civil-rights attorneyBorn: 1895Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Houston, a powerful advocate of civil rights, helped gain ground for the movement by taking the fight to the court system. Houston earned…
biochemistBorn: 1/9/1922Birthplace: Raipur, India (now Pakistan) Har Gobind Khorana grew up as a member of one of the few literate families in his tiny village. His father insisted upon educating…
(James Marshall Hendrix)rock musician, guitaristBorn: 11/27/1942Birthplace: Seattle, Washington Rock musician and guitarist best known for his masterful maneuvering of the electric rock guitar. A…
educatorBorn: 7/29/1806Birthplace: Dunbarton, N.H. Mills graduated from Dartmouth College and completed his theological training at Andover Theological Seminary in 1833. Following his marriage to…
DUNCAN, William Addison, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Cashtown, Franklin Township, Adams County, Pa., February 2, 1836; attended the public schools; was graduated from Franklin…
CAPITO, Shelley Moore, (daughter of Arch Alfred Moore, Jr.), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Glendale, Marshall County, W.Va., November 26, 1953; graduated from Duke University,…
HUGUNIN, Daniel, Jr., a Representative from New York; born in Montgomery County, N.Y., February 6, 1790; pursued classical studies; served in the War of 1812; successfully contested the…
SISISKY, Norman, a Representative from Virginia; born in Baltimore, Md., June 9, 1927; graduated from John Marshall High School, Richmond, Va., 1944; B.S., Virginia Commonwealth University,…
(Encyclopedia) Farmer, James Leonard, Jr., 1920–99, African-American civil-rights leader who was one of the principal civil-rights figures of the 1950s and 60s, b. Marshall, Tex., grad. Wiley College…
(Encyclopedia) Hirschman, Albert Otto, 1915–2012, U.S. economist and social scientist, b. Berlin, Germany, as Otto Albert Hirschmann, Ph.D. Univ. of Trieste, 1938. Of Jewish descent, he fled Germany…
