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Padgett
Padgett is a surname, and may refer to: * Cliff Padgett (1879–1951), American boat builder * Dirk Padgett, American lawyer * Don Padgett (1911–1980), American baseball player * Doug Padgett (born 1934), English cricketer * Ernie Padgett (1899–1957), American baseball player * Guy Padgett (born 1977), American politician * Hubert Padgett (born 1931), British cricketer * John Padgett, cricketer * Joy Padgett (born 1947), American politician * Keith Padgett, Falkland Islands politician * Lemuel P. Padgett (1855–1922), American politician * Lewis Padgett, pseudonym of authors Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore * Marty Padgett, American journalist * Ron Padgett (born 1942), American poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator * Scott Padgett (born 1976), American basketball player and coach * Travis Padgett (born 1986), American track and field athlete * Padgett Powell (born 1952), American novelist * An American family of basketball people: ** Jim Padgett (1930–2009), coach ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Padgett
Joy Padgett (born Joy Ann Conrad, February 4, 1947 in Coshocton, Ohio) is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 20th district until the end of 2008. In 2006, dogged by personal scandals, she ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and for Congress in . Her run for Congress was the result of the decision of Bob Ney to bow out of the race and plead guilty to corruption charges. Political career Padgett was first appointed to the Ohio Senate in January 2004 and elected that following November. Prior to her election, she was the director of the Office of Appalachia in Governor Bob Taft's administration. Before that, she served from 1993 to 1999 in the Ohio House of Representatives and, prior to that, had been a school teacher. In her 2004 bid for her first full term in the Ohio Senate, Padgett was challenged by Democrat Terry Anderson of Athens, Ohio, who in the 1980s had been held hostage by Islamic radicals in Lebanon when working on a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Padgett
David Christopher Padgett (born February 13, 1985) is an American former basketball coach and player. As a college basketball player, he had played for the Kansas Jayhawks before transferring and finishing his career at Louisville. High school Born in Reno, Nevada, Padgett attended Reno High School, where he averaged 27 points and 14 rebounds per game his senior year. He was a McDonald's High School and a first-team ''Parade'' All-American. He also was a member of the 2004 USA Basketball Junior World Championship Qualifying Team, earning a gold medal at the event. As a high school senior, he was the top-rated center and considered the fourth-rated prospect overall by Inside Hoops, the seventh overall by Rivals Hoops, and fifteenth overall by ESPN.com. In 2003, he was the Nevada player of the year. College career Kansas (2003–2004) Padgett committed to the University of Kansas in 2003 in Roy Williams' last season as the head coach. He decided to remain at Kansas aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. ''Great Balls of Fire'', Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Early life and education Padgett’s father was a bootlegger in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He influenced many of Padgett's works, particularly in the writer's taste for independence and a willingness to deviate from rules, even his own. This would later be described as a stubborn streak of boyishness, allowing a wry innocence in his poetry. Padgett started writing poetry at the age of 13. In an interview, the poet said that he was inspired to write when a girl he had a big crush on did not return his affection. In high school, Padgett became interested in visual arts while continuing to write poetry. He befriended Joe Brainard, the visual artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Padgett
Scott Anthony Padgett (born April 19, 1976) is a retired American professional basketball player and current assistant coach for Manhattan. He was formerly the head coach at Samford University. He played for the National Basketball Association's Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, New Jersey Nets, and Memphis Grizzlies. High school Padgett was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He played basketball at St. Xavier High School in Louisville, was recruited by head coach Rick Pitino and committed to play college basketball for the University of Kentucky. College Padgett saw limited playing time during his freshman season (1994–95) on a roster that included future NBA players Wayne Turner, Tony Delk, Rodrick Rhodes, Walter McCarty, Jeff Sheppard, Mark Pope and Antoine Walker. Padgett averaged 2.0 points per game and 1.2 rebounds per game while appearing in 14 games. He also had academic problems and was not eligible to play during the following year. Padgett returned to Kentucky for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Padgett
Ernest Kitchen Padgett (March 1, 1899 – April 15, 1957) was an American baseball infielder who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "Red", he played for the Boston Braves (baseball), Boston Braves and the Cleveland Indians from 1923 to 1927. He batted and threw right-handed. Although he primarily played as a third baseman, Padgett was utilized at shortstop and second baseman, second base as well. Padgett played minor league baseball for the Memphis Chicks (Southern Association), Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association until 1922, when he was drafted by the Boston Braves in that year's Rule 5 draft. After making his debut in 1923 and spending three seasons with the Braves, Padgett's contract was purchased by the Cleveland Indians, where he spent the next two years of his career before playing his last game on July 30, 1927. He died on April 15, 1957, in East Orange, New Jersey. Padgett is best known for turning the fourth unassisted triple play in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Padgett
