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McCaskill (other)
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McCaskill is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alton McCaskill (born 2003), American football player * Amal McCaskill (born 1973), American professional basketball player * Billie June McCaskill (1930 – 2011), American herbarium curator * Claire McCaskill (born 1953), U.S. Senator from Missouri * Ted McCaskill (1936 – 2016), Canadian professional hockey player * Ian McCaskill (1938 – 2016), British weatherman * Kirk McCaskill (born 1961), Canadian professional baseball player and son of Ted * Vern McCaskill (1902 – 1992), nurseryman of Camellias and Irises, the father of Billie June. See also *MacAskill (other) MacAskill, also spelt Macaskill, is a surname. It is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic ''Mac Asgaill'', meaning "son of ''Asgall''". The Gaelic name ''Asgall'' is a reduced form of the Old Norse personal name ''Ásketill'', son of Torquil. Asketil was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alton McCaskill
Alton McCaskill IV (born April 10, 2003) is an American college football running back for the Arizona State Sun Devils. He previously played for the Houston Cougars and for the Colorado Buffaloes. Early life McCaskill attended Oak Ridge High School. He was rated as a three-star recruit and committed to play college football for the Houston Cougars over schools such as Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. College career Houston In week three of the 2021 season, McCaskill rushed for 118 yards and three touchdowns in a win over Grambling State. He finished the season with 961 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns while also hauling in 113 receiving yards and two touchdowns. His 16 rushing touchdowns set a Houston freshman record. For his performance, he was named the American Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year, and second-team all-conference. Prior to the 2022 season, McCaskill suffered a season-ending torn ACL. After not p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amal McCaskill
Amal Omari McCaskill (born October 28, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player, at the center position. After a four-year career at Marquette University, McCaskill was selected by the National Basketball Association's Orlando Magic with the 49th pick (2nd round) of the 1996 NBA Draft. He appeared in 4 seasons with as many teams: 1996-97 with Orlando, 2001-02 with the San Antonio Spurs, 2002-03 with the Atlanta Hawks and 2003-04 with the Philadelphia 76ers. After his release from Orlando in 1997 (and Philadelphia in 2004), McCaskill played as an import in Greece, Spain, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Italy and Lebanon. In the United States, McCaskill also appeared for the CBA's Fort Wayne Fury in 1997-98, and the Albany Patroons (2007–08). In June 2008, McCaskill moved to the Philippine Basketball Association, as an import for the Magnolia Beverage Masters ''Magnolia'' is a large genus of about 210 to 340The number of species in the genus ''Magnolia'' de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie June McCaskill
Billie June McCaskill, better known as June McCaskill (June 2, 1930 – May 9, 2001), was an American herbarium curator at the University of California, Davis and expert in weed identification. Life McCaskill was born in Altadena, in California. She grew up in Pasadena where her parents, Vern and Billie operated a nursery called McCaskill Gardens. She attended Mills College in 1949, and graduated with a degree in botany in 1951. She started her career at University of California, Davis in 1953, becoming the first curator of the Botany Department's Herbarium, a position that she held until her retirement. McCaskill specialised in the identification of weeds, and was particularly focused on agricultural weeds that were toxic to livestock. Her botanical skills were also used to investigate multiple homicides. She retired in 1991. Published major work *Bill B. Fischer, Arthur H. Lange, June McCaskill, Beecher Crampton, and Betsey Tabraham, Growers Weed Identification Handbook (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire McCaskill
Claire Conner McCaskill (; born July 24, 1953) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019 and as State Auditor of Missouri from 1999 to 2007. McCaskill is a native of Rolla, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri and the University of Missouri School of Law. A member of the Democratic Party, McCaskill served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989, as Jackson County Prosecutor from 1993 to 1998, and as the 34th State Auditor of Missouri from 1999 to 2007. She ran for Governor of Missouri in the 2004 election, defeating Democratic incumbent Bob Holden in the Democratic primary and losing to Republican Matt Blunt in a close general election. McCaskill was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. While the second female senator to have represented Missouri, she is the first female candidate to actually have been elected to the Senate from Missouri. ( Jean Carnahan was appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted McCaskill
Edward Joel McCaskill (October 29, 1936 – March 3, 2016) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played four games in the National Hockey League and 91 games in the World Hockey Association between 1968 and 1974. He played with the Minnesota North Stars, and he then served as player-coach with the Los Angeles Sharks. Playing career McCaskill played junior hockey with the Kitchener Canucks and later the Kapuskasing Huskies, then made the move to the UK, playing two years in the British Ice Hockey Elite League. Upon returning to the US, he became a dominant force with the Nashville Dixie Flyers, and his offensive prowess earned the attention of NHL clubs, however, he would spend most of his playing years in the Western Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks and Phoenix Roadrunners. He was the father of former Major League Baseball pitcher and minor league hockey player Kirk McCaskill. He died in Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix ( ; nv, Hoozdo; es, Fénix or , yuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McCaskill
Ian McCaskill (born John Robertson McCaskill; 28 July 1938 – 10 December 2016) was a BBC weather forecaster. Early life McCaskill attended Queen's Park Secondary in Glasgow, and then the University of Glasgow, where he studied geology and chemistry. Career McCaskill joined the RAF in 1959 as part of his National Service and became an airman meteorologist, first in Scotland and then in Cyprus. He once joked that when he joined the RAF he was given a choice between Catering and Meteorology, he did not know what meteorology was but he knew he could not cook. He left the RAF in 1961 and joined the Met Office, working at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Malta and Manchester. In 1978, McCaskill began working at the BBC Weather Centre, and presented the weather forecast for the BBC on both television and radio. He retired on 31 July 1998. McCaskill was known for his soft-spoken demeanor, and his presentation style was widely imitated, including by the satirical comedy show ''Spitting Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk McCaskill
Kirk Edward McCaskill (born April 9, 1961) is a Canadian-American former Major League Baseball pitcher and former professional ice hockey player. He played in Major League Baseball for the California Angels and Chicago White Sox between 1985 and 1996, and played in the American Hockey League for the Sherbrooke Jets during the 1983–84 season. Early life McCaskill was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where his father Ted McCaskill was playing for the local senior league hockey team at that time. As a child, McCaskill moved several times due to his father's professional hockey career, spending time in Nashville, Memphis, Vancouver, Phoenix, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach. McCaskill's father retired from hockey in 1975 after which his family settled in Paradise Valley, Arizona. McCaskill attended Edison High School in Huntington Beach his freshman year before being accepted at Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York. He moved to the boarding school mainly to pursue his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vern McCaskill
Vern McCaskill (January 1, 1902 – March 23, 1992) was a nurseryman active in southern California for much of the 20th century who specialised in breeding Camellia and Azalea cultivars. He was the father of the botanist and herbarium curator June McCaskill. Early life In June 1918, McCaskill was recruited from Missouri, and admitted to the United States Naval Academy at the age of 16. While enrolled he met Billie Lee Nowlin, then a student at Drury University and they soon married. This led to his dismissal from the academy in March 1919, "since a midshipman at the Academy could not have a wife, a horse, or a beard," and it ended his military career. The newlyweds went to California for their honeymoon, and initially returned to Missouri before relocating in the early 1920s. Vern and Billie found work at the Coolidge Rare Plant Gardens, which their daughter June attributed to cultivating their love of exotic garden plants. Horticultural legacy Billie Lee and Vern built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
