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Harold WASHINGTON, Congress, IL (1922-1987)

WASHINGTON, Harold, a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., April 15, 1922; attended the public schools; B.A., Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1949; J.D., Northwestern University…

Pinter, Harold

(Encyclopedia) Pinter, Harold, 1930–2008, English dramatist. Born in Hackney in London's East End, the son of an English tailor of Eastern European Jewish ancestry, he studied at London's Royal…

Schuller, Robert Harold

(Encyclopedia) Schuller, Robert Harold, 1926–2015, American Protestant minister and television evangelist, b. Alton, Iowa. Schuller gained attention (1955) when he used a drive-in theater to preach…

Conwell, Russell Herman

(Encyclopedia) Conwell, Russell Herman, 1843–1925, American Baptist minister and lecturer, b. Worthington, Mass. After practicing law, he was ordained (1879) and went to Philadelphia as a minister.…

Greenberg, Joseph Harold

(Encyclopedia) Greenberg, Joseph Harold, 1915–2001, American anthropological linguist, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (A.B., 1936) and Northwestern Univ. (Ph.D., 1940). He was a professor of…

Innis, Harold Adams

(Encyclopedia) Innis, Harold Adams, 1894–1952, Canadian political economist, b. Otterville, Ontario. One of Canada's leading economic historians, Innis wrote about various facets of Canadian culture…

Clapham, Sir John Harold

(Encyclopedia) Clapham, Sir John HaroldClapham, Sir John Haroldklăpˈəm [key], 1873–1946, English economic historian. He was lecturer, professor and administrator at Cambridge from 1908 to 1943.…

Bloom, Harold

(Encyclopedia) Bloom, Harold, 1930–2019, American literary critic and scholar, b. The Bronx, N.Y., Ph.D. Yale (1955). The son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Russia, he was Sterling Professor of…

Harold Everett HUGHES, Congress, IA (1922-1996)

Senate Years of Service: 1969-1975Party: DemocratHUGHES, Harold Everett, a Senator from Iowa; born near Ida Grove, Ida County, Iowa, February 10, 1922; attended the public schools and the…

Johnson, John Harold

(Encyclopedia) Johnson, John Harold, 1918–2005, African-American magazine publisher, b. Arkansas City, Ark. The son of a mill worker, he began his career editing a Chicago insurance company magazine…