CLAYPOOL, Horatio Clifford, (father of Harold Kile Claypool and cousin of John Barney Peterson), a Representative from Ohio; born in McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio, February 9, 1859; attended…
(Encyclopedia) Back, Sir George, 1796–1878, British explorer in N Canada. He accompanied Sir John Franklin on arctic expeditions in 1818, 1819–22, and 1824–27. On an expedition (1833–35) to search…
BROWN, Charles Elwood, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 4, 1834; attended the common schools and Greenfield Academy, and was graduated from Miami University, Oxford,…
(Encyclopedia) EtahEtahēˈtə [key], abandoned village, NW Greenland, on Smith Sound, opposite Ellesmere Island. The Eskimo tribe discovered there by John Ross in 1818 is known as the Polar Eskimo and…
(Encyclopedia) Rattigan, Sir Terence Mervyn, 1911–77, British dramatist. One of England's most popular and commercially successful contemporary playwrights, he was the master of the tightly crafted “…
(Encyclopedia) magnetic pole, the two roughly opposite ends of the planet where the earth's magnetic intensity is the greatest, as the north and south magnetic poles. For the magnetic north, it is…
Senate Years of Service: 1803-1807; 1810-1814Party: Democratic Republican; Democratic RepublicanWORTHINGTON, Thomas, a Senator from Ohio; born in Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), on…
(Encyclopedia) Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, 1936–, American public official, b. Salisbury, N.C., B.A., Duke, 1958, J.D., Harvard, 1965; wife of Bob Dole. A Republican, she held several government…
Below is the composition of the 117th Congress' House of Representatives, following the 2020 election. In the following lists, the numeral indicates the congressional district represented; AL is for…
