(Encyclopedia) Parks, Rosa Louise, 1913–2005, American civil-rights activist, b. Tuskegee, Ala., as Rosa Louise McCauley. A seamstress and long-time activist-member of the Montgomery, Ala., chapter…
Bernard C. “Bert” KuczynskiAge: 77 became the first athlete to play pro football and baseball in the same season when he suited up for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Detroit Lions in…
Carl Bert AlbertAge: 91 Oklahoma politician who served as Democratic Speaker of the House from 1971 to 1976. Albert was elected to Congress in 1947 and never left until his 1976 retirement.…
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national parks and monuments. The National Park Service, a bureau of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, was established in 1916 to oversee the administration of 40 national parks…
LORD Bert , a Representative from New York;
born in the town of Sanford, Broome County, N.Y., December 4, 1869;
attended the public schools and the Afton (N.Y.) Union School and Academy;
engaged…
BANDSTRA Bert Andrew , a Representative from Iowa; born in Monroe County, Iowa, January 25,
1922; attended New Sharon High School; United States Navy, 1942-1945; graduated
from Central College,…
Senate Years of Service: 1916-1926
Party: Republican FERNALD Bert Manfred , a Senator from Maine; born in West Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, April 3,
1858; attended the public schools,…
Senate Years of Service: 1949-1949
Party: Democrat MILLER Bert Henry , a Senator from Idaho; born in St. George, Washington County, Utah, December
15, 1879; graduated from Brigham Young…
(Encyclopedia) Bland, Richard Parks, 1835–99, American statesman, b. near Hartford, Ky. He taught in rural schools in Kentucky and Missouri before he went to the gold fields of California in 1855. He…
