Many of these people, like John Rees and Congressman Larry McDonald, were members of the World Anti-Communist League, the John Birch Society, and similar organizations.

Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement over the Kansas – Nebraska Act in three public speeches during September and October 1854.

* 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 ").

* 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 ").

* Tim Huelskamp, Congressman representing the Kansas ' 1st Congressional District.

In 1856, a South Carolina Congressman nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor two days after Sumner delivered an intensely anti-slavery speech called " The Crime against Kansas ".

His outspoken views in favor of abolitionism put him in danger, and upon the advice of " Congressman Craig and other friends " Chivington was persuaded to leave the Kansas Territory for the Nebraska Territory.

* Dudley Doolittle ( 1881-1957 ), American Congressman from Kansas, United States

* James Floyd Breeding, U. S. Congressman from Kansas

He has been recognized as a Congressman who is " not shy about earmarks ", and has brought many tax dollars back to Kansas City.

* 1855 – Reuben Fenton, Congressman who opposed the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 ; lost election that year.

He defeated Democratic Congressman Jim Slattery in the Republican sweeping elections of 1994 at the age of 41, and became one of the youngest Governors in Kansas history.

* Edmund Needham Morrill, Governor of Kansas and U. S. Congressman

Kline remained in the Kansas House until 2000, when he ran for election to the United States House of Representatives, seeking the Third District seat held by Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore.

Prominent traditionalists include former Michigan Governor John Engler, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, former U. S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, former Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, Michigan Congressmen Thaddeus McCotter and Dave Camp as well as Intercollegiate Studies Institute president T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr. journalist Rod Dreher, Catholic University of America Professor Claes G. Ryn, Kansas statesman Caleb Stegall, and author and Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society president Allan C. Carlson.

When the Kansas-Nebraska Act threatened to extend popular sovereignty into the newly created Kansas Territory, Eli Thayer, a second-term Congressman from Massachusetts, hatched the idea of an Emigrant Aid Company in the winter of 1853-4.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.

Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U. S. Congressman from Illinois ( 1962 – 1969 ), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity ( 1969 – 1970 ), Counsellor

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

KAL 007 was carrying 269 people, including 22 children under the age of 12, and a sitting U. S. Congressman Larry McDonald.

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.

The first known use of the term was by Congressman Davy Crockett, who said on the floor ( of the U. S. House of Representatives ) in 1835, " my people don't like me to log-roll in their business, and vote away pre-emption rights to fellows in other states that never kindle a fire on their own land.

Peckinpah's maternal grandfather was Denver Church, a cattle rancher, Superior Court judge and United States Congressman of a California district including Fresno County.

He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania, President of the Continental Congress, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Marshall's opponent in the general election was Republican Congressman James E. Watson, and the campaign focused on temperance and prohibition.

At the age of 17, with the help of his father, Grant was nominated by Congressman Thomas L. Hamer for a position at the United States Military Academy ( USMA ) at West Point, New York.

Former Congressman and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp was nominated by acclamation as Dole's running mate the following day.

They were attacked by Jones ' guards and Congressman Leo Ryan was killed.

Lincoln asked Massachusetts Congressman Oakes Ames, who was on the railroad committee, to clean things up and get the railroad moving.

The Navy Yard was spared permanent closure in 1912 by an impassioned plea from local Congressman Edwin W. Higgins of Norwich, who was worried about the loss of Federal spending in the region.

Among those who spoke against the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act was Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan.

In 1963 Congressman John Dowdy introduced a bill which resulted in congressional hearings to revoke the license for solicitation of funds of the Mattachine Society of Washington ; the license was not revoked.

The Congressman expected his new term would bring an appointment as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, but this was not to be, due largely to his emphatic position in favor of hard money, which did not reflect the House consensus.

Congressman Leo Ryan, a known critic of the CIA, was murdered by Peoples Temple members after he personally visited Jonestown to investigate various reported irregularities.

After serving for one term, he was ready to leave that office when the local US Congressman unexpectedly stepped down in 1959.

* Also in 1982, the Association of Federal Investigators honored Congressman Fountain for the second time in five years with an award for “ unstinting support for law enforcement and investigation, and for his outstanding career in public service to the American people .”

On February 26, 2009, in congressional remarks, Congressman Ed Whitfield ( R-KY ), solemnly recognized the 17th anniversary of the massacre at Khojaly, and honored the lives of those lost in this great tragedy.

* James Abercrombie, ( 1795 – 1861 ), United States Congressman from Alabama, resided here for a time.

* James Abercrombie, ( 1795 – 1861 ), United States Congressman from Alabama, resided here.

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.

* John Perkins Ralls, Confederate Congressman from Alabama, born in Greensboro

* Israel Pickens ( third governor of the state of Alabama and North Carolina Congressman, died 1827 )

* Benjamin Glover Shields, ( 1808 – 1850 ), born in Abbeville, was a United States Congressman from Alabama.

Both bills were sponsored by Democratic Senator Carter Glass of Lynchburg, Virginia, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Democratic Congressman Henry B. Steagall of Alabama, Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency.

William Bacon Oliver ( May 23, 1867 – May 27, 1948 ) was a Congressman from Alabama.

* John V. McDuffie, ( 1841 – 1896 ), born in Addison, United States Congressman from Alabama.

It further emerged that, as a Congressman, Riley signed a letter on behalf of the U. S. Family Network, opposing expansion of casino gambling in Alabama.

William Broad, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times ; John Boccieri former U. S. Congressman ; Ann Walsh Bradley, Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice ; Lloyd James Austin III, Army General ; Clarence Harmon, former Mayor and Chief of Police for St. Louis ; Roderick Royal former Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama ; and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

* John Murphy ( Alabama ) ( 1786 – 1841 ), American Democratic Governor and Congressman from Alabama

Under date of April 2, 1834, John Quincy Adams records in his diary that Congressman James Blair " shot himself last evening at his lodgings ... after reading part of an affectionate letter from his wife, to Governor Murphy, of Alabama, who was alone in the chamber with him, and a fellow-lodger at the same house.

Israel Pickens ( January 30, 1780 – April 24, 1827 ) was an American politician and lawyer, third Governor of the U. S. state of Alabama ( 1821 – 1825 ), member of the North Carolina Senate ( 1808 – 1810 ), and North Carolina Congressman in the United States House of Representatives ( 1811 – 1817 ).

In 1908, the Congressman from Alabama, Mr. Heflin, in describing both recently deceased Senators Edmund Pettus and John Tyler Morgan said the following, “ the ballot, that which represented privileges and powers for which the quick-witted Celt and the thoughtful Saxon had struggled a thousand years to achieve, was given in the twinkling of an eye to the unfit hordes of an inferior race.

* March 28 – Tom Bevill, former US Congressman from Alabama ( born 1921 )

* James Abercrombie ( Congressman ) ( 1795 – 1861 ), a U. S. Representative from Alabama

* 1990: Carl Elliott, Sr., United States Congressman from Jasper, Alabama

* John W. Abercrombie, United States Congressman from Alabama ( 1913 – 1917 ) and President of the University of Alabama ( 1902 – 1911 )

* Alexander White ( Alabama ), ( 1816-1893 ), U. S. Congressman from Alabama

His autobiography, The Cost of Courage: The Journey of An American Congressman, published in 1992, was recently reprinted by the University of Alabama Press.