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John Gallagher (journalist)

John Gallagher is a journalist and author in the United States. He began his career at the Detroit Free Press in 1987. He has worked in Detroit and written about the history of the auto industry. In 2017 he was inducted into the Michigan Journalist Hall of Fame. He has documented the city's history for more than 3 decades. In 2024, his memoir Rust Belt Reporter was published.
He was born in New York City. He participated in a strike in 1995.
In 2019 he wrote a letter to Detroiters. In 2022 he wrote about the history of discriminatory pending practices.
His book Reimagining Detroit posits ways for the shrinking city to improve.
==Books==
*
*Revolution Deteoit: Strategies for Urban Reinvention (2013)
* about architect Minoru Yamasaki 
*Rust Belt Reporter (2024), a memoir
*Great Architecture of Michigan
*Detroit Architecture; A.I.A. Guide, co-authorhttps://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/mnb/previous-notables/2016-michigan-notable-book-author-biographies
*Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for Serenity
*The Englishman and Detroit; A British Entrepreneur Helps Reatore a City's Confidence (2021)
Category:American journalists
Category:People from Detroit
Category:American people
John Glen Weaver

John Glen Weaver (born March 31, 1976) is an American businessman, farmer, politician, and United States Air Force officer. He joined the Air Force in 1999 and retired in 2022. He is currently running for Nebraska U.S. Senate.
==Early life and education==
John Glen Weaver was born in Macomb, Illinois. He received a bachelor's degree in Animal Science and Russian Linguistics from the University of Wyoming in 1999. He also earned a Master of Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2003, and Master of Arts from Air University in 2013.
==Military career==
Weaver served in the Air Force for 22 years and was deployed 11 times to the Middle East and Southwest Asia. He flew combat missions with the Offutt-based RC-135 over Iraq and Afghanistan and advised the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon.
He was the chief of the 55th wing command post while stationed at Offutt Air Force Base. He became a top graduate of the Air Force Maintenance officer school and Air Command and Staff College.
==Political activities==
======2022 Nebraska's 1st congressional district special election======
Weaver sought the Republican nomination for the 2022 Nebraska's 1st congressional district special election. He was defeated by Mike Flood through the party's secret ballot. Flood received 24 votes while Weaver received 5.
======2022 Nebraska's 1st congressional district regular election======
Months later Weaver decided to run in the regular election. He was defeated again by Mike Flood.
======2022 gubernatorial interview======
Weaver was one of nine candidates selected by Jim Pillen for an interview in replacing Ben Sasse for the U.S. Senate after his retirement on January 8, 2023. Ultimately, Pillen picked outgoing governor Pete Ricketts to replace Sasse.
On January 17th, 2023 Weaver announced his run for the 2024 Nebraska U.S. Senate election. He will be running for the Class II Senate seat currently held by Pete Ricketts.
==Personal life==
Weaver is a born-again Christian. He met his wife, Brianna who was a physician at UNMC in January 2019. Together they have two children.
==Awards and decorations==
Weaver received the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, The Joint Meritorious Service Medal, two Air Medals, and two aerial achievement medals.
Category:1976 births
Category:American businesspeople
Category:United States Air Force officers
John Glennon

