(Encyclopedia) poet laureatepoet laureatelôˈrēĭt [key], title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. It is an outgrowth of the medieval…
Texas, also known as the Lone Star State, is the second-largest state in the United States, located in the southern region of the country. It shares borders with Arkansas to the northeast, Louisiana…
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Mr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer. Why his career was so short, I do not know, but suppose he lacked the necessary severity to suit Colonel Lloyd. Mr.…
TURNER Jim , a Representative from Texas; born in Fort Lewis, Pierce County,
Wash., February 6, 1946; graduated from Crockett High School, Crockett, Tex;
B.A., University of Texas, Austin, Tex.,…
(Encyclopedia) Freedmen's Bureau, in U.S. history, a federal agency, formed to aid and protect the newly freed blacks in the South after the Civil War. Established by an act of Mar. 3, 1865, under…
THORNBERRY William Homer , a Representative from Texas; born in Austin, Travis County, Tex., January 9, 1909; attended the public schools; B.B.A., University of Texas, 1932; LL.B., University of…
PICKLE, James Jarrell (Jake), a Representative from Texas; born in Big Spring, Howard County, Tex., October 11, 1913; educated in the public schools of Big Spring, Tex.; B.A., University of…
SAYERS Joseph Draper , a Representative from Texas; born in Grenada, Grenada County, Miss.,
September 23, 1841; moved with his father to Bastrop, Tex., in 1851; attended
Bastrop Military Institute…
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