Senate Years of Service: 1885-1897; 1901-1907Party: Democrat; DemocratBLACKBURN, Joseph Clay Stiles, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born near Spring Station, Woodford County, Ky…
(Encyclopedia) Howe, Julia Ward, 1819–1910, American author and social reformer, b. New York City. Although unhappily married, she assisted her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, in his philanthropic…
HANSEN, Julia Butler, a Representative from Washington; born Julia Caroline Butler, June 14, 1907, in Portland, Multnomah County, Oreg.; attended the public schools of Washington and Oregon…
actressBorn: 1/4/1965Birthplace: Surrey, England In the United States, Ormond is known for her work in Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), Sabrina (1995), Nostradamus (1994) and Legends of the Fall (…
actressBorn: 1/13/1961Birthplace: New York City Film and television actress best known as Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1990–98). Louis-Dreyfus got her start in the famous Chicago Second…
Hawke on Hamlet The Snow Falling on Cedars Star Shakes Up Shakespeare by Alicia Potter In Michael Almereyda's new film, Ethan Hawke's Hamlet is a brooding filmmaker in Manhattan…
(Encyclopedia) Dwight, Timothy, 1752–1817, American clergyman, author, educator, b. Northampton, Mass., grad. Yale, 1769. He renounced legal for theological studies and after 1783 was pastor for 12…
(Encyclopedia) Morgan, Edmund Sears, 1916–2013, U.S. historian, b. Minneapolis. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1942, he taught at the Univ. of Chicago (1945–46) and at Brown (1946–55)…
BENNET, Augustus Witschief, (son of William Stiles Bennet), a Representative from New York; born in New York City October 7, 1897; attended the public schools of New York City and Washington,…
