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Tom Barrett (politician)
Thomas or Tom Barrett may refer to: Sports * Tom Barrett (baseball) (born 1960), former baseball player * Tom Barrett (footballer) (1934–2014), English footballer *Tom Barrett (ice hockey) (died 1996), Canadian ice hockey coach * Tom Barrett (riding mechanic) (1891–1924), motor-racing riding-mechanic Others * Tom Barrett (Michigan politician) (born 1981), member of the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate *Tom Barrett (Wisconsin politician) (born 1953), U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg and former mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin *Thomas Barrett, several baronets of the Barrett-Lennard baronets * Thomas Barrett (bishop) (died c. 1485), Irish bishop of Annaghdown * Thomas Barrett (convict) (c. 1758–1788), creator of the Charlotte Medal and the first person executed in the colony of New South Wales, Australia * Thomas J. Barrett (born 1947), American Coast Guard admiral and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation *Tomás Bairéad (anglicised: Thomas Barrett; 1893–197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barrett (baseball)
Thomas Loren Barrett (born April 2, 1960) is an American former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1988–1989) and Boston Red Sox (1992). Barrett was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. In a three-season career, Barrett posted a .202 batting average with nine runs and four RBI in 54 games played. After his playing career, Barrett managed two seasons in the Red Sox farm system. He managed the Sarasota Red Sox in and the Michigan Battle Cats in . Barrett's older brother, Marty Barrett, is a former second baseman who played with the Boston Red Sox and San Diego Padres The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego. The Padres compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1969, the club has won two NL penn ..., between 1982 and 1991. References External links Tom Barrettat SABR (Baseball BioProject)Tom Barrettat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barrett (footballer)
George Thomas Barrett (16 March 1934 – 8 March 2014) was an English footballer. A defender, Barrett progressed through the youth ranks at Manchester United but left for Plymouth Argyle in 1957. After three years with Plymouth, Barrett moved to Chester, where he played regularly for a season before joining non-league Cheltenham Town Cheltenham Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. From the 2021–22 season, the club compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league sy .... References 1934 births 2014 deaths Footballers from Salford English men's footballers Men's association football defenders English Football League players Manchester United F.C. players Plymouth Argyle F.C. players Chester City F.C. players Cheltenham Town F.C. players {{England-footy-defender-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barrett (ice Hockey)
Tom Barrett (died 2 April 1996) was a Canadian ice hockey coach. Career Barrett joined the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) as head coach for the 1983–84 OHL season. In his first season behind their bench he steered Kitchner to the best record in the OHL with 106 points, and Barrett was awarded the Matt Leyden Trophy as OHL Coach of the Year. He stayed with the Rangers until midway through the 1986–87 season when he was replaced by Joe McDonnell. In 1993 he joined the Chatham Wheels of the Colonial Hockey League (CoHL) as head coach, and was named the CoHL's coach of the Year after guiding the Wheels to a 39-18-7 record for their final year in Chatham. In 1994 he relocated with the team to Saginaw, Michigan where he continued to coach the Saginaw Wheels until he was replaced by his assistant, Mike Zruna, part-way through the 1995–96 season. Barrett then returned to the OHL where he served as coach and general manager for the London Knights Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barrett (riding Mechanic)
Tom Barrett (21 November 1891 – 27 September 1924) was an English motor-racing riding mechanic. His death in the 1924 San Sebastian Grand Prix brought an end to the practice of riding mechanics in two-seat racing cars. Racing in this early period was conducted between unreliable cars over long road courses, rather than by repeated laps of a dedicated short circuit. There was no nearby "pit lane" in which to conduct repairs and so it was necessary to carry a mechanic on board the car. Life and early career Barrett was born in 1891, at Prestwood Road, Heath Town, Wolverhampton, one of nine children. His father, George Barrett, had been born in rural Essex but came to Wolverhampton and worked in engineering factories. Tom and his eldest brother William served apprenticeships at the pump-making factory of Joseph Evans & Sons, where their father also worked. During the First World War, Barrett worked at Guy Motors. Rather than Guy's better-known lorries, this work was on small me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barrett (Michigan Politician)
Thomas More Barrett (born April 30, 1981) is an American politician serving as a member of the Michigan Senate from the 24th district. A Republican, he previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his election to the House, Barrett served as a liaison between the Michigan Department of Treasury and the office of the Governor of Michigan. Barrett was the Republican nominee in the 2022 election for Michigan's 7th congressional district, which he lost to incumbent Democrat Elissa Slotkin. Early life and education Barrett was born in Southfield, Michigan. He graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. U.S. Army After graduating from high school, Barrett joined the Army, where he served for 21 years. He served abroad in South Korea, Guantanamo Bay, Kuwait, and Iraq, and is a veteran of both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He served in the Michigan Army Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barrett (Wisconsin Politician)
