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- LaReine Chabut was born in Kentucky but raised in the small town of Poland in Northeastern Ohio, in the Boardman/Youngstown area. She was discovered by famed director Ridley Scott on an open audition, winning the lead role over thousand of girls as the new face of "Pepsi", originally slated for Paulina Porizkova. Soon after, LaReine worked with Director David Fincher for a NIKE commercial landing her a contract with NIKE.
She frequently appears on magazine covers including Shape Magazine, Glamour, Health Magazine and has been featured in nationally prominent magazines such as Vanity Fair, Allure, People, Newsweek, Self, Health, and Glamour. LaReine is a best-selling author of 6 titles, including "Lose That Baby Fat!", and "Golf-All in-One" with Gary McCord.
She also was recently voted one of the "Most Beautiful Women Alive" and hosted MSNBC's "Focus on Feeling Better" for 6 million viewers. In addition, LaReine's popular video series for "The Firm" has sold over 3 million copies to date. - Writer
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Abraham Lincoln was an American politician from Kentucky. He was the second presidential candidate of the then-new Republican Party, following John Charles Frémont (1813 - 1890). He served as President of the United States from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. He was assassinated in April 1865, the first of four American presidents to be assassinated during their term in office.
In February 1809, Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin, located on the Sinking Spring Farm . The Farm itself was located near the modern city of Hodgenville, Kentucky, which was incorporated in 1836. Lincoln was the second child born to the illiterate farmer Thomas Lincoln (1778-1851) and his first wife Nancy Hanks (1784-1818). Both of his parents were born in Virginia.
Lincoln was a namesake grandson of Captain Abraham Lincoln (1744 - 1786), a military veteran of the American Revolutionary War. The senior Abraham was born in Pennsylvania, and settled in the areas of modern Kentucky in 1781. He was shot by an unnamed Native American in May 1786, while working in his field. The Lincoln family were descendants of Samuel Lincoln (1622 - 1690), an English weaver who had settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637.
Lincoln's father Thomas bought or leased various farms in Kentucky, but lost most of his land in court disputes over property titles. In 1816, the Lincoln family settled in Indiana, which at the time had a more reliable and surveying system. Indiana was a "free-state", having abolished slave-holding in 1816. This suited Thomas' religious beliefs. He had joined the Separate Baptists, a religious group which forbade its members to own slaves.
In October 1818, Lincoln's mother Nancy died due to milk sickness. She had ingested milk cow containing the poison tremetol. She was 34-years-old at the time of her death. Lincoln was only 9-years-old at the time. The boy's primary caregiver for a while was his older sister Sarah Lincoln (1807 - 1828), who took over most household duties.
In December 1819, Lincoln's father married his second wife Sarah Bush (1788 - 1869). She was a widow, with three children of her own from a previous marriage. Lincoln grew close to his stepmother, and started calling her mother. By that time, Lincoln was old enough to start working in the farm. He reportedly never liked the physical labor, and his family regarded him as particularly lazy.
Lincoln received little formal schooling, relying on brief tutoring by itinerant teachers. He learned to read at the age of 7, but was not trained to write for several years. However, he became a bibliophile and spend most of his free time "reading, scribbling, writing, ciphering, writing Poetry, etc" He was largely self-educated, reading on a variety of topics.
As a teenager, Lincoln was "tall, strong, and athletic". He was trained in the "catch-as-catch-can" style of wrestling, a grappling style, and had a career as an amateur wrestler. He earned his reputation in the sport by defeating the leader of "the Clary's Grove Boys", a local gang of troublemakers.
In 1830, the Lincoln family moved to Macon County, Illinois. By that time, Lincoln was 21-years-old, legally entering adulthood. His relationship with his father Thomas became difficult, as young Lincoln craved for financial independence. In 1831, Thomas and most of his family settled in a new homestead, located in Coles County, Illinois. Lincoln decided not to follow them, and started living on his own. He settled for a few years in New Salem, Illinois.
In 1831, Lincoln and his partner Denton Offutt purchased a general store in New Salem. Lincoln gained a reputation of honesty, when he realized that he had accidentally overcharged a customer and voluntarily returned the money to him. By 1832, the general store had failed. The partnership was dissolved.
Also In 1832, Lincoln stood as a candidate for the Illinois General Assembly. He was an unlikely candidate, as he was rather poor and lacked political connections. He received 277 votes, nearly every vote in the village of New Salem. He lost the election as he was unknown outside this village.
