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Loftin
Loftin may refer to: People With this surname *Megan Gibson-Loftin (born 1986), American softball coach and player *Brian Loftin (born 1972), American soccer player *Carey Loftin (1914–1997), American stuntman *Colin Loftin (contemporary), American criminologist *Nicholas Loftin (contemporary), American record producer *Nick Loftin (born 1998), American baseball player *Nikki Loftin (born 1972), American fiction author *Peter Loftin (1958–2019), American telecom entrepreneur *R. Bowen Loftin (born 1949), American academic *Robert Loftin (1938–1993), American ornithologist *Scott Loftin (1878–1953), American politician in Florida *Tiffany Dena Loftin (contemporary), American director in the NAACP With this middle name * Albert Loftin Johnson (1860–1901), American business executive and baseball owner *Tom Loftin Johnson (1854–1911), American politician in Ohio *Tom Loftin Johnson (artist) (1900–1963), American painter and art teacher *Robert Loftin Newman (1827–1912), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carey Loftin
William Carey Loftin (January 31, 1914 – March 4, 1997, a.k.a. Cary Loftin, Carry Loftin, Carey Lofton, Gary Loftin, William Carey Loftin) was an American professional stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor in the U.S. film industry. He is considered to be one of the film industry's most accomplished stunt drivers. In a lengthy career spanning 61 years, his body of work included classic films such as '' Thunder Road'', ''Bullitt'', ''Vanishing Point, Duel,'' and '' The French Connection''. He was posthumously inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2001. Early life Loftin was born in Blountstown, Florida and grew up in Alabama and Mississippi where, he learned to ride a motorcycle when he was 10 years old. He attended high school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and began his stunt career at the age of 19 as a member of a traveling motorcycle stunt show in the early 1930s. Having to constantly repair and maintain motorcycles made him a proficient mechanic. After serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Loftin
Nicholas James Loftin (born September 25, 1998) is an American professional baseball infielder for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2023. Amateur career Loftin attended W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he played baseball. As a senior in 2017, he batted .465 with three home runs alongside going 11–4 with a 1.10 ERA on the mound. He originally committed to play college baseball at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, but later switched his commitment to Baylor University. Undrafted in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, he enrolled at Baylor. In 2018, Loftin's freshman year at Baylor, he appeared in 55 games (making 53 starts), batting .306 with six home runs and 36 RBIs, earning Freshman All-American honors alongside being named to the Big 12 Conference All-Second Team and All-Freshman Team. As a sophomore in 2019, Loftin started 53 games in which he hit .323 with six home runs, 41 RBIs, and 18 doubles. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Loftin
Peter Terrell Loftin (March 1, 1958 – November 16, 2019) was an American telecom entrepreneur who founded Business Telecom, Inc. (BTI) when he was only 25 years old and built it up to a multimillion-dollar company that was eventually merged with Deltacom (now EarthLink). Loftin, age 61, died at his home in North Miami Beach, Florida on November 16, 2019. Peter was born in Denton, North Carolina and grew up in New Bern, North Carolina where he attended school and played basketball for his high school team. He later attended North Carolina State University. Career In 1983 Loftin founded Raleigh, NC based Business Telecom, Inc. (BTI). In 1999, independent research group New Paradigm Resources ranked BTI seventh nationally among competitive local exchange carriers and BTI was considered one of the nation's top fifteen telecommunications companies, with over 60,000 customers and 600 employees. Loftin served as chairman of the Board of BTI whose board members included Paul J. Riz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Loftin Johnson (artist)
Major Tom Loftin Johnson (October 5, 1900 – June 25, 1963) was an American painter and an art teacher at West Point. He created public murals – the largest of which was long. His ''American Pietà'' painting, which won $1,000 in the 1941 Carnegie International contest, was intended to highlight the race problem in the United States. A Pietà is meant to show the Virgin Mary holding the crucified Jesus. In Johnson's ''American Pietà,'' the black mother holds her lynched son whilst others hide his tortured body. Biography Tom Loftin Johnson was born in Denver, Colorado, in October 1900. He was trained at the Yale School of Art, where he illustrated campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record''. After Yale, he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Johnson's father, Henry V. Johnson, was Mayor of Denver during 1899–1901, and his father's cousin, the like-named Tom L. Johnson, was Mayor of Cleveland during 1901–1909. Johnson married Sophie Connett in 1928; he died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Loftin
Brian Loftin (born April 4, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a retired American soccer forward and was the commissioner of the Xtreme Soccer League. He played one season in Major League Soccer with the Tampa Bay Mutiny, as well as several seasons in the USISL. However, his greatest fame as a player came in eight seasons of indoor soccer where he was a consistent scoring threat with the Kansas City Attack and Milwaukee Wave. He also earned twelve caps, scoring five goals, with the United States national futsal team. Player Loftin graduated in 1990 from The Barstow School, an independent private school in Kansas City, Missouri, before attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for two years where he was a 1992 All Patriot League soccer player. He transferred to the University of Evansville in 1993. After completing his collegiate eligibility in the fall of 1994, Loftin attended an open tryout with the Kansas City Attack of the National Professional Soccer League. He im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Gibson-Loftin
