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Sheldon WHITEHOUSE, Congress, RI (1955)

Senate Years of Service: 2007- Party: Democrat WHITEHOUSE Sheldon , a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Manhattan, N.Y., October 20, 1955; graduated Yale University 1978; J.D., University of…

Hardie SCOTT, Congress, PA (1907-1999)

SCOTT Hardie , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pa., June 7, 1907; graduated from Taft School, Watertown, Conn., 1926, from Yale University, New Haven, Conn…

Janet Yellen

Janet Yellen is an economist who has served as chairman of the Federal Reserve and is President Joseph Biden's Secretary of the Treasury. Janet Yellen is a 1967 graduate of Brown University, and she…

Edmund Fitzgerald

Edmund Fitzgerald of Wisconsin wasn’t as famous as his name became, thanks to the 1975 sinking of a ship named after him. The tragedy inspired a 1976 hit song by Gordon Lightfoot, the ballad, “The…

Sinclair Lewis

Name at birth: Harry Sinclair LewisNovelist Sinclair Lewis was the first writer from the United States to win the Nobel Prize in literature, on the strength of his novels satirizing the hypocrisy and…

David Wu Biography

David WuU.S. CongressmanBorn: 1955Birthplace: Taiwan Wu moved to the United States with his family when he was a boy. He earned B.S. from Stanford University in 1977, attended Harvard Medical…

Anita Hill Biography

Anita Hill lawyer, educator, author, activistBorn: 7/30/1956Birthplace: Lone Tree, Okla.   Hill received her law degree from Yale University, and after a stint at the Equal Employment Opportunity…

Camille Paglia Biography

Camille Pagliawriter, social criticBorn: 4/2/1947Birthplace: Endicott, N.Y. Paglia graduated from Harpur College of the State University of New York at Binghamton and earned a Ph.D. in…

John YARMUTH, Congress, KY (1947)

YARMUTH John , a Representative from Kentucky; born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., November 4, 1947; graduated from J. M. Atherton High School, Louisville, Ky., 1965; B.A., Yale University…

Richard ZIMMER, Congress, NJ (1944)

ZIMMER Richard , a Representative from New Jersey; born in Newark, N.J., August 16, 1944; B.A., Yale University, 1966; L.L.B., Yale Law School, 1969; practiced law in New York City, 1969-1975, and…