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Donald Wayne RIEGLE, Jr., Congress, MI (1938)

Senate Years of Service: 1976-1995Party: DemocratRIEGLE, Donald Wayne, Jr., a Representative and a Senator from Michigan; born in Flint, Genesee County, Mich., February 4, 1938; attended…

Morgan Calvin HAMILTON, Congress, TX (1809-1893)

Senate Years of Service: 1870-1873; 1873-1875; 1875-1877Party: Republican; Liberal Republican; RepublicanHAMILTON, Morgan Calvin, (brother of Andrew Jackson Hamilton), a Senator from Texas;…

James Middleton COX, Congress, OH (1870-1957)

COX, James Middleton, a Representative from Ohio; born on a farm near Jacksonburg, Butler County, Ohio, March 31, 1870; attended Butler County schools and Amanda (Ohio) High School; after two…

Joseph JOHNSON, Congress, VA (1785-1877)

JOHNSON, Joseph, (uncle of Waldo Porter Johnson), a Representative from Virginia; born in Orange County, N.Y., December 19, 1785; moved with his mother to Belvidere, N.J., in 1791 and thence…

Larreta, Enrique Rodríguez

(Encyclopedia) Larreta, Enrique RodríguezLarreta, Enrique Rodríguezānrēˈkā rôᵺrēˈgāth lärrāˈtä [key], 1875–1961, Argentine novelist. Larreta lived for many years in Spain and France. His fame rests…

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

(Encyclopedia) Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903–87, American architectural historian, b. Boston. Educated at Harvard, Hitchcock taught at Smith College and New York Univ. His writings, which helped to…

Gosson, Stephen

(Encyclopedia) Gosson, StephenGosson, Stephengŏsˈĭn [key], 1554–1624, English writer, b. Canterbury, grad. Oxford, 1576. He wrote three plays, all of which are lost and none of which seems to have…

James, Saint (St. James the Less)

(Encyclopedia) James, Saint, in the Bible, one of the Twelve Apostles, called St. James the Less or St. James the Little. He was the son of Alphaeus; his mother, Mary, was one of those at the cross…

Dôle

(Encyclopedia) Dôle Dôle dōl [key], city, Jura dept., E France, in Franche-Comté, on the Doubs…