Thomas Mark Barrett (born December 8, 1953) is an American diplomat and politician who has served as the United States ambassador to Luxembourg since 2022. He previously served as the 44th mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2004 until 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly (1984–1989), Wisconsin Senate (1989–1993) and U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2003). On April 6, 2004, Milwaukee elected Tom Barrett as its 40th mayor. He won reelection in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. When he left office, Barrett was the longest-serving current mayor of one of the 50 largest cities in the United States. Early life, education and early career Barrett is the oldest son of Gertrude Virginia (of German and English descent) and Thomas J. Barrett (of Irish descent). His father was a World War II veteran who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1944 for 30 missions over Germany as a navigator. His mother was a war widow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrett-Lennard Baronets
The Barrett-Lennard Baronetcy, of Belhus in the County of Essex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 June 1801 for Thomas Barrett-Lennard, subsequently Member of Parliament for Essex South. He was the illegitimate son and testamentary heir of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre (see Baron Dacre). He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baronet, the son of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, Member of Parliament for Maldon. His son, the third Baronet, was childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baronet. This line of the family failed on the death in 1977 of his son, the fifth Baronet, who died without male issue. The late Baronet was succeeded by his third cousin once removed, the sixth Baronet. He was the son of Sir Fiennes Cecil Arthur Barrett-Lennard, Chief Justice of Jamaica, son of Captain Thomas George Barrett-Lennard, son of the first marriage of George Barrett-Lennard, son of John Barrett-Lennard, second son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barrett (bishop)
Thomas Barrett ( ga, Tomás Bairéad; died ) was a fifteenth-century Bishop of Annaghdown. Barrett obtained a papal provision to the see of Annaghdown on 17 April 1458 and acted as a suffragan bishop in the English dioceses of Exeter (1458; 1468–75) and Bath and Wells (1482–85)., ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 331., ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, p. 324. According to Cotton, Barrett was also a canon of York Minster; holding the Prebendary A prebendary is a member of the Roman Catholic or Anglican clergy, a form of canon with a role in the administration of a cathedral or collegiate church. When attending services, prebendaries sit in particular seats, usually at the back of th ... of Laughton (1466–67)., ''Prebendaries of Laughton, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541'', volume 6, pp. 64–65., ''The Province of Connaught'', p. 55. Barrett died sometime after 1485. Notes References * * * * 15th-century Roman Catholic bishops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barrett (convict)
Thomas Barrett (27 February 1788) was a convict transported on the First Fleet to the colony of New South Wales. He created Australia's first colonial art work, the Charlotte Medal, which depicts the arrival of ''Charlotte'' at Botany Bay. He was also the first person to be executed in the new colony. Life England Barrett was born around 1758 in London. He was accused and tried on 3 July 1782 for the theft in May of silverware from a house, but acquitted. Transportation to Australia On 11 September 1782 Barrett faced trial in the Old Bailey again, for the theft in July of several items from a house. He was found guilty, and sentenced to death, but that sentence was commuted to transportation. He spent the next 18 months in a prison ship moored on the River Thames, before being transferred to the convict ship ''Mercury'', which sailed for Georgia in March 1784. A few days into the voyage a group of convicts, including Barrett, mutinied and took control of the ship. Bad we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Bairéad
Tomás Bairéad (1893–1973) was an Irish author and nationalist. Born in Galway, his father was called Michael Barrett and his mother Mary McDonough. He had two sisters and one brother. He was a member of the Moycullen group of the Irish Volunteers in 1916 and soon after became an IRA volunteer. He was also a member of the IRB and Sinn Féin. He was part of a group of Volunteers who were involved in the burning of the RIC Barracks in Rosmuc in 1920. He began his journalistic career with the Galway Express, a weekly republican paper. In 1922 he joined the ''Irish Independent'', writing on politics, and would later become the newspaper's editor in 1945. While working for the ''Independent'' he was presented the Irish Academy of Letters Award (1938). Bairéad also invented his own Irish shorthand. His close friend, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, urged him to leave the IRA to focus on his writings. Early life Thomas Barrett (1893–1973), An Bairéadach, or Tomás Bairéad, as he was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Stuart
Leslie Stuart (15 March 1863 – 27 March 1928) born Thomas Augustine Barrett was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show '' Florodora'' (1899) and many popular songs. He began in Manchester as a church organist, for 14 years, and taught music while beginning to compose church music and secular songs in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, he began to promote and conduct orchestral and vocal concerts of popular and theatre music as "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Concerts". He began to focus his composition on music hall, including songs for blackface performers, such as " Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre, such as pantomimes and London shows touring through Manchester; and ballads such as "Soldiers of the King". Stuart later campaigned against the interpolation of new songs into musical theatre scores and for better enforcement of musical copyrights. In 1895, Stuart began to write songs for George Edwardes's London shows at the Gaiety Theatre an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
