Researching Jonathan Perry
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The name Jonathan means "God gives" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jonathan Perry and the Perry Family History
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Jonathan Perry (cricketer)
Jonathan Nicholas Perry (born 29 December 1965 in Frimley, Surrey) is a former English cricketer who played 11 first-class matches in 1987 and 1988. Ten of these games were for Cambridge University, with the other coming for the combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities side.
Perry made his debut for Cambridge against Lancashire at Fenner's in April 1987, taking four wickets in the match including 3/73 in the first innings.He bettered this with 3/56 (his career best) against Surrey in his next game.His only other three-wicket haul was also against Surrey, 3/72 in June 1988,although he did manage four wickets in a non-first-class game for Oxford and Cambridge Universities against the West Indians later that month.
Perry is the great-grandson of Warwickshire captain and England and British Lions rugby union international J. F. Byrne.
Source: Jonathan Perry (cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJonathan Perry (politician)
Jonathan Wayne Perry, known as JP Perry (born January 27, 1973), is the District 4F judge on the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit. Perry ran unopposed for the judgeship in the November 6, 2018 primary election, held in conjunction with general elections for Congress in the forty-nine other states. Perry assumed the post on January 1, 2019.
Earlier from 2011 to 2018, he was a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 26 (Vermilion and portions of Acadia, Lafayette, and St. Landry parishes in south Louisiana. Previously from 2008 to 2011, he was the state representative for District 47 (Vermilion and Cameron parishes), Perry won a special election for the state Senate held on February 19, 2011.
The Senate vacancy occurred with the resignation of the Democrat Nick Gautreaux, who accepted an appointment from Republican then Governor Bobby Jindal to head the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles in Baton Rouge.
Perry's victory was particularly significant because it realigned the Senate by giving Republicans their first majority since Reconstruction, with then twenty of the thirty-nine members.
Perry is also known as a comedian and has released DVDs of his stand-up Cajun routines.
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