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# James L. Conger

James Lockwood Conger (February 18, 1805 – April 10, 1876) was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. From 1851 to 1853, he served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives as a member of the Whig party.

## Biography

Conger was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and moved with his parents to New York in 1809. They settled in Canandaigua, New York, where he attended the district schools and studied medicine at Canandaigua Academy.
In 1822, Conger moved to Lancaster, Ohio, where he taught school for several years and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Lancaster. He soon moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and continued the practice of law from 1826 to 1836. Then he moved to Macomb County, Michigan, and laid out the town of Belvidere, Michigan, which was destroyed by flood in 1837. This was at the mouth of the Clinton River in what is today Harrison Township, Michigan. He soon moved to Mount Clemens, where he was engaged in banking and mercantile endeavors.

### Congress

In 1850, Conger was elected as a Whig from Michigan's 3rd congressional district to the 32nd United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852 and resumed his former business pursuits.

### Retirement and death

Owing to ill health, James L. Conger retired from active business pursuits.
He died in St. Clair, Michigan, and was interred in Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.
# Luther C. Carter

Luther Cullen Carter (February 25, 1805 – January 3, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Carter was born in Bethel in Massachusetts' District of Maine on February 25, 1805, the son of Dr. Timothy Carter and Frances "Fanny" (Freeland) Carter. He was educated in Maine, and a business and mercantile career in Saco. At age 20, he moved to New York City, where he continued his business career and served as president of the Market Savings Bank.
In addition to his business career, Carter served as a member of the Board of Education of New York City for several years beginning in 1853. He later moved to Long Island City, where he lived in semi-retirement as a gentleman farmer.
Carter was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861). He served as chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-sixth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress.

## Death and burial

He died in New York City January 3, 1875. He was interred in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, Section 113, Lot 18623.

## Family

On September 29, 1829, Carter married Mary L. Converse (d. 1882) of Palmer, Massachusetts.
Carter's siblings included Timothy J. Carter, who also served in Congress.
# Isaac N. Cox

Isaac Newton Cox (August 1, 1846 – September 28, 1916) was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1891 to 1893

## Biography

Born in Fallsburg, New York, Cox moved to Ellenville in 1864 and engaged in the lumber business. Supervisor of the town of Wawarsing in 1875 and 1883–1886 and served as chairman of the board during the last year. He served four years on the Democratic State committee. He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland chairman of the commission to examine and report upon the condition of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1886.

### Tenure in Congress

Cox was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.

### Later career and death

He was appointed a member of the State commission on fisheries, and served from 1894 to 1899. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, lumbering, and banking in Ellenville, New York, where he died in 1916. He was interred in Fantinekill Cemetery.
# Walter Case

Walter Case (1776 – October 7, 1859) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

## Life

Case was educated by private tutors, and then attended Newburgh Academy. He graduated from Union College in 1799. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802, and commenced practice in Newburgh.
Case was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 16th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. He was affiliated with the Whig Party after its formation.
He moved to New York City in 1844 and continued the practice of law until 1848, when he retired.
He was buried at the Fishkill Rural Cemetery.
# Mahmud Kanti Bello

Mahmud Kanti Bello (14 January 1945 – 29 August 2017) was a Nigerian senator who represented Katsina North Senatorial District of Katsina State, on the platform of People's Democratic Party and was the Senate majority whip. He became senator in 2003 and was re-elected in 2007. He represented Daura Senatorial Zone between 2003 and 2007 and for the second time after reelection, from 2007 to 2011. He was the pioneer Managing Director of Katsina Steel Rolling Mill.

## Background

Mahmud Kanti Bello was born on 14 January 1945, and is of Hausa origin. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State in Northern Nigeria.