Peter L. "Pete" Padgett (born June 15, 1954) is an American high school basketball coach. He is best known, however, for his playing career between 1972–73 and 1975–76 while on the Nevada Wolf Pack men's basketball team. Playing career Pete Padgett played for his father, Jim Padgett, the head coach at Nevada. Padgett, who is , played the power forward position and became one of the most statistically accomplished players in school history. Padgett was selected to the all-conference second team during his freshman year, then was subsequently picked as a first team all-conference member for his final three seasons. Padgett led the West Coast Athletic Conference in rebounding all four seasons and finished his career with 1,464 total, a sum good enough to place him in the top ten all-time in the NCAA's modern era. Although rebounding was his specialty, Padgett finished his career with 1,642 points, which at the time was the third-highest in school history. He also set a confer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Padgett
Douglas Ernest Vernon Padgett (born 20 July 1934) is a former English cricketer, who played more than 500 first-class matches and represented England in Tests twice, both in 1960. Cricket writer Colin Bateman recorded Padgett was, "nimble, happy anywhere in the order, he was a great technician and one of the best batsmen of his era on a bad wicket". Life and career Born 20 July 1934, Padgett had an elder brother, Granville, who was also a professional cricketer. He played for Idle Cricket Club in 1951. In 1951, he became the youngest player then to play first-class cricket for Yorkshire, aged just 16 years and 320 days. Paul Jarvis broke Padgett's record in 1981. Following his National Service, Padgett was one of the first of a new generation of Yorkshire batsmen to cement his place in the Yorkshire first team. He scored more than 1,000 runs in 1956, and in the County Championship-winning side of 1959 he was the leading batsman with more than 2,000 runs. He usually batted at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Padgett
Dirk Padgett is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Navy Reserve's Judge Advocate corp. Padgett is notable for his appointment to serve as a prosecutor for a Guantanamo military commission. In civilian life Padgett is a Prosecutor in Bedford County Virginia. He was hired as the Assistant Commonwealth Attorney for Bedford County in late 1995. He was recalled to serve a hitch of active duty in Iraq on October 14, 2004. On January 5, 2005 the ''Roanoke Times'' published an op-ed by Padgett, entitled ''""Beware uninformed blathering about Iraq from the safety of home". Padgett, then a Lieutenant Commander serving in Iraq, was critical of civilians at home who criticized the conduct of the war, without ever experiencing military service. Carol Rosenberg, writing in the '' Lakeland Ledger'', on July 15, 2009, described the Military Commission's new electronic audio management system malfunctioning when Commander Commander (commonly abbreviated as Cmdr.) is a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Padgett
James Lee Padgett (November 4, 1930 – December 19, 2009) was an American basketball coach. He died of congestive heart failure at 79 years old. He served as head coach at University of California, Berkeley from 1968 to 1972. Padgett coached the University of Nevada from 1972-76. Padgett compiled a 43-61 record in four seasons at Nevada. During his time at Nevada, he coached his son, Pete, who went on to record 1,464 rebounds. This total places Pete in the top 10 all-time in the NCAA's modern era (since 1972–73). The elder Padgett's legacy continues to the present, as Jim's grandson and Pete's son David, a former player at Kansas and Louisville Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. ..., is currently in coaching. David began that phase of his career as a strength coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Padgett
Clifford E. "Cliff" Padgett (December 19, 1879August 7, 1951) was an American motorboat builder who built racing boats. He broke the world water speed record in hydroplane boat racing in 1924. Life Padgett was born in 1879 in Barry, Illinois. In 1894 he moved to Quincy, Illinois, where he began an apprenticeship at a blacksmith shop owned by John Reagan. In 1903, Padgett began to take an interest in the river as well as in building a racing boat with a Pierce-Budd 3-cylinder engine. In 1906, he married Reagan's daughter Lillian and opened his own blacksmith shop. With only a fifth-grade education, Padgett took a correspondence course in mechanical drawing and design. He developed a skill for " blueprinting" and carving miniature boat models out of mahogany. He entered and won his first regatta in 1914, and in 1916 his 16-foot hydroplane convinced him to give up blacksmithing for boat building. For the next 25 years, Padgett built and raced boats. Many of the races he part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Padgett
Keith Padgett is an English politician who served as Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands from 2012 to 2016. Before his appointed as Chief Executive, Padgett served as the islands' Financial Secretary from 2008, which was renamed Director of Finance with the implementation of the 2009 Constitution. He also acts as Director of Corporate Resources. Padgett first came to the Falklands in 2001 to serve as Deputy Financial Secretary under Derek Howatt. He was a candidate for Chief Executive in 2007, losing out to Tim Thorogood. In 2008, he succeeded Howatt as Financial Secretary and in 2012 Padgett became Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands, taking over from Thorogood who resigned for family reasons. As Chief Executive, Padgett led the Falkland Islands efforts to develop oil exploration in the Falklands Exclusive Economic Zone and assisted the Governor in leading commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Padgett
Marty Padgett is a United States based journalist, and the editorial director of Internet Brands Automotive's '' The Car Connection, Motor Authority,'' and ''Green Car Reports''. Born in 1969, Padgett is a native of Washington, D.C., and grew up in southern Maryland before going to college at Duke University (history, '91, with honors) and moving to Michigan. He edited the news section in '' Car and Driver'' magazine for five years and wrote road tests. He also appeared on several national radio television programs including CNN's '' TalkBack Live'' and ''Fox Morning News''. After a short turn in public relations at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama, Padgett moved to Atlanta, where he began writing for publications including ''Details'', '' Men's Health'', ''Stuff'', and ''AutoWeek''. He also worked for '' AutoTrader'' before taking on the editorial duties at ''The Car Connection''. Padgett lives in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