John Glennon (born 1931) is an American stage actor, writer, screenwriter, and playwright.
== Career ==
As an actor, his Broadway credits include roles in productions of Saint Joan (play), Six Characters in Search of an Author, Richard III (play), Cyrano de Bergerac (play), The Taming of the Shrew, and Richard II (play), and he was stage manager on How to Be a Jewish Mother.
Glennon sold his first script to CBC in 1957, when he was performing in Saint Joan on Broadway."Spotlight on Scriptwriters: John Glennon. The Stage and Television Today; London. Iss. 4064, (Mar 5, 1959): a7. Via Proquest. He is known for his television writing credits on Armchair Mystery Theatre, Armchair Theatre, Ruth (television play) and Rope (1959 television play) (both 1959), ITV Play of the Week (from 1957 - 1961), Playdate (Canadian TV series), BBC Sunday-Night Play, and Encounter (1958 TV series).
He travelled to Melbourne on 8 August 1959 to present two plays for GTV-9, starting with Ruth (television play), which was a part of Shell Presents and directed by Rod Kinnear. He was also to help coach Australian writers and producers on US drama techniques. The producers wanted Lyndall Barbour to play the lead. She was tracked down to a hotel room in Paris and John Glennon travelled from London to persuade her to accept the part. He also co-starred in the production. The play was produced in Melbourne at the GTV 9 studios. While rehearsing it Glennon said he was working on a play about Australians in London. The TV critic from the Sydney Morning Herald called it "a highly original and diverting play" where Glennon's writing was "in an attractively inventive and individual way that sometimes shades into the eccentric". Another version aired as a BBC Sunday-Night Play in 1962, starring Constance Cummings, again written by John Glennon, and this time directed by Henry Kaplan.
Rope (1959 television play) was the other 1959 Australian TV play he wrote and starred in, also part of Shell Presents and again directed by Kinnear, based on Rope (play) by Patrick Hamilton (writer). Glennon played one of the lead roles. Glennon made several changes to the play, including cutting the time down from two hours to an hour, shifting the action from 1929 to present day New York, and moving the local from one-room to a four-room penthouse. "Whereas the original dealt with distance," said Glennon, "you can now eliminate long speeches and convey the same idea by gesture or by a bit of business magnified a hundred fold by that eagle eyed camera." The Sydney Morning Herald critic praised "John Glennon' s clever, perceptive and highly mannered performance... and the tensions which producer Rod Kinnear was able to generate by some thoughtful camera work, and some very skilful organisation on a large and attractive set." The Age TV credit praised the set, credit sequence and some of the acting but had reservations about some of the performances and the direction.
Category:American stage actors
Category:American writers
Category:American screenwriters
Category:American dramatists and playwrights
John Gossart

John Gossart is an American entrepreneur, musician, and former military officer. He has held various positions in the US military and government, most notably as Deputy Director for Counterterrorism Policy at the US Department of Defense. He co-founded the fintech startup GoodWorld and founded the indie rock band StoneDriver.
==Education==
Gossart graduated from DeMatha Catholic High School. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Boston College in 1992 and a Master's in Public Policy and Economics from Georgetown University in 2002.
==Career==
Gossart has spent 22 years in the US military and government, undertaking assignments across diverse locations spanning Africa, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Asia, and Europe. He began his career in 2002, as an assistant professor of social sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In 2011, he joined the United States Department of Defense as the Deputy Director for Counterterrorism Policy. 
Gossart is an adjunct professor of public policy at Georgetown University.
 
In 2015, Gossart co-founded GoodWorld, where he serves as the Chief Operating Officer. GoodWorld is a fintech start-up that transforms philanthropy through financial technology. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it is renowned for its ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and social impact platforms catering to businesses and nonprofits. GoodWorld has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and D.C.'s Best Technology Startup. Before GoodWorld, Gossart co-founded the smart city tech startup RideScout, which was later acquired by Daimler-Mercedes in 2015.
 
Gossart is also known for his music. In 2014, he established the indie rock band StoneDriver. The band has released several singles and albums, including their second studio album, "Chasing Demons." In 2018, StoneDriver was named City Paper's Best DC Band.
 