## Career

Mahmud Kanti Bello was elected senator during the 2003 Nigeria general elections under the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in Katsina State. Bello protested strongly against electoral fraud in a 2004 local elections held in his state, which resulted in People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidates being returned. However, in 2007 he successfully ran for reelection on a PDP slate. By the middle of his second term in the senate, Bello was among those senators who had not solely sponsored any private bills.
In a statement in January 2009, Bello lashed out against governors who withhold local government funds, releasing them only at their convenience, including the governor of his state, Ibrahim Shema. In discussion over the proposed bill to control desertification, Senator Bello strongly opposed Senator Grace Folashade Bent, chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, who wanted to include other environmental issues in the bill.
In July 2009, South-South senators initiated a motion to demand dismissal of Minister of Petroleum, Rilwan Lukman, and Mohammed Barkindo of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, on the basis of alleged anti-Niger Delta policies. Senator Bello opposed the motion on a point of order, without success. In 2009, Bello was the Nigerian Amir-Hajj for the Nigerian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. He broke a record where for the first time in over 20 years all the pilgrims left on time.
# William H. H. Cowles

William Henry Harrison Cowles (April 22, 1840 – December 30, 1901) was a North Carolina Democratic politician who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives.

## Biography

A native of Yadkin County, North Carolina, Cowles served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. In 1861 he enlisted in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment and by the war's end had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He fought under Jeb Stuart and led Stuart's rear guard when crossing the last river back to Confederate territory ending Stuart's "ride around McClellan". Upon Stuart's death in 1864, General Wade Hampton took command and Cowles was with Hampton until capture at Petersburg at the war's end. He was wounded twice during the war.
After the war, he attended Richmond Hill Law School and moved to Wilkesboro and practiced law. From 1874 through 1878, Cowles served as the elected solicitor (district attorney) for the state's 10th judicial district. In 1884, he was elected as a Democrat to the 49th United States Congress, and was re-elected for three additional terms. He did not run for a fifth term. While in Congress, Cowles chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Fiftieth Congress) and the Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-second Congress).
He was the uncle of Republican Congressman Charles H. Cowles, and he was the grandfather of Democratic N.C. state Senator Lura S. Tally.
His home and law office at Wilkesboro was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
# Thomas Croxton

Thomas Croxton (March 8, 1822 – July 3, 1903) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

## Biography

Born in Tappahannock, Virginia, Croxton attended primary school there and, later, the Tappahannock and Rappahannock Academies. He graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1842; admitted to the bar, he commenced practice in Tappahannock, Virginia. He served as attorney for the Commonwealth from 1852 to 1865, when he resigned. During the Civil War Croxton served on the staff of General George E. Pickett.
Croxton was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress. After his failure to be reelected, he resumed the practice of law and engaged in agricultural pursuits.
In 1892, Croxton was elected judge of Essex County, Virginia, and served from 1892 until his resignation in 1901. He died in Tappahannock, Virginia, July 3, 1903 and was interred in St. John's Episcopal Churchyard. There are papers relating to his law practice at the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary.

## Elections

* 1884; Croxton was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 51% of the vote, defeating Republican Robert Murphy Mayo.
* 1886; Croxton lost his re-election bid to Republican Thomas Henry Bayly Browne.
# William Dunbar (politician)

William Dunbar (1805 – March 18, 1861) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
He was born in Virginia in 1805 and completed preparatory studies before moving to Alexandria, Virginia, where he engaged in the practice of law in the early 1830s. Dunbar moved to Louisiana in 1852 and was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Preston and served from September 1, 1852, to May 4, 1853. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855) representing Louisiana's 1st congressional district. Defeated by a "Know-Nothing" candidate after one term, Rep. Dunbar retired to his sugar plantation in St. Bernard Parish and resided there until his death on March 18, 1861.
# Vermont (band)

Vermont was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based indie rock band and collaboration between Davey von Bohlen and Dan Didier of The Promise Ring and Chris Roseanau of Pele. The band released two albums on Kindercore Records and broke up in 2001, before von Bohlen founding the band Maritime. The album, "Calling Albany," was remastered, and re-released on vinyl in 2023 by Castle Danger Records. The release included a previously never-before-heard track ("She Says"), and was the first time the album was ever released on vinyl.

