- Ross Perot
Henry Ross "The Boss" Perot (born June 27, 1930) is an American businessman from Texas, who is best known for seeking the office of President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962 and later sold the company to General Motors and founded Perot Systems. Perot is a billionaire. With an estimated net worth of around $4.3 billion as of 2006, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 57th-richest person in America. - Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin was an American musician and composer of ragtime music. He remains the best-known ragtime figure and is regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with James Scott and Joseph Lamb. - Julie Meadows
Julie Meadows (born February 3 1974) is a former American pornographic actress who became a writer after retiring from the adult industry. She was active in the industry from 1998-2004. Meadows is recognizeable due to her long blonde hair and facial mole regarded as a beauty mark; she is sometimes said to resemble the actress Julia Stiles. - Tony Alamo
Tony Alamo (born Bernie LaZar Hoffman, September 20, 1934 in Joplin, Missouri), is a controversial American preacher, singer, entrepreneur, and religious evangelist. He and his then-wife Susan are best known as the founders of a fundamentalist organization currently known as Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and based in and around Texarkana, United States, and frequently referred to as a cult. - Mike Ross
Michael Avery "Mike" Ross (born September 1 1961), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the 4th District of Arkansas (map). In the 2000 election, he was the only Democrat outside of California to defeat a Republican incumbent. In the 2004 election, the Republican Party did not run a challenger against him. - Otis Williams
Otis Williams (born Otis Miles, Jr. on October 30, 1941, in Texarkana, Texas) is an American second tenor/baritone. He has also acted as a sporatic songwriter and producer. Williams is the leader of the Temptations, a group he co-founded in early 1960 as "The Elgins", and in which he continues to perform as the sole surviving original member. - Rod Smith
Roderick "Rod" Smith (born May 15, 1970, in Texarkana, Arkansas) is an American football player who currently plays wide receiver for the Denver Broncos of the NFL. He was signed by the Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 1994 and is the only undrafted free agent ever to have 10,000 career receiving yards. He is ranked 15th in NFL history in career receptions and 16th all time in receiving yards. - Craig Monroe
Craig Keystone Monroe (born February 27, 1977, in Texarkana, Texas) is a left fielder in Major League Baseball who currently plays with the Detroit Tigers. 2006 Tigers play-by-play commentators Rod Allen and Mario Impemba sometimes refer to him by the nickname "C-Mo." Allen has also referred to Monroe as "Baby Boy." Many Tiger fans affectionately refer to him as "C-Money" (sometimes abbreviated as "C$"). This nickname is not only a play on his given name, … - Nathan Vasher
Nathanial DeWayne Vasher (born November 17, 1981 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American football cornerback, who plays for the Chicago Bears. - Brandon Jones
Brandon Jones (born October 6, 1982 in Texarkana, Texas) is an American football player in the National Football League. Jones plays wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans, who drafted him in 2005. He was a football and baseball player for the Oklahoma Sooners. He was selected in the third round behind teammates Mark Clayton & Mark Bradley. Jones also had a stint in the farm system of the New York Yankees. - Parnelli Jones
Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones (born August 12, 1933 in Texarkana, Arkansas), is a retired American racing driver and racecar owner. He is most remembered for his 1963 Indianapolis 500 win, and almost winning the 1967 Indy 500 in a turbine car. He is also remembered for bringing the stock block engine to USAC Sprint car racing as one of the "Chevy Twins" with Jim Hurtubise. In his career, Parnelli Jones won races in many types of vehicles: sports cars, IndyCars, … - Conlon Nancarrow
Conlon Nancarrow (born October 27 1912 in Texarkana, Arkansas; died August 10 1997 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a U.S.-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955. Nancarrow is best remembered for the pieces he wrote for the player piano. He was one of the first composers to use musical instruments as mechanical machines, making them play far beyond human performance ability. - Max Sandlin
Max A. Sandlin, Jr. (born September 29, 1952), American politician, is a former Democratic Congressman representing Texas's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2005. Sandlin was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally moderate Democrats in Congress. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, Sandlin earned Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Baylor University, … - Eddie Mathews
