Shorter
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Shorter has several meanings:
as a place name
as a personal name
other uses
as a place name
- Shorter, AlabamaShorter, AlabamaShorter is a town in Macon County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 355.-Geography:Shorter is located at .According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
, a town located in Macon County, Alabama, United States
as a personal name
- Alan ShorterAlan ShorterAlan Shorter was a free jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, and the older brother of composer and saxophone player Wayne Shorter.-Biography:...
, Jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player - Dora Sigerson ShorterDora Sigerson ShorterDora Sigerson was an Irish poet, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester also a writer. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many...
(1866–1918), Irish poet - Eli Sims ShorterEli Sims ShorterEli Sims Shorter was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Monticello, Georgia, Shorter attended the common schools and was graduated in law from Yale College in 1844....
(1823-1879), US Democrat - Frank ShorterFrank ShorterFrank Charles Shorter is a former American long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. His victory is credited with igniting the running boom in the United States of the 1970s....
(born 1947), American athlete - Jim ShorterJim ShorterJames Shorter was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football at the University of Detroit Mercy and was drafted in the fourteenth round of the 1962 NFL Draft.-External...
, American football player - John Gill ShorterJohn Gill ShorterJohn Gill Shorter was the 17th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1861 to 1863, during the Civil War.Shorter, an attorney, was born in 1818 in Monticello, Georgia and died in 1872 in Eufaula, Alabama.-References:...
(1818–1872), American politician - Stuart Shorter, disabled homeless man from Cambridge, England, about whom the biography "Stuart: A Life Backwards" was written
- Wayne ShorterWayne ShorterWayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
(born 1933), American jazz musician
other uses
- Shorter CollegeShorter CollegeShorter University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Rome, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1873, it is a Christian university historically affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention....
, an American four year, co-educational college located in Rome, Georgia, United States - Shorter Oxford English DictionaryShorter Oxford English DictionaryThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary . It comprises two volumes rather than the twenty needed for the full second edition of the OED...
, a two-volume, scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary - Westminster Shorter CatechismWestminster Shorter CatechismThe Westminster Shorter Catechism was written in the 1640s by English and Scottish divines. The assembly also produced the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Westminster Larger Catechism...
or "Shorter Catechism", a set of three Christian religious texts dating from the 1640s