- John Clark
John Clark (February 28, 1766 - October 12, 1832) was an American politician. Clark served in the Georgia House of Representatives prior to being elected to consecutive two-year terms as governor from 1820 to 1824. Clark also served in the Georgia Militia during the American Revolution and achieved the rank of Major General in 1796. Son of Revolutionary War hero Elijah Clarke, John Clark was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina and moved to Wilkes County, … - David Davis
David Lee Davis (born November 6, 1959) is a Republican politician from Tennessee and a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 6th district, which is composed of parts of Washington County and Hawkins County. He is currently serving as U.S. Representative for the Tennessee 1st U.S. House District. - Jimmy Stewart
Jimmy Stewart (R), a Full-time Legislator, represents the 92 Ohio House Disrtict Ohio House of Representatives. The 92 Ohio House District encompasses all of Athens County, Meigs County, Morgan County, and parts of Washington County. Representative Stewart is serving in his third term in the Ohio House. Representative Stewart acts as Chairman of the Human Services Subcommittee of Finance, and is on the following committees: Finance and Appropriations; Financial Institution, … - Mitch Greenlick
Mitch Greenlick is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. He represents District 33 of the Oregon House of Representatives. In the 2007 legislative session, he served as chair of the House Health Care Committee and its Health Care Access Subcommittee, and as a member of the House Education Committee and Higher Education Subcommittee. In past years, he has served on the House Transportation, Land Use, Environment and Rules committees. - John P. Donoghue
John P. Donoghue (born 1957) is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He is currently serving in his 5th term in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Maryland's District 2C in Washington County. Donoghue is a member of the Health and Government Operations Committee. Donoghue was born in New York City on May 24, 1957. He attended Catholic University before becoming a financial advisor with Legg Mason. - Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. She represents District 34 (Washington County) in the Oregon House of Representatives. Bonamici was first elected in 2006 and serves on the Judiciary Committee, Consumer Protection Committee (Vice Chair), Health Care Committee and Health Care Subcommittee on Health Policy (Vice Chair). Bonamici is a graduate of the University of Oregon and University of Oregon School of Law. - Frank Mascara
Frank R. Mascara (b. January 19, 1930) is a Democratic politician from Pennsylvania who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. Mascara briefly served in the United States Army after World War II and was an accountant before entering politics. He then served as an elected official in Washington County, near Pittsburgh, for nearly 20 years. He was elected county controller in 1973 and as County Commissioner in 1979. - Brandon Mayfield
Brandon Mayfield (born July 15, 1966) is an American attorney-at-law with a practice in Washington County, Oregon best known for being erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings. On May 6 2004, the FBI arrested Mayfield as a material witness in connection with the Madrid attacks and held him for over two weeks before releasing him. Mayfield was never charged, and an FBI internal review later acknowledged serious errors in their investigation. - Joseph Meek
Joseph Lafayette "Joe" Meek (1810-1875) was born in Washington County, Virginia, United States, near the Cumberland Gap. At the age of 18 he joined William Sublette and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and roamed the Rocky Mountains for over a decade before settling in what was to become the state of Oregon in the Oregon Territory. In Idaho in 1838, he married the daughter of Nez Perce chief Kowesota. Her true name is unknown, but Meek called her "Virginia". - William Holmes McGuffey
William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 - May 4, 1873) was an American professor who created the McGuffey Readers, one of America's first textbooks. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1802, McGuffey's family moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He attended country school, and after receiving special instruction at Youngstown, he attended Old Stone Academy. Afterwards, he attended and graduated from Washington College in Pennsylvania, … - Asa Fitch
Asa Fitch (Born November 10 1765, died August 24 1843) was a U.S. congress representative between 1811 and 1813 for New York. He was born in Groton, Connecticut. He studied medicine and became a doctor practicing in Duanesburg and Salem, New York. During the U.S. Revolutionary War he served as a sergeant in Captain Livingston's company. He was a justice of the peace between 1799 and 1810, and served as President of the Washington County Medical Society 1806 to 1826, … - Rusty Crowe
Dewey "Rusty" Crowe, (born April 2, 1947), is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Tennessee Senate representing the 3rd district, which encompasses Washington County and Carter County; and inventor owning U.S. Patents 5,601,605 (February 11, 1997) for an infant pacifier - fluid administering unit and 5,772,685 (June 30, 1998) for an infant pacifier-fluid administering unit. - Dale Ford
Robert Dale Ford (born July 6, 1942) is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 6th district, which is composed of parts of Washington County and Hawkins County. He is a member of the Agriculture and Transportation Committees. He was born and lives in Jonesborough, Tennessee with his wife Joyce. He has 5 children. He is an Army veteran. - Jon P. Wilcox
