List of people from Demopolis, Alabama
The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Demopolis, Alabama:
Art[edit]
- Geneva Mercer, sculptor and painter[1]
Athletics[edit]
- Richard Basil, former head football coach at Savannah State University
- Tommy Brooker, professional football player
- Robbie Jones, football player, NY Giants, Alabama Crimson Tide
- Andy Phillips, major league baseball player[2][3][4]
- Paul Phillips, major league baseball player[5]
- Theo Ratliff, professional basketball player
- Spencer Turnbull, professional baseball player for The Detroit Tigers
- Emanuel Zanders, football player, New Orleans Saints, Jackson State
Business[edit]
- Arthur George Gaston, businessman, real estate tycoon, civil rights leader
- Jim Rogers, financier and co-founder of the Quantum Fund[6]
Literature[edit]
- Wyatt Rainey Blassingame, author of more than 600 short stories and articles for national magazines, four adult novels and dozens of juvenile nonfiction books
- James Haskins (1941-2005), author (Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, The Cotton Club, Black Music in America, Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions, The March on Washington, Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation)[7]
- Michelle Richmond (born 1970), fiction writer and essayist (The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Dream of the Blue Room)
- Hudson Strode (1892-1976), teacher of creative writing at the University of Alabama from 1924-1964, honored by King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden for contributions strengthening cultural relations between the United States and Sweden[8]
Politics[edit]
- Richard Henry Clarke, U.S. Representative from 1889 to 1897
- Lacey A. Collier, lawyer and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- James T. Jones, U.S. Representative from 1877 to 1879 and 1883 to 1889
- Francis Strother Lyon, member of United States Congress and Confederate States Congress
- Bill Owens, Massachusetts businessman and politician, born in Demopolis[9]
- Benjamin Glover Shields, U.S Representative, 1841-1943, and United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1845-1850
Science[edit]
- Waldo Semon, inductee of the Inventor Hall of Fame, inventor of vinyl, holder of over a hundred patents, born in Demopolis[10]
References[edit]
- ^ Marengo County Heritage Book Committee (2000). The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Pub. Consultants. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-891647-58-1.
- ^ Rubin, Adam (2008-06-26). "Ex-Yankee Andy Phillips joins Mets for Subway Series". Daily News. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ "Mets Transactions July 2008". Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20101223/NEWS/101229875/1011?p=1&tc=pg Phillips ‘back home’ with Crimson Tide
- ^ Denver Post http://blogs.denverpost.com/rockies/2009/11/20/rockies-bring-back-catcher-paul-phillips/.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Vetter, Jason (January 18, 1998). "Adventurer from Marengo Wanders into the Big Money: Jim Rogers started out selling peanuts at Little League games, then made a bonanza on Wall Street". Mobile Register.
- ^ Watkins, Mel. "James Haskins, an Author on Black History, Dies at 63," New York Times (July 11, 2005). Accessed Apr. 28, 2009.
- ^ "Alabama Academy of Honor: Hudson Strode". www.archives.state.al.us. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
- ^ 'Public Officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1991-1992,' Massachusetts General Court: 1991, Biographical Sketch of Bill Owens, pg. 70
- ^ "WALDO SEMON (1898-1999)". Inventor of the Week. Michigan Institute of Technology. November 1999. Archived from the original on 2003-03-02. Retrieved 2007-12-13.