Individual Biography, A-Z.
08/19/2008
Dean Gooderham Acheson
Secretary of State, 1949-1953
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
U.S. Senator and historian
Hattie Wyatt Caraway
first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
Carl Trumbull Hayden
the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate in history
Clare Boothe Luce
the first American woman to serve in a major diplomatic post
Fontaine Maury Maverick
Congressman
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Congressman
Jeannette Rankin
the first woman to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress
Samuel Taliafero Rayburn
the longest serving member of the House of Representatives in history
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
businessman, Governor of New York, Vice-President
Harry Hines Woodring
Governor of Kansas and U.S. Secretary of War
The Robinson Library
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History: America.
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United States.
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Early Twentieth Century, 1900-1961.