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Charles Hopper GIBSON, Congress, MD (1842-1900)
Senate Years of Service: 1891-1897 Party: Democrat GIBSON Charles Hopper , a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born near Centerville, Queen Anne County, Md., January 19, 1842; attended…Richard Montgomery YOUNG, Congress, IL (1798-1861)
Senate Years of Service: 1837-1843 Party: Democrat YOUNG Richard Montgomery , a Senator from Illinois; born in Fayette County, Ky., February 20, 1798; attended the country schools and Forest Hill…Isaac TOUCEY, Congress, CT (1792-1869)
Senate Years of Service: 1852-1857 Party: Democrat TOUCEY Isaac , a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Newtown, Fairfield County, Conn., November 15, 1792; pursued classical…Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams
(Encyclopedia) Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 1959–, American legal scholar and critical race theorist, b. Canton, Ohio, J.D. Harvard University, 1984. An…Ashbery, John
(Encyclopedia) Ashbery, John, 1927–2017, American poet, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1949), Columbia (M.A., 1951). Among the most acclaimed and influential American poets of his era, he…Lowell, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Lowell, Robert (Robert Traill Spence Lowell 4th), 1917–77, American poet and translator, widely considered the preeminent American poet of the mid-20th cent., b. Boston, grad. Kenyon…Pius XII
(Encyclopedia) Pius XII, 1876–1958, pope (1939–58), an Italian named Eugenio Pacelli, b. Rome; successor of Pius XI. Ordained a priest in 1899, he entered the Vatican's secretariat of state. He…Baraka, Amiri
(Encyclopedia) Baraka, AmiriBaraka, Amiriamērē bəräˈkə [key], 1934–2014, American poet, playwright, and political activist, b. Newark, N.J., as Everett LeRoy Jones, studied at Rutgers Univ., Howard…Achebe, Chinua
(Encyclopedia) Achebe, ChinuaAchebe, Chinuachĭnˈwä ächāˈbā [key], 1930–2013, Nigerian writer, b. Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. A graduate of University College, Ibadan (1953), Achebe, an Igbo who wrote…Women in the 110th Congress
Check out the lists of minorities and women in the 110th Congress, along with which state and political party they represented. The 110th Congress was the meeting of the legislative branch of the…Trending
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