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First Place: $40,000 scholarship, Christopher Colin Mihelich, 17, Carmel, Ind., Park Tudor School, for study of properties of polynomials having applications to geometry and combinatorics. Second…
Senate Years of Service: 1833-1837; 1837-1839Party: Jacksonian; DemocratMORRIS, Thomas, (father of Isaac Newton Morris and Jonathan David Morris), a Senator from Ohio; born in Berks County, Pa…
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Every part of the world has its own climate—a characteristic…
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Senate Years of Service: 1981-1987Party: RepublicanHAWKINS, Paula, a Senator from Florida; born Paula Fickes in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, January 24, 1927; attended the public…
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