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Susan B. Anthony Dollar

Library of Congress Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is the first woman to appear on U.S. coinage. Anthony worked for nearly 70 years to bring suffrage (the right to vote) to women in the United…

Collins, Susan Margaret

(Encyclopedia) Collins, Susan Margaret, , 1952- , American politician, b. Caribou, Me., St. Lawrence University (BA, 1975). Both of Collins’s parents…

Isaacs, Susan Sutherland

(Encyclopedia) Isaacs, Susan Sutherland, 1885–1948, British educator. After studying at the universities of Manchester and Cambridge, she became a lecturer in early childhood education. A disciple of…

Anthony, Susan Brownell

(Encyclopedia) Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17,…

Warner, Susan Bogert

(Encyclopedia) Warner, Susan Bogert, pseud. Elizabeth Wetherall, 1819–85, American novelist, b. New York City. Of her many books the best known was The Wide, Wide World (1850), a pious, tearful tale…

black-eyed Susan

(Encyclopedia) black-eyed Susan or yellow daisy, North American daisylike wildflower (Rudbeckia hirta) of the family Asteraceae (aster family) with yellow rays and a dark brown center. It is a weedy…

Blow, Susan Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Blow, Susan Elizabeth, 1843–1916, American educator, b. St. Louis. After study in New York City under a disciple of Froebel, she opened in Carondelet (now in St. Louis) the first…

Monroe Leland HAYWARD, Congress, NE (1840-1899)

Senate Years of Service: 1899-1899Party: RepublicanHAYWARD, Monroe Leland, a Senator from Nebraska; born in Willsboro, Essex County, N.Y., December 22, 1840; served during the Civil War in the…

William HAYWARD, Jr., Congress, MD (1787-1836)

HAYWARD, William, Jr., a Representative from Maryland; born at “Shipshead,” near Easton, Talbot County, Md., in 1787; attended Easton Academy and was graduated from Princeton College in…

Susan MOLINARI, Congress, NY (1958)

MOLINARI, Susan, (daughter of Guy Victor Molinari; wife of William Paxon), a Representative from New York; born in Staten Island, N.Y., March 27, 1958; graduated from St. Joseph Hill Academy,…