Megan Lynn Gibson-Loftin (born March 25, 1986) is an American, former collegiate All-American, professional softball pitcher and current pitching coach at Houston. Gibson-Loftin played college softball for Texas A&M where she is the career leader in offense walks and led them to a runner-up finish at the 2008 Women's College World Series. She also ranks top-10 in the latter category and home runs in the Big 12 Conference. She was selected by the Philadelphia Force as the second overall pick in the 2008 NPF Draft, eventually playing for four seasons. After the Force folded she was picked up by the Tennessee Diamonds in 2010. Career College Born Megan Lynn Gibson in Spring, Texas, Gibson-Loftin played college softball at Texas A&M from 2004 to 2008. In the 2008 season, she was collegiate national player of the week from February 25 to March 2. She led her team to win the program's second Big 12 regular season and first tournament championship. In the postseason, she led he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Loftin
Robert Wayne Loftin (1938–1993) was an American environmentalist, ornithologist, and philosopher. He was a professor at the University of North Florida, where he founded the Sawmill Slough Conservation Club and designed the campus's nature trails. The trails on UNF's campus were subsequently renamed the Robert Loftin Nature Trails in his memory on August 31, 1993. Loftin received his B.A. in humanities from Oglethorpe University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Florida State University. In 1988, he received the University of North Florida's Distinguished Professor Award. He died of cancer on August 13, 1993, at the age of 54. Brian G. Norton, Michael Hutchins, Elizabeth F. Stevens, and Terry L. Maple dedicated the edited volume entitled, ''Ethics on the Ark: Zoos, Animal Welfare, and Wildlife Conservation'' (1995), published by Smithsonian Institution Press The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Loftin Wilson
Martha Loftin Wilson (née, Loftin; January 18, 1834 – June 11, 1919) was an American missionary worker and journal editor, as well as a pioneer Atlanta resident and a nurse in the American Civil War. She was regarded as "the most influential leader in the Woman's Missionary Union in Georgia". Wilson was the author of ''Hospital Scenes and Incidents of the War''. Early life and education Martha Eleanor Loftin was born in Clarke County, Alabama, January 18, 1834. She was a Baptist from early childhood, having been baptized in 1845. She was educated in the Dayton Masonic Institute in Alabama. Career On November 14, 1850, she married John Stainback Wilson, M.D. During the American Civil War, she worked in the hospitals of Richmond, Virginia, Camp Winder, and Camp Jackson, with her husband, who was a surgeon. At that time, she wrote a book, ''Hospital Scenes and Incidents of the War'', which was in the hands of the publishers, with the provision that the proceeds should go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Loftin Johnson
Tom Loftin Johnson (July 18, 1854 – April 10, 1911) was an American industrialist, Georgist politician, and important figure of the Progressive Era and a pioneer in urban political and social reform. He was a U.S. Representative from 1891 to 1895 and Mayor of Cleveland for four terms from 1901 to 1909. Johnson was one of the most well known, vocal, and dedicated admirers of Henry George's views on political economy and anti-monopoly reform. Early life and business career Tom Johnson was born in Georgetown, Kentucky on July 18, 1854. Johnson's father, a wealthy cotton planter with lands in Kentucky and Arkansas, served in the Confederate Army in the Civil War. The war ruined the family financially, and they were forced to move to several locations in the South in search of work. By age 11, Johnson was selling newspapers on the railroads in Staunton, Virginia, and providing a substantial part of the family's support. He worked all through his youth, and never had more than one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikki Loftin
Nikki Loftin (born April 12, 1972) is an American author of middle grade fiction. Her first book, ''The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy'', was published by Razorbill/Penguin in August 2012. A second novel, ''Nightingale's Nest'', is scheduled to appear in February 2014. Biography Nikki Loftin is an American author of middle grade fiction. Born and raised in Central Texas, she attended The University of Texas at Austin for both her Bachelor of Arts (French, BA, '92) and Master of Arts (English/Fiction Writing, MA, '98) degrees. Loftin currently resides in Texas. Works ''The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy'', Razorbill/Penguin, August 2012. ''Nightingale's Nest'', Razorbill/Penguin, February 2014. Reception ''The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy'' has been positively reviewed. ''Kirkus'' called ''The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy'' "deliciously scary and satisfying," while ''Shelf Awareness'' called it "a feast of magic and mystery.". ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Loftin
Nicholas Gerard Loftin, professionally known by his moniker as Nick Fury (or simply Fury), is an American hip hop record producer. He is known for producing Houston-based rapper Lil' Flip's 2004 hit single " Game Over (Flip)", which peaked at number 15 in the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling 1,000,000 copies in the United States alone. In January 1996, Loftin relocated to Atlanta, Georgia to produce soul, hip hop and R&B music. He has produced for a variety of high-profile artists, including Lil' Kim, Wu-Tang Clan, T.I., E-40, Nick Cannon and Trina, and remixed " One Love" and " It Ain't Hard to Tell" for Nas' 10th anniversary edition of highly praised '' Illmatic'' album. He contributed to soundtracks to 2001 films '' The Fast and the Furious'' and '' Osmosis Jones'', and 2005 film '' The Longest Yard''. In 2014, Loftin, together with Fadale Northan and Frisco Rivera, produced the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Loftin
Scott Marion Loftin (September 14, 1878September 22, 1953) was a U.S. Senator from Florida who served as a Democrat in 1936. Loftin was born in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. At the age of nine, he moved to Pensacola, Florida, with his parents in 1887. He attended the public schools and Washington and Lee University School of Law at Lexington, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Pensacola, Florida. Loftin was a member of the Florida House of Representatives between 1903-1905 and was prosecuting attorney of Escambia County, Florida between 1904 and 1917. He moved to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1917 to continue the practice of law. Loftin became a member of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Crime in 1934 and president of the American Bar Association in 1934. He became a general counsel for the Florida East Coast Railway between 1931-1941 and for a variety of other transportation-related businesses. He was a businessman wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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