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Margaret Johnson (other)
Margaret Johnson may refer to: * Margaret Johnson (vocalist), American blues and jazz vocalist and pianist * Margaret Johnson (pianist) (1919–1939), American jazz pianist *Margaret Johnson (advertiser), executive creative director and partner at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners * Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley (née Johnson, 1821–1863), Southern belle, planter and letter writer * Margaret Johnson (artist) (1898–1967), Sri-Lankan born Australian portrait artist *Margaret Johnson (athlete) (1937–2015), Australian athlete * Margaret Johnson (politician), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick *Margaret Johnson (scientist), British physician * Maggie Pogue Johnson (1883–1956), Black American composer and poet * Margaret Delia Johnson (?–2016), chairwoman of West Sussex County Council, 2001-2008 *Maggie Johnson, character in ''Central Intelligence'' *Maggie Johnson, wife of Clint Eastwood *Margaret Johnson, later Goldwater (died 1985), wife of Barry Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnson (vocalist)
Margaret Johnson was an American blues and early jazz vocalist and pianist. Johnson's primary era of recording activity as a vocalist was from 1923 to 1927. Prior to this, she had worked in vaudeville. She is best known for her recording of the song, "Dead Drunk Blues". Her main output was released on the Okeh and Victor labels. Biography She recorded with the harmonica player Bobby Leecan and guitarist Robert Cooksey, playing country blues; she also did several recordings with New Orleans jazz ensembles which included Sidney Bechet, Clarence Williams, Louis Armstrong, Bubber Miley, and Tom Morris. In 1924, she recorded "Absent Minded Blues", which was written by Tom Delaney, and another of his compositions, "Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Mornin'". She was accompanied by Williams on these recordings. She and Clarence Williams also played with the Jazz Rippers, Buddy Christian's ensemble, although Williams was not credited and Johnson was listed under the name Margaret Cart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnson (pianist)
Margaret Johnson (1918–1939) was an American jazz pianist who accompanied many famous jazz musicians of the 1930s. According to the Kansas City Call, she was born Margaret Lucille Johnson on September 28, 1918 in Chanute, Kansas. She was a child prodigy on piano. She moved to Kansas City, Kansas in the early 1930s. Johnson attended Northeast Junior High School and graduated from Sumner High School in 1935. As a young teenager her style was compared to Mary Lou Williams. As a teenager, she played in the bands of Harlan Leonard on tour. At the age of 15, she had already formed her own group. In 1936 she took over for Count Basie when he left his Orchestra for an engagement in Chicago. She also substituted for Mary Lou Williams in Andy Kirk's band in New York. Later, she worked with Clarence Williams, Bubber Miley, Thomas Morris, Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. She can also be heard on four tracks that Billie Holiday's orchestra recorded in September 1938 with Lester Youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnson (advertiser)
Margaret Johnson is the chief creative officer and partner at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. She is the first new partner in over a decade and the agency's first-ever female partner. In 2012, ''Business Insider'' recognized Johnson as the 10th most powerful woman in advertising. Early life Johnson went to college to study journalism but became more interested in graphic design. She graduated from University of North Carolina with a B.A. in journalism and mass communication. She then went on to obtain a degree in art direction at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Career Johnson's first job was as a freelancer at Leanord Monohan Lubars & Kelly where she worked closely with Jeremy Postaer, whose work had inspired her. At this Rhode Island based agency, Johnson worked on accounts like Keds and Polaroid Corporation. Johnson then moved to The Richards Group in Dallas, Texas where she applied her expertise to the work of video games such as Doom and Quake. After a coup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley
Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley (1821-1863) was a Southern belle, planter and letter writer in the Antebellum South. The owner of Mount Holly (Foote, Mississippi), Mount Holly from 1854 to 1863, she was one of the largest Slavery in the United States, slaveholders in Mississippi. She Manumission, freed her slaves in 1858, prior to the beginning of the American Civil War. Early life Margaret Johnson was born on March 4, 1821. Her father, Captain Henry Johnson, was a large landowner and slaveholder in Washington County, Mississippi. Her mother was Elizabeth Julia Flournoy. Her paternal grandfather, Robert Johnson (surveyor), Robert Johnson, was a Kentucky American pioneer, pioneer and surveyor. One of her paternal uncle, Richard Mentor Johnson, served as the ninth Vice President of the United States from 1837 to 1841, under President Martin Van Buren. Her maternal grandfather, Major Matthew Flournoy, served in the American Indian Wars.Harry S. Laver, ''Citizens More Than Soldiers: Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnson (artist)
Margaret G. Johnson, (18981967) was a Sri Lankan born Australian portrait artist. Early life Margaret G. Woods was born to father James Wood, a Scotsman in Kadugannawa, Ceylon. She was one of seven children who all had an interest in painting and drawing. At a young age her father immigrated to Western Australia. She was educated in Perth and after completing her schooling was sent to the Glasgow School of Art. Education Johnson was fifteen years old when she attended the Glasgow School of Art, three years younger than the usual entrance age. Johnson studied under Maurice Greiffenhagen and Professor McKeller, concentrating on painting and modelling. Completing her four-year course in three years, Johnson returned to Western Australia after the end of World War I and married. Career As a portrait artist she specialised in portraiture painting, especially watercolours, but also created works in pencil, pastels and oil. Her portraits would be found in the National Gallery of Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnson (athlete)
