Tasha Smith
Tasha Smith( born February 28, 1971) is an American actress, director and producer.
She began her career in a starring role on the NBC comedy series" Boston Common"( 1996 – 97), and she later appeared in numerous movies and television series.
Smith has appeared in films include" The Whole Ten Yards"( 2004)," Daddy's Little Girls"( 2007)," The Longshots"( 2008)," Couples Retreat"( 2009), and" Jumping the Broom"( 2011).
She starred as Angela Williams in the Tyler Perry films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007), its sequel" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010), and on the television series based on the movies," For Better or Worse"( 2011–2017).
In 2015, she began a recurring role as Carol Holloway on the Fox musical drama series" Empire".
Later in the same year, Smith made her directorial debut.
Richard T. Jones
Richard Timothy Jones( born January 16, 1972) is an American actor.
Jones is best known for his portrayals of Laveinio in the dramatic film" The Wood"( 1999) and Mike of the dramatic films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007) and" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010).
He is also well known for his role as Bruce Van Exel, court services officer on the CBS television series" Judging Amy" that aired from 1999 to 2005.
Ellen Maria Colfax
Ellen Maria Wade Colfax (July 26, 1836 – March 4, 1911) was the second wife of Schuyler Colfax, who became the first House Speaker to be elected Vice President when he ran on a ticket headed by Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.
She was born in Andover, Ohio in 1836.
On November 18, 1868, just two weeks after the election, Ellen Maria Wade married the man who had defeated her uncle, Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade of Ohio, in the race for the Republican vice presidential nomination.
They had one son, Schuyler Colfax III, in April 1870.
Her husband, Schuyler Colfax was inaugurated as the 17th Vice President on March 4, 1869, and served until March 4, 1873.
Likewise, Ellen Maria Colfax became the Second Lady of the United States.
She died at her home in South Bend, Indiana in 1911 after a period of poor health, on the 42nd anniversary of her husband's assumption of the vice-presidency.
She was survived by her son Schuyler Colfax III.
Her funeral was held March 7, 1911 at the Colfax home, and she was buried next to her husband.
Ellen Brusewitz
Ellen Maria Brusewitz( née" Holmström", 10 November 1878 – 17 May 1952) was a Swedish tennis player.
She competed in the women's outdoor singles event at the 1912 Summer Olympics and finished seventh, behind her younger sister Annie Holmström.
Leonard Barkan
Leonard Barkan is Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University.
He won Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.
He won the 2011 Harry Levin Prize.
Barkan shared the PEN/ Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts for" Unearthing the Past" with Deborah Silverman in 2001.
Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine
Margherita Gonzaga (2 October 1591 – 7 February 1632) was Duchess of Lorraine from 1606 until her husband's death in 1624.
Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax Jr.
(March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869.
A member of the Republican Party (after the Whig Party's demise in the early 1850s), he was the U.S. Representative for from 1855 to 1869.
Colfax was known for his opposition to slavery while serving in Congress, and was a founder of the Republican Party.
During his first term as speaker he led the effort to pass what would become the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery.
When it came before the House for a final vote in January 1865, he made the unusual choice to cast a vote (by convention the speaker rarely casts a vote), voting in the affirmative.
Chosen as Ulysses S. Grant's running mate in the 1868 election, the pair won easily over Democratic Party nominees Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair Jr..
As was typical during the 19th century, Colfax had little involvement in the Grant administration.
In addition to his duties as President of the U.S. Senate, he continued to lecture and write for the press while in office.
In January 1871, Colfax encouraged a unified Italy to adopt a republican government that protected religious freedom and civil rights of its citizens.
Believing Grant would only serve one term, in 1870 Colfax attempted unsuccessfully to garner support for the 1872 Republican presidential nomination by telling friends and supporters he would not seek a second vice presidential term.
However, when Grant announced that he would run again, Colfax reversed himself and attempted to win the vice presidential nomination, but was defeated by Henry Wilson.
An 1872–73 Congressional investigation into the Crédit Mobilier scandal identified Colfax as one of several federal government officials who in 1868 accepted payments of cash and discounted stock from the Union Pacific Railroad in exchange for favorable action during the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
Though he vociferously defended himself against charges (and was never convicted of any wrongdoing), his reputation suffered.
Colfax left the vice presidency at the end of his term in March 1873 and never again ran for office.
Afterwards he worked as a business executive and became a popular lecturer and speech maker.
Colfax suffered a heart attack and died in a Mankato, Minnesota railroad station on January 13, 1885, en route to a speaking engagement in Iowa.
To date, he is one of only two persons to have served as both speaker of the House and vice president; the other is John Nance Garner.
Inga Markovits
Inga Markovits( born 1937 in Germany) is an American lawyer, and The Friends of Joe Jamail Regents Chair, at the University of Texas.
She is the recipient of the 2012 Ellen Maria Gorrisen Berlin Prize and is a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
Michael Jai White
Michael Richard Jai White( born November 10, 1967) is an American actor, director, and martial artist.
He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film" Spawn".
White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films" Why Did I Get Married?" and" Why Did I Get Married Too?", and starred as the character on the TBS/ OWN comedy- drama television series" Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse".
White portrayed Jax Briggs in and the Cyborg Seth in, the return.
He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television movie" Tyson".
He also played the title role in the blaxploitation parody film" Black Dynamite", as well as the animated series of the same name.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker( born October 6, 1971) is an American actor.
Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas" As the World Turns" and" All My Children", before roles in Tyler Perry's films
" Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?", and" Meet the Browns", and its television adaptation.
In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series," Greenleaf".

Question: Why did Ellen Maria Colfax's husband die?
Answer: heart attack