The Strangest Names In American Political History

Portrait from the Perquimans Weekly, May 17, 1940.     A member of one of Gates County, North Carolina's most distinguished famil...

Portrait from the History of Stanislaus County, California, 1921.    Today's write-up highlights the life of Esto Bates Broughton...

Portrait courtesy of http://kt.iayorkrite.org.      An attorney and Masonic leader in Clinton County, Iowa, Pitkin Cowles Wright wa...

Portrait from the Richmond Post-Dispatch, December 13, 1904.    Following up on July 16th's profile of Virginia state delegate Mo...

 Moncure W. Camper.     A newspaper publisher based in both Virginia and Alabama, Moncure Woodson Camper was affiliated with journali...

From the Breckinridge News, July 14, 1909.                                 We conclude our stay in Kentucky with a lo ok at the life...

Portrait from a Buky campaign card.    We continue our stay in Kentucky for a look at the life of two-term state representative Falli...

Portrait from the History of Kentucky, Vol. IV, 1922.    Kentucky yields another odd-named public figure in Farmer Johnson Eversole, ...

Portrait courtesy of the Kentucky State Historical Society.    After several years of being a state that has been sadly underrepresen...

                                                           Portrait courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society .   One of the more humo...

Portrait courtesy of the Legislative Reference Library of Pennsylvania.    Acknowledged as one of 19th century Pennsylvania's pro...