Margaret Johnson (15 June 1937 – 24 February 2015) was an Australian athlete. She competed in the women's long jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December .... References 1937 births 2015 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Australian female long jumpers Olympic athletes for Australia Place of birth missing 20th-century Australian sportswomen {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnson (politician)
Margaret C. Johnson is a Canadian Progressive Conservative politician who has represented Carleton-Victoria in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick since 2020. Political career Johnson defeated incumbent Liberal MLA Andrew Harvey in 2020. Johnson had previously lost to Harvey in the 2018 provincial election. Johnson was a member of the cabinet of Blaine Higgs Blaine Myron Higgs (born March 1, 1954) is a former Canadian politician who served as the 34th premier of New Brunswick from 2018 to 2024 and leader of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) from 2016 to 2024. Higgs grad ... from 2020 to 2024 as Minister of Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Fisheries . Electoral history References Living people Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick MLAs Women MLAs in New Brunswick 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick 21st-century Canadian women politicians People from Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnson (scientist)
Margaret Johnson is a British physician who is a consultant in thoracic medicine and chair of the St John & St Elizabeth Hospital. In the late 1980s, she was the first dedicated HIV doctor at the Royal Free Hospital. Early life and education Johnson trained in medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She completed her medical diploma in breathlessness. Research and career In the late 1980s, Johnson was the first doctor in the Royal Free Hospital to specialise in HIV/AIDS. At the time, she was one of the UK's few dedicated doctors who were trying to understand HIV when one in ten patients at the Royal Free Hospital with HIV died from the condition. She developed a holistic care programme that could accommodate thousands of patients. In 2005, Johnson was named professor of medicine at University College London. Johnson studied the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in women. She set up the UK's first HIV testing clinic for women. She worked with Jane Anderson on creating the BHIVA guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Pogue Johnson
Maggie Pogue Johnson (1883-1956) was an American composer and poet. She wrote verse in both standard English as well as in the dialect and speech patterns of Black Americans at the time, which still retained the influence of their speech from when they were enslaved. Biography Johnson was born in Fincastle, Virginia, and educated in the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in Petersburg, Virginia. Her parents, Lucie Jane Banister Pogue and Rev. Samuel Pogue made sure their children were well-educated. This was important, considering the fields that she and her siblings ended up in, such as teaching, physics, pharmacy, and ministerial work. Johnson taught for two years and was also the president of the Literary and Debating Society in Covington, Virginia. She was the composer of "I Know That I Love You" and other songs, as well as the author of ''Virginia Dreams''. Her poem ''The Story of Lovers Leap'' was inspired by a famous resorts in the South, Greenbrier White Sulpher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Delia Johnson
West Sussex County Council is the upper tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of West Sussex in England. The county also contains seven district and borough councils, and 158 town, parish and neighbourhood councils. The county council has 70 elected councillors. The chief executive and directors are responsible for the day-to-day running of the council. Since 1997, West Sussex County Council has been controlled by the Conservative Party. History Sussex was historically divided into six sub-divisions known as rapes. From the 12th century the practice arose of holding the quarter sessions separately for the three eastern rapes and the three western rapes, with the courts for the western rapes of Arundel, Bramber and Chichester being held at Chichester. This position was formalised by the County of Sussex Act 1865, with the eastern and western divisions of Sussex treated as separate counties for the purposes of taxation, law enforcement, asylums and highways, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Intelligence
''Central Intelligence'' is a 2016 American buddy action comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and written by Thurber, Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen. The film stars Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson as two old high school classmates who go on the run after one of them joins the CIA to save the world from a terrorist who intends to sell satellite codes. The film premiered in Los Angeles on June 10, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 17, 2016. ''Central Intelligence'' received praise from critics for Johnson and Hart's performances but criticism for the script, and was commercially successful, grossing over $217 million worldwide against its $60 million budget. Plot In 1996, star athlete Calvin "The Golden Jet" Joyner is being honored at his school, Central High. Halfway through his speech, a group of bullies led by Trevor Olson throws the obese nerd Robbie Weirdicht (who was taking a shower and dancing happily to " My Lovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personal Life Of Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood has had numerous casual and serious relationships of varying length and intensity over his life, many of which overlapped. He has eight known children by six women, only half of whom were contemporaneously acknowledged. Eastwood refuses to confirm his exact number of offspring, and there have been wide discrepancies in the media regarding the number. His biographer, Patrick McGilligan, has stated on camera that Eastwood's total number of children is indeterminate and that "one was when he was still in high school." Eastwood's first marriage was to manufacturing secretary-turned-fitness instructor Margaret Neville Johnson in December 1953, having met her on a blind date the previous May. During the courtship, he had an affair that resulted in his daughter Laurie (born 1954), who was adopted by Clyde and Helen Warren of Seattle. While the identity of Laurie's biological mother is not public record, McGilligan said the mother belonged to a theatre group Eastwood partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
