basketball playerDied: February 22, 2007 (Austin, Texas) Best Known as: brilliant defensive basketball player in the N.B.A. Former basketball player who played 14…
businessman, U.S. representative, mayorBorn: 1854Birthplace: near Georgetown, Ky. He spent the early part of his career runningg streetcars in Louisville, where he came in contact with the du Pont…
COUSINS, Robert Gordon, a Representative from Iowa; born on a farm, âIndian Lodge,â near Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa, January 31, 1859; attended the common schools, and was graduated from…
OTTER, C. L. (Butch), a Representative from Idaho; born in Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, May 3, 1942; B.A., College of Idaho (now Alberston College of Idaho), Caldwell, Idaho, 1967; Idaho…
(Encyclopedia) Emmet, Robert, 1778–1803, Irish nationalist and revolutionary. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, but left in 1798 because of his nationalist sympathies. In 1800 he went to France…
OTTER, C. L. (Butch), a Representative from Idaho; born in Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, May 3, 1942; B.A., College of Idaho (now Alberston College of Idaho), Caldwell, Idaho, 1967; Idaho Army…
(Encyclopedia) Adam, RobertAdam, Robertădˈəm [key], 1728–92, and James Adam, 1730–94, Scottish architects, brothers. They designed important public and private buildings in England and Scotland and…
(Encyclopedia) McNamara, Robert StrangeMcNamara, Robert Strangemăkˈnəmârˌə [key], 1916–2009, U.S. secretary of defense (1961–68), b. San Francisco, grad Univ. of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1937),…
LATTA, Robert E., (son of Delbert L. Latta ) a Representative from Ohio; born in Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio; April 18, 1956; B. A., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1978…
STEELE, Robert Hampton, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Hartford, Conn., November 3, 1938; attended the Wethersfield, Conn., public schools; B.A., Amherst College, Mass., 1960; M.A…
