Senate Years of Service: 1820-1825Party: Democratic Republican; Jackson RepublicanHOLMES, David, a Representative from Virginia and a Senator from Mississippi; born at Mary Ann Furnace, near…
MERCER, Charles Fenton, (cousin of Robert Selden Garnett), a Representative from Virginia; born in Fredericksburg, Va., June 16, 1778; was graduated from Princeton College in 1797; took a…
RAMSPECK, Robert C. Word, a Representative from Georgia; born in Decatur, De Kalb County, Ga., September 5, 1890; attended the public schools and the Donald Fraser School at Decatur, Ga.;…
Senate Years of Service: 1950-1976Party: DemocratPASTORE, John Orlando, a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Providence, R.I., March 17, 1907; attended the public schools; graduated from the…
(Encyclopedia) Cabot, John, fl. 1461–98, English explorer, probably b. Genoa, Italy. He became a citizen of Venice in 1476 and engaged in the Eastern trade of that city. This experience, it is…
(Encyclopedia) SacajaweaSacajaweasăkˌəjəwēˈə, səkäˌ– [key], SacagaweaSacajawea–gəwēˈə [key], or SakakaweaSacajawea–kəwēˈə [key], c.1788–1812?, Native North American woman who accompanied the Lewis…
(Encyclopedia) Baltimore, DavidBaltimore, Davidbôlˈtĭmôr [key], 1938–, American microbiologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Rockefeller Univ., 1964. He conducted (1965–68) virology research at the Salk…
(Encyclopedia) Steitz, Thomas Arthur, 1940–2018, American biophysicist and biochemist, b. Milwaukee, Ph.D. Harvard, 1966. Steitz was a professor at Yale from 1970 and a researcher at the Howard…
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…
Senate Years of Service: 1895-1914Party: DemocratBACON, Augustus Octavius, (cousin of William S. Howard), a Senator from Georgia; born in Bryan County, Ga., October 20, 1839; attended the…
