First the brainchild of local sports entrepreneur Dave Dixon, who also founded the Louisiana Superdome and the USFL, the Saints were actually secretly born in a backroom deal brought about by Congressman Hale Boggs, Senator Russell Long and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle.

* William A. Russell, US Congressman from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1885

Soon afterwards, 6th District Republican Congressman Henson Moore, announced that he was running for the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Russell B.

Contemporary politicians also attended the meeting, including Judge John M. Thurston, Senator Russell A. Alger, Congressman J. Sloat Fassett, Congressman W. E. Mason, John M. Langston, and Abraham Lincoln's successor in the Illinois State Legislature, A. J. Lester.

In early February 1892, Palmer and Patrick A. Collins, a former Democratic Massachusetts Congressman, agreed make Palmer the Democratic Presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governor William Russell, Collin ’ s personal and political friend, the Vice Presidential candidate.

Josh decides that he doesn't want Hoynes ( or current VP Bob Russell ) to be President, and instead convinces Texas Congressman Matt Santos to run for president, much in the same way Leo McGarry recruited Bartlet eight years prior.

However relationship between Josh and Will becomes considerably antagonistic during the ' 06 primaries when Josh became the campaign manager to Texas Congressman Matt Santos as Santos ran for the Democratic Nomination just as Will's candidate Vice President Bob Russell ran for the party's nomination.

" She named the college after her husband, Russell, who was a Congressman from New York.

The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, was awarded an NFL franchise on November 1, 1966, thanks to a combination of local activism ( most notably by David Dixon and by members of the local media, such as New Orleans States-Item sports editor Crozet Duplantier ) and political force ( Senator Russell Long and Congressman Hale Boggs, who made approval of the NFL-AFL merger conditional on the awarding of a franchise to New Orleans ).

They also sponsored a letter-writing campaign to Mayor Lindsay in which the Greenwich Village Democratic Party and Congressman Ed Koch sent pleas to end raids on gay bars in the city.

McVeigh also wrote to Congressman John J. LaFalce, complaining about the arrest of a woman for carrying mace:

Henry Hyde, who later became a U. S. Congressman, and Lou Barnett, who later became National Political Director of Ronald Reagan's Political Action Committee, also helped to found ALEC.

Congressman Paul on April 15, 2009, also advocated the use of letters of marque to address the issue of Somali pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden.

The younger son of Congressman Charles S. Dewey and his wife, Marie Suzette de Marigny Hall Dewey, and also a distant relative of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Dewey was born in Chicago.

Congressman Hal Rogers has also won Knott County's vote in recent years.

Sulligent is also the home of current University of North Alabama safety, Caleb Massey, and Hollis Bankhead ( 1842 – 1920 ), Confederate war hero, Congressman, and statesman.

Most of the village is in Illinois ' 3rd congressional district which is Represented by Congressman William Lipinski ( D-Chicago ); the area south of 115th Street and east of Harlem Avenue, and also between 114th Place and 115th Street from Harlem to Oak Park Avenue, is in the Illinois ' 1st congressional district which is Represented by Congressman Bobby Rush ( D-Chicago ).

Through the efforts of E. F. Faut and Congressman Bynum the name of the postoffice was changed from Sugar Creek to New Palestine on January 16, 1889, and the name of the railroad station and express office were also changed to New Palestine.

* Henry Washburn ( also known as Henry Dana Washburn ), Civil War general, U. S. Congressman, explorer, as surveyor-general of the Montana Territory he led first government survey of Yellowstone Park.

Hersey served as a U. S. Congressman from Maine, and also held title to of timberland in the St. Croix River valley.

* Wall Doxey ( August 8, 1892 – March 2, 1962 ), Mississippi Congressman, only United States Senator to have also served as the Senate Sergeant at Arms, Wall Doxey State Park named after him

Booneville is also the birthplace of former Congressman Travis W. Childers.

Congressman Richard Parks Bland and Missouri Governor Phil M. Donnelly also called the town home.

In 1980, the band was invited by former Congressman David O ’ Brien Martin to play in Washington, DC on the Capitol steps and also at the Lincoln Memorial.

