- Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry (February 12, 1843 - May 18, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi, uncle of Patrick Henry [1861-1933]. Born near Cynthia, Mississippi, Henry attended the common schools, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, Madison College, Sharon, Mississippi, and the Nashville (Tennessee) Military College. He moved to Brandon, Mississippi, in 1858. Enlisted in the Confederate service as a first lieutenant in Company B, Sixth Mississippi Infantry Regiment, … - Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is a U.S. politician, who is the Congressman for the 22nd District of California. Prior to his election as a Congressman, he had served two terms in the California State Assembly, including two years as the Republican Floor Leader. Born in Bakersfield, California, McCarthy is a fourth-generation resident of Kern County, California. McCarthy opened his first business, Kevin O's Deli, … - John Nichols
John Nichols (14 November 1834 - September 22, 1917) was a U.S. Congressman from the state of North Carolina between 1887 and 1889. Nichols was born near Eagle Rock in Wake County, North Carolina. After attending the common schools and working for six years in the printing trade, Nichols, at the age of twenty-one, attended Lovejoy Academy in Raleigh for one year, after which he engaged in the book and job printing business and newspaper publishing. - Henry Lee
Henry Lee III, called "Light Horse Harry", (January 29 1756 - March 25 1818) was a cavalry officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He was the Governor of Virginia and a U.S. Congressman, as well as the father of American Civil War general Robert E. Lee. - David Cobb
David Cobb was a U.S. Congressman for the Third District of Massachusetts. Born in Attleboro, Massachusetts on September 14 1748, Cobb graduated from Harvard College in 1766. He studied medicine in Boston and afterward practiced in Taunton, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775; lieutenant colonel of Jackson’s regiment in 1777 and 1778, … - Doug Ose
Douglas Arlo Ose commonly known as Doug Ose (born June 27 1955), American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005, representing the 3rd District of California. He was born in Sacramento, California and was educated at the University of California, Berkeley. He did not stand for reelection in 2004, but was instead briefly a candidate in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. - William D. Byron
William Devereux Byron, II (May 15, 1895 - February 27, 1941) a democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 6<sup>th</sup> congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1939 to February 27, 1941. After his death in an airplane crash in Georgia on February 27, 1941 his widow, Katharine Byron, a granddaughter of U.S. Senator Louis E. McComas, was elected in a special election to complete his term of office. - Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Gerry was an American lawyer, who served as a U.S. Congressman from Maine from 1849 to 1851. Gerry was born on December 6, 1813 in Waterford, Maine and was a grandson of former U.S. Vice-President Elbridge Gerry. After attending Brighton Academy he read for the law and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was elected to a single term in Congress as a Democrat in 1848. He didn’t seek to be renominated. - Everett McKinley Dirksen
Dirksen was born in Pekin, Illinois -about 120 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois -where he grew up on a small farm. He served in the United States Army during World War I . His political career began in 1927 , when he was elected to the Pekin city council. After an unsuccessful first run for the House of Representatives 1929 , he was elected to that body in 1932 . - Elias Boudinot
Elias Boudinot Jr. (1740-1821) was an early American lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a U.S. Congressman for New Jersey. He served as President of the Continental Congress in 1782-1783. - Steve Bartlett
Harry Steven (Steve) Bartlett (born September 19, 1947) is a former U.S. congressman and a former mayor of Dallas, Texas. He was a Republican. Bartlett was born in Los Angeles, California but grew up in Lockhart, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning a business degree. The congressman earned his wealth by starting his own successful packaging company. - Bob Stump
Robert Lee (Bob) Stump (April 4, 1927 - June 20, 2003) was a U.S. Congressman from Arizona. Stump was born in Phoenix and was a U.S. Navy World War II combat veteran, where he served on the USS Tulagi from 1943-1946. He graduated from Tolleson High School in 1947, and Arizona State University in 1951. For many years, he owned a cotton and grain farm in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson. He served four terms in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1959-1967, … - Robert Williams
Robert Williams (12 July 1773 - 25 January 1836) was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1797 and 1803 and the Governor of the Mississippi Territory from 1805 to 1809 Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1773, Williams moved with his parents to Surry County, North Carolina (present-day Forsyth County). There, he received a liberal education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. - John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston (December 14 1829 - November 15 1897) was an American abolitionist and U.S. Congressman from Virginia. He was one of the first blacks in the United States to be elected to public office when in 1855 he was elected as a town clerk in Ohio. Langston was born in Louisa County, Virginia, the son of Ralph Quarles, a white plantation owner, and Lucy Langston, a slave of mixed African and Native American background. - Lynn Cartwright