In the early 1830s, Lincoln worked as New Salem's postmaster, and then as county surveyor. He aspired to become a lawyer, and read law on his own. He extensively studied legal texts in order to qualify. He later claimed that he was entirely self-taught. In 1834, Lincoln sought election to the Illinois General Assembly again. This time, he stood as a candidate for the powerful Whig Party and won the election. He served four terms in the General Assembly.
Lincoln's first known romantic relationship involved Ann Rutledge (1813 - 1835), a local woman who was reputedly engaged to another man. Rutledge died in August 1835, during a typhoid epidemic. She was only 22-years-old at the time of her death. Lincoln became severely depressed following her death. Biographers think that he wrote the poem "The Suicide's Soliloquy"(1838), to record his own suicidal thoughts during this period.
In 1836, Lincoln was admitted to the Illinois bar, and moved to Springfield Illinois to practice law. He started his career as a lawyer by practicing law under experienced lawyer John Todd Stuart (1807 - 1885), who happened to be a long-time friend of Lincoln. Lincoln gained a reputation as a formidable trial lawyer in cases involving cross-examinations.
In his political career in the 1830s, Lincoln championed the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, which connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. He later served as a Canal Commissioner. He voted to expand suffrage to all white males, not only white landowners. He adopted a "free soil" policy, vocally opposing both slavery and abolitionism. He favored the plan of the Whig party leader Henry Clay (1777 - 1852) to use freedmen in the colonization of Liberia.
In 1839, Lincoln became romantically interested in Mary Todd (1818 - 1882), a daughter of the wealthy businessman Robert Smith Todd (1791-1849). They were engaged in 1840, and were married in 1842. They had four sons. Mary had a higher social standing than Lincoln, being part of the gentry in Springfield, Illinois. She had reputedly rejected several suitors. Her most notable suitor before Lincoln was the successful lawyer Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813 -1861).
In 1842, Lincoln's last term in the Illinois General Assembly ended. In 1843, he sought the Whig nomination for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lost the nomination to John Jay Hardin (1810 - 1847), but convinced party officials to not renominate Hardin in the next election. Lincoln won the Whig nomination in 1846, and went on to win the election. He served as a congressman from 1847 to 1849. During this time, Lincoln was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation.
During his term in congress, Lincoln proposed a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and to compensate slave owners for the loss of property. The bill failed to gain sufficient support, even from his own party. Lincoln spoke out against the country's involvement in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), warning that the price of glory would be "showers of blood".
Lincoln did not seek renomination to Congress in the 1848 election, honoring a 1846 pledge to serve a single term. He supported Zachary Taylor's campaign to win the Whig nomination for the presidency. When Taylor won the presidential election, Lincoln expected political favors from the new president. Taylor offered to Lincoln an appointment as secretary or governor of the Oregon Territory, which was at that time a stronghold of the Democratic Party. Lincoln declined the offer, as it would require him to abandon his legal career in Illinois. He resumed life as a lawyer.
During the 1850s, Lincoln was one of Illinois' leading lawyers. He appeared before the Illinois Supreme Court in 175 cases, and was the sole counsel in 51 of these cases. He solidified his reputation as a defense lawyer in two murder trials. In the trial of Duff Armstrong (1833-1899), Lincoln was able to prove that a key eyewitness was actually lying about what he had seen. Lincoln found that the witness stood at too great a distance in nighttime conditions to have seen anything. In the trial of Simeon Quinn "Peachy" Harrison (a cousin of Lincoln), Lincoln was able to convince a judge that the dying declaration of the murder victim should not be excluded as hearsay, That declaration was that the victim had actively provoked Harrison into attacking, helping the defense's case.
In 1854, Lincoln resumed his active participation in political life by speaking out against the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, a law that repealing the Missouri Compromise (1820), and would allow for the expansion of slavery to the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The Whig Party split in two due to its factions' different reactions to the new law. The Party's anti-slavery faction helped establish the new Republican Party, which also attracted anti-slavery politicians from the Free Soil Party, the Liberty Party, and the Democratic Party.
In 1854, Lincoln stood as a Whig candidate to the United States Senate. He was not able to secure the election, but managed to convince his supporters to vote for Lyman Trumbull (1813 - 1896), an anti-slavery Democrat with similar views to their own. Trumbull won the election. In 1856, Lincoln formally joined the Republican Party. At the June 1856 Republican National Convention, Lincoln was one of the candidates for the party's nomination for Vice President of the United States. Lincoln received 110 votes, finishing second among the candidates. The vice-presidential nomination was instead won by William Lewis Dayton (1807 - 1864).
