Senate Years of Service: 1966-1973Party: DemocratSPONG, William Belser, Jr., a Senator from Virginia; born in Portsmouth, Va., September 29, 1920; attended the public schools of Portsmouth, Va…
MONTAGUE, Andrew Jackson, a Representative from Virginia; born near Lynchburg, Campbell County, Va., October 3, 1862; attended public and private schools; was graduated from Richmond (Va.)…
PORTER, Peter Buell, (grandfather of Peter Augustus Porter and uncle of Augustus Seymour Porter), a Representative from New York; born in Salisbury, Conn., August 14, 1773; was graduated from…
PAREDES, Quintin, a Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of the Philippines; born in Bangued, Abra Province, Philippine Islands, September 9, 1884; attended the primary and seminary…
Senate Years of Service: 1942-1945Party: DemocratSCRUGHAM, James Graves, a Representative and a Senator from Nevada; born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., January 19, 1880; attended the…
(Encyclopedia) Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th BaronDunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Barondənsănˈē, –sā– [key], 1878–1957, Anglo-Irish author. His life was spent as a…
(Encyclopedia) Meiklejohn, AlexanderMeiklejohn, Alexandermĭkˈəljŏn [key], 1872–1964, American educator, b. Rochdale, England, grad. Brown Univ., 1893, Ph.D. Cornell, 1897. He taught philosophy at…
(Encyclopedia) Palade, George EmilPalade, George Emilpäläˈdē [key], 1912–2008, American cell biologist, b. Iaşi, Romania, M.D. Univ. of Bucharest, 1940. He was a faculty member at the Rockefeller…
(Encyclopedia) Bundy, McGeorge, 1919–96, U.S. educator and government official, b. Boston. An Army intelligence officer during World War II, he was on the Harvard faculty 1949–61, becoming the…
(Encyclopedia) Tait, Archibald Campbell, 1811–82, British churchman, archbishop of Canterbury, b. Edinburgh. He grew up a Presbyterian, but he early decided to enter the ministry of the Church of…
