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Hansen CLARKE, Congress, MI (1957)

CLARKE Hansen , a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., March 2, 1957; attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; attended Detroit public schools; attended…

Don Leroy BONKER, Congress, WA (1937)

BONKER Don Leroy , a Representative from Washington; born in Denver, Colo., March 7, 1937; attended the public schools in Westminister, Colo.; A.A., Clark College, Vancouver, Wash., 1962; B.A.,…

George Edmund FOSS, Congress, IL (1863-1936)

FOSS George Edmund , a Representative from Illinois; born in West Berkshire, Franklin County, Vt., July 2, 1863; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1885;…

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky went from indie film hero to outcast and back to hero again in his first decade of filmmaking, before being Oscar-nominated as best director for his 2010 film Black Swan. Darren…

Djimon Hounsou

Djimon Hounsou got his big break in Hollywood when he played the leader of a slave rebellion in Steven Spielberg's 1997 film Amistad. An African with modeling experience in Paris, Hounsou moved to…

Ed Harris

Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris is often cast in the movies as a thoughtful tough guy with a steely stare. A veteran character actor and sometime lead, his best-known early movies include The Right…

Elena Kagan

Elena Kagan became the 112th person to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice when she took office in 2010. Kagan had been nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama on 10 May 2010,…

Kanye West

Beatmaking music producer Kanye West's 2004 debut album, The College Dropout, jumped to the top of the charts and earned him 10 Grammy nominations in 2005. Raised in Chicago, Kanye West got his…

David O. Russell

David O. Russell is an American film director whose varied films include Flirting with Disaster (1996), The Fighter (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Known as what some might call the "…

Donald Milford PAYNE, Congress, NJ (1934)

PAYNE Donald Milford , a Representative from New Jersey; born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., July 16, 1934; graduated from Barringer High School, Newark, N.J., 1952; B.A., Seton Hall University,…