Senate Years of Service: 1816-1818Party: FederalistASHMUN, Eli Porter, (father of George Ashmun), a Senator from Massachusetts; born in a small village north of Albany on the Hudson River,…
Senate Years of Service: 1879-1881Party: RepublicanBALDWIN, Henry Porter, a Senator from Michigan; born in Coventry, R.I., February 22, 1814; attended the common schools; moved to Detroit,…
PORTER, Charles Howell, a Representative from Virginia; born in Cairo, Greene County, N.Y., June 21, 1833; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from the law university at Albany, N.Y…
FEATHERSTONE, Lewis Porter, a Representative from Arkansas; born in Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss., July 28, 1851; attended the common schools and the law department of Cumberland University…
HARDY, Porter, Jr., a Representative from Virginia; born in Bon Air, Chesterfield County, Va., June 1, 1903; attended the public schools and Randolph-Macon Academy, Bedford, Va.; was graduated…
(Encyclopedia) de Blasio, Bill, 1961–, American politician, b. New York City as Warren Wilhelm, Jr., B.A New York Univ., 1984, M.A. Columbia, 1987. A liberal Democrat, de Blasio worked in the New…
PORTER, Stephen Geyer, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, May 18, 1869; moved to Pennsylvania with his parents, who settled in Allegheny (now…
PORTER, Henry Kirke, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Concord, N.H., November 24, 1840; attended public and private schools and was prepared for college at the New London Academy,…
Senate Years of Service: 1861-1862Party: DemocratJOHNSON, Waldo Porter, (nephew of Joseph Johnson), a Senator from Missouri; born in Bridgeport, Harrison County, Va., September 16, 1817;…
