Senate Years of Service: 1843-1848
Party: Democrat COLQUITT Walter Terry , a Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Halifax County, Va.,
December 27, 1799; moved with his parents to…
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January. So called from “Janus,” the Roman deity that kept the gates of heaven. The image of Janus is represented with two faces looking opposite ways. One face is old, and is emblematical…
Bruce N. Ames, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, for changing…
