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13-548: Bryant may refer to: Organizations [ edit ] Bryant Bank , a bank in Alabama, United States Bryant Electric Company , an American manufacturer of electrical components Bryant Homes , a British house builder, part of Taylor Woodrow Bryant University (formerly Bryant College), a four-year college in Smithfield, Rhode Island Bryant & Stratton College ,

26-728: A proprietary college in the United States People [ edit ] Bryant (surname) Bryant Dunston (born 1986), American-Armenian basketball player Bryant Koback (born 1998), American football player Bryant Mix (born 1972), American football player Bryant McKinnie (born 1979), American football player Bryant McFadden (born 1981), American football player Bryant Myers (born 1998), Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Bryant Reeves (born 1973), American basketball player Bryant Wesco (born 2005), American football player Places [ edit ] Bryant, Saskatchewan , Canada Bryant Range , in

39-640: A stake in Harvest Select Catfish Inc., a company which raises catfish in Alabama and Mississippi. He was also the co-founder of Alabama Reassurance Co., later known as Alabama Life Reinsurance Co., a reinsurance company. In 2005, Bryant founded the Bryant Bank . He serves as its chairman. He co-authored two books about American football in 2013. Bryant served as the chairman of the Civil War Trust . He also served on

52-617: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Paul W. Bryant, Jr. Paul William Bryant Jr. (born c. 1945) is an American banker, investor and philanthropist from Alabama . Paul William Bryant Jr. was born circa 1945. His father, Bear Bryant , was an American football player and coach. Bryant graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with a degree in Commerce in 1966. Bryant founded

65-532: Is also the President of Greene County Greyhound Park. He also serves as the President of Green Group, Inc. Bryant invests in "dog and horse racing, the insurance industry, cement making, catfish farming and banking." He is worth "hundreds of millions of dollars." In 1995, Bryant acquired Reynolds Ready Mix, a cement company later renamed Ready Mix USA. By 2011, he sold it to Cemex , a Mexican construction corporation, for US$ 350 million. In 1999, he acquired

78-574: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bryant Bank Bryant Bank was founded by Paul W. Bryant, Jr. in 2005. He serves as its Chairman. It has branches in Tuscaloosa, Northport , Birmingham , Mountain Brook , Trussville , Columbiana , Hoover , Foley , Daphne , and Huntsville . The bank has $ 1.4 billion of assets under management in 2016. This Alabama -related article

91-586: The Alabama Crimson Tide football program . A CBS story from December 2014 reported that Bryant Jr. was partially responsible for shuttering the UAB Football program , reportedly over a long-standing grudge with Gene Bartow over a 1991 letter to the NCAA - and "out of fear it might one day challenge" the football program his father had built. For many years, Bryant has been accused of running

104-413: The Alabama board of trustees like a family business, "holding secret meetings, shrugging off public records requests, ignoring or sidestepping the law." In 2001. a committee of trustees met in secret, just one day after a court barred Auburn's board of trustees from doing the same thing. As of 2015, seven trustees were executives or directors at Bryant Bank. These ties received national press attention when

117-720: The People's Bank in the late 1960s, and later sold it. He also served as general manager of minor league baseball's Birmingham Barons . By 1977, he established GreeneTrack, dog racing track located in Greene County, Alabama , with A. Wayne May, a veterinarian, and Sam Phelps, a lawyer. He went on to establish more tracks in Texas (for example in La Marque, Texas ), Idaho, and Iowa. By 1995, they were incorporated as GreenTrack, Inc. As of 2009, he owned 72% of GreenTrack. Bryant

130-725: The South Island of New Zealand United States [ edit ] Bryant, Alabama Bryant, Arkansas Bryant, Illinois Bryant, Indiana Bryant, Iowa Bryant, Michigan Bryant, Minneapolis , Minnesota Bryant, Missouri Bryant, South Dakota Bryant, Seattle , Washington Bryant, Wisconsin Bryant Park , at the intersection of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City Bryant Township (disambiguation) See also [ edit ] Briant (disambiguation) Bryan (disambiguation) Senator Bryant (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

143-544: The board of trustees made the shocking decision to kill UAB football. Bryant Jr. also has clear ties to a federal insurance fraud case that drew a 15-year prison sentence for Allen W. Stewart. Stewart was found guilty on all 135 counts of fraud. One of Bryant's companies, Alabama Reassurance or "Alabama Re", was implicated in at least nine counts of the Stewart indictment, relating to a "wire fraud scheme to deceive state insurance regulators involving reinsurance." According to

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156-726: The boards of trustees of the Alabama Heritage Foundation and the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia . He served on the board of trustees of the University of Alabama until September 2015 and previously served as its chairman. In March 2015, The Birmingham News revealed that many UA trustees worked or had relatives who worked for the Bryant Bank. He has donated millions of dollars to

169-503: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bryant . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryant&oldid=1244977731 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

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