Senate Years of Service: 1815-1828Party: Democratic Republican; Crawford Republican; JacksonianMACON, Nathaniel, (uncle of Willis Alston and Micajah Thomas Hawkins, and great-grandfatherof…
MURPHY, Patrick, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 19, 1973; attended Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pa., 1991; Kingâs…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Vermont Member Name Birth-Death AIKEN, George David 1892-1984 ALLEN, Heman (of Colchester) 1779-1852…
FREY, Oliver Walter, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Quakertown, Richland Township, Bucks County, Pa., September 7, 1887; moved to Ohio with his parents in 1891 and to Allentown…
Born: Feb. 29, 1936Hockey C leap year baby who played on more Stanley Cup championship teams (11) than anybody else; at 5-foot-7, known as the “Pocket Rocket ”; brother of Maurice.
actorBorn: 5/16/1905Birthplace: Grand Island, Nebraska Academy and Tony Award-winning film and stage actor who as a young man portrayed honest, hardworking men, and as an adult often played…
pop composerBorn: 4/16/1924Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio A winner of Oscar and Grammy Awards, Mancini worked as a staff composer for Universal Pictures (1952–58), contributing music to more than 100…
merchant, philanthropistBorn: 1799Birthplace: New Bedford, Mass. After seven years as a clerk in New York City, he and two brothers founded a shipping company in which he worked for the next 25…
inventorBorn: 1831Birthplace: Bremen, Germany Emigrating to America as a child with his family, he left the family's Missouri farm to enter the wagon-making business. He opened his own company in…
