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Samuel McROBERTS, Congress, IL (1799-1843)

Senate Years of Service: 1841-1843Party: DemocratMcROBERTS, Samuel, a Senator from Illinois; born near Maystown, Monroe County, Ill. (then a portion of the Northwest Territory), April 12, 1799…

Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom

astronautBorn: 4/3/1926Birthplace: Mitchell, Ind. Grissom was raised in Mitchell, Ind., the oldest of four children. Following high school, he served in the Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1945. With…

Oliver Hampton SMITH, Congress, IN (1794-1859)

Senate Years of Service: 1837-1843Party: WhigSMITH, Oliver Hampton, a Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born on Smith’s Island, near Trenton, N.J., October 23, 1794; attended the…

Louis ST. MARTIN, Congress, LA (1820-1893)

ST. MARTIN, Louis, a Representative from Louisiana; born in St. Charles Parish, La., on May 17, 1820; attended St. Mary’s College, Missouri, and Jefferson College, Louisiana; entered a…

Noyce, Robert Norton

(Encyclopedia) Noyce, Robert NortonNoyce, Robert Nortonnois [key], 1927–90, American engineer, inventor, and entrepeneur, b. Burlington, Iowa.; grad. Grinnell College (B.A., 1949), Massachusetts…

MacNeice, Louis

(Encyclopedia) MacNeice, LouisMacNeice, Louisməknēsˈ [key], 1907–63, Irish poet b. Belfast. Educated at Oxford, he became a classical scholar and teacher and later was a producer and traveled the…

Thomas MORRIS, Congress, OH (1776-1844)

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…

Celluloid Santas

Pudgy Red Elf vs. Little Green Men Seventy-five years after Clement Moore penned The Night Before Christmas, which gave us the first detailed description of Mr. Claus, the jolly old elf made his…