The political career of JohnC. Breckinridge included service in the state government of Kentucky, the Federal government of the United States, as well as the government of the Confederate States of America.
The Breckinridge family is a family of public figures from the United States. The family has included six members of the United States House of Representatives, two United States Senators, a cabinet member, two ambassadors, one United States…
As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,432. [2 ] Its county seat is Hardinsburg, Kentucky. [3 ] The county was named for JohnBreckinridge (1760–1806), a Kentucky Attorney General, state legislator, United States Senator, and United…
James Clark McReynolds (February 3, 1862 – August 24, 1946) was an American lawyer and judge from Tennessee who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the…
Alexander Hamilton Stephens [a ] (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American politician who served as the first and only vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, and later as the 50th governor of Georgia from 1882…
In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. [1 ]
James Howard McGrath (November 28, 1903 – September 2, 1966) was an American politician and attorney from Rhode Island. McGrath, a Democrat, served as U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island before becoming governor, U.S.