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Jacques Amyot – produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by Sir Thomas North; E. S. Ariel – translator of the Kural; Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and immensely influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe; Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of December 14, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
Official seal of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Sam Rayburn, longest serving speaker of the House, 17 years, 53 days (cumulative) Tip O'Neill, longest uninterrupted tenure of office, 9 years, 350 days Theodore M. Pomeroy, shortest tenure of office, 1 day
Alexander O. Smith – professional translator who worked on translations of different media, but is most famous for the English localizations of video games like Final Fantasy X, Ace Attorney, and Vagrant Story; Lucien Stryk and Takahashi Ikemoto; Royall Tyler – translator of The Tale of Genji as well as various Japanese folklore and Noh plays
U.S. House of Representatives seniority Rank Representative Party District Seniority date Previous service [2] Notes 1 Don Young: R Alaska at-large: March 6, 1973 Dean of the House Died on March 18, 2022. 2 Hal Rogers: R Kentucky 5: January 3, 1981 Dean of the House from March 18, 2022 3 Chris Smith: R New Jersey 4 4 Steny Hoyer: D Maryland 5 ...
This is a complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives during the 116th United States Congress, which runs from January 3, 2019, through January 3, 2021, ordered by seniority.
Under the current Rules of the House, at the start of their term, the speaker is required to create a secret ordered list of members to temporarily serve as speaker of the House if the speakership became vacant [36] and to provide the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives this list "as soon as practicable after" the election "and ...
Consequently, several Anti-Administration members voted strategically for former speaker Frederick Muhlenberg, a Pro-Administration moderate, who received a majority of the votes cast in the 3rd ballot and was elected speaker. This was the first speaker of the House election to be contested primarily on a partisan basis. [10] [11]