Senate Years of Service: 1814-1817Party: FederalistTHOMPSON, Thomas Weston, a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Boston, Mass., March 15, 1766; attended Dummer Academy,…
BUTLER, Robert Reyburn, (grandson of Roderick Randum Butler), a Representative from Oregon; born in Butler, Johnson County, Tenn., September 24, 1881; attended the public schools and Holly…
STORER, Bellamy, (son of Bellamy Storer [1796-1875] and uncle of Nicholas Longworth), a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 28, 1847; attended the common schools of that…
Senate Years of Service: 1824-1825; 1825-1828Party: Crawford Republican; JacksonianCOBB, Thomas Willis, a Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Columbia County, Ga., in 1784;…
WOLVERTON, John Marshall, a Representative from West Virginia; born in Big Bend, Calhoun County, W.Va., January 31, 1872; attended country schools and Glenville and Fairmont State Normal…
(Encyclopedia) Guaidó, Juan (Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez), 1983–, Venezuelan political leader. An industrial engineer by training, he helped establish the Popular Will party in 2009 and was a protégé…
(Encyclopedia) KampenKampenkämˈpən [key], town (1994 pop. 32,550), Overijssel prov., central Netherlands, on the IJssel River, near the Ketelmeer. It is a trade and industrial center. Kampen was…
(Encyclopedia) Tate, NahumTate, Nahumnāˈhəm [key], 1652–1715, English poet and dramatist, b. Dublin. He wrote several popular adaptations of Shakespeare, the most famous being his King Lear (1681),…
(Encyclopedia) Stuart, James, 1713–88, English architect, archaeologist, and painter. After working his way to Rome in 1742, Stuart accompanied Nicholas Revett on an archaeological expedition to…
(Encyclopedia) Shore, Jane, or Elizabeth Shore, d. 1527?, mistress of Edward IV of England. The wife of William Shore, a goldsmith, she became c.1470 mistress to Edward IV and exerted a great…
