Senate Years of Service: 1959-1977Party: DemocratMOSS, Frank Edward (Ted), a Senator from Utah; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, September 23, 1911; attended the public schools; graduated from…
Senate Years of Service: 1968-2009Party: RepublicanSTEVENS, Theodore Fulton (Ted), a Senator from Alaska; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., November 18, 1923; attended Oregon State…
Senate Years of Service: 1962-2009Party: DemocratKENNEDY, Edward Moore (Ted), (brother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Robert Francis Kennedy, grandson of John Francis Fitzgerald, uncle of…
(Encyclopedia) Kramer, Jack (John Albert Kramer), 1921–2009, American tennis player, b. Las Vegas, Nev. He excelled at tennis while still in high school. Kramer and Frederick (Ted) Schroeder won the…
(Encyclopedia) Grenville, George Nugent Temple, 1st marquess of Buckingham, 1753–1813, British statesman; second son of George Grenville. He sat in the House of Commons from 1774 until 1779, when he…
(Encyclopedia) Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American…
(Encyclopedia) Plath, Sylvia, 1932–63, American poet, b. Boston. Educated at Smith College and Cambridge, Plath published poems even as a child and won many academic and literary awards. Her first…
(Encyclopedia) Pascoli, GiovanniPascoli, Giovannijōvänˈnē päˈskōlē [key], 1855–1912, Italian poet. Pascoli's childhood was marked by a series of tragedies: the deaths of his parents and of five of…
Senate Years of Service: 1921-1928Party: RepublicanGOODING, Frank Robert, a Senator from Idaho; born in Tiverton, England, September 16, 1859; immigrated in 1867 to the United States with his…
(Encyclopedia) Nunn, Sam (Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr.), 1938–, U.S. Senator from Georgia (1973–97), b. Perry, Ga. A lawyer, he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1968–72) and won…
