Senate Years of Service: 1917-1923Party: RepublicanNEW, Harry Stewart, a Senator from Indiana; born in Indianapolis, Ind., December 31, 1858; attended the public schools and Butler University…
MAILLIARD, William Somers, a Representative from California; born in Belvedere, Marin County, Calif., June 10, 1917; attended elementary and secondary schools in the San Francisco Bay area,…
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Dean, John Wesley III
(Encyclopedia) Dean, John Wesley III, 1938- , American lawyer and government official, b. Akron, Oh., College of Wooster, Ohio (B.A., 1961),…
(Encyclopedia) Vicksburg, city (1990 pop. 20,908), seat of Warren co., W Miss., on bluffs above the Mississippi River at the mouth of the Yazoo; inc. 1825. An important port, it is the commercial,…
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Senate Years of Service: 1954-1974; 1975-1975Party: Republican; RepublicanCOTTON, Norris H., a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born on a farm in Warren, Grafton County, N.H.,…
Senate Years of Service: 1930-1945Party: RepublicanDAVIS, James John, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Tredegar, South Wales, October 27, 1873; immigrated to the United States in 1881 with…
Arlington National Cemetery occupies 612 acres in Virginia on the Potomac River, directly opposite Washington. This land was part of the estate of John Parke Custis, Martha Washington's son. His…