The Strangest Names In American Political History

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Showing posts with label U.S. Representatives from Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. Representatives from Ohio. Show all posts
Friday, September 4, 2015

Capell Lane Weems (1860-1913)

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Portrait courtesy of the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County.    Multi-term Ohio Congressman Capell Lane Weems takes ...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Calvary Morris (1798-1871)

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Portrait from the "Athens Home Coming Reunion", published 1904.    The state of Ohio has lucked into the good fortune of be...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Philadelph Van Trump (1810-1874)

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A daguerreotype of Van Trump taken during his tenure in Congress.   Born in Lancaster, Ohio (not Philadelphia as most would think) ...

Eleutheros Cooke (1787-1864)

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    This interestingly named gentleman is Eleutheros Cooke, a one-term U.S. Representative from Ohio during the Jacksonian Era. During t...
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