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John Dee Bright was an American professional football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL). A troubling racist incident he endured as a college football player in the U.S. caused rule changes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. After his emigration to Canada,he played a starring role as an Edmonton Eskimo and also became a school principal and an important role model for black Canadians and aspiring athletes in Edmonton.
Hearst Randolph Duncan Jr. was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997.
Maurice E. John was an American college basketball coach at Drake University and Iowa State University. John is the all–time wins leader at Drake and led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Final Four in 1969. In his 28-year coaching career,John had a 528–214 record. John died of cancer at age 55 in 1974,while coaching at Iowa State.
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Cassius Clay Dowell was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa. He served from 1915 to 1935,and again from 1937 until his death in 1940,with the interregnum caused by an unsuccessful campaign for reelection in 1934.
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Charles Shelton was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Drake University from 1977 until 1985,at Utah State University from 1986 to 1992,and at University of the Pacific in Stockton,California from 1992 to 1995,compiling a career college football coaching record of 81–127–1. He was the head coach at two schools,Drake and Pacific,when they canceled their football program. Drake brought it back for the 1987 school year,but Shelton had already left as head coach. Shelton was born in Rolla,Missouri and led the state of Missouri in rushing in 1954. During the 1954 season he averaged more than 12 yards per carry,and led his team to an undefeated season.
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Mark Steven Cady was an American jurist. He served on the Iowa Supreme Court for 21 years from 1998 to 2019. From 2011 to 2019,he was the chief justice of the court. He was the author of the court's opinion in Varnum v. Brien,which legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa.
Brian Meyer is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party,Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives,representing the 29th district. He previously served on the Des Moines,Iowa City Council.
Harley A. Wilhelm was an American chemist who helped to establish the United States Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University. His uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs.
Adam Gregg is an American politician who served as the 47th lieutenant governor of Iowa from 2019 to 2024 and as acting lieutenant governor from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Gregg served as Public Defender of Iowa from 2014 to 2017. He was the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Iowa in the November 2014 elections.
The 1954 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts in the Big Seven Conference during the 1954 college football season. In their first year under head coach Vince DiFrancesca,the Cyclones compiled a 3–6 record,finished in sixth place in the conference,and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 182 to 151. They played their home games at Clyde Williams Field in Ames,Iowa.
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