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3 days ago · Howard Hughes. Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist, and pilot. [2] He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then ...
1 day ago · A future chief justice, Charles Evans Hughes, called it the Court's "greatest self-inflicted wound". The decision involved the case of Dred Scott, an enslaved black man whose owners had taken him from Missouri, a slave-holding state, into Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was illegal.
May 1, 2024 · v. t. e. Woodrow Wilson 's tenure as the 28th president of the United States lasted from March 4, 1913, until March 4, 1921. He was largely incapacitated the last year and a half. He became president after winning the 1912 election. Wilson was a Democrat who previously served as governor of New Jersey.
4 days ago · Charles Evans Hughes, 2 vol. Merlo J. Pusey 1953 Edmund Pendleton, 1721–1803: A Biography, 2 vol. David J. Mays 1954 The Spirit of St. Louis Charles A. Lindbergh 1955 The Taft Story William S. White 1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Talbot Faulkner Hamlin 1957
May 1, 2024 · Provided photo. "My Native Air: Charles Evans Hughes and the Adirondacks" is a 43-minute documentary detailing the life of Charles Evans Hughes and his connections to the Adirondacks. Hughes was a ...
4 days ago · e. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for ...
3 days ago · Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As Senate Minority Leader from 1959 until his death in 1969, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s.
