The Strangest Names In American Political History

From "The City of New Brunswick; Its History, Its Homes, Its Industries", 1908.   Tunis Van Doren Hoagland was a 19th-century carp...

Portrait courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.    Two-term U.S. Representative Jeromus Johnson can rightly be labeled as an "old guar...

Portrait courtesy of the Library of Congress.   Six-term U.S. Representative Anning Smith Prall received a brief mention in April 8th...

From the Buffalo News, October 6, 1938.     Two-term U.S. Representative Pius Louis Schwert is profiled today, and it is worth noting that ...

                                  The Honorable Arphaxed Loomis, who finally has a picture!!!!!      One of the best things about this p...