Senate Years of Service: 1937-1944; 1947-1953Party: Republican; RepublicanLODGE, Henry Cabot, Jr., (great-great-great grandson of George Cabot, great-great grandson of John Davis of…
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BERGER, Victor Luitpold, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Nieder Rebbach, Austria-Hungary, February 28, 1860; attended the Gymnasia at Leutschau and the universities at Budapest and…
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(Encyclopedia) Cash, Johnny, 1932–2003, American singer and songwriter, b. Kingsland, Ark. Born to a farm family, he went to Memphis in 1955 and recorded such hits as “I Walk the Line” (1956) and “…