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Senate Years of Service: 1887-1900
Party: Republican DAVIS Cushman Kellogg , a Senator from Minnesota; born in Henderson, Jefferson County, N.Y., June 16,
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1917–1977, U.S. voting rights activist and civil rights leader, b.
Montgomery County, Miss. Fannie Lou Hamer was the…
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