Senate Years of Service: 1851-1855; 1855-1857
Party: Whig; Opposition JONES James Chamberlain , a Senator from Tennessee; born near the line between Davidson and Wilson Counties, Tennessee, April…
(Encyclopedia) Baldwin, James, 1924–87, American author, b. New York City. He spent an impoverished boyhood in Harlem, became a Pentecostal preacher at 14, and left the church three years later. He…
JONES James , a Representative from Virginia; born in Nottoway Parish, Amelia (now Nottoway)
County, Va., on December 11, 1772; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in 1791,
and the…
JONES James Robert , a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Muskogee, Muskogee County,
Okla., May 5, 1939; attended Sacred Heart School, Muskogee, Okla.; graduated,
Muskogee Central High School,…
JONES, James, a Representative from Virginia; born in Nottoway Parish, Amelia (now Nottoway) County, Va., on December 11, 1772; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in 1791, and the…
Senate Years of Service: 1885-1903
Party: Democrat JONES James Kimbrough , a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Marshall
County, Miss., September 29, 1839; moved with his father…
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Brian, 1947–, British balloonist, b. Bristol. A former Royal Air Force pilot, he entered the world of ballooning in the 1980s, and in 1997 became an organizer for the attempt of…
(Encyclopedia) Naismith, JamesNaismith, Jamesnāˈsmĭth [key], 1861–1939, American athletic director, inventor (1891) of basketball, b. Almonte, Ontario. While an instructor of physical education at…
(Encyclopedia) Boswell, James, 1740–95, Scottish author, b. Edinburgh; son of a distinguished judge. At his father's insistence the young Boswell reluctantly studied law. Admitted to the bar in 1766…
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Mary Harris, 1830–1930, American labor agitator, called Mother Jones, b. Ireland. Interested in the labor movement for many years, she became active in it after the death of her…
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