In 1858, Lincoln stood as a Republican candidate for the United States Senate. His opponent was Stephen Arnold Douglas, a leading Democrat politician. The Senate campaign featured seven debates between Lincoln and Douglas, which attracted nationwide attention. The candidates argued extensively over the legal and moral status of slavery in the United States. In this elections, the Republican Party won the popular vote, but the Democratic Party won more seats. The legislature re-appointed Douglas to the Senate. But Lincoln had become nationally famous, and he was often mentioned by the press as a likely presidential candidate.
In 1860, Lincoln received early endorsements as a presidential candidate. In the 1860 Republican National Convention, he secured the party's nomination. His most significant rival for the nomination was William Henry Seward (1801-1872), who finished second among the various candidates. Only Lincoln and Seward received over 50 votes from delegates. The party's nomination for vice president was secured by Hannibal Hamlin (1809 - 1891), a former Democrat who had opposed slavery for most of his career.
In the 1860 United States presidential election, the Democratic Party was split into two rival factions, which nominated different candidates. In the election, Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, or 39.8% of the popular vote. In the electoral college, he received 180 votes, winning the election. Lincoln every one of the free Northern states, plus California and Oregon in the recently annexed Western United States. He received no votes at all in 10 of the 15 slave states.
Lincoln started his presidency in March 1861. By that time, 7 states had already seceded from the Union in reaction to his victory (in chronological order: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas). The American Civil War started in April 1861 with the Battle of Fort Sumter, a bombardment of a Union fort located near Charleston, South Carolina. On April 15, Lincoln called on the states to send a total of 75,000 volunteer troops to recapture forts, protect Washington, and "preserve the Union". In Baltimore rioting crowds started attacking Union forces. Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus in select areas, allowing the government forces to confine people without formal trials. Thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers were confined.
Lincoln soon established his executive control over the Union's war effort, and helped shape its military strategy, He expanded his war powers, and exercising "unprecedented authority" over the country. He had the full support of the Republican-controlled Congress, as well as popular support in states loyal to the Union. His political opposition consisted of two different factions, the Copperheads and the Radical Republicans. The Copperheads were a faction of the Democratic Party which demanded a compromise on the matter of slavery, and a peace settlement with the Confederates. The Radical Republicans were a faction of the Republican Party which demanded the "permanent eradication of slavery", and rejected any ideas concerning compromises with slave-owners.
In September 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the emancipation of slaves in 10 Confederate states. The Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. By the spring of 1863, Lincoln had started recruiting "black troops" in massive numbers. By the end of the year, 20 regiments of African Americans from the Mississippi Valley had been recruited by the Union.
Lincoln ran for re-election in the 1864 United States presidential election. He united the main factions of the Republican Party and the War Democrats (a pro-Union faction of the Democratic Party) into a coalition known as Union Party. The remaining factions of the Democratic Party made the mistake of nominating retired general George Brinton McClellan (1826 - 1885) as their presidential candidate. McClellan held a grudge against Lincoln, but rejected any ideas concerning peace with the Confederates. Meaning that the Copperheads could see little difference between him and Lincoln.
Lincoln won the presidential election with 2,218,388 votes, representing 55.0% of the popular vote. 78% of Union soldiers. voted fort him, as they did not want a compromise to end the War. Lincoln won 212 electoral votes, and had the support of 22 out of the Union's 25 states. His new vice-president was Andrew Johnson (1808 - 1875), a prominent War Democrat.
In 1865, the Union seemed to be winning the American Civil War. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln and his wife attended Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. They wanted to see a performance of the then-popular British play "Our American Cousin" (1858) by Tom Taylor (1817 - 1880). During the performance, Lincoln was assassinated by the well-known actor John Wilkes Booth (1838 - 1865). Booth was a Confederate sympathizer, and hoped to turn the tide of the War. Lincoln was 56-years-old at the time of his death.
Lincoln's corpse was returned for burial to Springfield, Illinois, where he had lived for decades. On May 4, 1865, Lincoln was interred at the Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. The Lincoln Tomb later became a state historic site. His wife and three of their four sons were later buried there as well.
Historians tend to rank Lincoln among the top Presidents of the United States. Due to his violent death, he came to be regarded as "a national martyr". Several political factions trace their origins to Lincoln's ideas and policies. He has been described as "a classical liberal" of the 19th-century, and is well-regarded for his policies favoring trade and business.- Kroy Biermann was born on 12 September 1985 in Hardin, Montana, USA. He is a producer, known for The NFL on CBS (1956), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding (2012). He has been married to Kim Zolciak-Biermann since 11 November 2011. They have four children.
