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a place for my responses to the prompts from Andre the Blog Monkey's Banana Bar
#1032115 added May 8, 2022 at 1:05am
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Home Sweet Home Part 3
Prompt: So on Wednesday, you told Andre about great places to visit where you live. Now he'd like to know about the people who live or have lived where you do. - Tell us about a famous person or persons who lives or came from your Home Sweet Home

I was surprised at the number of famous and well-known people from Athens, Texas. Athens is the birthplace and/or former home of a number of professional football players, politicians, a Major League Baseball pitcher, businessmen, a judge, a writer, and even a rapper.

As per Wikipedia, these are the notable people from Athens, Texas:

*Dollar*Fred Agnich, Texas businessman, rancher, state legislator from Dallas; owned a wildlife preserve near Athens
*StarY*Fletcher Davis, one of a number of Americans who lay claim to inventing the modern hamburger
*Baseball*Pete Donohue, Major League Baseball pitcher
*Football*Jakeem Grant, NFL wide receiver for Miami Dolphins
*Dollar*William R. Hawn, businessman, sportsman
*Gavel*William Wayne Justice, former United States District Court judge
*Document*Fred LaRue, former aide to President Richard Nixon. Served four and a half months in prison after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for his actions pertaining to the Watergate break-in and the following scandal
*Football*Terrence McGee, former NFL cornerback for Buffalo Bills
*Mic3*Tay Money, rapper
*Football*Clint W. Murchison, Jr., businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team
*Dollar*Sid W. Richardson, native of Athens, Texas, oilman, cattleman, philanthropist
*Gavel*James C. Spencer, former member of Texas House of Representatives, 1939-1941, 1947-1949, Henderson County Judge
*Doctor*Stuart Spitzer, surgeon in Kaufman, Texas, and former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, 2015-2017, born in Athens in 1967
*Football*Barron Tanner, former NFL defensive lineman

and
*Computer*S.A. Bailey, writer, blogger, semi-professional gun nut, satirist, former paratrooper and veteran of the U.S. Army

That's quite a lot of people for such a podunk little town in the middle of nowhere Texas!

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