Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 1910) was an American poet, abolitionist and women’s rights activist best known for her poem/song, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, written in 1862, a year after Americans began fighting in the Civil War. She grew up in New York City, the fourth of seven children in a well-to-do, strict […]
American author Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850 – 1943) wrote more than 90 books, many of them delightful morality tales, especially for children. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1917, along with her co-author sister, Maud Howe Elliott, for the biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), best remembered for composing The Battle Hymn
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Sarah Louise Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality, who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election alongside presidential nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain,
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974, the only president to resign from office. He had previously served as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and prior to that as a U.S. Representative and also Senator from California.
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George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He
