Youngest justice appointed: Joseph Story (age 32)Oldest justice appointed: Horace Lurton (age 65)Oldest justice to serve: Oliver Wendell Holmes (retired at age 90)Shortest term as chief justice:…
Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitBorn: April 1, 1950Birthplace: Trenton, N.J. Judge Alito was nominated as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President George W.…
actorBorn: 12/16/1963Birthplace: San Francisco, California Enshrined by People magazine as one of the world's sexiest guys, Bratt earned as much publicity for his now-defunct relationship with…
Florida's secretary of state and co-chairwoman of George W. Bush's presidential campaign in FloridaBorn: April 5, 1957Birthplace: Key West, Fla. Katherine Harris undoubtedly played a pivotal role…
(Encyclopedia) Goldwater, Barry Morris, 1909–98, U.S. senator (1953–65, 1969–87), b. Phoenix, Ariz. He studied at the Univ. of Arizona, but left in 1929 to enter his family's department-store…
WILLIAMS, John Bell, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Raymond, Hinds County, Miss., December 4, 1918; attended the public schools; was graduated from Hinds Junior College, Raymond,…
(Encyclopedia) Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933–2020, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1993–2020), b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Joan Ruth Bader. A graduate (1954) of Cornell, she attended Harvard Law…
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Schematic model of the oceanic crust, showing seafloor spreading
seafloor spreading, theory of lithospheric evolution that holds that the ocean floors are spreading outward…
Senate Years of Service: 1978-1997Party: RepublicanKASSEBAUM, Nancy Landon, (wife of Howard Henry Baker, Jr., now Nancy Kassebaum Baker), a Senator from Kansas; born in Topeka, Shawnee County…
