In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".

On March 6, 2006, US Congressman Ron Paul stated the following:

In January 2009, Adams attended the United States presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama as a guest of US Congressman Richard Neal.

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

* Barnes Compton, US Congressman

* US Congressman James Traficant was expelled from the House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.

In 1981, following the election of US President Ronald Reagan, aid for the mujahideen through Zia's Pakistan significantly increased, mostly due to the efforts of Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA officer Gust Avrakotos.

The first of these incriminating videos showed Montesinos bribing a Congressman with US $ 15, 000 to switch to Fujimori's camp.

* William Horton Bower, US Congressman

* Jim Broyhill, US Congressman and US Senator

It was named in honor of Garrett Davis, a Congressman from Kentucky from March 4, 1839, till March 3, 1847, and later a US Senator from Kentucky.

* Sam Cook ( 1860 – 1946 ), Served as a US Congressman

Although McCall himself did not make any negative attacks, his close supporter, US Congressman Charles B. Rangel, stated that the McCall camp would not necessarily endorse Cuomo in the general election should the latter win.

The New York City Parks Department, the Holocaust Park Committee and the Jasenovac Research Institute, with the help of US Congressman Anthony Weiner, established a public monument to the victims of Jasenovac in April 2005 ( the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the camps.

* Ansel Sterling was a US Congressman from Connecticut.

* Nathan Belcher ( 1813 – 1891 ), lawyer, Connecticut state Senator, and US Congressman was born in Preston.

* Isaac E. Crary ( 1804 – 1854 ), the first elected US Congressman from the state of Michigan was born in Preston.

* George A. Starkweather ( 1794 – 1879 ), US Congressman for New York was born in Preston.

* Henry H. Starkweather ( 1826 – 1876 ), postmaster and US Congressman was born in Preston.

* William Strong ( 1808 – 1895 ), US Congressman from Pennsylvania and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States was born in Somers.

* Moses G. Leonard ( 1809 – 1899 ), US Congressman for New York was born in town.

* Erasmus D. Peck ( 1808 – 1876 ), US Congressman for Ohio was born in town.

* Orrin Holt ( 1792 – 1855 ), US Congressman was born and died in town.

* Simon Larned ( 1753 – 1817 ), Revolutionary War captain, War of 1812 colonel and US Congressman for Massachusetts ; born in Thompson

* 1977 – Nominee, the Nobel Peace Prize, by US Representative Les Aspin.

The art collection of 21 paintings auctioned by François Curiel, President of Christie's Europe, raised US $ 350, 000 for the children of Les P ' tits Cracks, a Parisian association dedicated to caring for children with cancer.

From 1936 he held the classes at his summer home in Les Baux in Provence, the forerunner of the school he later set up in the US.

While her singles were mostly kept in the then-current sounds of the day such as Rock And Roll, novelty songs, the Twist, torch ballads, or the Girl Group Sound created by Brill Building alumni Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Francis ' albums represented her in a variety of styles, ranging in everything from R & B, vocal jazz and country to Broadway standards, children's music, waltzes, spiritual music, Schlager music, Traditionals from various ethnic groups represented in the US and select songs from popular songwriters of the day, such as Burt Bacharach & Hal David, or Les Reed.

Factory branched out, with Factory Benelux being run as an independent label in conjunction with Les Disques du Crepuscule, and Factory US organising distribution for the UK label's releases in America.

* 1958 – Les Baxter ( US ) in album Space Escapade ( 1958 ) video

* 2010 – Les Fradkin ( US ) from album Hyper Midi Guitar ( 2010 )

* Les hommes protégés ( 1974 )-Published in US as The Virility Factor ( 1977 )

Holbrooke then moved to the US Embassy, Saigon where he became a staff assistant to Ambassadors Maxwell Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. During this time, he served with many other young diplomats who would play a major role in American foreign policy in the decades ahead, including John Negroponte, Anthony Lake, Frank G. Wisner, Les Aspin and Peter Tarnoff.

The rest of the films Cohl made for Gaumont involve strange transformations (" Les Joyeaux Microbes " Joyous Microbes ", aka " The Merry Microbes " ( UK ) ( 1909 )), some great matte effects (" Clair de lune espagnol " Moonlight ", aka " The Man in the Moon " ( US ), aka " The Moon-Struck Matador " ( UK ) ( 1909 )), and loving puppet animation (" Le Tout Petit Faust " Little Faust ", aka " The Beautiful Margaret " ( US ) ( 1910 )).

Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.

The body was styled by Gerry Coker, with subsequent alterations by Les Ireland following Coker's emigration to the US in 1957.

On October 1, 2008, the Conservation Law Foundation ( CLF ), along with Dr. Erica Fuller and Dr. Les Watling, petitioned the US NMFS for the protection of the Atlantic wolffish under the ESA.

In France, where the series ( known locally as Les Mystères de l ' Ouest ) was a big hit, all four seasons were released in a DVD boxed set before their US release.

* Bolero, US title of the French film Les Uns et les Autres ( 1981 )

* Les Nocturnes, night-time broadcast on US music

His latest book, The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology, was published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada in 2003, Routledge in the US and Les Éditions Logiques in Québec in 2004.

This line-up toured the US in support of Out Hud in Spring, System of a Down, The Mars Volta, Les Claypool, and Dillinger Escape Plan in the fall as well as numerous headlining dates in the U. S. as well as visits to Japan, Spain and the UK.

Disc jockeys and the public immediately took to " Signs " ( written by Les Emmerson ); it reached # 4 in Canada, # 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and went to # 1 in Australia for nearly 2 months.

Models of electric guitar included the Hagström 1, the H series ( h II, h III, h II N ), the Swede ( Originally called The Hagström LP, or Les Paul, due to the instrument's resemblance to the popular Les Paul manufactured by Gibson Guitars ), the Super Swede, the Impala, the Corvette ( called the Condor in the US ), the Viking, the Swede Patch 2000 ( one of the first synthesizer guitars ) and the Jimmy ( named for Jimmy D ' Aquisto, a respected New York luthier brought in by Hagström to design the guitar ).