Senate Years of Service: 1944-1959
Party: Republican SMITH Howard Alexander , a Senator from New Jersey; born in New York City, January 30, 1880; attended
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(Encyclopedia) Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833–83, Maryland physician and Confederate sympathizer who on April 15, 1865, set the broken left leg of Lincoln's fleeing assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Mudd…
(Encyclopedia) McClernand, John Alexander, 1812–1900, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Breckinridge co., Ky. He was admitted (1832) to the Illinois bar and sat as a Democrat in the U.S.…
(Encyclopedia) Galt, Sir Alexander TillochGalt, Sir Alexander Tillochtĭlˈək gôlt [key], 1817–93, Canadian statesman, b. England; son of John Galt. In 1835 he went to Canada in the service of the…
(Encyclopedia) Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden, 1857–1916, English surgeon and neurologist. A specialist in surgery of the endocrine glands and the nervous system, he devised a noted operation…
Ceasar IIAlexander HamiltonWednesday, October 17, 1787For the Daily Advertiser. “The great source of all the evils which afflict Republics, is, that the people are too apt to make choice of…
(Encyclopedia) Scott, Thomas Alexander, 1823–81, American railroad president, b. Fort Loudon, Pa. He was employed by the Pennsylvania RR as a station agent in 1850 and rose to become general…
by Homer Translated by Alexander Pope With Notes by Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley M.A. F.S.A. Illustrated by Flaxman's Designs 1899 Contents Summary Introduction. Pope's…
HARRIS, William Alexander, (father of William Alexander Harris [1841-1909]), a Representative from Virginia; born near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Va., August 24, 1805; completed an academic…
(Encyclopedia) Todd, Sir Alexander Robertus, 1907–97, Scottish biochemist, Ph.D., Univ. of Frankfurt am Main, 1931; Oxford, 1933. Todd held posts at Edinburgh Univ. (1934–36), the Lister Institute of…
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