Records of the U.S. Senate. 1789 - 2015. Committee Papers. 1885 - 2011. S. 277, A Bill to Authorize the Establishment of the National African American Museum Within the Smithsonian Institution

Dodd, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1944-

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Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Connecticut's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981 and as U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history. Born in Willimantic, Connecticut, he graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College before serving ...

Moseley-Braun, Carol, 1947-

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Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and served as Cook County Recorder of Deeds from 1988 to 1992. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 after defeating Senator Alan Dixon in a Democratic primary. Moseley Braun ser...

Deconcini, Dennis

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Simon, Paul, 1928-2003

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U.S. Senator, Congressman, presidential candidate, Illinois lieutenant governor and member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois State Senate, author. Bought a newspaper in Troy, Ill. when he was 19 and eventually owned 14 newspapers. Authored books on Elijah Lovejoy and Abraham Lincoln as well as issues like world hunger and the environment. After retiring from the senate he founded the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he taught and con...