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unusual facts about Fifty-second United States Congress



Alexander Kerr Craig

Craig successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Andrew Stewart to the Fifty-second Congress and served until his death in Claysville in 1892.

Apache Wars

Later, Apache children were taken to the Carlisle boarding school in Pennsylvania, where fifty of them died.

Arthur H. Taylor

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Arthur Lobb

He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election, and lost to Conservative Isaac Riley by fifty-nine votes in the constituency of Rockwood.

Augustus N. Martin

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Bene Ephraim

Since the 1980s, about fifty families around Kottareddipalem and Ongole (Head Quarters of the nearby district of Prakasam) have studied Judaism, learned Hebrew, and built a synagogue.

Cameca

Also in the early 1950s settles the company in the factory of Courbevoie, boulevard Saint-Denis where it will remain more than fifty years.

Capell L. Weems

Weems was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph J. Gill.

Capitol Films

Capitol Films was involved in the production of some fifty films, among them A Good Man in Africa, Death and the Maiden, Dancing at Lughnasa, Wilde, Gosford Park, Lucky Number Slevin and Elvis Has Left the Building.

Committee of Sixty

The Committee of Fifty was formed May 16, 1774 in response to the news that the port of Boston would be closed under the Boston Port Act.

Ebenezer J. Hill

Hill was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1913).

Edward H. Funston

He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Fifty-first Congress).

Elijah A. Morse

He served as chairman of the Committee on Alcohol Liquor Traffic (Fifty-fourth Congress).

Frederick Edward White

White took advantage of that backlash, and unseated Lacey, serving in the Fifty-second Congress.

Gaston A. Robbins

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1899, to March 8, 1900, when he was again succeeded by William F. Aldrich, who contested his election.

George E. White

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

George G. Gilbert

Gilbert was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907).

Harry Skinner

Skinner was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899), but in 1898 was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Henry Dickinson Green

Green was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Ermentrout.

Henry Wilbur Bentley

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress when Sherman defeated him and reclaimed his old seat.

Jacob D. Leighty

He served as a member of the State house of representatives from 1886 to 1888, and later was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1897).

Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon

She was born at Myrton Castle the now ruined castle a short distance from the present seat of the family, Monreith House, which was not built until fifty years later.

Je voudrais pas crever

In 2009, fifty years after Vian's death, a wave of books about him and his work as well as re-issues of his books (including no fewer than thirty-three Le Livre de poche editions) proved that Vian is more popular than ever, as the French magazine Le Point stated; one of the new books is a reissue of Je voudrais pas crever, illustrated by Jacques de Loustal and others.

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

In 1690, he left France for England, to work on painting decorations for Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, where he produced over fifty panels of fruit and flowers for overmantels and overdoors, some of which have survived at Boughton House, Northamptonshire.

John H. Gear

He was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House for the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1891.

John W. Cassingham

He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress.

Joseph V. Graff

He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-eighth Congresses).

Khutulun

Carlo Gozzi wrote his own version fifty years later, a stage play in which she was a “tigerish woman” of “unrelenting pride.” Friedrich Schiller translated and adapted the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China in 1801.

Louis Washington Turpin

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1889, to June 4, 1890, when he was succeeded by John V. McDuffie, who contested his election.

Malise mac Gilleain

There the forces were divided, fifty ships being sent south to the Mull of Kintyre to plunder.

Marino Auriti

Auriti settled in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania and there created his famed work which in 2013 served as the inspiration for director Massimiliano Gioni's main curated pavilion on at the fifty fifth edition of the Venice Biennale.

Mark Sandrich

However, while all these were hits, it is Holiday Inn in 1942 starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, with music by Irving Berlin, that is most remembered today, for it introduced the song "White Christmas" performed by the crooner Crosby which remained the biggest selling popular song for fifty-two years.

Martin L. Smyser

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress.

Nathan T. Hopkins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-seventh Congress in 1900.

Oklahoma City Crosstown Expressway

Constructed nearly fifty years ago, Interstate 40 (I-40) stretches from Wilmington, North Carolina to Barstow, California.

Owens Valley Indian War

As Evans' and Mayfield's force marched north, Evans' scouts reported that Lieutenant Noble with fifty men of Company A, 2nd Cavalry, from Fort Churchill on their way south to Putnam's Store were nearby.

Rebecca Welles

Active from 1951 to 1964, Welles made appearances on about fifty TV shows, including 77 Sunset Strip, Boots and Saddles, Bat Masterson, Alcoa Theatre, and four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Rolando Masferrer

In December, 1960, the Miami Herald, reported that Masferrer was leading a small group of fifty three people who were polishing their killing skills at a ranch owned by multi-millionaire Howard Hughes.

Rudolph Kleberg

He was reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served from April 7, 1896, to March 3, 1903.

Sol M. Wurtzel

Wurtzel eventually became involved in production and between 1932 and 1949 he produced more than one hundred and fifty-nine films including a large number of both the Charlie Chan and Mr Moto series as well as other successes such as Bright Eyes in 1934, starring Shirley Temple and featuring her enduring trademark song: "On The Good Ship Lollipop".

Steve Jay

He has scored more than fifty nationally broadcast PBS specials and series episodes, including three George Foster Peabody Award winners, and contributed to several feature films.

Stinson Model A

On the morning of 31 January 1945 Tokana was on the Essendon to Kerang leg of its regular service when the port wing separated in flight between Redesdale and Heathcote, fifty miles north of Melbourne.

The Rainbird Pattern

The novel was adapted by writer Ernest Lehman into the film Family Plot, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, becoming his fifty-third and final motion picture.

Thomas J. Geary

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Tokyo Opera City Tower

The fifth through fifty-second floors are devoted to office space; the building's best-known tenants are NTT East Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.

University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore was entrusted territorial jurisdiction over 15 southern districts of Karnataka comprising nearly fifty percent of the total area of the state, while the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, was given jurisdiction over the remaining area in the northern districts of the state.

William F. L. Hadley

Hadley was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick Remann and served from December 2, 1895, to March 3, 1897.

William H. Brawley

He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, and served from March 4, 1891, until February 12, 1894, when he resigned to accept a position on the bench.


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