Senate Years of Service: 1903-1909Party: RepublicanLONG, Chester Isaiah, a Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Greenwood Township, near Millerstown, Perry County, Pa., October 12…
(Encyclopedia) Lewis. 1 Early name of the Snake River. 2 River, c.95 mi (155 km) long, rising in the Cascade Range, SW Wash., and flowing SW to the Columbia River NW of Vancouver. Three privately…
DE WITT, Francis Byron, a Representative from Ohio; born in Jackson County, Ind., March 11, 1849; moved with his parents in 1854 to a farm in Delaware County, Ohio; during the Civil War…
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Senate Years of Service: 1933-1951Party: DemocratTHOMAS, Elbert Duncan, a Senator from Utah; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 17, 1883; attended the public schools; graduated from the…
MILLER, William Edward, a Representative from New York; born in Lockport, Niagara County, N.Y., March 22, 1914; attended the parochial schools and Lockport High School; was graduated from…
(Encyclopedia) Turkish language, member of the Turkic subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages). Turkish is the official language of…
(Encyclopedia) Morris, family of prominent American landowners and statesmen. Richard Morris, d. 1672, left England after serving in Oliver Cromwell's army, became a merchant in Barbados, and…
