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# Robert Bergland

Robert Selmer Bergland (July 22, 1928 – December 9, 2018) was an American politician. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota's 7th congressional district from 1971 to 1977, and he served as United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1977 until 1981, during the Carter administration.

## Early life

Bergland was born near Roseau, Minnesota, the son of Mabel (Evans) and Selmer Bennett Bergland, a garage mechanic. He studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two-year program. A farmer, he became an official of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service for the Department of Agriculture from 1963 to 1968.

## Career
### U.S. Representative from Minnesota

Bergland was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, entering the House by defeating U.S. Republican incumbent Odin Langen in 1970. He was elected to the 92nd, 93rd, 94th, and 95th Congresses. In Congress, he served on the House Committee on Agriculture's subcommittees for Conservation and Credit, and Livestock, Grains, Dairy, and Poultry.

### U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

On January 22, 1977, Bergland resigned from the House shortly after the beginning of a new term, and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as Secretary of Agriculture and served from January 23, 1977, until January 20, 1981.
A minor but much-celebrated struggle between the United States Department of Agriculture and the General Services Administration occurred during his tenure, resulting in the ironic dedication of the USDA executive cafeteria in honor of Alferd Packer in order to shame the General Services Administration into terminating the Nixon-era cafeteria services contract.

### Post-Agricultural career

Following the end of the Carter administration in 1981, Bergland became the chairman of Farmland World Trade until 1982, when he became the vice president and general manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. In the latter capacity, Bergland lobbied both Congress and the regulatory agencies on behalf of the Cooperative's electricity business.
After retiring in 1994, Bergland was elected by the Minnesota State Legislature to a term on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. Bergland retired after the one term and owned a 600-acre (2.4 km$^2$) farm in Minnesota.

## Personal life

He married Helen Elaine Grahn in 1950. They had seven children. Bergland died on December 9, 2018, at a nursing home in Roseau at the age of 90.
# Glenn Griswold

Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold (January 20, 1890 – December 5, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1931 to 1939.

## Biography

Born in New Haven, Missouri, Griswold attended public schools. He moved to Peru, Indiana, in 1911. He attended Valparaiso (Indiana) Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced practice in Peru, Indiana. During the First World War, he served in the United States Army as a private in Company B, Fourth Regiment Casual Detachment. After the war he became the city attorney of Peru, Indiana from 1921 to 1925. He served as prosecuting attorney of Miami County, Indiana, in 1925 and 1926. He served as a member of the Indiana Railroad Commission in 1930.
Griswold was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1939). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. Reengaged in the practice of law in Peru, Indiana, until his death there on December 5, 1940. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in Peru, Indiana.
# William R. Hull Jr.

William Raleigh Hull Jr. (April 17, 1906 – August 15, 1977) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri's 6th congressional district. He was born in Weston, Missouri into a prominent tobacco raising family. He was co-owner of Hull's Tobacco Warehouse in Weston, director of First National Bank, Leavenworth, Kansas and a mayor of Weston in 1939–1940. His first term in Congress started on January 3, 1955 and served until January 3, 1973. He was not a candidate for re-election. He died in Kansas City, Missouri and is buried at Graceland Cemetery in Weston.
Hull did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964, and 1968.
# Lamar Jeffers

Lamar Jeffers (April 16, 1888 – June 1, 1983) was an American World War I veteran and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from Alabama from 1921 to 1935.

## Biography

Born in Anniston, Alabama, Jeffers attended public schools and Alabama Presbyterian College at Anniston.
He served with the Alabama National Guard from 1904 to 1914. He served as clerk of the circuit court of Calhoun County, taking office in January 1917.

### World War I

Jeffers resigned that office in May 1917 and entered the U.S. Army, serving with the Eighty-second Division in France. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States Government. He was promoted to rank of major of infantry.

### Congress

Jeffers was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fred L. Blackmon. He was reelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from June 7, 1921, to January 3, 1935.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Civil Service (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934.

### Retirement and death

Resided in Daytona Beach, Florida, until his death there on June 1, 1983. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
# Kanchana (name)

Kanchana or Kanjana is an Indic-language-based name, often used as a feminine given name. People with the name include:
* Kanchana (actress), stage name of Vasundhara Devi, Indian actress born 1939
* Kanchana Gunawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
* Kanchana Kamalanathan, Indian politician
* Kanchana Kanchanasut, Thai computer scientist
* Kanjana Kuthaisong, Thai volleyball player
* Kanchana Mendis, Sri Lankan actress
* Kanchana Moitra, Bengali film actress
* Kanchana Silpa-archa, Thai politician
* Kanjana Sungngoen, Thai footballer
* Kanchana Wijesekera, Sri Lankan politician
* Ama Kanchana, Sri Lankan cricketer
* Dilshan Kanchana, Sri Lankan cricketer
* Janaka Kanchana, Sri Lankan Guinness world record holder
# E. H. Hedrick

