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John Goodchild DOW, Congress, NY (1905-2003)

DOW John Goodchild , a Representative from New York; born in New York, N.Y., May 6, 1905; attended the public schools of Canton, Mass.; A.B., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 1927; M.A.,…

Hughes, Charles Evans

(Encyclopedia) Hughes, Charles EvansHughes, Charles Evanshy&oomacr;z [key], 1862–1948, American statesman and jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910–16), U.S. secretary of…

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Historical BackgroundThe McCulloch v. Maryland decision in 1819 fanned the flames of controversy over States' rights and national supremacy. By 1824, Chief Justice John Marshall had reached…

Roosevelt, Theodore

(Encyclopedia) Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858–1919, 26th President of the United States (1901–9), b. New York City. Alice, his daughter by his first wife, married Nicholas Longworth in the White…