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Jennifer Tighe was born on 24 December 1968 in Hardin County. Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for NCIS (2003), Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997) and Pacific Blue (1996).- Stunts
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Donny Carrington is an award-winning American actor, stunt performer and producer who has enjoyed success in top-rated TV and box-office film, including Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War and Spider-Man: No Way Home, HBO's Emmy Award-winning Watchmen, and Universal Pictures' Furious 7, to name a few.
This year, Carrington can be seen acting alongside Dwayne' The Rock' Johnson in the upcoming Warner Bros. DC superhero film, Black Adam, from director Jaume Collet-Serra. The film follows Black Adam (Johnson), who was once bestowed with the Almighty powers of the Egyptian gods, freed after nearly 5,000 years of imprisonment, and is ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Carrington can next be seen in the Antoine Fuqua-directed Apple TV+ film Emancipation, starring Academy Award-winning actor Will Smith, the A24 action epic Silver War, starring Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura (Narcos), and stunt doubling Jesse Williams in the upcoming Paramount Pictures' action film Secret Headquarters, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman.
As a nominee and two-time SAG-award-winning stunt performer in an ensemble cast for Marvel's Avengers: Endgame and Black Panther, Carrington is one of the few young African-American stunt actors contributing to movie success at the box office, including five of the top 15 highest-grossing films of all-time with $11.5 billion globally across features.
Additionally, he has stunt-doubled Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges in Furious 7 and Jessie T. Usher in Shaft. Other film credits include Amazon Studios' Coming 2 America and The Tomorrow Wars, Sony Pictures' Baby Driver, DC's The Suicide Squad, Christopher Nolan's Tenet, Universal Pictures' Ride Along 2, and Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay.
On the television side, Carrington can be seen acting in Fox's 9-1-1 as 911 dispatcher Antoine Banks. He can also be seen starring in the major recurring role of Red in Tyler Perry Studios' male exotic drama All the Queen's Men and as Officer Freddie Nelson in the new dramedy Johnson. He has previously starred as Arden in OWN's drama series Ambitions, created by Will Packer and James Giddens, and Gary Michael in the Bobbi Kristina biopic.
Carrington appeared on CW's fan-favorite superhero and fantasy supernatural dramas, DC's Black Lightning, The Originals and The Vampire Diaries, with additional television credits including CBS' MacGyver, Marvel's Luke Cage, Cloak & Dagger, Powers and Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, FX's award-winning comedy-drama Atlanta and the Starz strip-club drama P-Valley.
Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Carrington is the son of Jaqueline Denise Carrington and Donny Rogers Carrington and spent many of his formative years in Jonesboro, Georgia, just southeast of Atlanta. It was evident that Carrington's colorful personality, full of charisma and humor, superior athletic abilities, ambition and love for the performing arts would destine him for success. He quickly developed the keen ability to nurture his talents through involvement in local youth organizations, community theater and athletics, immersing himself in acting and entertainment.
Carrington began his acting career in 2011, performing stunts in the indie sports drama Field of Vision while working behind the scenes in television as a production assistant. During this time, he gained invaluable on-set experience, which gave him a more profound desire to act and ultimately helped him discover a new love for producing and directing.
When Carrington is not on set, he enjoys spending quality time with his family and friends, traveling, playing and watching sports, brand building and entrepreneurship, collaborating with fellow filmmakers and developing original content through his company, Tobano Vision. He is also an avid supporter of black businesses and giving back through community service and peer mentoring.
