Senate Years of Service: 1915-1918Party: DemocratBROUSSARD, Robert Foligny, (brother of Edwin Sidney Broussard), a Representative and a Senator from Louisiana; born on the âMary Louiseâ…
Senate Years of Service: 1901-1917Party: RepublicanCLAPP, Moses Edwin, a Senator from Minnesota; born in Delphi, Carroll County, Ind., May 21, 1851; moved with his parents to Hudson, Wis., in…
Senate Years of Service: 1973-1979 Party: Democrat CLARK, Richard Clarence (Dick), a Senator from Iowa; born in Paris, Linn County, Iowa, September 14, 1928; attended the public schools;…
Senate Years of Service: 1921-1925 Party: Republican LADD, Edwin Freemont, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, December 13, 1859; attended the public schools…
Senate Years of Service: 1899-1923Party: DemocratCULBERSON, Charles Allen, (son of David Browning Culberson), a Senator from Texas; born in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., June 10, 1855;…
Senate Years of Service: 1903-1917Party: DemocratNEWLANDS, Francis Griffith, (son-in-law of William Sharon), a Representative and a Senator from Nevada; born in Natchez, Adams County, Miss.,…
(Encyclopedia) Sampras, PeteSampras, Petesămˈprəs [key], 1971–, American tennis player, b. Washington, D.C. Learning the game in the Los Angeles area, he rose to world tennis supremacy after becoming…
(Encyclopedia) President's Park, c.82 acres (33 hectares), Washington, D.C. A unit of the National Park system, it includes the White House, the official residence of the president of the United…
(Encyclopedia) Puryear, Martin, 1941–2019, American sculptor, b. Washington, D.C. An African American, he served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, and became interested in African crafts and in the…
(Encyclopedia) Hess, Harry Hammond, 1906–69, American geologist and oceanographer, b. New York City, B.S., Yale, 1931, Ph.D., Princeton, 1932. He taught at Rutgers (1932–33) and was a research…