Lynn Cartwright was an American character actress probably best known for her performance as the older version of Geena Davis' character, Dottie Hinson, in the 1992 film "A League of Their Own". She was born Doralyn E. Cartwright in McAlester, Oklahoma, the daughter of U.S. Congressman Wilburn Cartwright and his wife Carrie. She had a sister, Wilburta, who was a successful artist. - Jacob H. Gilbert
Jacob H. Gilbert was a United States Representative from New York between 1960 and 1971. Gilbert was born in Bronx, N.Y., He attended the public schools and graduated from St. John’s College and from St. John’s Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1944 and began practicing law in New York City. Gilbert was appointed an assistant corporation counsel of the city of New York and served from January 1949 to December 1950. - Joseph Winston
Joseph Winston (born June 17, 1746 in Louisa County, Virginia; died April 21, 1815 near Germanton, North Carolina) was an American pioneer and farmer from North Carolina. During the American Revolutionary War he was a major, fighting with the state militia. Winston later represented North Carolina as a U.S. Congressman. He is buried in the National Park at the site of the Battle of Guilford Court House. - Caleb Cushing
Caleb Cushing (January 17, 1800 - January 2, 1879) was an American statesman and diplomat who served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce. Born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1800, he was the son of John Newmarch Cushing, a wealthy shipbuilder and merchant, and of Lydia Dow, a delicate and sensitive woman from Seabrook, New Hampshire who died when he was ten. - William Kent
William Kent (March 29, 1864-March 13, 1928) was an American who served as a United States Congressman representing the State of California. He spearheaded the movement to create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the Federal Government for the Monument. Kent was born in Chicago, Illinois. His parents moved the family to Marin County in California in the year 1871. He graduated from Yale University in 1887, where he was a member of Skull & Bones. - Andrew Pickens
Andrew Pickens (September 13, 1739 - August 11, 1817) was a militia leader in the American Revolution and a U.S. Congressman from South Carolina. Pickens was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the son of immigrants from Ulster, Ireland. In 1752 his family moved to the Waxhaws on the South Carolina frontier. He sold his farm there in 1764 and bought land in Abbeville County, South Carolina near the Georgia border. He established the Hopewell Plantation on the Seneca River, … - Cave Johnson
Cave Johnson (January 11, 1793 - November 23, 1866) was for fourteen years a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Tennessee. He was also the United States Postmaster General under James K. Polk from 1845-1849. He was born in Robertson County, Tennessee and died in Clarksville, Tennessee. During his tenure at Postmaster General he shifted the postal service from a COD postage delivery system to a prepaid postal delivery system by introducing the postage stamp in 1847. - William Purington Cole Jr.
William Purington Cole, Jr. (May 11, 1889-September 22, 1957) was an American jurist and politician. From 1927 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1942, Cole was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second district of Maryland. Cole was born in Towson, Maryland and graduated as a civil engineer from Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland, College Park) in 1910. He also studied law at the University of Maryland School of Law, was admitted to the bar in 1912, … - Perry Smith
Perry Smith (May 12, 1783 - June 8, 1852) was a Connecticut State Representative and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1836, where he served one term. Smith served on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee. He practiced law in New Milford, CT, where he died on June 8, 1852 and is buried at Center Cemetery in New Milford. - Felix Grundy
Felix Grundy (September 11, 1777-December 19, 1840) was a U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator from Tennessee who also served as the 13th Attorney General of the United States. Born in Berkeley County, Virginia (now Berkeley County, West Virginia), he moved to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and then Kentucky with his parents. He was educated at home and at the Bardstown Academy in Kentucky. - William Pinkney
William Pinkney (March 17, 1764-February 25, 1822) was an American statesman and diplomat, and the seventh U.S. Attorney General. Born in Maryland, Pinkney studied medicine (which he did not practice) and law, becoming a lawyer after his admission to the bar in 1786. After some time practicing law in Harford County, Maryland, he participated in Maryland's state constitutional convention. - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn
Ronald Bryan 'Bo' Ginn (May 31, 1934 - January 6, 2005) represented Georgia's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Ginn was born in Morgan, Georgia and attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia from 1951 through 1953 and Georgia Southern College, in Statesboro where he earned a degree in 1956. Ginn served as administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge and U.S. Congressman George Elliott Hagan. - Parren Mitchell
Parren James Mitchell, a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 7<sup>th</sup> congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1987. - Marmaduke Williams