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Ry Chase was born on 27 June 1991 in Hardin, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress, known for Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons (2022), The Loud House (2014) and The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020).- Paul Masterson was born on 11 November 1917 in Hardin, Montana, USA. He was an actor, known for Disc Jockey (1951) and Fireside Theatre (1949). He was married to Gale Storm and Adell Nancy Leonard. He died on 10 May 1996 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Robert Owen Atcher was born in Hardin County, Kentucky on May 11, 1914. His parents were George Christopher Atcher and Mary Agnes Ray Atcher. George Atcher was a champion fiddle player, and the Atchers had a family band that played Appalachian folk music and bluegrass. The family moved to North Dakota when Bob was 4 years old, after the Federal government acquired the family farm to become part of Fort Knox Reservation. In North Dakota, Bob learned cowboy songs from the ranch hands, and learned to play guitar and accompany his father. When the family returned to Kentucky they played shows in the region, and he later attended the University of Kentucky in pre-med, where he had a radio show as the Kentucky Mountain Minstrel. He was approached to move to WSB in Atlanta, and after a few years honing his skills at several radio stations owned by the Atlas brothers, he began recording for Columbia Records. His biggest records were, "You Are My Sunshine (1940)", "Cool Water (1940)", "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes (1941)" and "Pins and Needles in My Heart (1942)". Although known primarily as a radio and television entertainer, Bob Atcher appeared in two movies for Columbia Pictures, Panhandle Trail (1941) and Hail to the Rangers (1942). He performed with three partners who sung with him as Bonnie Blue Eyes: Loeta Applegate Atcher, his first wife; Mary Jane Johnson of the Johnson Sisters; and Marguerite Whitehill "Maggie" Atcher, his second wife, to whom he was married from November 29, 1947 until his death. Bob and Maggie Atcher appeared together on the National Barn Dance on WLS in Chicago, after Bob joined the show as a regular in 1949. They had three children, Robert Whitehill Atcher, Mary Christopher Atcher, and Cecily Ann Atcher. Bob Atcher also appeared on various television shows in Chicago, including Meadowgold Ranch, and the Barn Dance. In 1958, he was elected mayor of Schaumburg, Illinois, a village about 35 miles northwest of Chicago. He served for 16 years as mayor, during which time the town experienced unprecedented growth, but in an orderly, planned, way that was attributed largely to his vision and leadership. During his tenure, Woodfield Mall was built there, which was considered the largest shopping center in the world at that time. Schaumburg also became a sought-after location for corporations and industry. Atcher retired from politics in 1974, and returned to performing with his wife and children as the Bob Atcher Family Singers. His wife, Maggie, still lives in Prospect, Kentucky, a suburb of Louisville, where they moved in 1989. Bob Atcher died on October 30, 1993.- Actress
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Timothea Beckerman started singing for spare change in front of a jukebox at her aunt's roundhouse near Westwego, La.; by the time she was twelve, she was singing on stage with the likes of Dr. John and Ernie K. Doe; two years later she had cut her first single, and the year after that, she was married. Returning to singing after a fifteen year hiatus (1981), Timothea cut some singles and was an immediate hit in her new home town of New Orleans. Known for her brassy, bluesy style, Timothea was a standout in New York City coffeehouses and jazz clubs before returning to New Orleans to care for her ailing mother in 1993. In her later years, after being stricken with Hepatitis C, Timothea devoted her time and energies in making people aware of the ravages of this disease.- Actor
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Kevin Sage is a writer, director, actor, producer. Born in Hardin, Montana, he was raised there and in Wapato, Washington where he completed high school 1995. It was there that he first stepped on stage in a production of "Godspell," and immediately fell in love with LIVE theatre and acting as a career. Upon graduation, he went to Pepperdine University where he received a B.A. in Theatre Arts (Acting) in 1999. After college, he lived in Santa Monica working several odd jobs as a waiter, children's birthday party character, and one day as a door-to-door oil change salesman while pursuing his acting career. His first role in Hollywood was an extra in L.A. Confidential smoking a cigarette behind Kevin Spacey. His first television role was a guest starring spot on the Saturday morning show Hang Time as a bully trying to get Eugene to throw the big game for a gambling debt. Branching out from acting, Kevin began shooting documentaries for the non-profit organization, The Starkey Hearing Foundation. In the early years of YouTube, Kevin also began producing his own sketch comedy and parody music videos, his most popular being a parody of James Blunt's "Beautiful," which has garnered over 12 million views and was listed by The Boston Globe as one of the best Blunt parodies alongside Weird Al Yankovic's parody of the same song. Moving to Nashville in 2009, Kevin continued his songwriting and parody work with "The 1980's Rocked," a parody of Lil Wayne's "Bedrock," an anthem with over 100 references to 80's pop culture.- Gene Crain was born on 20 December 1927 in Hardin, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Delta (1996). He died on 21 January 2007 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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Lee Saylor was born on 27 May 1962 in Hardin, Montana, USA. Lee is known for Chris Porter: Ugly and Angry (2014) and Jasper Redd: Jazz Talk (2014).- Additional Crew
Michael Wutzke was born on 5 November 1963 in Hardin, Montana, USA. Michael is known for The 11th Commandment (2016).- Leake Bevil was born on 7 March 1919 in Hardin County, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Klondike (1960), This Man Dawson (1959) and Bat Masterson (1958). He died on 7 August 1997 in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, USA.