Edwin Lee "Eddie" Mathews was a Hall of Fame third baseman in Major League Baseball and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, third baseman to play the game. Born in Texarkana, Texas, Eddie Mathews was six years old when his family moved to Santa Barbara, California where he developed into a star high school player. - Jeff Keith
Jeffery Lynn Keith (born October 12, 1958 in Texarkana, Arkansas) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer of the band Tesla. He was also the lead singer for the band Bar 7. Before he became part of Tesla, he was a sewage truck driver. He honed his gritty, rough, Steven Tyler-like vocals in Sacramento, CA. He then signed up for a local radio contest that he won singing Sammy Hagar's "Your Love is Driving Me Crazy." This caught the attention of Tommy Skeoch, … - Eric Warfield
Eric Warfield (born March 3, 1976 in Texarkana, Arkansas) is a cornerback for the New England Patriots. He is 6 ft 0 in and weighs 200 lb. He attended college at the University of Nebraska. Warfield finished the 2004 season with 45 tackles, after three straight years of over 70. Warfield also intercepted four passes, one for a touchdown, and forced two fumbles in 2004. In 2005, Warfield struggled with legal issues that threatened his NFL career. - Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker aka Dan Davis Blocker (real name - B. Dan D. Blocker)(December 10 1928 - May 13 1972) was an American actor best remembered for his role as Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright in the TV western blockbuster "Bonanza". He was born in DeKalb in east Texas, the son of Ora Shack Blocker & Mary Davis Blocker. He is also related to David Blocker and Kristen Blocker as well. His family moved to O'Donnell, Texas near Lubbock soon after his birth. - Clyde E. Palmer
Clyde Eber Palmer (August 24, 1876 - July 4, 1957) was the owner of a chain of newspapers and radio stations and a television outlet covering southwestern Arkansas and part of northeastern Texas during the early to middle 20th century. He operated his media conglomerate from Texarkana, Texas. - Billy James Hargis
Billy James Hargis (August 3, 1925, Texarkana, Texas - November 29, 2004, Tulsa, Oklahoma) was a far-right-wing Protestant Christian evangelist who, it could be argued, was one of the founding fathers of the Christian Right. At the height of his popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, his "Christian Crusade" ministry had shows on more than 500 radio stations and 250 television stations. - Frank D. White
Frank Durward White was only the second Republican governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He served a single two-year term from 1981 to 1983. He is one of two Republicans in Arkansas to have defeated future U.S. President Bill Clinton in an election. The other is former U.S. Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison. - Don Rogers
Donald Lavert Rogers (September 17, 1962 - June 27, 1986) was an American football player for the Cleveland Browns. - Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was an American plantation owner, politician, and judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Alabama. He was president of the Convention of 1836 that declared Texas's independence of Mexico, signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, and later served in the Republic of Texas legislature. Ellis was born and raised in Virginia, but he settled in Alabama. - Joshua Logan
Joshua Logan (October 5, 1908- July 12, 1988) was a stage and film director and writer. Joshua Lockwood Logan III was born in Texarkana, Texas and attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana before enrolling at Princeton. As a student, Logan helped form the University Players with Henry Fonda and James Stewart, and along with fellow "Golden Period" performers Stewart and Jose Ferrer was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club. - Richard S. Arnold
Richard Sheppard Arnold (March 26, 1936 - September 23, 2004) was a highly acclaimed judge of the (1) U.S. District Court and then the (2) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Two presidents, Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton, considered naming Arnold to the United States Supreme Court. Polly Price, a former Arnold law clerk and an Emory University law professor who is writing a biography of Arnold, … - Morris S. Arnold
Morris Sheppard "Buzz" Arnold (born 1941) is a senior-status judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, based in Little Rock, Arkansas. A Republican, he was appointed to the appeals court by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush. His tenure began on June 1, 1992. For his first twelve years, until 2004, he served on the court alongside his older brother, Richard S. Arnold, a Democrat appointed by President Jimmy Carter. - Carl Finch
Carl Finch (born November 29, 1951, in Texarkana, Texas) is a guitarist, keyboardist, accordionist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer who co-founded the Grammy-winning polka/dance band Brave Combo in 1979 in Denton, Texas. He co-produced the albums "Equal Scary People" for singer-songwriter Sara Hickman and "El Gato Negro" for conjunto musician Santiago Jimenez, Jr. - William F. Kirby
