Congressman Frank Horton Distinguished Speaker Series (Rochester, N.Y.) collection, 1989-1995.

Cheney, Richard B. (Richard Bruce), 1941-

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Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He has been cited as the most powerful vice president in American history. He is also one of the most unpopular politicians in the history of the US, holding an approval rating of just 13% at the time of leaving office. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cheney grew up there and later in Casper, Wyoming. He attended Yale and then the Univ...

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...

Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991

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James Chipman Fletcher, born 5 June 1919, in Millburn, New Jersey, attended high school in New York City and received a B.A. in physics from Columbia University in 1940. He served as a research physicist with the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance, and in 1941 became a special research associate at the Cruf Laboratory of Harvard University. He went to Princeton University in 1942 as a teaching fellow and later was an instructor and research physicist. Under an Eastman Kodak fe...

Rochester Institute of Technology. Student Government,

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The Congressman Frank Horton Distinguished Speaker Series was started in honor of Frank Jefferson Horton, a Representative from New York from 1963-1993. Originally born in Texas, Horton earned his LL.B. from Cornell University in 1947. He began practicing law in New York and served on the Rochester city council from 1955-1961. In 1963, he was elected to Congress and served for 30 years. An active supporter of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the university created the Horton Distingu...

Cochran, Johnnie L., 1937-2005

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Rochester institute of technology

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It is unclear when the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) first admitted minority students. However, it appears as though the first African American students entered the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (renamed RIT in 1944) during the early 1900s. For instance, in 1906 Fredericka Sprague, the granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, took classes at the Institute. There are several other instances of African American students attending the school during the early 20th century as well...

Horton, Frank J. 1919-2004.

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