Erland Harold Hedrick, better known as E. H. Hedrick (August 9, 1894 – September 20, 1954) was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia.
Born in Barn in Mercer County, West Virginia, he was graduated from the medical school of the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 1917. During World War I he served in the United States Army Medical Corps as a first lieutenant (1917–1919). After the war he returned to Beckley where he started his own medical practice (1919–1944).
Hedrick also served as a medical examiner for the Veteran Administration from 1919 to 1944, city and country health officer (1927–1932) and superintendent of Pinecrest Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Beckley (1943–1944).
His political career began when he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1944 from the now extinct 6th district. He served four consecutive two-year terms from January 3, 1945 to January 3, 1953.
Hedrick did not run for a fifth term in 1952, but instead sought the Democratic nomination for governor. However, he lost to William C. Marland, State Attorney General, who went on to win the general election. A fellow Democrat, State Senator Robert Byrd, who eventually became Dean and President pro tem of the United States Senate and a Senate Majority Leader, replaced him as congressman from the 6th district.
After his defeat for the gubernatorial nomination, Hedrick left politics and resumed his business and professional interests. He died in Beckley and is buried in Sunset Memorial Park.
# William Lehman (Florida politician)

William M. Lehman (October 5, 1913 – March 16, 2005) was an American politician. He served in the United States Representative, representing Florida from 1973 until 1993.

## Early life

Born in Selma, Alabama, Lehman graduated from Dallas Academy and Selma High School in 1930. He received a B.S. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1934 and attended Oxford University in 1965.
He was an auto dealer and a teacher at Miami Norland Junior High School in Miami, Florida, in 1963–1964, while also working as an instructor at Miami-Dade Junior College in 1965–1966.

## Political career

He was a member of the Miami-Dade County School Board from 1966 to 1972, and was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1993. He was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992. Segments of the area the seat occupied were folded into a district currently served by Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Serving as chair of the Miami-Dade county transportation subcommittee, he helped create the Metrorail and Tri-Rail systems. Other work includes the assisted creation of the trauma care center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

## Death

He died in 2005 in Miami Beach, aged 91. William Lehman Elementary School in Miami, Florida, and the William Lehman Causeway are named after him.
# Norton Lichtenwalner

Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner (June 1, 1889 – May 3, 1960) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

## Early life and education

Norton L. Lichtenwalner was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Fred H. and Jennie (Seiple) Lichtenwalner. He graduated from Allentown High School (now known as William Allen High School) in 1905 and Bethlehem Preparatory School in 1906. He attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

## Career

In 1908, Lichtenwalner moved to New York City, where he was employed by E. Naumburg & Co., a banking company. He returned to Allentown in 1915, where he worked in the retail furniture business until 1922, and then in automobile retail industry until 1933. During World War I, Lichtenwalner enlisted as a seaman in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
Lichtenwalner was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress. He lost his reelection bid in 1932 and then became State director for the Pennsylvania National Emergency Council from 1935 to 1941 and State director of Office of Government Reports in 1941 and 1942. In 1949, he was elected to the Allentown City Council, where he served for one term. In 1955, he was elected treasurer of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, for one term.

## Death

He died in Allentown on May 3, 1960 and is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Allentown.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Norton L. Lichtenwalner (id: L000300)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
# Wingate H. Lucas

Wingate Hezekiah Lucas (May 1, 1908 – May 26, 1989) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
Born in Grapevine, Texas, Lucas attended the public schools, the North Texas Teachers College at Denton, the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater, and the University of Texas at Austin. He studied law. In 1938, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Grapevine, Texas. He served as an enlisted man in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945 with overseas service in the European Theater of Operations. After the war, he resumed the practice of law.
Lucas was elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1955). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Texas. He was government relations executive with General Electric in New York City from 1958 to 1966, and executive director of the Mid-Appalachia College Council from 1966 to 1986.
He was a resident of Bristol, Tennessee, until his death there on May 26, 1989.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Wingate H. Lucas (id: L000496)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives :
| Preceded byFritz G. Lanham | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 12th congressional district 1947-1955 | Succeeded byJim Wright |
# Robert S. Maloney

Robert Sarsfield Maloney (February 3, 1881 – November 8, 1934) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.

## Early life and education

Maloney was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He attended public schools and learned the printer's trade.

## Trade Union activities

Maloney was a fraternal delegate of the American Federation of Labor to the 1907 Canadian Trades and Labor Congress in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was New England organizer for the International Typographical Union 1908–1912.

