Editor Paul Lagassé
Senior Editors Lora Goldman Archie Hobson Susan R. Norton
Associate Editors Barry J. Katzen Alan D. Levy Theodore Zinn
Contributors Curt Bertschi Helen…
Senate Years of Service: 1935-1945Party: DemocratTRUMAN, Harry S., a Senator from Missouri, a Vice President, and Thirty-third President of the United States; born in Lamar, Barton County, Mo…
Senate Years of Service: 1881-1887Party: RepublicanVAN WYCK, Charles Henry, a Representative from New York and a Senator from Nebraska; born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., May 10,…
Senate Years of Service: 1879-1894Party: DemocratVANCE, Zebulon Baird, (nephew of Robert Brank Vance [1793-1827] and brother of Robert Brank Vance [1828-1899]), a Representative and a Senator…
Senate Years of Service: 1848-1849; 1853-1855; 1855-1861Party: DemocratFITZPATRICK, Benjamin, a Senator from Alabama; born in Greene County, Ga., June 30, 1802; orphaned, he was taken by his…
Senate Years of Service: 1818-1819; 1829-1834Party: Democratic Republican; JacksonianFORSYTH, John, a Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Fredericksburg, Va., October 22, 1780;…
LYON, Matthew, (father of Chittenden Lyon and great-grandfather of William Peters Hepburn), a Representative from Vermont and from Kentucky; born near Dublin, County Wicklow, Ireland, July 14…
BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin, (grandfather of Butler Ames and father-in-law of Adelbert Ames), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Deerfield, N.H., November 5, 1818; moved with his…
CANNON, Joseph Gurney, a Representative from Illinois; born in Guilford, Guilford County, N.C., May 7, 1836; moved with his parents to Bloomingdale, Ind., in 1840; completed preparatory…
Senate Years of Service: 1939-1945 Party: Democrat CHANDLER, Albert Benjamin (Happy), (grandfather of A.B. Chandler), a Senator from Kentucky; born in Corydon, Henderson County, Ky., July…
