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# Platymera

Platymera is a genus of crabs in the family Calappidae, containing the following species:
* Platymera californiensis Rathbun, 1894
* Platymera gaudichaudii H. Milne Edwards, 1837
# Platyxanthidae

Platyxanthus is a family of crabs, containing the following genera:
* Homalaspis A. Milne-Edwards, 1863
* Peloeus Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
* Platyxanthus A. Milne-Edwards, 1863
# James G. Monahan

James Gideon Monahan (January 12, 1855 – December 5, 1923) was an American lawyer and politician who served one as a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin from 1919 to 1921.
Born at Willow Springs, near Darlington, Wisconsin, Monahan attended the common schools and graduated from the Darlington High School in 1875. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1878.

## Early career

He commenced practice in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. He returned to Darlington in 1880. He served as district attorney of Lafayette County 1880-1884. From 1883 till 1919 he was editor and owner of the Darlington Republican Journal. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888. He also served as collector of internal revenue for the second Wisconsin district 1900-1908.

## Affiliations

He was a member of Evening Star Masonic Lodge #64 F&AM Wisconsin and served as the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in Wisconsin in 1898.

## Congress

Monahan was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921) as the representative of Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

## Death and burial

He died in Dubuque, Iowa, December 5, 1923. He was interred in Union Grove Cemetery, Darlington, Wisconsin.
# Courtney W. Hamlin

Courtney Walker Hamlin (October 27, 1858 – February 16, 1950) was a U.S. representative from Missouri and cousin of William Edward Barton.

## Early life

Hamlin was born in Brevard, North Carolina. In 1869 moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled in Leasburg, Crawford County. He attended the common schools and Salem Academy, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Bolivar, Missouri.

## Political career

Hamlin was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress. Hamlin was elected to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1919). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918.

## Later life

He resumed the practice of law in Springfield, Missouri, until November 1935, when he retired and moved to Santa Monica, California, where he died February 16, 1950. He was interred in East Lawn Cemetery in Springfield, Missouri.
# Cornelius Amory Pugsley

Cornelius Amory Pugsley Sr. (July 17, 1850 – September 10, 1936) was the Democratic Congressman from New York's 16th congressional district from 1901 to 1903. He was also President of the New York State Bankers Association in 1913. He created the Pugsley Medal in 1928 to honor champions of parks and conservation.

## Biography

He was born in Peekskill, New York on July 17, 1850 to Gilbert T. Pugsley and a Meeker. Cornelius was a direct descendant of James Pugsley, who emigrated from England in 1680. Pugsley attended public schools and was instructed in higher education by a private tutor. His first job was as a clerk at the Peekskill, New York post office, he later served as the assistant postmaster from 1867 to 1870.
He engaged in the banking business in 1870. He served as president of the board of trustees of the Peekskill Military Academy.

### Congress

Pugsley was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

### Later career

He resumed banking in Peekskill. He served as president general of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1906 and 1907. He served as delegate to the 1908 Democratic National Convention. He served as president of the New York State Bankers' Association in 1913. He served as president of the Westchester County National Bank, Peekskill, New York. He served as member of the Westchester County Park Commission.
Mr. Pugsley was President of The Field Library Board of Trustees from the date of its incorporation, April 7, 1887, until his demise September 10, 1936. In 1929, a Memorial in Books Fund was established in Pugsley's honor by his son, Chester DeWitt Pugsley, also a Field Library Trustee.

### Family

He married Emma Catherine Gregory on April 7, 1886 and had a son, Chester DeWitt Pugsley who was an alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York in 1916. Emma was the daughter of John H. Gregory.

### Death

He died in Peekskill, New York, on September 10, 1936, and was interred in Raymond Hill Cemetery, Carmel, New York.
# Miner G. Norton

Miner Gibbs Norton (May 11, 1857 – September 7, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1921 to 1923

## Biography

Born in Andover, Ohio, Norton attended the public schools, the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, and Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. He graduated from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, in 1878 and from the law department of Yale College in 1880. He was admitted to the bar in the latter year and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio. He served as director of law of Cleveland, Ohio 1895-1899. He served as chairman of the Republican State executive committee in the early nineties. United States appraiser for the northern district of Ohio 1905-1909.

### Congress

Norton was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.

