Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois believed it was advisable that the bill should be introduced by an eastern congressman, and two months later Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont introduced his bill.

The NPR was organized by United States Army Col. Frank Kowalski ( later a U. S. congressman ) using Army surplus equipment.

It was named in honor of Daniel Morgan ( 1736 – 1802 ), an American Revolutionary War officer who commanded the troops that defeated the British at the Battle of Cowpens and who later served as a U. S. congressman from Virginia.

Union County was home to many notable jurists in its early history, including John F. Kinney, who practiced in Union County in 1836 and eventually became a supreme court justice in Iowa and later a congressman from Utah.

Prattsville was later named after Zadock Pratt, a congressman and prominent citizen.

* William H. Bissell, born in Hartwick in 1811, later congressman and governor in Illinois.

She was also the great-granddaughter on her father's side of Oakes Ames ( 1804 – 1873 ), an industrialist and congressman who was impeached in the Crédit Mobilier railroad scandal of 1872 ; and Governor-General of New Orleans Benjamin Franklin Butler, an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts.

* Thomas Ryan, born in Oxford, NY who later became a congressman from Kansas.

A hero of the American Revolution, he later served as a member of the New York Assembly ( 1792 – 1793 ) and as a congressman in the U. S. House of Representatives ( 1793 – 1794 ) from that district.

During his second term in the House, O ' Neill was selected to the House Rules Committee where he proved a crucial asset for the Democratic leadership, particularly his mentor, fellow Boston congressman and later Speaker, John William McCormack.

After graduating second in his class, he read law in Marblehead under Samuel Sewall, then a congressman and later chief justice of Massachusetts.

He served as a member from the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1983 and then later a member of the Republican Party until the end of his tenure as congressman.

After the death of publisher Ogden Mills Reid in 1947, the Herald Tribune, despite some star writers and columnists, went into a decline under his widow, Helen Rogers Reid, and sons, Whitelaw Reid II and Ogden R. Reid ( later a congressman ).

" One leader of the FSM, Jackie Goldberg, reflecting back on 1964 years later decried Glazer and his ilk for espousing " an armchair intellectual liberalism " and viewing " protesting " as nothing more than sending a letter to one's congressman.

George Thomas " Mickey " Leland ( November 27, 1944 – August 7, 1989 ) was an anti-poverty activist who later became a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.

* Gerry Studds, who later served as U. S. congressman from Massachusetts

Tierney later stated that he would not contest the Senate seat and would instead seek a ninth term as congressman.

The other contenders were Democrats Jim Wright, a congressman from Fort Worth and a future U. S. House Speaker, 171, 328 ( 16. 2 percent ), state Attorney General Will Wilson ( who later became a Republican and served in the Nixon Justice Department ), 121, 961 ( 11. 5 percent ), former state representative and liberal lawyer Maury Maverick, Jr., of San Antonio, 104, 922 ( 9. 9 percent ), and then state Senator ( and future Congressman ) Henry B. Gonzalez, also of San Antonio, 97, 659 ( 9. 2 percent ).

The next Republican congressman from the state came eighty years later, Prentiss Walker of Mize in Smith County, who served a single term from 1965 to 1967.

He was very narrowly defeated — by only 273 votes — by State Senator Lloyd Doggett of Austin, who was later a long-term Democratic congressman.

Four years later, at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Johnson would again ask Rostenkowski to take the podium, but this time the results proved costly to the young congressman ’ s future in Washington.

Lagomarsino, a native of Ventura County, served as mayor of Ojai in 1958, as a state senator from 1961 – 1974, and later, as a United States congressman from 1974 to 1992.

During his time at Stanford University, he was the protégé of Allard Lowenstein, a political organizer who would later serve one term as a congressman from New York.

Lleras is elected to the state senate of Cundinamarca, and later MP as congressman in the House of Representatives.

James Wallace Robinson was a native of Union County and went onto become a U. S. congressman in 1872.

Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1814, the grandson of congressman James Cochran, Dobbin attended Fayetteville Academy and the William Bingham School and later went on to graduate from the University of North Carolina in 1832.

Wilmer David " Vinegar Bend " Mizell ( August 13, 1930 – February 21, 1999 ) was an American left-handed pitcher in major league baseball who went on to serve three terms as a Republican U. S. congressman from North Carolina between 1969 and 1975.

He went on to found the liberal Constitutional Party, and was elected as congressman in ( 1912 ).

They enlisted the help of the New Jersey congressman, who has been able to trace the letters to the national archives, where they are available on microfilm.

Ignatius L. Donnelly, American congressman, and writer on Atlantis.

Pressured by media coverage, congressman Dan Glickman called for an investigation and began work on new laws against computer hacking.

For example, when a vote on behalf of a tariff is traded by a congressman for a vote from another congressman on behalf of an agricultural subsidy to ensure that both acts will gain a majority and pass through the legislature, logrolling occurs ( Shughart 2008 ).

" He also blamed tobacco companies for lying to consumers about cigarettes, although congressman Ron Paul ( also a physician ) had advised him, in 1988, while on his show, that smoking was highly unhealthy and responsible for a huge number of deaths every year.

On December 4, formal investigation hearings headed by congressman Andrew J. Volstead started on Daugherty.

The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States congressman from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896.

A Michigan State Police raid on Detroit's Deutsches Haus once netted the mayor, the sheriff, and the local congressman.

The southeastern part of the Strait of Tartary was the site of one of the tensest incidents of the Cold War, when on September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people including a sitting U. S. congressman, Larry McDonald, strayed into the Soviet air space and was attacked by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor just west of Sakhalin Island.

He was a congressman on the Spanish Parliament when he was assassinated.

Democratic congressman Charlie Wilson became obsessed with the Afghan cause, and was able to leverage his position on the House Appropriations committees to encourage other Democratic congressmen to vote for CIA Afghan war money, with the tacit approval of Democratic party House leader Tip O ' Neill, even as the Democratic party lambasted Reagan for the CIA's secret war in Central America.

Former Illinois congressman and House Republican party minority leader Bob Michel caused a minor stir in 1988, when on the USA Today television program he fondly recalled minstrel shows in which he had participated as a young man and expressed his regret that they had fallen out of fashion.

The city was named for William O. Butler, U. S. congressman from the area ( 1839 – 43 ), when it was incorporated on February 1, 1868.

Dirksen's penchant for changing his mind during his days as a congressman was noted by the Chicago Sun-Times, which once noted that he had changed his mind 62 times on foreign policy matters, 31 times on military affairs, and 70 times on agricultural policies.

The city was named for William O. Butler, U. S. congressman from the area ( 1839 – 43 ), when it was incorporated on February 1, 1868.

* David Minge ( 1942 –), Former 2nd District congressman ( 1993 – 2001 ) and current judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Valentine is named for Edward K. Valentine, who as a congressman from Nebraska, was the chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture during his six years in office ( 1879 – 1885 ).

A dedication ceremony was held on August 21, 2006, by local congressman John Murtha Total costs of the system is $ 10 million dollars and took 14 years.

A dedication ceremony was held on August 21, 2006, by local congressman John Murtha Total costs of the system is $ 10 million dollars and took 14 years.

A dedication ceremony was held on August 21, 2006, by local congressman John Murtha Total costs of the system is $ 10 million dollars and took 14 years.