Carry mclaughlin biography
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Brian M. McLaughlin
American politician
Brian M. McLaughlin is a former American Democratic politician and labor leader from Flushing, Queens.
McLaughlin was a New York Assemblyman elected in to represent the 25th district in New York City. He was also elected, in June , as the President of the Council on New York Labor.
McLaughlin was arrested October 17, , on charges of stealing more than $2 million from the State of New York and labor unions. After his arrest, he announced that he would not run for re-election, and left office at the end of
In March , he pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and embezzlement. On May 20, , he was found guilty of these charges and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.[1]
Early life and family
[edit]McLaughlin was born in Inwood, Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Queens. His family moved to Brentwood, Suffolk County, New York on Long Island, when he was His paternal grandfather, Miles McLaughlin, an electrician, was a
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Arizona State University Art Museum
Ceramics Research Center
BIOGRAPHY – COILLE MC LAUGHLIN HOOVEN -
by Carol Hall
Coille McLaughlin Hooven was born in New York City and grew up on the east coast. Art was already in her genes: her father worked as an architect and her sister, a painter. Her Great Grandfather, James McLaughlin, was also an architect and designed the Cincinnati Art Museum. In addition, her Great Aunt Mary Louise McLaughlin was instrumental in publicizing the American art pottery movement. Among Louise McLaughlin’s achievements were writing a book on china painting, which became a best seller, and the discovery of Haviland’s technique for underglazing. In addition she established the Cincinnati Pottery Club, wrote a manual on underglaze decoration, patented a technique for inlay decoration and became the first American working in studio porcelain. The year Mary Louise McLaughlin died was also the year Coille McLau
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Meet the Artist
Billy McLaughlin has been changing people&#;s idea of what an acoustic guitar can sound like since the &#;s.
&#;…you may swear Billy McLaughlin is two of the greatest acoustic guitarists you&#;ve ever heard.&#; &#; Pittsburgh Post Gazette
&#;… it&#;s fantastisk that such an extensive sound comes from one instrument.&#;
&#; Chicago Sun Times
He is recognized as an innovative performer and composer who embraces the advantages of acoustic guitar amplification, unorthodox techniques and altered tunings while celebrating a gift for melody. His enormous yet fluid acoustic guitar tone has carried him around the world, to Billboard&#;s Top-Ten Chart and most recently through a devastating medical disorder called focal dystonia. McLaughlin has had to re-learn the gitarr left-handed and is in the early stages of what might be described as &#;one of the great musical-comeback stories of all time.&#; His story fryst vatten the subject of an award-winning documentary film called Cha