## Lawrence Board of Aldermen

He was elected a member of the Lawrence, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen in 1909 and he served as the Board's president.

## City commissioner for Public health

In the November 7, 1911 city election the voters enacted a new city charter that enacted a City Commission form of government in Lawrence. The new charter took effect on January 1, 1912. Maloney was member of the city commission in 1912, and from 1916 to 1920 and served as president. Maloney was elected to the city commission to serve as the director of the Department of Public Health and Charities, Maoney served in this capacity in 1912 and 1915–1920.

## Congressional service

Maloney was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress from (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923), but was not a candidate for renomination. As of 2023, he was the last Republican to represent the 7th congressional district. He again served as director of the Department of Public Health and Charities, from 1924 until 1928, published a weekly newspaper and, later, engaged in the restaurant business until his death.

## Death and Burial

Maloney died in Lawrence on November 8, 1934. His interment was in Immaculate Conception Cemetery.
# Charles P. Nelson (congressman)

Charles Pembroke Nelson (July 2, 1907 – June 8, 1962) was an American politician and a member of the US House of Representatives from Maine.

## Biography

Born in Waterville, Maine, on July 2, 1907, Nelson was the son of Nelson, John Edward and Margaret Heath Nelson. He graduated from Cony High School in Augusta, Maine, and from Colby College in Waterville. Later, he attended Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor.

## Career

Nelson was secretary to his father, Representative John E. Nelson. The younger Nelson engaged in the general practice of law in Augusta, Maine, from 1932 to 1933, then worked as city solicitor of Augusta from 1934 to 1942. He was the chief of the State Arson Division in 1941 and 1942.
Nelson entered the military service in 1942 as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He served in the armed forces until discharge in 1946 as a lieutenant colonel with two years of service in the European Theater of Operations. He remained a member of the National Guard and Reserves after leaving the military. He was a member of the State board of bar examiners from 1946 to 1948. He was also mayor of Augusta in 1947 and 1948.
Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses, Nelson served from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1957. He retired in 1957 and became a teacher at the University of Florida for two years. He was also chief trial attorney of the State highway commission in 1959, and moderator of the town of West Bath 1960.

## Death

Nelson died in Augusta, Maine, on June 8, 1962 (age 54 years, 341 days). His remains were cremated, and the ashes interred on family property at Georgetown, Maine.
# Sherri Gallagher

Sgt. Sherri Jo Gallagher is an American soldier who holds 22 United States national rifle records. In 2010, she was named the U.S. Army Soldier of the Year.

## Early life and marksmanship training

Sherri Gallagher was born in 1984 in California USA. Her mother is Nancy Tompkins who in 1998 was the first woman to win the High Power Rifle Championship, and her step-father is Mid Tompkins, who has won the honor six times in a row. Gallagher was able to shoot a rifle for the first time at the age of five years. Her step-cousin half removed, Patrick Kelly, is a clay pigeon shooter.
In 2003, Gallagher was the World Long Range Shooting Champion, and had already been named National Rifle Champion twice by the National Rifle Association. Following her awards, Gallagher was invited to guest jump with the U.S. Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team. Following the jump, the team invited Gallagher to enlist.

## Military career

In 2010, Gallagher was nominated for Soldier of the Quarter based on her marksmanship, and traveled to Fort Lee, Virginia to compete for Soldier of the Year. Gallagher went on to compete nationally and was the first woman to win the U.S. Army's Soldier of the Year award.
In August 2010, Gallagher was the second woman to win the NRA's National High Power Rifle Championship. The first woman in history had been her mother. Of the twelve awards available at the 2010 NRA Championships, Gallagher was given eight.
In October 2010, Gallagher studied at the Airborne School in Fort Benning, Georgia, and took the Warriors Leaders Course.
In 2013, Gallagher was profiled by Business Insider as one of the "Most Impressive Women in the U.S. Military".
As of July 2014, Gallagher is stationed in Arizona.
# Mike McMillen

Michael Rex McMillen (born April 12, 1964, in Las Vegas, Nevada), known as Mike McMillen, is a short track speed skater from New Zealand who has represented New Zealand at two Olympic Games.
In the 1992 Winter Olympics at Albertville, France, he was on the team which came fourth in the 5000m short-track relay event. The team narrowly missed the bronze medal by just 0.7sec. He also was a finalist in the men's 1000m event, again narrowly missing the bronze medal. He broke the world record for the 1000m during 1992.
In the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway he was in the 500m, 1000m and 5000m short-track relay events.
# Skroda Mała

Skroda Mała is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stawiski, within Kolno County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north-west of Stawiski, 10 km (6 mi) east of Kolno, and 79 km (49 mi) north-west of the regional capital Białystok.
# Edwin Corning Jr.

