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Absalom Willis ROBERTSON, Congress, VA (1887-1971)
Senate Years of Service: 1946-1966 Party: Democrat ROBERTSON Absalom Willis , a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, W.Va., May 27, 1887; moved to…Duncan Upshaw FLETCHER, Congress, FL (1859-1936)
Senate Years of Service: 1909-1936 Party: Democrat FLETCHER Duncan Upshaw , a Senator from Florida; born near Americus, Sumter County, Ga., January 6, 1859; moved with his parents to Monroe County…Walt Whitman: As Consequent, Etc.
As Consequent, Etc.As consequent from store of summer rains, Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing, Or many a herb-lined brook's reticulations, Or subterranean sea-rills making for the sea,…Federalist No. 12
No 11 No 13 The Utility of the Union In Respect to Revenue From the New York Packet.Tuesday, November 27, 1787.Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: THE…State of the Union Address: James Monroe (December 12, 1817)
James Monroe (December 12, 1817) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous…Reckoning with Slavery
Edward Ball received the National Book Award for Slaves in the Family, an exploration of the shared experience of masters and slaves in his family's plantation past. But the book is only the…Louise Driscoll: Harbury
HarburyLouise DriscollAll the men of Harbury go down to the sea in ships, The wind upon their faces, the salt upon their lips.The little boys of Harbury when they are laid to sleep, Dream of…Walt Whitman: O Magnet-South
O Magnet-SouthO magnet-south! O glistening perfumed South! my South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me! O dear to me my birth-things—all moving…Theodore Elijah BURTON, Congress, OH (1851-1929)
Senate Years of Service: 1909-1915; 1928-1929 Party: Republican; Republican BURTON Theodore Elijah , a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, December…Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 11
Part 11You whoever you are! You daughter or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-…