### Later career and death

He resumed the practice of law in Cleveland. He was appointed by President Coolidge collector of customs at Cleveland on February 7, 1925, and served until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, September 7, 1926. He was interred in Oakdale Cemetery, Jefferson, Ohio.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Miner G. Norton (id: N000154)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
U.S. House of Representatives :
| Preceded byCharles A. Mooney | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 20th congressional district 1921-1923 | Succeeded byCharles A. Mooney |
# Charles F. Curry

Charles Forrest Curry (March 14, 1858 – October 10, 1930) was an American businessman and politician who served nine terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1913 until his death in 1930.
He was the father of Charles Forrest Curry, Jr.

## Early life and education

Curry was born in Naperville, Illinois and attended the common schools and the Episcopal Academy in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. He studied one year at the University of Washington in Seattle and was also educated by a private tutor. In 1872, he moved with his parents to Seattle, Washington and then to San Francisco the following year.

## Career

There, Curry engaged in agricultural pursuits and the cattle, lumber and mining businesses. He served as a member of the State Assembly in 1887 and 1888. He became admitted to the bar of San Francisco in 1888 and was then the superintendent of Station B post office, San Francisco, from 1890 to 1894. After that Curry served as clerk of San Francisco city and county between 1894 and 1898. He was the Secretary of State of California from 1899 to 1910.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1910. The following year, he was appointed Building and Loan Commissioner of California. In the same year, he served as the representative to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition for the Pacific Coast and Intermountain States.

### Congress

Curry was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress. He served eight consecutive terms from March 4, 1913, until his death in Washington, D.C., October 10, 1930 at which point his son won his seat as a write-in candidate.
During his tenure as a Congressman, he served as chairman of the Committee on Territories (Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses).

## Legacy

In 1921, Curry had a new elementary school named in his honor in Vallejo, California. Charles F. Curry school was located at 321 Wallace Avenue, and was in operation from 1921 until 1973. The grounds also housed Carol Vista, a school for handicapped and special needs students.

## Burial

After his death, Curry was interred in Abbey Mausoleum (near Arlington National Cemetery), Arlington, Virginia. He was reinterred in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Virginia.
# Herschel M. Hogg

Herschel Millard Hogg (November 21, 1853 – August 27, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.

## Early life and education

Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Hogg attended the common schools. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, in June 1876. He studied law and received his Master's degree in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1878.

## Career

He commenced practice in Indianola, Iowa. He moved to Gunnison, Colorado, in 1881 and resumed the practice of law. He served as City attorney of Gunnison in 1882 and 1883. He served as district attorney of the seventh judicial district of Colorado 1885-1893. He moved to Telluride, Colorado, in 1888, where he served as City attorney 1890-1898. He served as County attorney of San Miguel County, Colorado, from 1890 to 1902.
Hogg was elected as a Republican to the 58th and 59th Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907). He introduced a bill in 1906 to have Mesa Verde made a national park. Senator Thomas M. Patterson also introduced a bill in the Senate. It was signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 29, 1906.
He resumed the practice of law in Cortez, Colorado. He retired from political life in 1915. He engaged in mining, and resided in Denver, Colorado.

## Personal life

On June 17, 1880, he married Josephine Houghtaling in Indianola, Iowa. In 1899, the Hoggs built a house at 123 N. Aspen Street in Telluride, which is still called the Hogg House. They lived there for ten years. He also had a ranch at Deep Creek Mesa, four miles west of Telluride, still called Hogg Ranch. It was important for the development of dairy and cattle operations and cultivation of hay in the Telluride area. Both properties are considered of historic and cultural value.
He died on August 27, 1934, in Denver. He was interred in Crown Hill Cemetery.
# Peter A. Garland

Peter Adams Garland (June 16, 1923 – January 26, 2005) was an American businessman and military veteran who served as a one-term U.S. Representative from Maine, serving from 1961 to 1963.

## Early life

Garland was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Saco public schools and the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. He graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1945.

## Career

Garland was an officer and director of Garland Manufacturing Co. in Saco, Maine, and Snocraft Co. in Norway, Maine.

### Military service

He served as an enlisted man in the United States Air Corps from 1943 to 1946.

