(Encyclopedia) Nottingham, Daniel Finch, 2d earl of, 1647–1730, English politician, son of Heneage Finch, the 1st earl. A staunch supporter of the Church of England, he disapproved of James II's pro–…
Senate Years of Service: 1818-1824; 1844-1849Party: Democratic Republican; Adams-Clay Republican; WhigJOHNSON, Henry, a Senator and a Representative from Louisiana; born in Virginia September…
JOHNSON, Joseph, (uncle of Waldo Porter Johnson), a Representative from Virginia; born in Orange County, N.Y., December 19, 1785; moved with his mother to Belvidere, N.J., in 1791 and thence…
Senate Years of Service: 1931-1946Party: RepublicanAUSTIN, Warren Robinson, a Senator from Vermont; born in Highgate Center, Franklin County, Vt., November 12, 1877; attended the public…
WARREN, Lindsay Carter, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., December 16, 1889; pursued preparatory studies at Bingham School, Asheville, N.C., 1903…
Senate Years of Service: 1941-1954Party: DemocratMAYBANK, Burnet Rhett, a Senator from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 7, 1899; attended the public schools; graduated from…
Senate Years of Service: 1933-1949Party: DemocratHATCH, Carl Atwood, a Senator from New Mexico; born in Kirwin, Phillip County, Kans., November 27, 1889; attended the public schools of Kansas…
(Encyclopedia) Auerbach, Erich, 1892–1957, German-American philologist, literary scholar, and critic, b. Berlin, Ph.D. Univ. of Greifswald, 1921. He is known primarily for Mimesis: The Representation…
(Encyclopedia) O. Henry, pseud. of William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910, American short-story writer, b. Greensboro, N.C. He went to Texas in 1882 and worked at various jobs—as teller in an Austin bank (…