Justice Jon P. Wilcox is a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Court by Governor Tommy G. Thompson in 1992 and elected to the court in 1997. His current term expires July 31, 2007. Justice Wilcox did not seek re-election, and Washington County Circuit Court Judge Annette K. Ziegler won the April 3, 2007 statewide election to succeed Justice Wilcox to this seat. Justice Wilcox was born in Berlin, Wisconsin. - Sandy Greiner
Sandra H. "Sandy" Greiner is the Iowa State Representative from the 89th District. She has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2003. Greiner currently serves on several committees in the Iowa House - the Agriculture committee; the Environmental Protection; and the State Government committee. Her political experience includes serving with the Washington County Republican Central Committee. Greiner was re-elected in 2006 with 5,756 votes, … - Nathaniel Pitcher
Nathaniel Pitcher (1777 Litchfield, Connecticut - May 25, 1836 Sandy Hill, New York, now Hudson Falls, New York) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Governor of New York from February 11 to December 31, 1828. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1806 and 1815-1817, surrogate of Washington County in 1812 and 1813, town clerk of Kingsbury in 1813 and 1814, and justice of the peace. - Melvin Francis
Melvin Joseph Francis (August 6, 1945-January 12 2006) was the governor of the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation, one of two reservations in Maine of the Passamaquoddy Indian tribe, from 1980 until 1990 and again since 2002. Born and raised in Pleasant Point he attend local schools. After graduating from Shead High School he earned a journeyman's certificate and specialized in carpentry. - Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the "Harris Treaty" between the U.S. and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened the Japanese Empire to foreign trade and culture. He gained the respect and affection of the Japanese people, and is honoured to this day in Japan. Harris was born in the village of Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls), … - George Washington Baines
George Washington Baines, Sr. (December 29, 1809 -- December 28, 1882), a maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969), was a Baptist clergyman in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas who served briefly as natural science professor and president of Baylor University (then "Baylor College") at its first location in Independence in Washington County, Texas. - Nathan Wilson
Nathan Wilson (December 23, 1758 - July 25, 1834) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he moved with his family to Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, where he attended school. He served two enlistments in Massachusetts regiments during the Revolutionary War in 1777 and 1780 and moved to New Perth (now Salem), Washington County, New York. He enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Regiment, … - Gideon Blackburn
Gideon Blackburn (August 27, 1772-August 23, 1838) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, born in Augusta County, Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent. As a youth he studied at Martin Academy in Washington County, Tennessee, was ordained in 1792, and received his preacher's license from the Abingdon Presbytery, Virginia, in 1795. His first notable project (1803-1809) was as a cultural missionary to the Cherokee, … - Samuel Sherwood
Samuel Sherwood (April 24, 1779 - October 31, 1862) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Kingsbury, Washington County, he completed preparatory studies, began the study of law at the age of fifteen in Kingston, Ulster County, and in 1798 moved to Delhi, Delaware County, where he continued his legal studies. He was admitted to the bar in 1800 and practiced in Delhi. - Henry Hitchcock
Henry Hitchcock (September 11, 1792-August 11, 1839) was the first Attorney General of the State of Alabama, having been elected by the Alabama General Assembly in December 1819 in its initial session. - David Redick
David Redick (d. 1805) was a Pennsylvania surveyor, lawyer, and politician. He was born in Ireland, and after coming to America made his home for several years in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married the neice of business associate David Hoge. He accompanied Mr. Hoge (c. 1780) to survey the latter's land holdings in the Chartiers Valley, in western Pennsylvania. Under Hoge's direction he platted the town of Bassett Town, which was soon renamed Washington, … - William S. Moore
William Sutton Moore (b. November 18 1822, Amity, Pennsylvania - December 30 1877) was a lawyer, politician and United States Congressman. In 1847, he graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Jefferson College, winning admittance to the Pennsylvania bar in 1848. He began his practice of the law in Washington, Pennsylvania. He would serve as the prothonotary of Washington County from 1854 to 1857. - Addison White
Addison White was an American politician who served the state of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives between 1851 and 1853. He was a cousin of Kentucky Congressman John White. Addison White was born in Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia on May 1 1824. He graduated from Princeton College in 1844. In 1850, he was elected as a Whig to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving one term. During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army. - Jo Carr
Bettye Jo Crisler Carr (September 29, 1926-July 7, 2007) was an English professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock when she proclaimed her call to pastoral ministry. She in turn became the first woman appointed superintendent in the Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. She served from 1989 to 1993 as superintendent of the Pampa district and in the administrative role of dean of the bishop's cabinet. Carr was a preacher, a teacher, an author, … - Daniel Rapine