## Discography

* Living Together (1999 - Kindercore)
* Mark Mallman and Vermont (2001 - Guilt Ridden Pop)
* Calling Albany (2002 - Kindercore), (2023 - Castle Danger Records)
# Triplophysa shehensis

Triplophysa shehensis is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus from India. Some authorities place T. shehensis in Nemacheilus.
# Hôtel des Monnaies metro station

Hôtel des Monnaies (French, pronounced) or Munthof (Dutch, pronounced) is a Brussels Metro station on the southern segment of lines 2 and 6. It is located under the Small Ring (Brussels' inner ring road), near Saint Peter's Hospital, in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, south of the City of Brussels, Belgium. One of its entrances is on the Rue de l'Hôtel des Monnaies/Munthofstraat, after which it is named, and where Belgian currency used to be minted.
The metro station opened on 2 October 1988 as part of the Louise/Louiza–Gare du Midi/Zuidstation extension of line 2 from Simonis. Line 2 has since been extended beyond Gare du Midi to Clemenceau in 1993, Delacroix in 2006, and Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation in 2009. Then, following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it now lies on the joint section of lines 2 and 6. During the construction, work on the metro tunnels ran up against the foundations of Brussels' old city walls, which ran 10 metres (33 ft) beneath ground level. These walls now form part of the station.
# Davis Dimock Jr.

Davis Dimock Jr. (September 17, 1801 – January 13, 1842) served briefly as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1842.

## Biography

Davis Dimock Jr. was born in Exeter, Pennsylvania (near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania). He attended the schools of the pioneer settlement of Montrose, Pennsylvania, and the Susquehanna County Academy at Montrose. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Montrose, and was also engaged in editorial work.

### Political career

He was appointed Susquehanna County treasurer in 1834.
Dimock was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress and served until his death in Montrose in 1842.
Interment is in Montrose Cemetery. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
# Abram Comingo

Abram Comingo (January 9, 1820 – November 10, 1889) was a Democratic Representative representing Missouri from March 4, 1871 – March 4, 1875. He was a slaveholder.
Comingo was born near Harrodsburg, Kentucky in Mercer County, Kentucky. He graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and was admitted to the bar in 1847.
He moved to Independence, Missouri in 1848, was delegate to the Missouri State convention in February 1861 which decided that Missouri would remain in the Union in the American Civil War; appointed provost marshal of the sixth district of Missouri in May 1863; elected recorder of deeds of Jackson County, Missouri in 1868.
After two terms in Congress he did not stand for re-election. He was appointed by Ulysses S. Grant to a commission to arbitrate Sioux land claims in Dakota Territory in 1876. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1881 and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery there.
# Alexander Kerr Craig

Alexander Kerr Craig (February 21, 1828 – July 29, 1892) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

## Biography

Alexander K. Craig was born near Claysville, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and was educated by a private tutor. He became a teacher at the age of sixteen, and began the study of law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He taught school in winter months and subsequently became principal of the Claysville public schools. He enlisted in February 1865 in the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After his service, he resumed agricultural pursuits near Claysville, and served as school director and justice of the peace.
Craig successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Andrew Stewart to the Fifty-second Congress and served until his death in Claysville in 1892. He was interred in Claysville Cemetery.
Craig is also credited with the advent of Opposite Day, a form of the liar paradox.
# Lake Cecil

Lake Cecil is a small lake located north-northeast of the hamlet of Trout Creek in Delaware County, New York. It drains south via an unnamed creek that flows into Trout Creek.
# Thomas L. Bunting

Thomas Lathrop Bunting (April 24, 1844 – December 27, 1898) was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1891 to 1893.

## Biography

Born in Eden, New York, Bunting was educated in the common schools and the Griffith Institute, Springville, New York. He taught school in winters and attended the academy in summer months. Illness having interrupted his preparation for college, he moved to Hamburg, New York, in 1868 and later established a general mercantile store. He engaged in the canning business.

### Congress

Bunting was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892.

### Later career and death

He resumed the canning business and also became interested in farming, dairying, and stock raising.
He died in Buffalo, New York, on December 27, 1898. He was interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery at Hamburg, New York.
# William Jack (U.S. politician)

William Jack (July 29, 1788 – February 28, 1852) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

## Biography

William Jack was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced.

### Early career

He moved to Brookville, Pennsylvania, in 1831 and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was the division inspector of militia for Westmoreland and Fayette Counties from 1830 to 1835. He served as sheriff of Brookville in 1833, and was a contractor and builder in Mississippi and assisted in the construction of a canal there. He returned to Pennsylvania and served as a county judge of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, about 1840.

