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Sturgeon, Nicola Ferguson

(Encyclopedia) Sturgeon, Nicola Ferguson, 1970–, Scottish political leader, first minister of Scotland (2014–). She studied law at the Univ. of Glasgow, then worked as a solicitor until 1999, when…

Upshaw, Gene

(Encyclopedia) Upshaw, Gene (Eugene Upshaw, Jr.), 1945–2008, American football player and labor union leader, b. Robstown, Tex. He attended Texas College of Arts and Industries (now Texas A&M,…

Pierpont, Francis Harrison

(Encyclopedia) Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814–99, Union leader in Virginia during the American Civil War, “Father of West Virginia,” b. near Morgantown, Va. (now W.Va.). When Virginia seceded, he…

The Monitor

Two American warships that marked a revolution in naval warfare Source: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition Copyright © 1993, Columbia University Press. The Monitor and Merrimack were…

Robert MENENDEZ, Congress, NJ (1954)

Senate Years of Service: 2006-Party: DemocratMENENDEZ, Robert, a Senator and a Representative from New Jersey; born in New York, N.Y., on January 1, 1954; graduated from Union Hill High School…

Irving Bluestone Biography

union negotiatorDied: Nov. 17, 2007 (Brookline, Massachusetts) Best Known as: Chief negotiator for General Motors employees Chief negotiator for General Motors…

ACLU

(Encyclopedia) ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union.

EC

(Encyclopedia) EC, the European Community; see European Union.

USSR

(Encyclopedia) USSR: see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Robert Huston Milroy

Union general Born: 6/11/1816Birthplace: near Salem, Ind. Born on a farm in southern Indiana, Milroy attended a private military academy in Vermont, graduating in 1843. He served as a company…