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2007 NBA betting scandal

On July 27, U.S. Congressman Bobby Rush of Illinois, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, asked to meet with Stern regarding the Donaghy matter.

Bangor Public Library

In 1883, former U.S. Congressman and lumber baron Samuel F. Hersey left the City of Bangor a $100,000 bequest, which the city used to form a municipally owned public library.

Ed Ableser

Ableser was appointed to fill the state Senate term of former state Senator (now U.S. Congressman) Harry Mitchell and subsequently ran successfully for the Arizona House of Representatives.

Germanton, North Carolina

American Revolutionary War Major Joseph Winston and later U.S. Congressman was a famous Germanton resident with a plantation nearby.

Insanity defense

This defense was first used by U.S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

Jimmy Kemp

He is the brother of former NFL quarterback Jeff Kemp and the son of the late American Football League Most Valuable Player and U.S. Congressman Jack Kemp.

McArthur Court

The arena is named for Clifton N. (Pat) McArthur, U. S. Congressman and Oregon student-athlete and the school's first student body president.

Micah Naftalin

Before joining UCSJ, he served as an aide to U.S. Congressman Carl Elliott, as Chief Counsel and Deputy Director of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Government Research and as a senior policy analyst with the National Academy of Sciences.

Mildred Barnes Bliss

Bliss was born in New York City on September 9, 1879, the daughter of U.S. Congressman Demas Barnes (1827–1888), and Anna Dorinda Blaksley Barnes (1851–1935).

Robby Wells

The Constitution Party nomination was won on the first ballot by former U.S. Congressman Virgil Goode.

Shelley Morrison

She endorsed U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich for President in 2008, actively fundraising, contributing to his campaign, and seeking votes for him.

Thomas Anthony Thacher

His sons Sherman Day Thacher and William Larned Thacher were the founder of the Thacher School in Ojai, California; and his daughter Elizabeth Sherman Thacher married William Kent (U.S. Congressman).

Vinegar Bend, Alabama

Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell, Major League Baseball pitcher and U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, was born across the state line in Mississippi but the family's residence was on the Vinegar Bend, AL mail route therefore Vinegar Bend was recorded as his birthplace and he was nicknamed for the community.

William Lincoln Higgins

William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957) was a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut.

William P. Bolton

William P. Bolton (July 2, 1885 – November 22, 1964) was a one-term U.S. Congressman who represented the second district of Maryland from 1949 to 1951 until defeated by Republican Navy Cross recipient, General James Devereux.


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Abraham Venable

Abraham B. Venable (1758–1811), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia

Alan Nunnelee

In 2011, U.S. Congressman Nunnelee became a co-sponsor of Bill H.R.3261 otherwise known as the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Allyson Schwartz

Pittsburgh-area U.S. Congressman Ron Klink won the crowded, six-candidate Democratic primary with a plurality of 41% of the vote.

Amo, Indiana

On June 3, 2000, U.S. Congressman and Gubernatorial candidate David M. McIntosh presented the finalized Seal to the Amo Town Board during the Amo Annual Fish Fry.

Anthony Foriest

In March 2012, Foriest filed to run in the newly redrawn North Carolina's 6th congressional district, held by Republican U.S. Congressman Howard Coble.

Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

When officials revealed in 1995 that the Grace Bridge scored a 4 out of 100 for safety and integrity, retired U.S. Congressman Arthur Ravenel, Jr. ran for the South Carolina Senate with a goal of solving the funding problem.

Betsy Markey

She later went on to work for U.S. Congressman Herbert Harris (D-VA) as a Caseworker/Legislative Assistant on one of the Congressman’s subcommittees.

Charles Calvert

Charles Benedict Calvert (1808–1864), U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland

Charles Taft

Charles Phelps Taft (1843–1929), U.S. Congressman from Ohio and brother of President William Howard Taft

Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center

The center was renamed in honor of the late Charlie Norwood (1941–2007), a former dentist and U.S. congressman from Georgia who died in office.

Chuck Purgason

Purgason was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senate in 2010 losing the Republican primary to then-U.S. Congressman Roy Blunt.

Crumpacker

Maurice E. Crumpacker (1886–1927), Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon

Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics

Speakers have included U.S. Congressman Artur Davis, atmospheric scientist John Christy, medical ethics expert Gregory Pence, Vermont Law School's environmental center director Michael Dworkin, John Nyman, Larry Palmer, and law professors, entrepreneurs and other experts.

Dan Lipinski

He served in that same capacity for U.S. Congressman George E. Sangmeister from 1993 to 1995.

Doc Long

George S. Long (1883–1958), U.S. Congressman (1953–1958) and member of the Long political dynasty from Louisiana

Clarence Long (1908–1994), U.S. Congressman (1963–1985) from Maryland

Elizabeth Price Foley

Foley was a Senior Legislative Aide for health policy to U.S. Congressman Ron Wyden of Oregon and Legislative Aide to U.S. Congressman Michael A. Andrews of Texas.

