Researching Doug Porter
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 22471 people with the Porter surname? In that year Porter was ranked number 149 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Doug means "form of DOUGLAS - from a surname meaning black stream" and is of Scottish origin.
Records of Doug Porter on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Doug Porter and the Porter Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 30580 people with the Porter surname in the UK? Porter is now ranked number 153 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Doug Porter
Doug Porter
Douglas T. Porter (born August 15, 1929) is a former American football coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi Valley State University (1961–1965), Howard University (1974–1978), and Fort Valley State University (1979–1985, 1987–1996), compiling a career college football record of 155–110–5. He was also an assistant coach at Grambling State University under Eddie Robinson. Porter was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
Porter was the fifth head football coach at Mississippi Valley State University located in Itta Bena, Mississippi and he held that position for five seasons, from 1961 until 1965. His coaching record at Mississippi Valley State was 21–20.
Source: Doug Porter, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDoug Porter (politician)
Douglas Elliott Porter (24 January 1916 – 27 August 1989) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1964 to 1965, representing the electorate of Wollongong-Kembla.
Porter was born at Mosman, and was a plumber by trade. He worked as a teacher at Sydney and East Sydney Technical Colleges from 1947 to 1953, St George Technical College in 1953, before relocating to Wollongong in 1954 to teach at Wollongong Technical College. He was elected as an alderman of the City of Wollongong council in 1963, holding the position until 1971. He was also involved in the local Labor Party, serving as secretary of the party's Reidtown branch.
In 1964, local MLA Rex Connor resigned his state seat to run for the federal seat of Cunningham, and Porter won Labor preselection for the resulting by-election. Though a traditionally safe Labor seat, Labor suffered a massive swing at the by-election, and Porter defeated Liberal candidate Jack Hough by only 200 votes. He faced re-election just over a year later, and narrowly lost to Hough, in a result that helped ensure the election of the Askin Liberal government.
Porter continued his involvement in local politics after his state defeat, and after initially returning to teaching, purchased a hardware store in 1966. He died at Kogarah in 1989.
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