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In 1996, McCain was selected by the Etowah Youth Orchestras as the most well-known musician from Gadsden. The EYO commissioned the composer Julius Williams to write a work for solo harmonica and orchestra, to be performed by McCain and the Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra, as a part of the City of Gadsden's Sesquicentennial Celebration.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Carl Harrison touched countless lives during nearly 40 years as a Junior ROTC instructor in Gadsden's high schools.
On April 16, 1994, three employees were shot and killed and a fourth employee was seriously injured at a Popeyes restaurant in Gadsden, Alabama.The perpetrators, Robert Bryant Melson (June 5, 1971 – June 8, 2017) [1] and Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita (born May 19, 1976), [1] robbed the restaurant of over $2,100, led the four employees into a freezer, and then shot all four of them.
Jon Craig Ford [1] (born May 21, 1968) was an Independent member of the Alabama House of Representatives. He was the House Minority Leader from 2010 to 2016. He currently serves as mayor of Gadsden, Alabama. [2] [3]
Mize was born in Albertville, Alabama, the son of a sharecropper. [1] He left school after 9th grade to help support his family. After several years of working for low pay, he attempted to enlist in the Army, but was rejected for being too light, at 120 pounds (54 kg). [2]
Gadsden is the county seat of Etowah County in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is located on the Coosa River about 56 miles (90 km) northeast of Birmingham and 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee .
The Gadsden Times is a daily newspaper serving Gadsden, Alabama, and the surrounding area in northeastern Alabama.. The Times was owned by Halifax Media Group. [2] Before that, the newspaper was a member of the New York Times Regional Media Group, a subsidiary of the New York Times Company, [3] through the corporate entity of NYT Holdings, Inc., an Alabama corporation. [4]
Born in Florence, Alabama, Billingsley was a multi-sport athlete at Gadsden High School in Gadsden and graduated in 1963. He attended the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where he played college football for the Cowboys under head coach Lloyd Eaton.