Kemper, South Carolina | |
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Coordinates: 34°19′42″N79°11′58″W / 34.32833°N 79.19944°W | |
Country | United States |
State | South Carolina |
County | Dillon |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
Kemper is an unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina, United States. It is located along South Carolina Highway 41 southwest of Lake View, South Carolina, and northeast of Fork, South Carolina.
Kemper County is a county located on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,988. Its county seat is De Kalb. The county is named in honor of Reuben Kemper.
Kemper may refer to:
Hy-Vee Arena, previously known as Kemper Arena, is an indoor arena located in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to conversion to a youth sports and community gymnasium facility, Kemper Arena was previously a 19,500-seat professional sports arena. It has hosted NCAA Final Four basketball games, professional basketball and hockey teams, professional wrestling events, the 1976 Republican National Convention, concerts, and is the ongoing host of the American Royal livestock show.
Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer who murdered 10 people. Kemper murdered a 15-year-old girl, as well as his own mother and her best friend, from May 1972 to April 1973. This was after Kemper's parole for murdering his paternal grandparents at 15 years old. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. He stands at a height of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m). Most of his murders included necrophilia, with some incidents of rape.
Hunter Craig Kemper is a triathlete from the United States. He won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games, behind Venezuela's Gilberto González, followed by winning gold four years later at the 2003 Pan American Games. Kemper was on four U.S. Olympic teams as a triathlete, competing at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012.
James Lawson Kemper was a lawyer, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the 37th Governor of Virginia. He was the youngest brigade commander and only non-professional general officer in the division that led Pickett's Charge, during which he was severely wounded.
The 1997 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1997, and ended with the championship game on March 31 in Indianapolis, Indiana at the RCA Dome. A total of 63 games were played.
Joseph Haynsworth Earle was a United States Senator from South Carolina.
The Kemper Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1968 to 2006.
Joseph Cooper Inman, Jr. is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour.
Kemper Street station, also known as Lynchburg station, is an intermodal transit station in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. It serves Amtrak while an adjacent bus transfer center serves Greater Lynchburg Transit Company and Greyhound buses. Kemper Street Station is located at 825 Kemper Street.
Kemper Direct Auto and Home Insurance (Kemper Direct) was a direct to consumer auto and home insurance writer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and a former subsidiary of Kemper Corporation.
USS Kemper County (LST-854) was an LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after Kemper County, Mississippi, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
Kemper is an American insurance provider with corporate headquarters located in Chicago, Illinois. With nearly $13 billion in assets, the Kemper family of companies provides insurance to individuals, families, and businesses.
Quail Hollow Club is a country club and golf course in the southeastern United States, located in the Quail Hollow neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a private member club, founded in 1959. The golf course opened in 1961.
The Presbyterian Blue Hose are the athletic teams of Presbyterian College, located in Clinton, South Carolina, United States. The Blue Hose athletic program is a member of the Big South Conference and competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The PC Athletic Department fields a total of 17 varsity teams in eight men's and nine women's sports. The school colors are garnet and blue, and the mascot is Scotty the Scotsman, a medieval Scottish warrior. The team name comes from the socks worn by the football team in the early days of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Claire Kemper is an American actress and comedian. She has been nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Satellite Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The 5th Mississippi Infantry Regiment was a regiment of infantry in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought in many battles and campaigns in the American Civil War. The 5th Mississippi was organized in the fall of 1861 by Albert E. Fant.
The 1956 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors for their All-Atlantic Coast Conference ("ACC") teams for the 1956 NCAA University Division football season. Selectors in 1956 included the Associated Press (AP) and United Press (UP). Players named to the first team by both the AP and UP are listed below in bold.
Joseph Allen Walker was a Confederate colonel who commanded the 5th South Carolina Infantry Regiment and the main colonel of Jenkins' Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.