Marmaduke Williams (6 April 1774 - 29 October 1850) was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1803 to 1809. Born in Caswell County, North Carolina, Williams studied law and was admitted to the North Carolina bar. He was elected to the North Carolina State Senate, serving 1802, and then was elected that same year to the 8th United States Congress. - Carl Elliott
Carl Atwood Elliott (born December 20, 1913, died in 1999) was a U.S. Congressman from the state of Alabama. He was elected to eight consecutive terms in office, serving from January 1949 to January 1965. Elliott was born in Vina, Alabama, a small community in the hills of northwest Alabama. He graduated high school at the age of 16, but few people expected him to be able to afford college. Due to the Depression-era policies of University President George H. Denny, … - Barber Conable
Barber Benjamin Conable, Jr. (November 2, 1922 - November 30, 2003) was a U.S. Congressman and president of the World Bank. Conable was an Eagle Scout and received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Conable was born in Warsaw, New York on November 2, 1922. He graduated from Cornell University in 1942, where he was president of the Quill and Dagger society. He then enlisted in the Marines and was sent to the Pacific front in World War II, … - George M. Robeson
George Maxwell Robeson (March 16, 1829 - September 27, 1897) was an American Republican Party politician and lawyer from New Jersey who served as a Union army general during the American Civil War, and then as Secretary of the Navy during the Grant administration. Robeson was born in Oxford Furnace, New Jersey. He studied law and became public prosecutor for Camden County. During the Civil War, he was appointed a brigadier general by the Governor of New Jersey, … - Charles Benedict Calvert
Charles Benedict Calvert (August 24, 1808 - May 12, 1864) was a U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861-1863. Born in Riverdale, Maryland, Calvert completed preparatory studies at Bladensburg Academy of Maryland. His mother, Rosalie Eugenia Stier, was the daughter of a wealthy Belgian aristocrat, Baron Henri Joseph Stier (1743-1821) and his wife Marie Louise Peeters. - Tom Bevill
Thomas "Tom" Bevill, a Democrat, was a fifteen-term U.S. congressman representing Alabama's 4th Congressional District (which was numbered as the 7th from 1967 to 1973). Bevill was born in Townley, Alabama, on March 27, 1921. He attended Walker County High School, the University of Alabama School of Commerce and Business Administration, and the University of Alabama School of Law. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He also privately practiced law. - John Steele
John Steele was a U.S. Congressman from the state of North Carolina between 1790 and 1793. Born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1764, Steele attended Clio’s Nursery and the English School, both near his hometown. Named assessor in 1784 and a town commissioner in 1787, Steele was first elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1787 and served again multiple times: in 1788, 1794, 1795, 1806, and from 1811-1813. - James H. Lane
James Henry Lane also known as Jim Lane (June 22, 1814 - July 11, 1866) was a United States Senator,a Union general in the American Civil War, and Union partisan. Lane was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, where he practiced law when he was admitted to the bar in 1840. He moved to the Kansas Territory in 1855. He immediately became involved in the abolitionist movement in Kansas. He was often called the leader of "Jayhawkers" abolitionist movement in Kansas. - Dempsey Burges
Dempsey Burges was a Democratic-Republican Party|Republican]] U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1795 and 1799. Born in Shiloh, North Carolina in Camden County, Burges was a member of the North Carolina Provincial Congress in 1775 and 1776. He was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, serving first as major of the Pasquotank Minutemen and later as lieutenant colonel of Gregory’s Continental Regiment. - James O'Brien
James O'Brien (1841-1907) of New York City, born in Ireland, was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1879 to 1881. - Robert Garcia
Robert Garcia (born January 9, 1933) was a Democratic United States Representative from New York between 1978 and 1990. Garcia was born in Bronx, N.Y. He attended the public schools and graduated from Haaren High School in the Bronx in 1950. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War with the Third Infantry Division, from 1950 to 1953. From 1953 until 1957 he attended college at City College of New York, Community College of New York and RCA Institute. - Jose M. Serrano
Jose M. Serrano is a member of the New York State Senate, representing the South Bronx, East Harlem, Yorkville and Roosevelt Island. He is the son of U.S. Congressman José Serrano. A lifelong South Bronx resident, Serrano was elected to the New York State Senate in November of 2004. He beat out Republican Olga Mendez, a 26-year incumbent in the district. He is considered a reformer, and has largely remained outside of the Bronx political machine. - Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. (June 14, 1855 - June 18, 1925) (also known as "Fighting Bob" La Follette) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman, the 20th Governor of Wisconsin from 1901 - 1906, and Senator from Wisconsin from 1905 - 1925 as a Republican He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 elections, carrying Wisconsin and 17% of the national popular vote.
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