Larry Cowling | |
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Member of the ArkansasHouseofRepresentatives from the 2nd district | |
In office 2007–2013 | |
Succeeded by | Lane Jean |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic |
Larry Cowling is an American politician. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 2nd district,serving from 2007 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. [1] [2] [3]
Jonesboro is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. In 2022,the city had an estimated population of 79,876,making it the 5th most populous city in Arkansas at the time. In 2020,the Jonesboro metropolitan area had a population of 134,196,and the Jonesboro-Paragould Combined Statistical Area had a population of 179,932.
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado,Kansas,Oklahoma,and Arkansas. The river's source basin lies in Colorado,specifically the Arkansas River Valley. The headwaters derive from the snowpack in the Sawatch and Mosquito mountain ranges. It flows east into Kansas and finally through Oklahoma and Arkansas,where it meets the Mississippi River.
Arkansas State University is a public research university in Jonesboro,Arkansas. It is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System and the second largest university in the state. The university was founded in 1909 and is located atop 1,376 acres on Crowley's Ridge.
John Franklin Broyles was an American college football player and coach,college athletics administrator,and broadcaster. He served as the head football coach for one season at the University of Missouri in 1957 and at the University of Arkansas from 1958 to 1976,compiling a career coaching record of 149–62–6. Broyles was also the athletic director at Arkansas from 1974 to 2007. His mark of 144–58–5 in 19 seasons at the helm of the Arkansas Razorbacks football gives him the most wins and the most coached games of any head coach in program history. With Arkansas,Broyles won seven Southwest Conference titles and his 1964 team was named a national champion by a number of selectors including the Football Writers Association of America.
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Jimmy Gunn was an American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was born in Augusta,Arkansas. He prepped at Lincoln High School in San Diego.
The 1978–79 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team is considered the greatest in the school's history. The Sycamores competed as members of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1978–79 NCAA Division I men's basketball season,playing their home games at the Hulman Center in Terre Haute,Indiana. Led by first-year head coach Bill Hodges and National Player of the Year Larry Bird,Indiana State was unranked to begin the season,but swept through the regular season unbeaten. Bird led the #1 ranked Sycamores to the national title game versus the Magic Johnson-led #3 Michigan State Spartans,and ended the season as National runner-up with a record of 33–1. To date,the 1978–79 Sycamores are the only team to advance this far in their first-ever NCAA appearance. They had been the last unbeaten team to reach the national title game until Gonzaga in 2021.
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