno, California. By the end of 1968, they had moved back to Little Rock and were playing at local clubs. Through this work, Leavy was offered recording time at E&M Studios in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Leavy
Edward Leavy (born August 14, 1929) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former judge for the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Prior to these positions, Leavy was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Education and career Leavy was born in Butteville, Oregon, along the Willamette River south of Portland in 1929. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Portland in 1950, and earned his Bachelor of Laws from the Notre Dame Law School in 1953. Leavy entered private legal practice in Eugene in Lane County, Oregon, in 1953, where he remained until becoming a deputy district attorney for Lane County the following year. He served in that position until 1957. Judicial career In 1957, Leavy became a district court judge for the county, and in 1961 became an Oregon circuit court (trial level court in Oregon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Britton Leavy
Joseph Britton Leavy (March 7, 1872 – July 25, 1921), of New York City and Washington, D.C., was an active stamp collector who served at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Collecting interests Leavy specialized in collecting the postage stamps and postal history of Belgium and the Netherlands. Philatelic activity Joseph Leavy served at the Smithsonian Institution as the first "Government Philatelist" at the museum. He was responsible, during his eight years of work there, for building up the Smithsonian's postage stamp collection and arranging it for public viewing. Philatelic literature While at the Smithsonian Institution, Leavy cataloged the institution's entire collection, recording it in ''Catalogue of the Postage Stamps and Stamped Envelopes of the United States and Possessions Issued to January 1, 1919'' (dated 1919). He also wrote, in 1912, ''The Postage Stamps of Holland (XIX Century)'', and, in 1918 and 1919 he was editor of ''The American Philatel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McLeavy
McLeavy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Frank McLeavy, Baron McLeavy (1899–1976), British politician * John McLeavy Brown (1835–1926), British diplomat *Mike McLeavy Michael McLeavy (born 22 July 1900) was a Scottish footballer who spent most of his career in the American Soccer League. In 1921, McLeavy joined Falkirk; he moved to Kilmarnock in 1922 but played only two league games, then played for Bo'nes ... (1898–?), Scottish footballer * Robin McLeavy (born 1981), Australian actress See also * McLeary {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Leavy
Jane Leavy (born December 26, 1951) is an American sportswriter and feature writer, formerly with ''The Washington Post''. She writes primarily about baseball. Biography Jane Leavy was born December 26, 1951. She is originally from Roslyn, New York. She graduated from Barnard College in 1974 and from Columbia University School of Journalism in 1976. She is the author of the 1990 comic novel ''Squeeze Play'', which was called "the best novel ever written about baseball" by ''Entertainment Weekly''. She also wrote a best-selling 2002 biography ''Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy'' about the great Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax. In 2010, she published ''The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood'', an extensive chronicle of Mantle's off-field behavior. The book was based on interviews she had with the late Yankee slugger. Excerpts from the book have been published in ''Sports Illustrated'' and the ''New York Daily News''. ''The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Leavy
Stanley Leavy (August 11, 1915 – October 31, 2016) was an American psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: + . is a set of Theory, theories and Therapy, therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a bo .... He was an alumnus of Yale University and the University of Rochester. He was a conscientious objector in World War II. He died at the age of 101 on October 31, 2016 in Newton, Massachusetts. Publications *''The Psychoanalytic Dialogue'' (1987) *''In the Image of God: A Psychoanalyst's View'' (1997) References External links Questioning Authority * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
