(Encyclopedia) Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841–1935, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1902–32), b. Boston; son of the writer Oliver Wendell Holmes. He served (1861–64) with…
Senate Years of Service: 1837-1843
Party: Whig SMITH Oliver Hampton , a Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born on Smith's Island, near Trenton,
N.J., October 23, 1794; attended the…
Senate Years of Service: 1789-1796
Party: Pro-Administration; Federalist ELLSWORTH Oliver , a Delegate and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Windsor, Conn., April 29, 1745; pursued preparatory…
(Encyclopedia) Harper, Ida Husted, 1851–1931, American woman suffragist. Allied with the woman-suffrage movement from 1898, she became the official reporter and historian of the National American…
DAVIS Susan A. , a Representative from California; born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 13, 1944; B.A., University of California, Berkeley,
Calif., 1965; M.S.W., University of North…
Landholder XIIIOliver EllsworthMonday, March 24, 1788 The attempt to amend our federal Constitution, which for some time past hath engrossed the public regard, is doubtless become an old…
Senate Years of Service: 1997-
Party: Republican COLLINS Susan Margaret , a Senator from Maine; born in Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, December 7, 1952; graduated from St. Lawrence University,…
WOLCOTT, Oliver, a Delegate from Connecticut; born in Windsor, Conn., November 20, 1726; was graduated from Yale College in 1747; commissioned a captain by the Governor of New York in 1747;…
Landholder IIEnergetic GovernmentOliver EllsworthNovember 12, 1787To the Holders and Tillers of Land.Gentlemen, You were told in the late war that peace and Independence would reward your…
Landholder IIIEnergetic GovernmentOliver EllsworthNovember 19, 1787To the Holders and Tillers of Land.Gentlemen, When we rushed to arms for preventing British usurpation, liberty was the…
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