Word: congressman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
John Jerome Gorman, onetime (1921-23 and 1925-27) Congressman, and chief investigator of history books, wrote a letter to Mayor Thompson about it. "It is a notable victory in the face of tremendous odds," he said. "To you belongs the credit. It. may be that in certain quarters you will not be accorded your credit for this victory . . . but when the permanent imperishable record is written for all time, history will proclaim, your achievements...
Jumper Hoyt had not previously been famed, but is or has been variously related to many and variously famed characters, including Actress Bankhead whom many a theatregoer believes to be red-headed and who is the daughter of a onetime U. S. Congressman and who is a sister of Jumper Hoyt's onetime wife Eugenia who is often referred to as Jeanne, notably by the Social Register...
...army. The first Hamilton Fish was Secre tary of State in Grant's Cabinet. Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish has yet to prove himself as sterling a statesman as his grandfather or as his father, who was speaker of the New York Assembly (1895-96) and a Congressman before his son (1909-11). But Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish commanded Negro troops in the War. He likes Negroes and they like him. "His nomination is logical," said Committeeman Howard. "There are ten states . . . etc." Other G. O. Politicians put the Fish idea aside and let it simmer...
...these obstacles looked small last week and Chicagoans as well as Southerners counted on seeing Oscar De Priest's large, dusky figure in the House chamber next session. The last Negro Congressman was Representative George Henry White who served in the 55th and 56th Congresses from Tarboro, N. C. Before him there were 19 Negro Representatives and two Negro Senators. A majority of them were members of Reconstruction Congresses and men of small education. Ten, however, went to college; five were lawyers; others were preachers, teachers, planters. Seven were born slaves. Both the Senators were elected in Mississippi. Senator...
...Other able Snooks are John Wilson Snook, warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.; Homer Clyde Snook, electrophysicist, of South Orange, N. J.; John S. Snook, onetime Congressman, of Paulding, Ohio; Frank S. Snook, chief of the State Department of Motor Vehicles, of Sacramento, Calif...