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Michael Stanley Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis , 1933-, American political leader, b. Brookline, Mass. He was a Democratic member of the Massachusetts house of representatives (1963-70) and was twice elected governor of Massachusetts (1975-79; 1983-91). As a member of the state legislature he sponsored the nation's first ...
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garden balsam
garden balsam common name for the species Impatiens balsamina, a member of the jewelweed family.
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Richard B. Russell
Richard B. Russell 1897-1971, American political leader, b. Winder, Ga. The son of a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, he began his political career as a state representative (1921-31) and then governor (1931-32). From 1932 to 1971, he was a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate. A supporter of ...
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Henry Laurens Dawes
Henry Laurens Dawes 1816-1903, U.S. Senator (1875-93), b. Cummington, Mass. He was U.S. district attorney for W Massachusetts (1853-57) and a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1857-75). He performed his most important service as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs an...
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Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman 1721-93, American political leader, b. Newton, Mass. Sherman helped to draft and signed the Declaration of Independence. He was long a member (1774-81, 1783-84) of the Continental Congress, helped to draw up the Articles of Confederation, and after serving as a member of the Constitut...
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John Rutledge
John Rutledge 1739-1800, American jurist and political leader, 2d Chief Justice of the United States, b. Charleston, S.C.; brother of Edward Rutledge . After studying law in London he began practice in Charleston, S.C., in 1761. He rose to prominence when quite young, was a member (1762) of the pr...
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Howard Henry Baker, Jr.
Howard Henry Baker, Jr. 1925-, U.S. politician and public official, b. Huntsville, Tenn. As a moderate Republican senator (1966-87) from Tennessee, he gained (1973) national attention as a member of the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair . He became (1977) Senate minority leader a...
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Benjamin Lawson Hooks
Benjamin Lawson Hooks 1925-, American black leader, b. Memphis, Tenn. In 1972 President Nixon named Hooks, a lawyer and Baptist minister, to the Federal Communications Commission , making him its first black member. From 1977 to 1993 he was the executive director of the National Association for...
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Roman senate
Roman senate governing council of the Roman republic. It was the outgrowth of the council of the kings. By the 3d cent. BC the senate was a group of 300 men with a high degree of political, legislative, and administrative power at Rome. There were serious checks on its power, especially in the hand...
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William Scott Vare
William Scott Vare 1867-1934, American political leader, b. Philadelphia. He engaged in machine politics and became (1898) a member of the select council of Philadelphia. He was recorder of deeds (1902-12) and—with his brothers Edward and George—came to control the Republican machine in...
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