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Wallace Edgar PIERCE, Congress, NY (1881-1940)

PIERCE Wallace Edgar , a Representative from New York; born in the town of Black Brook, Clinton County, N.Y., December 9, 1881; attended the rural schools; was graduated from Plattsburg (N.Y.)…

William Andrew WALLACE, Congress, PA (1827-1896)

Senate Years of Service: 1875-1881 Party: Democrat WALLACE William Andrew , a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Huntingdon, Pa., November 28, 1827; moved with his parents to Clearfield, Pa., in…

Wallace, Edgar

(Encyclopedia) Wallace, Edgar (Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace), 1875–1932, English novelist and playwright, b. Greenwich. He was the author of more than 150 detective and adventure novels, of which as…

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Maurice F. Rabb, Jr.Joseph Rainey Virginia RandolphNancy Davis ReaganBenjamin ReifelHiram RevelsJoseph Jones ReynoldsCondoleezza RiceBill RichardsonElliot RichardsonNorbert RillieuxJ.…

United Empire Loyalists

(Encyclopedia) United Empire Loyalists, in Canadian history, name applied to those settlers who, loyal to the British cause in the American Revolution, migrated from the Thirteen Colonies to Canada.…

William Wallace EATON, Congress, CT (1816-1898)

Senate Years of Service: 1875-1881 Party: Democrat EATON William Wallace , a Senator and a Representative from Connecticut; born in Tolland, Conn., October 11, 1816; educated in the common…

Macdonald, Dwight

(Encyclopedia) Macdonald, Dwight, 1906–82, American author and editor, b. New York City. As an associate editor (1928–36) of the business magazine Fortune he acquired a distaste for capitalism, and…

Presidential Elections, 1789-2020

Election results for every election, from 1789 to the present. Includes all candidates, their parties, number of electoral and popular votes. For the original method of electing the president and…