Edwin Corning Jr. (September 26, 1919 - January 31, 1964) was an American businessman, United States Navy officer and Democratic politician from Albany, New York. A member of the prominent Corning family, he was most notable for his service as a member of the New York State Assembly from 1955 to 1959.

## Biography

Edwin Corning Jr. was born in Albany, New York on September 26, 1919, the son of Edwin Corning and Louise (Maxwell) Corning. He was educated at The Albany Academy and the Groton School and was a 1942 graduate of Yale College.
Corning joined the United States Navy for World War II. He enlisted in 1942, and received a commission as an ensign. Corning participated in combat in the Pacific theater, and attained the rank of lieutenant before receiving his discharge in 1946. In January 1946, Corning's name appeared among a list of Navy officers who were passengers aboard USS LST 589 when it sailed from Qingdao to Shanghai.
After the war, Corning returned to Albany, where he became active in the Albany Associates insurance agency, a Corning family business. He became vice president of the company, in addition to serving on its board of directors. He also served as a director of several other companies, including the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation and Albany's First Trust Company.
A Democrat, in 1954, Corning was the successful nominee to represent Albany County's first district in the New York State Assembly. He was reelected in 1956 and 1958, and served from January 1955 until resigning in August 1959.
In May, 1959, Corning was involved in a car accident on U.S. Route 9 near Boght Corners. He sustained severe injuries and was hospitalized for several months. Citing the amount of time he needed to devote to his recovery, Corning resigned his Assembly seat in order to give officials the opportunity to hold a special election prior to the start of the next session in January 1960, thus ensuring that his district would continue to be represented.

## Death and burial

After his car accident, Corning curtailed most of his business and political activities, and was a resident of Clarksville. He died at his home in Clarksville on January 31, 1964, and was buried at Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.

## Family

In 1950, Corning married Barbara May Thomson (1923-2012). They were the parents of two children, daughter Jamie and son Edwin.
Corning's family was long prominent in Albany-area politics and business. In addition to his father's service as Lieutenant Governor of New York, Corning's brother Erastus Corning 2nd was the longtime mayor of Albany. His uncle Parker Corning served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York for 14 years. Corning's great-grandfather, Amasa J. Parker served in Congress and enjoyed a long career as a state court judge. Another great-grandfather, Erastus Corning was a member of Congress and mayor of Albany.
# Theodore L. Minier

Theodore Loomis Minier (December 16, 1819 Ulster Township, Pennsylvania – August 27, 1895 Elmira, New York) was an American politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of John Minier and Rachel Minier. He attended the common schools and Athens Academy. In 1838, he removed to Horseheads, in Chemung County, New York. He was Deputy Collector of canal tolls there from 1839 to 1841. In 1842, he became a teller in the Chemung Canal Bank. Then he became Principal Agent of the Erie Railroad in Elmira, was private secretary of Erie Railroad President Benjamin Loder, and was then hired by Alexander S. Diven to take charge of his railroad business.
On May 25, 1848, Minier married Sarah Vail Maxwell, and they had three children. In 1854, he became Cashier of the Bank of Havana, in Schuyler County. After the death of Charles Cook in 1866, Minier took charge of the bank's operations.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (26th D.) in 1870 and 1871. In 1876, he returned to Elmira, and was later an Alderman for three terms.
He was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444)
* Life Sketches of Executive Officers, and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, Vol. III by H. H. Boone & Theodore P. Cook (1870; pg. 98ff)
New York State Senate :
| Preceded byJohn I. Nicks | New York State Senate 27th District 1870–1871 | Succeeded byGabriel T. Harrower |
# Lance Horbach

Lance J. Horbach (born February 14, 1958, in Grundy Center, Iowa) is the Iowa State Representative from the 40th District. He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 1998.
Horbach currently serves on several committees in the Iowa House - the Economic Growth committee; the Judiciary committee; and the Labor committee, where he is the ranking member. He also serves on the Justice System Appropriations Subcommittee. His prior political experience includes serving as a Tama County Zoning Commissioner from 1996 to 1998.
A Republican, Horbach was re-elected in 2006 with 6,249 votes (55%), defeating Democratic opponent Sharon Owens.

## Early life and education

Horbach was raised in Tama-Toeldo. He graduated from South Tama High School and received his BS from Iowa State University.

## Career

Outside politics Horbach works for the Independent Insurance Services in Marshalltown, Iowa. He began working here in 2000 and is in charge of managing the IIS Nursing Home Program.

## Organizations

He is a member of the following organizations:
* Eagles Club
* Lions Club
* Farm Bureau

## Family

Horbach is married to his wife Jody and together they have four children: Amy, Kendra, Melissa and Nick. They also have eight grandchildren.