Issaquena County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,406, making it the least populous county in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Its county seat is Mayersville. With a per-capita income of $18,598, Issaquena County is the poorest county in the United States.
Jack Sharkey was an American world heavyweight boxing champion.
Seán Feargal Sharkey is a singer from Northern Ireland most widely known as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones in the 1970s and 1980s, and for solo works in the 1980s and 1990s. His 1985 solo single "A Good Heart" was an international success. After becoming less musically active in the early 1990s, he has performed various roles supporting the UK's commercial music industry, winning several awards and honours for his work in that area.
Thomas "Sailor Tom" Sharkey was a boxer who fought two fights with heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries. Sharkey's recorded ring career spanned from 1893 to 1904. He is credited with having won 40 fights, 7 losses, and 5 draws. Sharkey was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Raymond Sharkey, Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was that of Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series Wiseguy.
Louisiana Creole people, are persons descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana during the period of both French and Spanish rule. The term créole was originally used by French settlers to distinguish persons born in Louisiana from those born in the mother country or elsewhere. As in many other colonial societies around the world, creole was a term used to mean those who were "native-born", especially native-born Europeans such as the French and Spanish. It also came to be applied to African-descended slaves and Native Americans who were born in Louisiana. The word is not a racial or ethnic label, and people of fully European descent, fully African descent, or of any mixture therein may identify as Creoles. Louisiana Creoles share cultural ties such as the traditional use of the French and Louisiana Creole languages and predominant practice of Catholicism.
Sidney Arnandan or Arnondrin or Arnondin, better known as Sidney Arodin was an American jazz clarinetist and songwriter, best known for co-writing the pop standard "Lazy River" with Hoagy Carmichael.
The Town Talk, started as The Daily Town Talk in 1883 and later named the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, is the major newspaper of Central Louisiana. It is published by Gannett in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the economic center of Central Louisiana.
Sharkey is a small unincorporated community located at the intersection of Kentucky Routes 158 and 801 in Rowan County, Kentucky, United States.
The Crippen Point site is a Coles Creek culture archaeological site located in Sharkey County, Mississippi. It is the archaeological type site of the Crippen Point phase(1050 to 1200 CE) for Late Coles Creek culture in the Lower Mississippi valley. The phase marks a significant change in the cultural history of the area. Population increased dramatically and there is strong evidence of a growing cultural and political complexity by this portion of the Coles Creek sequence. Although many of the classic traits of chiefdom societies are not yet manifested, by 1000 CE the formation of simple elite polities had begun. Sites for this phase are found in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Texas. After the Crippen Point phase the Plaquemine culture period begins.
Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin, known as Sue Eakin, was an American historian, a professor, and a journalist from Bunkie, Louisiana. She specialized in Louisiana history, particularly the Southern plantation system. Eakin is best known for documenting, annotating, and reviving interest in the 1853 book Twelve Years a Slave, a slave narrative by Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
Jonathon Tepes Sharkey is an American perennial candidate. He resides in Florida and initially attempted to run for President as a Republican in 2012. On August 24, 2011, he formally ended his presidential campaign.
Helen Elizabeth Clark Derr was a nationally recognized journalist, religion writer, and editor during a career at the Alexandria Daily Town Talk that spanned from 1955 to 1977. She later co-founded the adult day-care center Friendship House in Alexandria, the largest city in Central Louisiana and the seat of Rapides Parish.
Tina Sharkey is an American entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. The co-founder and co-chairman of the board of directors of Brandless, an e-commerce site, Sharkey is noted for "discovering ways to bring consumers and businesses together." In addition to Brandless, she has been involved in developing several community-focused sites, including iVillage, which she co-founded, and BabyCenter, where she served as chair and global president. She led multiple business units at AOL, including community programming, and started the digital internet division at Sesame Street.
Robert Allen Johnson is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 28 in Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana. He resides in Marksville. He is the House Minority Leader, opposite Majority Leader Lance Harris of Alexandria.
Terry Ralph Brown is, as of August 2017, one of four current Independent members of the Louisiana House of Representatives. A resident of Colfax in Grant Parish, Brown claimed the reconfigured District 22 seat in North Louisiana by unseating in the general election held on November 19, 2011 the Democrat-turned-Republican incumbent Billy Chandler of Dry Prong, also in Grant Parish.
Albin Alexander Provosty, I, was a lawyer from New Roads, Louisiana, who represented Avoyelles and his native Pointe Coupee parishes in the Louisiana State Senate from 1912 to 1920 in what is now the geographically large District 17 covering all or parts of seven parishes. He was also a district attorney and for several years the publisher of The Pointe Coupee Banner. He resided in a classic home in New Roads with his wife, the former Marie Adele LeDoux (1870-1967).
Wendell Jay Luneau, known as Jay Luneau or W. Jay Luneau, is a Democratic attorney in Alexandria, Louisiana, who is a member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 29, which encompasses portions of seven parishes: Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Winn.
Emma Augusta Sharkey was a 19th-century American writer, journalist, dime novelist, and story-teller from New York. Known as Mrs. E. Burke Collins in the literary world, she wrote for the press and was one of the small group of women writers of her era who earned more than US$6,000 a year with their writing. As with Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs, Sharkey used a married name as a pseudonym.
Sharkey is an unincorporated community located in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States. Sharkey is approximately 5.2 miles (8.4 km) west of Tippo and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) southwest of Swan Lake along Sharkey Road on the Tallahatchie River.