William Fosgate Kirby (1867-1934) was a Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 1916 to 1921. Kirby was born near Texarkana, Arkansas on November 16, 1867, and attended common schools. He studied law at Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, graduating in 1885, in which year he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Texarkana. A member of the state House of Representatives in 1893 and again in 1897, … - John Levi Sheppard
John Levi Sheppard (April 13, 1852, Bluffton, Alabama-October 11, 1902, Texarkana, Texas) was an American lawyer, judge, and legislator. Sheppard was elected to two terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for the Fourth Congressional District of Texas. Sheppard was the father of Morris Sheppard, great-grandfather of Connie Mack III and great-great-grandfather of Connie Mack IV. - Walter Rogers
Walter Rogers was a Democratic Congressman from Texas. He was born in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1908. He received his law degree from the University of Texas in 1935 and became the city attorney for Pampa, Texas three years later. Rogers was elected to Congress in 1951 and served until 1967. He was one of five Texas Congressmen to sign the Southern Manifesto. The Congressman died on May 31, 2001 in Naples, Florida. - Bunny Dees
Bunny Dees is a resident of Texarkana, Texas, and made her acting debut in 1972 as Elizabeth Ford in the Charles B. Pierce film "The Legend of Boggy Creek." Bunny was 19 years old and a student at Texarkana Community College when she was asked to portray Mrs. Ford. She then went on to pursue a career in theater. She received a major in English and theater from the University of Texas in Austin, as well as two minors in dance and psychology. - Patricia Lieb
Patricia Shipp Lieb is a writer residing in Florida, born in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1942. She moved to Illinois in 1960 where she attended classes at the Kankakee Community College and Governor's State University before moving to Florida. Lieb worked for the Daily Journal in Kankakee, Illinois, as a feature writer before co-founding Lieb-Schott Publications with Carol Schott (Martino) through which they edited and published the former literary magazine Pteranodon. - Durwood Merrill
Edwin Durwood Merrill (March 12 1938 - January 11 2003) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League for 23 seasons (1977-1999). Born in Cloud Chief, Oklahoma, Merrill was known for being friendly and outgoing, as well as being a top-notch umpire. He was also a leader in charitable work in his hometown of Hooks, Texas. In 1998 he wrote a humorous collection of his experiences, called "You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!". - Corinne Griffith
Corinne Griffith (1895 - 1979) was a Hollywood actress who is believed to have been born in Texarkana, Texas, on November 24, 1895. Always one of the more private and mysterious of stars, Griffith's actual year and even birthday are widely disputed with conflicting information throughout her career. 1894 and 1898 are often cited, as is the birthdate of November 21. - Jonathan Lamas
Jonathan Patrick Lamas (born October 16, 1974) is an American author and writer. In addition to his contributions as an automotive journalist for various automotive publications, he is known for such books as 'Out On My Own' and 'Sanctuary of Expression.' He is also known for his musical contributions as vocalist and guitarist of several Los Angeles bands. - George A. Burton
George Aubrey Burton, Jr. (born June 21, 1926), is a Certified Public Accountant who was the last elected finance commissioner in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Burton was also the first Republican since Reconstruction to have been elected to municipal office in Shreveport, having served as finance commissioner from 1971-1978. He is currently the president of the Caddo Parish Board of Election Supervisors. - W. K. Hicks
Wilmer Kenzie Hicks (born in 1942) is a former professional American Football player who played defensive back for the American Football League's Houston Oilers from 1964-1969, and for the NFL New York Jets from 1970 through 1972. Before his professional career, Hicks played for Texas Southern University. - Jack Jenkins
Jacque S. Jenkins (May 6, 1921 - April 1982) was an American football running back in the NFL for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for Vanderbilt University. - Robert L. Henry
Robert Lee Henry was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from 1897 to 1917 (7th district: 1897–1903; 11th district: 1903–1917). - Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards (March 181929-July 82007) was an American screenwriter best known to genre fans for the story and screenplay of the 1982 Star Trek installment, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". A native of Texarkana, Arkansas, Jack B. Sowards, had numerous writing credits which extended from episodes of "The Bold Ones: The Lawyers" in 1969 to "B. L. Stryker" in 1990. - Marshall Terrill
Marshall Terrill (born December 17, 1963 in Texarkana, Texas) is an American author and journalist. He is noted for biographies on Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, and Pete Maravich.
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