Notable Filmmakers and Directors
Spike Lee
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Senate Years of Service: 1829-1836; 1845-1849; 1853-1856Party: Anti-Jacksonian; Whig; OppositionCLAYTON, John Middleton, (nephew of Joshua Clayton, cousin of Thomas Clayton, and great-…
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Senate Years of Service: 1938-1947Party: DemocratMEAD, James Michael, a Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Mount Morris, Livingston County, N.Y., December 27, 1885; moved to…
Senate Years of Service: 1962-2009Party: DemocratKENNEDY, Edward Moore (Ted), (brother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Robert Francis Kennedy, grandson of John Francis Fitzgerald, uncle of…
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Senate Years of Service: 1885-1891Party: RepublicanEVARTS, William Maxwell, (grandson of Roger Sherman, cousin of Roger Sherman Baldwin), a Senator from New York; born in Boston, Mass.,…
(Encyclopedia) ChouansChouanssh&oomacr;ˈənz, Fr. shwäN [key] [Norman Fr.,=owls], peasants of W France who rose against the French Revolutionary government in 1793. One of their first leaders was…
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