### Congress

Jack was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

### Later life

After his time in Congress, he was engaged in agricultural pursuits.

### Death and burial

He returned to Greensburg in 1846 and died there in 1852. Interment in the Old Cemetery of the St. Clair Cemetery Association.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "William Jack (id: J000002)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
* The Political Graveyard
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# Emile La Sére

Emile La Sére (1802 – August 14, 1882) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the first district in the state of Louisiana. He served three terms as a Democrat.

## Early life

Le Sére was born on Santo Domingo. His family moved to New Orleans in 1805, where Le Sére was raised and educated. Some sources indicate that he attended the United States Military Academy or Transylvania College as a contemporary of Jefferson Davis, but there is no record that he intended either. Le Sére was well-trained for a career in business, and is known to have been fluent in English, French, and Spanish.
After completing his education, Le Sére worked as a clerk in Jackson, Louisiana and Mexico mercantile business establishments for several years before returning to New Orleans. A Democrat and political ally of John Slidell, among the ventures in which they were interested was publication of the Louisiana Courier newspaper, which also enabled La Sére to obtain appointment as Louisiana's state printer. In 1840, Le Sére was elected sheriff of the New Orleans Commercial Court, and he served until 1845.

## U.S. Representative

In 1846, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election held to fill the vacancy caused by Slidell's resignation. He was elected to two full terms, and served from January 29, 1846 to March 3, 1851 (the 29th, 30th, and 31st Congresses). During the 29th Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department.

## Later life

When President Antonio López de Santa Anna returned to power in Mexico in 1853, Benito Juárez went into exile in New Orleans. Le Sére hosted Juárez for two years, until Santa Anna's 1855 resignation enabled him to return to Mexico. During the administration of President Franklin Pierce, he served as disbursing agent for the New Orleans Mint.
During the American Civil War, Le Sére served in the Confederate States Army, first as major of the 10th Louisiana Regiment, and later as chief quartermaster of the Trans-Mississippi Department. In 1864, he was appointed the Confederacy's commercial agent in Mexico.
Le Sére was a delegate to numerous local, county, state, and national Democratic conventions and served as chairman of Louisiana's Democratic State central committee for more than fifteen years. Among his post-war ventures was serving as president of the Tehuantepec Railroad Company in Mexico.

## Death and burial

Le Sére died in New Orleans on August 14, 1882. He was buried at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. Le Sére never married, and had no children.
# William Joseph Whelan

William Joseph Whelan FRS (14 November 1924 – 5 June 2021) was a British-born American biochemist. He was professor and chair of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. He founded the annual Miami Winter Symposium in 1967 and was chief editor of the journal IUBMB Life.

## Biography

Whelan was born in Salford, Greater Manchester in 1924. He studied organic chemistry at the University of Birmingham starting in 1942, earning a B.Sc. in 1944 and Ph.D. in 1948. He taught at University College of North Wales and the University of London, and became head of the department of biochemistry of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London in 1964. In 1967, he moved to the United States and served as professor and chairman of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. He became professor and chairman emeritus in 1991.
Whelan was known for his pioneering research on the structure of starch and glycogen. He discovered that glycogen contained the protein glycogenin. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992. He died on 5 June 2021 at the age of 96.
Whelan was a tireless promoter of international collaboration between biochemical societies. He became the first General Secretary of FEBS in 1964. From 1973 to 1983 he was General Secretary of IUB (now IUBMB) and later Co-Editor-in-Chief of IUBMB Life. From 1970 to 1972 he was the first General Secretary of PAABS (now PABMB). Finally, he contributed to the founding of FAOBMB.
# Innis Green

Innis Green (February 26, 1776 – August 4, 1839) was a Jacksonian Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

## Biography

Innis Green was born in Hanover Township in the Province of Pennsylvania. He pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was appointed associate judge of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, by Governor William Findlay in 1818, and resigned October 23, 1827.
Green was elected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress. After his time in Congress, he was reappointed associate judge of Dauphin County and served until his death in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, in 1839. Interment was in Dauphin Cemetery.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Innis Green (id: G000412)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
* The Political Graveyard
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| Preceded byRobert Harris | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district 1827–1831 | Succeeded byJohn C. Bucher |