Daniel Rapine (1768 - 1826) was the second mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the city council in June 1812 and serving for one year. Rapine was a bookseller and printer, moving to Washington from his birthplace of Philadelphia to open a bookstore in the new capital. He served on the City Council from 1802 to 1806 and then again in 1812, when Congress restructured city ordinances to create a council of aldermen for the city, which will then elect the mayor. - William Upham
William Upham (August 5, 1792 - January 14, 1853) was a United States Senator from Vermont. Born in Leicester, Massachusetts, he moved with his father to Montpelier, Vermont in 1802. He attended the district schools, the Montpelier Academy, and was privately tutored; he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in Montpelier in 1812. - Bob C. Riley
Bob Cowley Riley (September 18, 1924-February 16, 1994) was the Democratic Governor of Arkansas for eleven days in 1975. Like Moshe Dayan of Israel, Riley wore a black eyepatch because of a wartime injury. Riley was born in Little Rock, the son of Columbus Allen Riley and the former Winnie Mae Craig. He attended public schools in Little Rock. He dropped out of high school after Pearl Harbor to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. On July 24, 1944, Riley, based in Guam, … - Thomas Cale
Thomas Cale (September 17, 1848-February 3, 1941) was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory of Alaska. He was born in Underhill, Vermont in Chittenden County. He attended the district schools and Bell Academy at Underhill Flats, Vermont. In 1866, he moved to Fort Edward, New York in Washington County. He taught school in Underhill Center, Vermont in 1867 and 1868. He moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1869, … - Zebulon R. Shipherd
Zebulon Rudd Shipherd (November 15, 1768 - November 1, 1830) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Granville, Washington County, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Granville. Shipherd was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813 to March 3, 1815). He resumed the practice of his profession in Granville and was a trustee of Middlebury College (in Middlebury, … - Daniel Webster Hering
Daniel Webster Hering, Ph.D. (1850-) was an American physicist and university dean. He was born in Washington County, Maryland, and graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School (Yale). He occupied positions at Johns Hopkins, Western Maryland College, Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), and NYU, where he was dean after 1902. He was the author of "Essentials of Physics for College Students" (1912). - Theodore Enslin
Theodore Vernon Enslin (born March 25, 1925) is an American poet associated with Cid Corman's "Origin" magazine and press. He is widely regarded as one of the most musical of American avant-garde poets. Enslin was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. His father was a biblical scholar and his mother a Latin scholar. He studied musical composition at Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Carolyn Pollan
Carolyn Joan Clark Pollan (born July 12, 1937) is a former Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives who served for twelve consecutive two-year terms from 1975-1999 from a portion of Sebastian County, which includes the state's second largest city of Fort Smith. - Lavinia Burnett
Lavinia Burnett (b-?-d-November 8th 1845) was the first woman to be executed in the state of Arkansas. Burnett, her husband Crawford, and their son John, were arrested, tried, and convicted of murder. The trio had planned out the murder of Jonathan Selby, who lived near Fayetteville, Arkansas, and who was known to keep large sums of money at his residence. John Burnett was actually implicated as the suspect who killed Selby. - Levi Leiter
Levi Ziegler Leiter (November 2, 1834 - July 8, 1904) was a Chicago businessman and partner of Marshall Field who co-founded what became the Marshall Field and Company retail empire. Leiter was born to Joseph Leiter and Anne Ziegler of Leitersburg, the Washington County, Maryland town founded by his grandfather, Abraham Leiter. He married Mary Theresa Carver (1844-1913). - Hezekiah G. Spruill
General Hezekiah G. Spruill (September 8, 1808 - June 20, 1874), was an American soldier. General Spruill was the mayor and a planter of Plymouth in Washington County, North Carolina during the American Civil War. He had been appointed in 1832 as General of the Militia for the troops of the Albemarle Region of North Carolina. In April 1861, General Spruill organized the local troops to prepare for the beginning of the Civil War, … - James Manney Hagaman
James Manney Hagaman 1831(?) - 1904 was a lawyer, land agent, newspaper editor, and the founder of Concordia, Kansas. He and his wife settled in what is now Cloud County in 1860. In addition to founding the town of Concordia, he is credited with leading the movement to separate what was then Shirley Township from Washington County in 1866. - Tom Braatz Real Estate
Waukesha County Real estate, Waukesha County Real estate agents, Waukesha County Lake homes. Proud Parent of Spencer, Musician, Realtor, traveler, likes to be on water, or flying. Had an extensive science background prior to getting into Real Estate. Admires people that step up to the plate and accept responsibility, and not passing the buck on to someone else. Enjoys Goal oriented people that live out their dreams in life, and live each day as if it were their last.
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