* Congressman Samuel Powell, 1776 – 1841, was a Democratic-Republican Representative from Tennessee from 1815 – 17 ; he also served as a circuit judge in Rogersville.

Triplett was also a one time candidate opposing Congressman Rick Boucher for the Virginia's 9th Congressional District seat.

He also received word that Congressman Albert Thomas of Texas had been told that for the moment the President and Governor were still alive, which was the first report that gave any indication of their condition.

Flynt's investigation also claimed that Congressman Bob Barr, another Republican House manager, had an affair while married ; Barr had been the first lawmaker in either chamber to call for Clinton's resignation due to the Lewinsky affair.

Despite the spelling difference, the character ( played by Martin Sheen ), who is also a former governor and Congressman from New Hampshire, is a fictional direct descendant of the New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence.

* Conservative pundit and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough was also unsuccessfully recruited to enter the race.

In July 1981, the House Ethics Committee also chose not to file charges against Congressman Murtha, following a mostly party line vote.

Congressman Nick Begich was also presumed killed in the same accident.

They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

* 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

Late in 2005, Army Lt. Col. Kevin Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents.

Twenty years ago Michael Rogers would have had to persuade a newspaper or other media outlet to risk legal action by reporting his allegations about Congressman Ed Schrock.

Congressman Bill Shuster introduced a bill to this effect in 2006, but as of 2008, these awards had not been granted.

* May 22 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate, for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

Going into the convention, the two leading candidates for the nomination were former Congressman Bland, who had originated the Bland-Allison Act, and former Iowa Governor Horace Boies, with Bland considered the frontrunner.

Others, including Congressman Henry Hyde, had submitted amendments designed to seriously weaken the power of the Voting Rights Act.

Congressman Oakes Ames testified Garfield had purchased 10 shares of Crédit Mobiler stock for $ 1000, received accrued stock interest and $ 329 ( 33 per cent ) in dividends sometime between December 1867 and June 1868.

A printing press was established at New Echota by the Vermont missionary Samuel Worcester and Major Ridge's nephew Elias Boudinot, who had taken the name of his white benefactor, a leader of the Continental Congress and New Jersey Congressman.

Johnson's father had served six terms in the Texas legislature and was a close friend of one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman Sam Rayburn.

Republican Congressman W. R. Green, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, acknowledged that the statistics of the Bureau of Research of the American Farm Bureau that showed farmers had lost more than $ 300 million annually as a result of the tariff.

( Barbour had served as a U. S. Congressman from Virginia, Speaker of the House, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

< p align =" justify "> In 1991, potential owners, Dallas businessman Byron Pierce and U. S. Congressman John Bryant, became frustrated that the Texas League had no plans to expand into other Texas locations, and formed The Texas-Louisiana League.

Congressman Monga and Montiel had met with Bangladesh's Minister of Information Jamil Osman discussing media access for third world nations and receive advice in setting up a news station.

Congressman Martin Dies was investigating possible Communist influence in Hollywood in 1940 ; he in fact had a cordial meeting with Cagney.

The county was named for William Jones Lowndes ( 1782 – 1822 ), a prominent South Carolina lawyer and Congressman whose father, South Carolina Governor Rawlins Lowndes, had been a Revolutionary War leader.

Clinch County was created on February 14, 1850, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, and was named for General Duncan L. Clinch, a decorated United States brigadier general and Georgia Congressman who had recently died.

In 1974 East Grand Rapids came to national attention as the legal domicile of Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States, although, as a serving Congressman and Vice-President, Ford had, for all practical purposes, resided in the District of Columbia area for the previous twenty-five years.

The Post Office Department approved the new post office, but as the village had no name, Congressman Mann was to give it one.

In 2002, Lewis, by then a US Congressman from Georgia, returned to Rock Hill, where he had been invited as a speaker at Winthrop University and was given the key to the city.

" In response, Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated, " It took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-tech titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo had helped send to jail.

In his 1796 book, Congressman William Findley argued that Alexander Hamilton had deliberately provoked the Whiskey Rebellion.

El Circo ( the circus ) was a " shadow " of Chaplin's silent film, The Circus and Si yo fuera diputado (" If I Were a Congressman ") had many similarities with the 1940 film, The Great Dictator.