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Samuel James Ervin
Samuel James Ervin , 1896-1985, U.S. senator (1954-75), b. Morganton, N.C. Admitted to the bar in 1919, he became a distinguished jurist, serving as a judge on a county criminal court (1935-37), the North Carolina superior court (1937-43), and the state supreme court (1948-54), before being appointe...
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Watergate affair
Watergate affair in U.S. history, series of scandals involving the administration of President Richard M. Nixon ; more specifically, the burglarizing of the Democratic party national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C.
The Watergate Break-in
On June 17, 19...
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William Booth
William Booth 1829-1912, English religious leader, founder and first general of the Salvation Army , b. Nottingham. Originally a local preacher for the Wesleyan Methodists, he went (1849) to London and entered (1852) the ministry of the Methodist New Connexion Church, but in 1861 he began independ...
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Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam name used to designate the U.S. government. The term arose in the War of 1812 and seems at first to have been used derisively by those opposed to the war. Possibly it was an expansion of the letters "U.S." on uniforms and government property, but some sources attribute the origin of t...
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Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston U.S. army base, 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares), S Tex., in San Antonio; headquarters of the Fifth Army. San Antonio, long a military center, donated land in 1870 for the site of a permanent military post that was constructed from 1876 to 1890 and named for Gen. Sam Houston. The famou...
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Sam Francis
Sam Francis 1923-94, American painter, b. San Mateo, Calif. Educated in medicine, Francis began painting while recovering from an injury received in World War II. His mural-sized paintings are stained with brilliant, transparent oil color. Small areas of color are concentrated irregularly over a ca...
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton , pseud. Sam Slick, 1796-1865, Canadian jurist and author. Haliburton was a judge of the court of common pleas in 1829 and a judge of the provincial supreme court in 1841; he retired in 1856. He then moved to England, where he was a member of the House of Commons from ...
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Kim Young Sam
Kim Young Sam 1927-, South Korean political leader, b. Gyeongsang prov. He was first elected to the National Assembly in 1954 and served nine terms. A long-time political dissident and opponent of military rule, he was banned from politics from 1980 to 1985 and was twice subjected to house arrest. ...
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Sam Nunn
Sam Nunn (Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr.), 1938-, U.S. Senator from Georgia (1973-97), b. Perry, Ga. A lawyer, he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1968-72) and won election as a U.S. Senator in 1972. A conservative Democrat, he has been one of the Senate's more influential leaders, ...
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Nacogdoches
Nacogdoches , city (1990 pop. 30,872), seat of Nacogdoches co., E Tex., in a pine and hardwood forest area; settled 1779. Industries in the city include lumbering, livestock and poultry raising and processing, and the manufacture of feed, wood and electronic products, motor homes, and furniture. Tou...
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