BELCHER, Page Henry, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Jefferson, Grant County, Okla., April 21, 1899, on the claim his father took in the opening of the Cherokee Strip; attended high…
VANMETER, John Inskeep, a Representative from Ohio; born near Moorefield, Hardy County, Va. (now West Virginia), in February 1798; attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.,…
MEYER, Herbert Alton, a Representative from Kansas; born in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, August 30, 1886; attended the grade schools, Washington, D.C., the Staunton Military Academy,…
LITTLE, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near Grape Grove, Ross Township, Greene County, Ohio, April 25, 1837; attended the common schools; was graduated from Antioch College, Yellow…
DICKEY, Henry Luther, a Representative from Ohio; born in South Salem, Ross County, Ohio, October 29, 1832; moved with his parents to Washington Court House, Ohio, in 1836; moved to Greenfield…
ROGERS, Thomas Jones, (father of William Findlay Rogers), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1781; immigrated to the United States in 1784 with his parents, who…
RUSSELL, James McPherson, (father of Samuel Lyon Russell), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in York, Pa., November 10, 1786; moved with his parents to a farm near Gettysburg, Adams…
RUTHERFORD, J. T., a Representative from Texas; born in Hot Springs, Ark., May 30, 1921; moved to Odessa, Tex., in 1934 and attended the public schools; served as an enlisted man in the United…
civil-rights leader, authorBorn: 6/25/33Birthplace: Kosciusko, Miss.
James Meredith was one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement. In 1962 he became the first Black student to…
FINLEY, Ebenezer Byron, (nephew of Stephen Ross Harris), a Representative from Ohio; born in Orrville, Wayne County, Ohio, July 31, 1833; attended the public schools; studied law at Bucyrus,…