Gossart has also performed as a solo artist, playing popular covers and indie originals at various venues. He has performed at renowned stages in the DMV area, including the 9:30 Club, Black Cat, Union Stage, DC9, Metro Stage, and Rock and Roll Hotel.
==Discography== 
Albums
* Chasing Demons
Singles
* Mission Hill
* Warsaw
* On Your Feet
* Never Were
* Twisted Sick Transgressions
* Refrain - V2
* Bleeding In My Drink
* In A Kitchen
* Mary
* Tomorrow
* Babble
* Will's Lullaby
==References==
==External links==
* Personal website
* GoodWorld
* 
* 
* John Gossart on YouTube
* John Gossart on Soundcloud
Category:American entrepreneurs
Category:American musicians
Category:Boston College alumni
Category:American people
John Griffin

John J. Griffin (*1988) is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his work on Crater (2023) and From (2022).
From, an American science fiction/horror television drama series created and executive produced by John Griffin, directed and executive produced by Jack Bender, and showrun and executive produced by Jeff Pinkner, premiered in the US on Epix on February 20, 2022. It was nominated later the same year for Best Horror Television Series: Network/Cable at the Saturn Awards.
Griffin says the idea for the show came after the events of 9/11, which sent him on a journey of self-discovery and finding meaning when "your entire world has shattered". It was his first time, to question the permanence to the constructs society relies on. When asked about the sci-fi setting of the show, he explained he has "always been more attracted to telling human stories" and explore human themes "against an unlikely backdrop".
===Personal life===
He is very active on the social media platform X, especially during the airing of the series' episodes. Griffin participated in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike in 2023.
Category:1988 births
Category:American people
Category:American screenwriters
Category:Producers
John Guzzwell

John Guzzwell is best known for his 1955-1959 singlehanded circumnavigation of the world on Trekka a 20ft 6in (6.25m) timber yawl he built in a shed behind a fish and chip shop in Victoria BC, Canada. Trekka held the record for the smallest yacht to circumnavigate for many years. He is also known as one of the world’s finest timber shipwrights.
He was awarded the Cruising Club of America’s blue water medal in 1959 to recognize his achievement
In the early 1960s, he built the 45ft (13.7m) cutter, Treasure, aboard which he and his family voyaged widely. In the mid-1990s, he built the 30ft (9.1m) fractionally-rigged sloop, Endangered Species, which he campaigned in the 1998 and 2002 Singlehanded Transpac Races from San Francisco to Hawaii. 
He well-known for the book he wrote after his circumnavigation, Trekka Round the World https://books.google.ca/books/about/Trekka_Round_the_World.html?id=SkA9PgAACAAJ&source=kp_author_description&redir_esc=y>, as well as the technical book, Modern Wood Yacht Construction. He was the Patron of the miniglobe race.
John passed away on 23rd August 2024, at the age of 94. His legacy will continue to inspire sailors and dreamers around the world.
Category:2024 deaths
Category:1930 births
Category:Canadian people
Category:Sailors
John Gwynne (author)

John Gwynne is a British writer of fantasy fiction known for his series The Faithful and the Fallen.
==Bibliography==
* 2012 : The Faithful and the Fallen, #1 : Malice
* 2014 : The Faithful and the Fallen, #2 : Valor
* 2015 : The Faithful and the Fallen, #3 : Ruin
* 2016 : The Faithful and the Fallen, #4 : Wrath
* 2018 : Of Blood and Bone, #1 : A Time of Dread
* 2020 : Of Blood and Bone, #2 : A Time of Blood
* 2020 : Of Blood and Bone, #3 : A Time of Courage
* 2021 : The Bloodsworn Saga, #1 : The Shadow of the Gods
* 2022 : The Bloodsworn Saga, #2 : The Hunger of the Gods
==Awards==
* 2013 : David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy, Best Newcomer
Category:Living people
Category:British fantasy writers
Category:British science fiction writers
John H. Brigerman

John H. Brigerman (December 11, 1902 - August 2, 1968) was a lawyer, realtor, and state legislator in Pennsylvania.
Birgerman was born in Wyandotte County, Kansas. He graduated from John Marshall Law School in Chicago and University of Indianapolis as well as Friendship N. & I. College and LaSalle University. He was a delegate to the Indiana State Democratic Convention in 1928 and chaired the 47th Ward Democratic Executive Committee. A Democrat, he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1937 term and the also served in the Pennaylvania House in 1943. He ran unsuccesfully for 1939 and 1945 terms. He died in Phildelphia ans is buried at Rolling Green Memorial Park in West Chester, Pennsylvania.https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=1685&body=H He was included in a 1974 exhibition.
 
