Senate Years of Service: 1959-1980Party: DemocratMUSKIE, Edmund Sixtus, a Senator from Maine; born in Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, March 28, 1914; attended the public schools; graduated from…
(Encyclopedia) Abington, township (2020 pop. 58,502), Montgomery co., SE Pa., a residential suburb of Philadelphia; settled 1696, inc. 1906. The site of combat during the Revolutionary…
GUNCKEL, Lewis B., a Representative from Ohio; born in Germantown, Montgomery County, Ohio, October 15, 1826; pursued preparatory studies; was graduated from Farmerâs College in 1848 and…
STERIGERE, John Benton, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Upper Dublin Township, near Ambler, Montgomery County, Pa., July 31, 1793; worked on a farm and attended school; taught at…
(Encyclopedia) White Oak, uninc. community (1990 pop. 18,671), Montgomery and Prince Georges counties, central Md., in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. The site of the former Naval Ordnance Laboratory…
(Encyclopedia) Lockhart, John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish editor, lawyer, literary critic, and biographer; son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott. A major contributor to Blackwood's Magazine,…
Saint Malachy The first Irish saint to be canonized by a pope, in 1199 by Ann-Marie Imbornoni St. Malachy (1094?–1148) St. Malachy is known principally as a reformer of the Irish…
DIMOND, Anthony Joseph, a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska; born in Palatine Bridge, Montgomery County, N.Y., November 30, 1881; attended the public schools and St. Maryâs Catholic…
(Encyclopedia) Silver Spring, uninc. city (1990 pop. 76,046), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C. It is a major suburban office center and has a large naval…
CLAYTON, Henry De Lamar, (brother of Bertram Tracy Clayton), a Representative from Alabama; born near Clayton, Barbour County, Ala., February 10, 1857; attended the common schools; was…
