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PORTSMOUTH — Ruth Griffin, a pioneer in New Hampshire politics known equally in the city for her public service, died Saturday at age 99. "She passed peacefully at home with her family around ...
From nursing to politics. Ruth Griffin, née Lewin, was born in 1925 to her father, Perez Otis Lewin, and mother, Mae Bailey Lewin, who died of stomach cancer when Griffin was 13.
Joshua Logan (1908–1988), Broadway director of South Pacific and Mister Roberts; born in Texarkana, Texas, but raised in Shreveport. Dottye Dimple Brown Mason (1920 – 2003), was working as a stewardess when she was noticed for her looks and demeanor, which led to a role in the 1947 Jimmie Davis film "Louisiana."
Prince was born January 19, 1920, in Shreveport, Louisiana, the son of John Tervathan Upchurch and Betty Prince Upchurch. During the second World War he served in the U. S. Army and was stationed in France, where he formed a band called "The Chowhounds."
Scott Crichton (Class of 1976), judge of the Louisiana 1st Judicial District Court in Shreveport since 1991 (R) [51] Jay Dardenne, Louisiana lieutenant governor and former secretary of state and state senator (R) [52] George W. D'Artois, public safety commissioner in Shreveport 1962–1976 (D) [53]
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A Webster Parish native reared in Shreveport, Tiner graduated with a journalism degree from Louisiana Tech University. In 1976, Attaway sold The Journal to the Shreveport industrialist and philanthropist Charles T. Beaird, who had served in the late 1950s as a Republican for one term on the former Caddo Parish Police Jury.
Ruth Renick (born Ruth Griffin; [1] September 23, 1893 - May 7, 1984) [2] was an American actress on stage and in films. She made her debut in film in 1919, in a silent film . Her career spanned the shift to "talkies", and Renick had her last role in a Western film in 1932.