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 a place for my responses to the prompts from Andre the Blog Monkey's Banana Bar |
| Prompt: So on Wednesday, you told Andre about great places to visit where you live. Now he'd like to know about the people who live or have lived where you do. - Tell us about a famous person or persons who lives or came from your Home Sweet Home I was surprised at the number of famous and well-known people from Athens, Texas. Athens is the birthplace and/or former home of a number of professional football players, politicians, a Major League Baseball pitcher, businessmen, a judge, a writer, and even a rapper. As per Wikipedia, these are the notable people from Athens, Texas:  Fred Agnich, Texas businessman, rancher, state legislator from Dallas; owned a wildlife preserve near Athens Fletcher Davis, one of a number of Americans who lay claim to inventing the modern hamburger Pete Donohue, Major League Baseball pitcher Jakeem Grant, NFL wide receiver for Miami DolphinsWilliam R. Hawn, businessman, sportsman William Wayne Justice, former United States District Court judge Fred LaRue, former aide to President Richard Nixon. Served four and a half months in prison after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for his actions pertaining to the Watergate break-in and the following scandalTerrence McGee, former NFL cornerback for Buffalo Bills Tay Money, rapperClint W. Murchison, Jr., businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football teamSid W. Richardson, native of Athens, Texas, oilman, cattleman, philanthropistJames C. Spencer, former member of Texas House of Representatives, 1939-1941, 1947-1949, Henderson County Judge Stuart Spitzer, surgeon in Kaufman, Texas, and former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, 2015-2017, born in Athens in 1967Barron Tanner, former NFL defensive linemanand  S.A. Bailey, writer, blogger, semi-professional gun nut, satirist, former paratrooper and veteran of the U.S. ArmyThat's quite a lot of people for such a podunk little town in the middle of nowhere Texas! Word Count: 308  |
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