Famous People with Name Maynard

Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr.: was an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He served three terms, two consecutive terms from 1974 until 1982 and a third term from 1990 to 1994. Jackson became the first African-American mayor of Atlanta in the same week that Coleman Young became the first African-American mayor of Detroit.

Maynard L. Taylor, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maynard L. Taylor, Jr.: was Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska from 1951 to 1955.From 1939 to 1941, he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Taylor moved to Anchorage, Alaska in 1941 to work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the military build-up in Alaska prior to the Un

Maynard C. Krueger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maynard C. Krueger: was an American socialist politician and an economics professor at the University of Chicago. In 1932, Krueger moved to the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor, initially lecturing in Sociology under Edward Shils. He became an Associate profes

Donald Maynard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Maynard: was an American football player who played collegiately for Texas Western College (now University of Texas at El Paso) and professionally with the National Football League's New York Giants and the American Football League's New York Jets and the World Football League's Shreveport Steamers.

William Sumner Maynard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Sumner Maynard: was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan, who served as mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1856-1858 and again from 1865-1866. Maynard was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He suffered from severe depression and committed suicide by an overd

Elisha B. Maynard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elisha B. Maynard: was an American attorney and politician who served on the city council and as Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.

Horace Maynard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Horace Maynard: was an American educator, attorney, politician and diplomat active primarily in the second half of the 19th century. Initially elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee's 2nd Congressional District in 1857, Maynard, an ardent Union supporter,

Joseph Lucien Paul Maynard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Lucien Paul Maynard: was a lawyer and a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served a long career as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1955 sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus. Maynard ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1935 Alberta general election. He ran in the Beaver River electoral district as the candidate for Social Credit and won easily defeating three other candidates including incumbent Henry Dakin and former MLA John Delisle. Maynard along with the Social Credit party swept into office to form government. Premier William Aberhart appointed Maynard to the Executive Council of Alberta as a Minister without portfolio on May 12, 1936. Less than a year later Aberhart promoted Maynard to serve as Minister of Municipal Affairs on January 20, 1937. Maynard continued in cabinet with the Attorney General portfolio in his fourth term in office. He ran for a fifth term, this time running in the St. Albert electoral district for the 1948 Alberta general election. He would win the election easily defeating two other candidates including former MLA Omer St. Germain. Maynard would make a last run at federal politics running in the 1988 Canadian federal election as a candidate for the Confederation of Regions in the Edmonton Northwest electoral district. He finished a distant sixth out of seventh place, losing to incumbent Murray Dorin.