O’CONNOR, John Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in Raynham, near Taunton, Bristol County, Mass., on November 23, 1885; attended the public schools; was graduated from Brown University…
Senate Years of Service: 1910-1933Party: DemocratSWANSON, Claude Augustus, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Swansonville, Va., March 31, 1862; attended the public schools…
Senate Years of Service: 1897-1905Party: RepublicanFAIRBANKS, Charles Warren, a Senator from Indiana and a Vice President of the United States; born near Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio…
Senate Years of Service: 1941-1941Party: DemocratHOUSTON, Andrew Jackson, (son of Samuel Houston), a Senator from Texas; born in Independence, Washington County, Tex., June 21, 1854; attended…
Senate Years of Service: 1931-1933Party: DemocratHULL, Cordell, a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Olympus, Overton (now Pickett) County, Tenn., October 2, 1871; attended…
Official Name: State of New York Capital: Albany Organized as a territory: 1624 Entered Union (rank): July 26, 1788 (11) Present constitution adopted: 1777 State…
(Encyclopedia) Hillman, Sidney, 1887–1946, American labor leader, b. Lithuania. He emigrated to the United States in 1907. Beginning as a garment worker, he became a union leader after his key…
(Encyclopedia) American Labor party, organized in New York by labor leaders and liberals in 1936, primarily to support Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal and the men favoring it in national and…
(Encyclopedia) Moscow Conferences, meetings held between 1941 and 1947 at Moscow, USSR. At a conference in Sept.–Oct., 1941, American and British representatives laid the basis for lend-lease aid to…
