William Peters Hepburn

William Peters Hepburn 1833-1916, American legislator, b. Wellsville, Ohio. He was raised in Iowa and entered law there. He was a Civil War cavalry officer. From 1881 to 1887 he served as a Republican Congressman from Iowa. After four years as solicitor of the Treasury, he reentered Congress in 1893, serving 16 years. He was vitally interested in railroad regulation and was for many years chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. He drafted the Hepburn Act of 1906, which strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission (see also rebate ), and was joint author of the Pure Food and Drugs Act (1906).

Bibliography: See biography by J. E. Briggs (1919).

Redgrove, Peter William (1932–2003), poet and novelist, educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, was a founder-member of the Group, and his first volume of poetry, The Collector and Other Poems (1960), was followed by many others, including Under the Reservoir (1992) and My Father's Trapdoors (1994). His poetry is marked by a richness of visual imagery, a sense of physical immediacy, and a deep preoccupation with religious and sexual mysteries. His novels, which include In the Country of the Skin (1973) and The Beekeepers (1980), are written in a highly poetic prose. He has written several works in collaboration with the poet and novelist Penelope Shuttle.