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McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. A suburb of Pittsburgh , it is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers. The population was 17,727 as of the 2020 census .
Janis was born Byron Yanks in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on March 24, 1928, the younger of two children of Hattie Horelick and Samuel Yankilevitch, who had shortened his surname to Yanks after emigrating to America, before finally setting on the surname Janis. [1] [2] [3] His parents were Russian Jews. [3]
Miller was born in 1930, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from McKeesport Technical High School in 1948 and then attended Fork Union Military Academy. In 1949 he entered the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree and a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force in 1953
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Tommy Gale (September 10, 1934 – September 30, 1999) was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race car driver from McKeesport, Pennsylvania who raced from 1968 to 1986. He ended up becoming one of the runners-up for the 1977 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award.
Russell Louis Goetz (May 31, 1930 – March 15, 2017) was an American professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1968 to 1983. Goetz umpired 2,384 major league games in his 16-year career.
Jimmy Beaumont (born James Beaumont on October 21, 1940, in Pittsburgh) died in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on October 7, 2017, aged 76. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Until his death, Jimmy Beaumont performed with the Skyliners in their line-up of Nick Pociask, Frank Czuri , and Donna Groom (whose husband, Mark Groom, has been the group's drummer/conductor for ...
Zoran Popovich (February 4, 1931 – March 20, 2018) was a Pennsylvania politician and lawyer who served as mayor of McKeesport and judge on the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Popovich was appointed to the court in 1980, and was then elected to a full ten-year term in 1985 and again in 1995. [1]