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Lummis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ben Lummis (born 1978), New Zealand pop and R&B singer *Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859–1928), American journalist, historian, and poet *Cynthia Lummis (born 1954), American politician, U.S. Senator (State of Wyoming); state treasurer 1999–2007 *Dayton Lummis (1903-1988), American actor *Shandré Lummis (born 1998), South African Visual artist and Scholar *Suzanne Lummis (born 1951), American poet; granddaughter of Charles Fletcher Lummis *Trevor Lummis (1930–2013), English writer and historian *William Lummis (1886–1985), British Anglican Church clergyman and historian See also *Loomis (other) {{surname, Lummis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Lummis
Ben Lummis (born Isileli Junior Brown on 1 June 1978) is a New Zealand R&B/pop/gospel recording artist who rose to musical fame as the winner of the first season of ''New Zealand Idol'' in 2004. Biography ''New Zealand Idol'' 2004 Lummis auditioned for the first season of ''New Zealand Idol'' in early 2004, and after passing through the theatre rounds, he qualified for the semi-finals, where the public voted him through to the Top 10. Lummis's first few weeks in the Top 10 were shaky, as he landed in the bottom 3 contestants on three separate occasions. However, from the top 6 onwards, he was never in the bottom three again, and on 10 May 2004, he was crowned as the first ''New Zealand Idol'', defeating Michael Murphy, who had never been in the bottom three throughout the entire competition. Ben is one of only two Idol winners worldwide to land in the Bottom 3 in the first week of their season's finals. The other is 2005 Canadian Idol Melissa O'Neil. Post ''Idol'' career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fletcher Lummis
Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859 – November 25, 1928) was an American journalist, civil rights activist, preservationist, poet and librarian who promoted Native American rights and historic preservation. He founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Lummis began his career as a printer and wrote poems. He traveled in the American Southwest, and settled in Los Angeles, California, where he became known as a historian, photographer, ethnographer and archaeologist. He worked as a city editor for the ''Los Angeles Times''. After being paralyzed, he lived in a Pueblo Indian village and began promoting Native American rights. Later in his life he was a city librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library. Early life and career Lummis was born in 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts. He lost his mother at age two and was homeschooled by his father, who was a schoolmaster and a Methodist minister. Lummis enrolled in Harvard for college and was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Lummis
Cynthia Marie Lummis Wiederspahn ( ; born September 10, 1954) is an American attorney and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Wyoming since 2021. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, Lummis served as the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 2009 to 2017. She served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1979 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1993, in the Wyoming Senate from 1993 to 1995, and as the Wyoming State Treasurer from 1999 to 2007. Lummis was elected treasurer of Wyoming in 1998 and reelected without opposition in 2002. She managed the gubernatorial campaigns of Mary Mead in 1990 Wyoming gubernatorial election, 1990 and Ray Hunkins in 2006 Wyoming gubernatorial election, 2006. She also served on Bob Dole's presidential steering committee in Wyoming and chaired Mitt Romney's Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign, 2012 preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayton Lummis
Dayton Lummis (August 8, 1903 – March 23, 1988) was an American film, television and theatre actor. He was perhaps best known for playing the role of General Douglas MacArthur in the 1955 film '' The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell''. Lummis died in March 1988 in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 84. Partial filmography *'' Red Planet Mars'' (1952) - Radio Commentator (uncredited) *'' The Winning Team'' (1952) - Graham McNamee (uncredited) *'' Breakdown'' (1952) - Prison Warden (uncredited) *''Les Misérables'' (1952) - Defense Lawyer (uncredited) *'' Something for the Birds'' (1952) - Speaker of the House (uncredited) *'' Operation Secret'' (1952) - French Radio Broadcaster (Voice, uncredited) *'' Bloodhounds of Broadway'' (1952) - Chairman (uncredited) *'' Because of You'' (1952) - Philip Arnold (uncredited) *'' Ruby Gentry'' (1952) - Ruby's Attorney (uncredited) *'' The Mississippi Gambler'' (1953) - John Sanford (uncredited) *'' Tangier Incident'' (1953) - Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Lummis
Suzanne Lummis is a poet, influential teacher, arts organizer and impresario in Los Angeles. She is associated with the poem noir, as well as the sensibility for which she is a major exponent–a literary incarnation of performance poetry–the Stand-up Poetry of the 80s and 90s. She is also grouped with “The Fresno Poets.” Family background Suzanne Lummis was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. On her father's side, Suzanne is the granddaughter of Charles Fletcher Lummis, first City Editor of ''The Los Angeles Times'', a position he took on in 1885 after walking across the country from Ohio. He rose to fame as an Indian rights activist, early champion and preservationist of Southern California's Spanish heritage, and author of several books defining and describing the American Southwest. He founded the Southwest Museum, which opened in 1907. Her parents, Keith Lummis and Hazel McCausland, met in the San Francisco office of the U. S. Secret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Lummis
Trevor Lummis (25 August 1930 – 23 September 2013) was an English writer and historian. He was Honorary Treasurer of the Oral History Society and held an Honorary Fellowship in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Early occupation and education He spent ten years as an Able Seaman in the Merchant Navy, before resuming studies as a mature student at the New Battle Abbey College; he subsequently graduated from the University of Edinburgh, University of London and University of Essex. He specialised in 19th and 20th century social and oral history. Drew University listed Lummis among their faculty in 2011. Personal life He was married to Sandra from 1971 until his death. Consultancy for television documentary Lummis was a historical consultant to ''The Bounty Hunters'', a television documentary on the work of a team from James Cook University, Queensland, which was diving on the wreck of and doing other archeological work on Pitcairn Island. It was tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lummis
Canon William Murrell Lummis MC (4 June 1886 – 2 November 1985) was a British military historian most noted for the research he conducted on the Victoria Cross, the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Rorke's Drift.Roy Dutton''Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade'' InfoDial Ltd, (2007) - Google Books pg. 4 Military career Born in Coddenham, Suffolk, Lummis was the oldest of seven children born to George Murrell Lummis (1860–1912) and Louisa Sparrow (1854–1933). After leaving school at the age of 14, Lummis worked as a clerk in a Magistrates' Clerk's Office in his hometown of Coddenham before enlisting, aged 18, in the 11th Hussars as a trooper in 1904."Obituary: Canon W. M. Lummis", ''The Times'', 19 November 1985; pg. 18; Issue 62299; col G By 1911 he was a Lance Sergeant and became responsible, amongst other duties, for the editing of the 11th Hussars' regimental journal. At that time he met the survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade who had gat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
