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An election for speaker took place on December 1, 1823, at the start of the 18th Congress following the 1822–23 elections in which Democratic-Republicans won a majority of the seats. Elected again to the House, former speaker Henry Clay received a majority of the votes cast and was elected speaker.
Robert Treat Paine, U.S. Representative for North Carolina; Eddie Perez, former Mayor of Hartford, CT. James Phelps, former U.S. Representative for Connecticut [33] John S. Phelps, former Governor of Missouri [34] Christine C. Quinn, first female and first openly gay Speaker of the New York City Council; Joseph F. Ryter, former U.S ...
There are members of the United States House of Representatives who spent only a single two-year term (or less) in office usually either due to death, resignation, or electoral defeat.
The following are historical lists of the youngest members of the United States Congress, in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.These members would be the equivalent to the "Baby of the House" in the parliaments of Commonwealth countries; the U.S. Congress does not confer a similar title upon its youngest members.
Christopher Paul McPherson (born 19 June 1984) is a Brazilian field hockey player. He competed in the men's field hockey tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [1]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
A romantic depiction of a clansman illustrated by R. R. McIan, from James Logan's The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, 1845 The late chief Sir William Macpherson (right) and a clansman wearing two different Macpherson tartans [3]
List of Old Etonians born before the 18th century; ... Christopher Anstey; William Anstruther-Gray (St Andrews MP) ... born 1811) John Hungerford Arkwright; Richard ...