BLACKBURN, Marsha, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Laurel, Miss., June 6, 1952; graduated from Northeast Jones High School, Laurel, Miss.; B.S. Mississippi State University, Mississippi…
FREEMAN, James Crawford, a Representative from Georgia; born in Clinton (later Gray), Jones County, Ga., April 1, 1820; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to…
BRYAN, Nathan, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Craven (now Jones) County, N.C., in 1748; member of the house of commons of North Carolina in 1787 and 1791-1794; elected as a…
PICKERING, Charles W. (Chip), Jr., a Representative from Mississippi; born in Laurel, Jones County, Miss., August 10, 1963; graduated from R.H. Watkins High School, Laurel, Miss.; B.A.,…
PICKERING, Charles W. (Chip), Jr., a Representative from Mississippi; born in Laurel, Jones County, Miss., August 10, 1963; graduated from R.H. Watkins High School, Laurel, Miss.; B.A.,…
(Encyclopedia) Henson, Jim (James Maury Henson), 1936–90, American puppeteer, creator of the Muppets, b. Greenville, Miss., grad. Univ. of Maryland (A.B., 1960). In 1954 he got his first job as a…
(Encyclopedia) Newport News, independent city (1990 pop. 170,045), SE Va., on the Virginia peninsula, at the mouth of the James River, off Hampton Roads, near Norfolk; inc. 1896. It is a port for…
(Encyclopedia) Parsons, Lucy, 1851–1942, American anarchist and labor activist. Although she claimed publicly to have been born of Mexican and Native American descent as Lucia Gonzalez, she was…
(Encyclopedia) Bazille, Frédéric, 1841–70, early French impressionist painter. He abandoned medical school to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where he met and became friends with Monet,…
