Senate Years of Service: 1833-1837; 1837-1839
Party: Jacksonian; Democrat MORRIS Thomas , a Senator from Ohio; born in Berks County, Pa., January 3, 1776; settled with his parents near Clarksburg,…
Senate Years of Service: 1818-1829
Party: Democratic Republican; Crawford Republican; Adams THOMAS Jesse Burgess , a Delegate from Indiana Territory and a Senator from Illinois; born
in…
Senate Years of Service: 1833-1837; 1837-1839 Party: Jacksonian; Democrat MORRIS, Thomas, (father of Isaac Newton Morris and Jonathan David Morris), a Senator from Ohio; born in Berks…
Senate Years of Service: 1845-1850
Party: Whig CORWIN Thomas , a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Bourbon County,
Ky., July 29, 1794; moved with his parents to Lebanon, Warren…
The penitentiary in St. Thomas's parish, Oxford, where women of frail morals are kept under surveillance. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. Wilfrid's…
(Encyclopedia) Drake, Sir Francis, 1540?–1596, English navigator and admiral, first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577–80).
In 1585, Drake commanded a fleet that sacked Vigo in Spain and…
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