Embassy of Tajikistan in Washington, D.C.

Past occupants of the home include U.S. Congressman John Dalzell.

Henry Bartlett

Steve Bartlett (Harry Steven Bartlett, born 1947), businessman and former U.S. congressman

Instant messaging

The topic of inappropriate IM use became front page news in October 2006 when U.S. Congressman Mark Foley resigned his seat after admitting sending offensive instant messages of a sexual nature to underage former House pages from his Congressional office PC.

James Duffy

James P.B. Duffy (1878–1969), former U.S. Congressman from New York

James Hare

James Butler Hare (1918–1966), U.S. Congressman from South Carolina

Joseph O'Brien

Joseph J. O'Brien (1897–1953), former U.S. congressman from New York

Justin F. Kimball High School

Steve Bartlett (1966) — U.S. Congressman (1983-1991), Mayor of Dallas (1991-1995)

Kirk Adams

He ran for the Republican nomination in 2012 for Congress in Arizona's 5th congressional district and was defeated by former U.S Congressman, Rep. Matt Salmon.

Lex Frieden

Frieden's service in the 1970s included membership on a Congressional task force on science, technology and disability empaneled by Olin E. ("Tiger") Teague (1910–1981), U.S. Congressman from Texas.

Linney

Romulus Zachariah Linney (1841–1910), Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina 1895–1901

Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1928

Consisting of wealthy planters, businessmen, and New Orleans's Regular Democratic Organization political bosses, the political leadership of the state united behind the candidacy of U.S. Congressman Riley J. Wilson of Ruston in July 1927.

Mahmud Karzai

Mahmud Karzai is closely connected to the Kabul Bank scandal and former U.S. Congressman Donald L. Ritter, a conservative, Jewish-American, Republican from Pennsylvania, widely criticized and scrutinized for supporting big business interests allegedly involved with serious environmental degradation, toxic waste,pollution and global warming.

Nuclear activities in Brazil

The first proposal for a joint Brazilian-Argentine safeguards system was presented in 1977 by then-U.S. Congressman Paul Findley during a press conference in Washington.

Patman

Wright Patman (1893–1976), U.S. Congressman from Texas and chair of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency (1965–75)

Paul Henry

Paul B. Henry (1942–1993), U.S. Congressman and political scientist

Primus Green Energy

Several notable New Jersey politicos, including former Governor James Florio, U.S. Congressman Leonard Lance, Board of Public Utilities Commissioner Joseph Fiordaliso and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Assistant Commissioner Robert Marshall, spoke at the dedication ceremony, and the ceremony also marked the first time that 93-octane gasoline produced via Primus’ STG+ process was used to fuel the test drive of a car.

Ralph Scott

Ralph James Scott (1905–1983), Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina

S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace

In 2009, it was announced that U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler (D-Florida) would become president of the Center after resigning from the House of Representatives.

Sempronius

Sempronius H. Boyd, U.S. Congressman from Missouri and U.S. Civil War Colonel.

Sherman E. Burroughs

Sherman Everett Burroughs, Sr., (1870–1923), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire

Susan Polis Schutz

Susan Polis Schutz (born Susan Polis; May 23, 1944) is an American poet and producer of greeting cards and the mother of U.S. Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado.

The Body in the Seine

What makes The Body in the Seine interesting to collectors of Broadway cast albums is the theatrical performers assembled for the recording, including Alice Pearce, George S. Irving, Barbara Ashley and future U.S. Congressman, Jim Symington.

Thomas S. Hammond

His grandfather was Brig. Gen. John Hammond, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U.S. Congressman from New York.

TWA Flight 514

U.S. Congressman Andy Jacobs was almost on the flight, but elected not to pay the $20 seat upgrade charge and decided to take another flight back to Washington.

United States Senate election in Texas, 1996

Morales, who never ran for public office before, pulled a major upset in the primary by defeated three politicians: U.S. Congressman John Wiley Bryant, U.S. Congressman Jim Chapman, and former State Supreme Court litigator John Odam.

Vernon Parker

On January 29, 2010, Parker announced he was running for Congress in Arizona's 3rd congressional district, aiming to succeed retiring U.S. Congressman John Shadegg.

Warren H. Carroll

During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz.

William Brewster

William K. Brewster (born 1941), Democratic politician and a retired U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma

William F. Knox

In 1917, he formed a law partnership with William S. Moorhead, who later served as a U.S. Congressman from 1959 to 1981.

William Harvey Gibson

Among Gibson's early schoolmates were Anson Burlingame (diplomat), Consul Wilshire Butterfield (author and historian), O. D. Conger (U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator from Michigan), and Charles Foster (35th Governor of Ohio and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury).

Zury Ríos Montt

Although her current husband, former U.S. Congressman Jerry Weller, introduced her to the United States under this combined parental surname, she is nowadays best known in her home country as Zury Ríos Montt, using her father's double surname; on her personal web page she styles herself Ríos-Montt de Weller.