Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long-Range Welfare." In the Senate, two men who have been close to the farm program for years, Vermont's Republican George Aiken, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, and New Mexico's Democrat Clinton Anderson, onetime (1945-48) Secretary of Agriculture, were strong for the Eisenhower-Benson plan...
...major general in the Confederacy, and then its Secretary of War. He refused to surrender, fled to Cuba, stole a ship, became a pirate, moved to London, then to Toronto, and died, with his citizenship rights unrestored, in his old Kentucky home. CJ Levi P. Morton (1889-93), a Vermont-born New York banker who was one of the richest men of his day, picked the wrong term to be Vice President (with Benjamin Harrison). He turned down a chance at the Republican nomination in 1880 (he might have succeeded Garfield), and another chance in 1896 (he might have succeeded...
...Texas, the state legislature killed three out of four bills restricting the "free circulation of books." The Vermont legislature, by a vote of 202 to 11, killed a proposal to set up a state censorship board on textbooks. The Pennsylvania legislature stopped a bill that would have banned certain types of magazines...
Stevens, a stony-faced, crippled son of a Vermont village shoemaker, was the crude but effective pleader for the Negro in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders of the "Radical Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born...
...Arizona, Connecticut, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia...