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Daily Famous Persons Trivia
1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. 1597 - The Keikyo a group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1631 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. 1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
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Famous Senate
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Alexander Wiley was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963.
Wiley was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He received his undergraduate education at Augsburg College in Minnesota and the University of Michigan. He received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin in 1907 and was also admitted to the bar the same year. He served as the Chippewa County District Attorney from 1909-1915.
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John Forbes Kerry John Kerry was born in the west wing of Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado outside Denver[1], where his father, Richard Kerry, a World War II Army Air Corps test pilot, had been undergoing treatment for tuberculosis[2]. Kerry's family returned to their home state of Massachusetts two months after his birth.
Family background
Kerry is the second child of Richard John Kerry and Rosemary Forbes Kerry.
He has three siblings: Margery (1941), Diana (1947) and Cameron (1950).
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John McCain Senator John McCain was born in Coco Solo in the U.S controlled Panama Canal Zone. Both his father and grandfather were prominent U.S. Navy admirals (John S. McCain, Jr. and John S. McCain, Sr.). He attended Episcopal High School and graduated in 1954. That fall, McCain, like his father and grandfather, entered the United States Naval Academy. He has admitted that he disliked the life of a midshipman. Accordingly, McCain was a lackluster student and received many demerits. He graduated in 1958, Complete biography |
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