### Business career

director of the New England Council and Associated Industries of Maine from 1955 to 1957. Garland also served as a member of the Saco Superintending School Committee from 1952 to 1954.
He served as mayor of Saco from 1956 to 1959, and was a New England field adviser for the Small Business Administration from 1958 to 1960.

### Congress

Garland was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress (January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962, and an unsuccessful candidate to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966.

### After Congress

Garland was a municipal town manager for Gorham, Maine from 1967 to 1969, a marketing director for an engineering firm from 1970 to 1972, and a city manager for Claremont, New Hampshire from 1972 to 1973. Additional public service included his being a community manager for Ocean Pines, Ocean City, Maryland from 1973 to 1974, a town manager for Searsport, Maine from 1974 to 1981, and a city manager for Bath, Maine from 1981 to 1989.

## Death and burial

Garland died on January 26, 2005, in Brunswick, Maine. He is interred at Oak Grove Cemetery in Bath, Maine.
# Elizabeth Hawley Gasque

Elizabeth Gasque Van Exem (February 26, 1886 – November 2, 1989), named Elizabeth Hawley Gasque during her tenure in Congress, was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 6th congressional district from September 13, 1938, to January 3, 1939. She was the first woman elected to Congress from South Carolina.
At the age of 103 years, 249 days, Gasque is the longest-lived member of Congress ever, a record that still stands as of 2023.

## U.S. House of Representatives

Gasque was elected to the House of Representatives on September 13, 1938, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Allard Henry Gasque. She never actually attended Congress, which was not in session during her months of office.
Gasque was not a candidate for renomination. After her tenure in Congress, she was an author and lecturer.

## Personal life and death

The Social Security death records state that Gasque was born in 1893, under her later married name of Van Exem. However, census records support the 1886 birth year.
Gasque died aged 103 in Ridgeway, South Carolina where she lived. She was the longest-lived member of Congress since Maurice Thatcher, who died in 1973.
In 1982, a section of South Carolina state road was named the Elizabeth Gasque Van Exem Highway.
# Newell A. George

Newell Adolphus George (September 24, 1904 – October 22, 1992) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, George attended public schools in Kansas City, Kansas, Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri, Park College in Parkville, Missouri, and University of Kansas School of Law. He graduated from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1935. He was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1935 and to the Kansas bar in 1941. He commenced the practice of law in Kansas City, Kansas. He served as member of the staff of United States Senator George McGill of Kansas in 1933 and 1934. Regional attorney, Bureau of Employment Security from 1941 to 1945, and Federal Security Agency 1947-1953. Chief legal counsel, Regional War Manpower Commission, during the Second World War. First assistant Wyandotte County attorney 1953-1958. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960.
George was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress. He was appointed United States attorney for the district of Kansas March 28, 1961, and served until June 20, 1968. He was a resident of Kansas City, Kansas, until his death on October 22, 1992.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Newell A. George (id: G000130)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
U.S. House of Representatives :
| Preceded byErrett P. Scrivner | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 2nd congressional district 1959–1961 | Succeeded byRobert F. Ellsworth |
vteKansas's delegation(s) to the 86th United States Congress (ordered by seniority) :
86th
Senate:
▌A. Schoeppel (R)
▌F. Carlson (R)
House:
▌E. Rees (R)
▌W. Smith (R)
▌B. Avery (R)
▌J. Breeding (D)
▌N. George (D)
▌D. Hargis (D) :
# William T. Granahan

William Thomas Granahan (July 26, 1895 – May 25, 1956) was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, most prominently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1945–47 and 1949-56.

## Biography

Granahan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, all four of his grandparents were Irish immigrants. He attended parochial schools and La Salle Extension University in Chicago, Illinois. During World War I, he was a private in the U.S. Army, serving in the Army of Occupation in Germany. After the war, he entered the building business.
In the late 1930s, he entered the world of Democratic politics, serving as a member of the state party committee from 1938-42. In 1940, he entered the state government, becoming the state supervisor of the inheritance tax, and in 1941 he moved up to become chief disbursing officer of the state's treasury.
After being sent to Congress in the 1944 elections, he lost a bid for reelection, defeated by Republican Robert N. McGarvey. However, he took back the seat from Congressman McGarvey two years later, and went on to serve four more terms until dying from a heart seizure following a minor abdominal surgery at Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania. He was succeeded after his death by his wife, Kathryn E. Granahan.
# Maung Kyaw Zan

Maung Kyaw Zan (Burmese: မောင်ကျော်ဇံ, born 17 December 1964) is a Burmese politician and currently serves as an Amyotha Hluttaw MP for Rakhine State No. 9 Constituency . He is a member of Rakhine National Party.

