McLain Toole | |
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Member of the South CarolinaHouseofRepresentatives from the 88th district | |
In office 2002 –November 8, 2020 | |
Preceded by | Jake Knotts |
Succeeded by | RJ May |
Personal details | |
Born | Columbia,South Carolina,United States | March 8,1946
Political party | Republican |
McLain R. Toole (born March 8,1946) is an American politician. He is a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 88th District,serving from 2002 to 2020. He is a member of the Republican Party. [1]
Serial Experiments Lain is a Japanese anime television series created and co-produced by Yasuyuki Ueda,written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by RyūtarōNakamura. Animated by Triangle Staff and featuring original character designs by Yoshitoshi Abe,the series was broadcast for 13 episodes on TV Tokyo and its affiliates from July to September 1998. The series follows Lain Iwakura,an adolescent girl in suburban Japan,and her relation to the Wired,a global communications network similar to the internet.
Dennis Dale McLain is an American former professional baseball player. He played for ten seasons in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher,most prominently as a member of the Detroit Tigers. In 1968,McLain became the last Major League Baseball pitcher to win 30 or more games during a season —a feat accomplished by only 11 players in the 20th century.
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans,Louisiana,whose posthumously published novel,A Confederacy of Dunces,won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981;he also wrote The Neon Bible. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy,Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. Due in part to these failures,he suffered from paranoia and depression,dying by suicide at the age of 31.
Chiaki J. Konaka is a Japanese writer and novelist. He was the head writer of anime series such as Serial Experiments Lain,Digimon Tamers,and Hellsing,as well as the television drama Ultraman Gaia.
Jeremiah McLain Rusk was an American Republican politician. He was the second United States secretary of agriculture (1889–1893) and the 15th governor of Wisconsin (1882–1889),and served three terms in the United States House of Representatives (1871–1877),representing northwest Wisconsin. He also served as a Union Army officer during the American Civil War,served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly (1862),and was the last Bank Comptroller of Wisconsin (1866–1870) before the office was abolished.
A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel by American writer John Kennedy Toole that was published in 1980,11 years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy and Toole's mother,Thelma,the book became first a cult classic,then a mainstream success;it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981 and is now a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States.
Henry Toole Clark was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1861 to 1862 during the American Civil War.
Ottis Elwood Toole was an American serial killer who was convicted of six counts of murder. Like his companion Henry Lee Lucas,Toole made confessions which resulted in murder convictions,and which he later recanted. The discrediting of the case against Lucas for crimes for which Toole had offered corroborating statements created doubts as to whether either was a genuine serial killer or,as Hugh Aynesworth suggested,both were merely compliant interviewees whom police used to clear unsolved murders from the books.
Big Jim McLain is a 1952 American film noir political thriller film starring John Wayne and James Arness as HUAC investigators hunting down communists in the postwar Hawaii organized-labor scene. Edward Ludwig directed.
Joseph Kemp Toole was a Democratic politician from Montana. He served as the first and fourth Governor of Montana.
Frank Alexander McLain was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
The 1968 Detroit Tigers won the 1968 World Series,defeating the St. Louis Cardinals four games to three. The 1968 baseball season,known as the "Year of the Pitcher," was the Detroit Tigers' 68th since they entered the American League in 1901,their eighth pennant,and third World Series championship. Detroit pitcher Denny McLain won the Cy Young Award and was named the American League's Most Valuable Player after winning 31 games. Mickey Lolich pitched three complete games in the World Series –and won all three –to win World Series MVP honors.
James "Revolvers" McLain was a member of Jack McGurn's crew,in the Chicago Outfit,and believed to be involved in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
McLain Ward is an American show jumping competitor and five-time Olympic medalist.
Andrew Toole is an American basketball head coach from Staten Island,New York. He has served as the head coach at Robert Morris University since May 11,2010 and is currently the 6th youngest head coach in Division I basketball. Toole had served as an assistant coach at Lafayette College and Robert Morris prior to accepting his first head coaching position. As a player,Toole played at Elon University before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul Lawrence Toole is an Australian politician. Toole was the Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 2021 to 2023,and the leader of the New South Wales Nationals from October 2021 to May 2023.
George P. McLain was a Civil War veteran,a covered-wagon pioneer and an advertising man who became a member of the Los Angeles,California,City Council at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries and was also on the Fire Commission in that city.
Mayes Watt McLain,also known as Watt Mayes McLain,was an American football player and professional wrestler. He played college football for the Haskell Institute from 1925 to 1926 and for the University of Iowa in 1928. In 1926,he set college football's single-season scoring record with 253 points on 38 touchdowns,19 extra point kicks,and two field goals. His record of 38 touchdowns in a season stood for more than 60 years until 1988.
The McLain Family Band is an American bluegrass band founded in Hindman,Kentucky,in 1968.
Matthew Michael McLain is an American professional baseball infielder for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the UCLA Bruins. The Reds selected McLain with the 17th overall pick in the 2021 MLB draft and he made his MLB debut in 2023.