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Wiley MAYNE, Congress, IA (1917-2007)

MAYNE, Wiley, a Representative from Iowa; born in Sanborn, O’Brien County, Iowa, January 19, 1917; attended the public schools of Sanborn, Iowa; S.B., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 1938…

Brien McMAHON, Congress, CT (1903-1952)

Senate Years of Service: 1945-1952Party: DemocratMcMAHON, Brien, a Senator from Connecticut; born James O’Brien McMahon in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn., October 6, 1903; attended the…

William Dayton BOIES, Congress, IA (1857-1932)

BOIES, William Dayton, a Representative from Iowa; born on a farm in Boone County, Ill., January 3, 1857; moved with his parents to Buchanan County, Iowa, in 1873 and settled near Quasqueton;…

James Graham FAIR, Congress, NV (1831-1894)

Senate Years of Service: 1881-1887Party: DemocratFAIR, James Graham, a Senator from Nevada; born near Belfast, County Tyrone, Ireland, December 3, 1831; immigrated to the United States in 1843…

Prescott Sheldon BUSH, Congress, CT (1895-1972)

Senate Years of Service: 1952-1963Party: RepublicanBUSH, Prescott Sheldon, (father of George Herbert Walker Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush), a Senator from Connecticut; born in…

Philip Aloysius HART, Congress, MI (1912-1976)

Senate Years of Service: 1959-1976Party: DemocratHART, Philip Aloysius, a Senator from Michigan; born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pa., December 10, 1912; attended Waldron Academy and…

Robert Beecher HOWELL, Congress, NE (1864-1933)

Senate Years of Service: 1923-1933Party: RepublicanHOWELL, Robert Beecher, a Senator from Nebraska; born in Adrian, Lenawee County, Mich., January 21, 1864; attended the public schools;…

Willis GREEN, Congress, KY

GREEN, Willis, a Representative from Kentucky; born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia; birth date unknown; attended the public schools; settled in that part of Virginia which is now the…

Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr., 1913–2008, American physicist, b. Los Angeles, Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1938. Lamb was a professor at Columbia (1938–51), Stanford (1951–56),…