## Early life and education

He was born on 17 December 1964 in Rathedaung, Rakhine State, Burma(Myanmar). He graduated with B.A(History) from Sittwe University.

## Political career

He is a member of the Rakhine National Party. In the Myanmar general election, 2015, he was elected as an Amyotha Hluttaw MP and elected representative from Rakhine State № 9 parliamentary constituency. He also serves as a member of Amyotha Hluttaw Ethnic Affairs Committee.
# Frank M. Karsten

Frank Melvin Karsten (January 7, 1913 – May 14, 1992) was a Democratic United States Representative from Missouri.

## Biography

Frank M. Karsten was born in San Antonio, Texas on January 7, 1913. His family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1925, and he graduated from Beaumont High School. Karsten was a staff assistant for Congressman John J. Cochran from 1934 to 1946. He attended National University (now George Washington University Law School) while working for Cochran, and graduated with an LL.B. in 1940.
Karsten ran to succeed Cochran in 1946. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress, and was reelected 10 times, serving from January 3, 1947 to January 3, 1969). At a 1950 Congressional hearing, Karsten claimed he had seen a flying saucer. Karsten did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. During his time in the House, Karsten served as an assistant Democratic whip and rose to become a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee. He was a delegate to the conference for the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs in Geneva, Switzerland in 1957, and a delegate to the British-American Parliamentary Conference from 1964 to 1965.
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1968. Karsten practiced law after leaving Congress, and in 1969 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.
He died in San Antonio, Texas, on May 14, 1992, and was interred in Mission Burial Park South.
# Joseph F. Holt

Joseph Franklin Holt III (July 6, 1924 – July 14, 1997) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from California from 1953 to 1961.

## Life and career

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Holt moved to Los Angeles, California, with his parents, at the age of one. He grew up there, and attended the public schools. Holt later enlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corps and was called to active duty in July 1943 during World War II. He was discharged as a second lieutenant in October 1945. He returned home and attended the University of Southern California where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947. He later went into in the insurance business and then entered the field of public relations. Eventually he became the state president of the Young Republicans of California and was Richard Nixon's field director during Nixon's 1950 Senate race against Helen Gahagan Douglas. In January 1951, he was recalled to active duty with the Marine Corps and volunteered for duty in the Korean War. He was wounded in action and awarded the Purple Heart.
Holt was elected as a Republican to the 83rd United States Congress in 1952. He stayed for three terms until he declined to run for re-election in 1960. In the 1952 Republican primary for the newly drawn 22nd congressional district in southern California, he was aided by the strong endorsement of Richard Nixon. His opponent, the state senator Jack Tenney, felt that Nixon, a popular U.S. senator, should have remained neutral in the race, but Nixon countered by saying that Holt represented the sort of young veteran that Congress needed.
During a visit to the Soviet Union in 1955, Holt was held at gun point by a Soviet Army officer, who demanded that he cease taking photographs of a church near Moscow.
Holt voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
Holt attempted, unsuccessfully, to return to Congress in 1968, but was defeated in the general election by the incumbent, James Corman. He spent the rest of his career as a business consultant and died in Santa Maria, California, on July 14, 1997.
# Edward C. Mann

Edward Coke Mann (November 21, 1880 – November 11, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born in Lowndesville, South Carolina, Mann attended the common schools and was graduated from The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, in 1901.
He taught school one year and was connected with a tobacco company for four years. He graduated from the law department of the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1906, where he was a member of the Euphradian Society, and commenced practice in St. Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina. He served as solicitor of the first circuit of South Carolina 1916-1919.
Mann was elected as a Democrat to the 66th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Asbury Francis Lever and served from October 7, 1919, to March 3, 1921. He unsuccessfully tried to gain renomination in 1920.
He practiced law in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He was appointed master in equity for Orangeburg County in November 1923. He was reappointed in November 1927 and served until his death. He was accidentally killed while on a hunting trip. He was interred in Sunnyside Cemetery, Orangeburg, South Carolina.