Philip Miller Crane was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005,representing the 8th District of Illinois in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. At the time of his defeat in the 2004 election,Crane was the longest-serving Republican member of the House.
Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. is an American lobbyist and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999. A Republican,he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,a position he declined following revelations of an extramarital affair. He served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999 and as the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995 to 1999. During his final years in Congress,Livingston was a strong supporter of Bill Clinton's impeachment. He is currently a Washington,D.C.-based lobbyist. Livingston's memoir,The Windmill Chaser:Triumphs and Less in American Politics,was published in September 2018.
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was a politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana. She was also a permanent chairwoman of the 1976 Democratic National Convention,which met in New York City to nominate the Carter-Mondale ticket. She was the first woman to preside over a major party convention.
Frank Jefferson Horton was a United States representative from New York State.
The 70th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C. from March 4,1927,to March 4,1929,during the last two years of Calvin Coolidge's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Thirteenth Decennial Census of the United States in 1910.
Louisiana's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The 5th district encompasses rural northeastern Louisiana and much of central Louisiana,as well as the northern part of Louisiana's Florida parishes in southeastern Louisiana,taking in Monroe,Alexandria,Opelousas,Amite and Bogalusa.
Sean Patrick Maloney is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative from New York's 18th congressional district. The district includes Newburgh,Beacon,and Poughkeepsie. A member of the Democratic Party,Maloney ran for New York Attorney General in 2018,losing to Letitia James in the primary.
Lewis Lovering Morgan was an American lawyer and politician from Covington,Louisiana.
Asa Leonard Allen was an educator,attorney,and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served eight terms as a Democrat from 1937 to 1953,having represented the now defunct 8th congressional district,centered about Alexandria.
Richard Hill is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Montana. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Montana in 2012.
William Joseph Scherle was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Southwestern Iowa from 1967 to 1975. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Randall S. "Front Porch" Harmon was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Cedric Levan Richmond is an American attorney,politician,and political advisor who served as a senior advisor to the president and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement in the Biden administration. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2021. His district included most of New Orleans.
Pan American Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie,Scotland,on December 21,1988. 243 passengers,16 crew members,and 11 people on the ground were killed by the explosion. It was the second most disastrous passenger airline explosion up to that time By the next day,experts found enough evidence to declare the explosion to be deliberate sabotage. Within days intelligence sources reported an anonymous telephone call to the United States embassy in Helsinki,Finland,on December 5,1988,warned of possible sabotage on the flight.
The 2022 United States elections will be held on Tuesday,November 8,2022. During this midterm election year,all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial gubernatorial and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested. This will be the first election affected by the redistricting that will follow the 2020 census.
There were six special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 2021 during the 117th United States Congress.
John Richard Rarick was an American lawyer,jurist,and World War II veteran who served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives,serving Louisiana's 6th congressional district from 1967 to 1975.