Category:1902 births
Category:1968 deaths
Category:Lawyers
John Haidar

John Peter Haidar (born 7 August 1990) is an Irish-Lebanese director, known for notable theatrical productions of Disco Pigs, Richard III and Hamlet. He was Associate Director of Headlong between 2017 and 2019. In 2023, he was appointed Associate Director of Theatre Royal, Plymouth.https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/exclusive-theatre-royal-plymouth-reveals-new-creative-leadership-teamhttps://theatreroyal.com/press/news/new-creative-appointments/
==Background==
Haidar was born in England, though his mother is Irish and his father is Lebanese. He studied English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge and Merton College, Oxford, where he wrote on Irish modernism. He is also a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
==Career==
Haidar's production of Hamlet at Bristol Old Vic, starring Billy Howle, Niamh Cusack and Mirren Mack, was listed in The Observer's 10 Best Shows of 2022.. It was shown in UK and Ireland cinemas in 2023, produced by Altitude Films.
Category:1990 births
Category:People from Coventry
Category:English people
Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Category:Directors
Category:Writers
John Ham (businessman)

John Ham is the founder CEO and Chairman of the live video streaming service Ustream. Business Insider selected John Ham as one of 'The Silicon Valley 100' in 2010. In 2016, he sold Ustream to IBM for $130 Million.
=== Education ===
Ham attended West Point Military Academy where he interned with NASA and the New York Stock Exchange and went on to receive his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. Ham has also been invited to lecture at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
=== After West Point ===
Ham was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. While in the Army, Ham was selected as a Commander and later nominated to be the Aide to the 19th TSC Expeditionary Sustainment Command Commanding General in South Korea.
=== Ustream ===
In 2006, John Ham founded Ustream along with cofounders Brad Hunstable and Gyula Feher. At the time, soldiers were limited by the phone or instant messenger to connect with family and friends back home. Ustream wanted a way for their friends in the Army to be able to communicate with their families and to talk to all of their relatives at once when free time in the war zone was limited.
Ustream started open beta service in March 2007, and was one of the first live video streaming sites. In the same year, it was selected as the Editor's Choice in PC Magazine. Ustream gained widespread adoption as politicians such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton used it to stream political events.
In 2011, Ustream was marked in the Guinness World Records for "Most content ingested by an online video service", which was close to double that of YouTube at the time.
In Jan 2016, Ustream was sold to IBM for $130 Million.
=== Media ===
* USA Today: uStream on USA TODAY Talking Tech
* Bloomberg: Ham Says Ustream Offers `Awesome' Ad Opportunity
* CeBIT: Ustream CEO John Ham: The Power of Live
* Fox Business: John Ham and Brad Hunstable on Fox Business
Category:American computer businesspeople
Category:American entrepreneurs
John Hannibal White

John Hannibal White (1828 - 1878) was a delegate to South Catolina's 1868 Constitutional Convention, a two-term member of the Florida House of Representatives, and a state senator. During the Civil War he would read updates to members of his community in York County, South Carolina. A photograph of him was part of a composite image of African American "Radical Republican" members of the South Carolina Legislature.
Category:American nationalists
Category:American white nationalists
Category:Dead people
John Harris (educator/artist manager)

John Harris is a Canadian artist manager and educator who is the founder and president of the Harris Institute.
==Early life and education==
Harris was born in Etobicoke, Canada. He is a graduate of Humberside Collegiate Institute.
==Career==
During his early career, Harris managed bands including The Creeps, Tranquillity Base, and Ishan People. Alongside Bob Hahn, he co-established Rising Records, introducing Rockabye Hamlet to Broadway.
 
