(Alicia Christian Foster)actress, director, producerBorn: 11/19/1962Birthplace: Los Angeles Academy Award-winning actress, director and producer whose career in show business began when she…
activistBorn: 10/9/1950Birthplace: Brattleboro, Vt. In 1992 Williams, working with six nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), established the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Williams…
Senate Years of Service: 1837-1841Party: DemocratCLAY, Clement Comer, (father of Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr.), a Representative and a Senator from Alabama; born in Halifax County, Va.,…
Senate Years of Service: 1920-1920Party: DemocratCOMER, Braxton Bragg, a Senator from Alabama; born in Spring Hill, Barbour (now Mobile) County, Ala., November 7, 1848; attended the common…
(Encyclopedia) Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann Woodward), 1908–99, American historian, b. Vanndale, Ark. He graduated from Emory Univ. (1930), received his Ph.D. in history from the Univ. of North…
Comer Vann Woodwardhistorian Born: 11/13/1908Birthplace: Vanndale, Arkansas Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller and historian who chronicled the upheaval of the turbulent South, as well as its…
(Theodore Scott Glenn)actorBorn: 1/26/1942Birthplace: Pittsburgh Severe looking actor who started on the stage in 1965 and appeared in The Edge of Night (1968) before his film debut in The Baby…
actorBorn: 4/3/1959Birthplace: Saratoga Springs, New York Emmy–winning actor best known as Frasier Crane's neurotic younger brother Niles on Frasier (1993–), Pierce is also active on the stage and…
CARTER, William Henry, a Representative from Massachusetts; born at Needham Heights, Norfolk County, Mass., June 15, 1864; attended public schools; was graduated from Comers Commercial College…
