Senate Years of Service: 1914-1915Party: DemocratWHITE, Francis Shelley (Frank), a Senator from Alabama; born in Prairie, Noxubee County, Miss., March 13, 1847; attended the common schools and…
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Senate Years of Service: 1914-1915 Party: Democrat WHITE, Francis Shelley (Frank), a Senator from Alabama; born in Prairie, Noxubee County, Miss., March 13, 1847; attended the common schools…
LOCKE, Matthew, (uncle of Francis Locke, and great-great-great-grandfather of Effiegene (Locke) Wingo), a Representative from North Carolina; born in the north of Ireland in 1730; immigrated…
HARNETT, Cornelius, a Delegate from North Carolina; born near Edenton, Chowan County, N.C., April 20, 1723; moved with his parents to Brunswick in 1726 and later to Wilmington, N. C.; engaged…
WARNER, Samuel Larkin, (brother of Levi Warner), a Representative from Connecticut; born in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Conn., June 14, 1828; attended Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Mass.,…
HASTINGS, Seth, (father of William Soden Hastings), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Cambridge, Mass., on April 8, 1762; was graduated from Harvard University in 1782; studied law…
COTTRELL, James La Fayette, a Representative from Alabama; born near King William, King William County, Va., August 25, 1808; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the…
(Encyclopedia) Tesla, NikolaTesla, Nikolatĕsˈlə [key], 1856–1943, American electrician and inventor, b. Croatia (then an Austrian province). An ethnic Serb, he immigrated to the United States in 1884…
(Encyclopedia) Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892–1962, American physicist, b. Wooster, Ohio, grad. College of Wooster (B.S., 1913), Ph.D. Princeton, 1916. He was professor and head of the department of…