In 1984, during the Papal visit to Toronto, Harris worked as a sound engineer and designed the sound system for the event. Later, he founded the Domenic Troiano Guitar Awards.
In 1989, Harris founded Harris Institute in Toronto, Canada. Under his leadership, by 2018, the institution had been recognized as the leading private school in Jim Lamarche's Media Arts Education Report, a prominent index on media arts education in Canada.
In 1993, Harris proposed a music hub in Toronto, initially calling it Music City Canada before settling on Metronome.
In 2018, Cashbox Magazine awarded Harris a Legacy Award for his industry contributions.
As a writer, Harris has written articles for music publications, and co-authored books, including Canada: Its Music.
Category:People from Etobicoke
Category:Canadian people
Category:Music managers
Category:Educators
John Hewko

John Hewko is a lawyer and public policy scholar who is the current General Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. He has written for and appeared in publications including the Chicago Tribune., CNN, and The Wall Street Journal.
==Career==
Hewko previously worked for the Chicago-based law firm Baker McKenzie, serving as an international partner with the firm's newly-established Moscow office, and as managing partner in Kyiv and Prague. In 1991, he worked as part of the working group which completed an initial draft of the Ukrainian constitution.
Between 2004 and 2009, Hewko worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, negotiating foreign assistance agreements for 26 countries, and has also previously for the Carnegie Endowment's Carnegie Endowment's Democracy and Rule of Law Program. He holds degrees from Harvard University, Oxford University, and Hamilton College, New York
==Personal life==
Hewko is the son of Ukrainian immigrants, who moved to the United States in 1949 after four years in German displaced persons camps. He lives with his partner, Marga, in Evanston, Illinois.
Category:1957 births
Category:Rotary International leaders
Category:Lawyers
Category:Scholars
Category:Chief executive officers
John Higson (antiquarian)

John Higson (1825-1871), a prominent figure in the field of nineteenth-century Lancashire local history writing, was a key contributor to the documentation and preservation of south-eastern Lancashire's folklore in the mid-19th century. 
==Early life and career==
Higson was born in 1825 into an impoverished farming family in Gorton. Despite these modest beginnings and a lack of formal education, he rose through sheer determination and love of learning. He worked various jobs, including as a cashier, and wrote extensively for the press. He was also involved in an effort to establish a newspaper in Droylsden, where he was a prospective editor. He became friends with several Manchester intellectuals of the period including William Axon, who immortalised Higson in his short story collection The Black Knight of Ashton (under the lightly disguised name, 'Digson').
==Contributions to Lancashire folklore==
Higson became an industrious collector of local historical records, antiquities, and accounts of ancient manners and superstitions. His writings are spread across tens of newspaper articles, a few local history books, and unpublished manuscripts: much of the folklore content has been collected together in South Manchester Supernatural. His work in dialect literature, including a boggart poem, and a still unedited dialect list, showcased the linguistic and cultural diversity of the area. Higson died in 1871 in his adopted homes of Lees, widely mourned in the community. His efforts in collecting and documenting the folklore of South-East Lancashire have left their mark on the study of regional folklore and history.
==Further reading==
*Higson, John The Gorton Historical Recorder (Droylsden: Privately printed, 1852?)
*Higson, John Historical and Descriptive Notices of Droylsden: Past and Present (Manchester: Beresford & Souther, 1859)
*Higson, John ‘Boggarts and Feorin’, Notes and Queries 4 (1869), 508-9
*Higson, John ‘Boggarts, Feorin, etc’, Notes and Queries 5 (1870), 156-157
*Higson, John South Manchester Supernatural: The Ghosts, Fairies and Boggarts of Victorian Gorton, Lees, Newton and Saddleworth (Pwca Books 2020)
*Simon Young, ‘Lancashire Folklore Writing, 1829-1923: John Roby to G. R. Oakley’, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 114 (2023), 148-167
Category:1825 births
Category:1871 deaths
Category:British people
Category:Writing