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National Archives, William Livingston First Governor of New Jersey 1776-1790, National Archives, No date given

William Livingston 1723 - 1790, served as the Governor of New Jersey 1776 - 1790, during the American Revolutionary War and was a signer of the United…

Tags: Governor, Library, New Jersey, Poems, Poetry, US Constitution, William Livingston

Records of the National Woman's Party, Margaret B. Laird - Elected to New Jersey Assembly- 1920, Library of Congress, Circa 1916-1920

Mrs. Margaret B. Laird was for four years treasurer N.J. Branch National Woman's Party. The origins of the National Woman's Party (NWP) date from…

Tags: Margaret B. Laird, New Jersey, Women, Women's Suffrage

Smithsonian-led Team of 3-D Digital Imaging Specialists, Smithsonian 3-D Portrait of President Barack Obama, First African-American U.S. President, Smithsonian Institution, 12/02/2014

People have always sought to document their leaders with the best technology available in their time, and the Smithsonian collects the results of…

Tags: 3D, 3D Portrait, African-American, Barack Obama, National Portrait Gallery, Obama, Presidents, Smithsonian

Unknown, 1928-1929 Octaviano Larrazolo - First Hispanic American U.S. Senator, Library of Congress, 1919

Octaviano Larrazolo was the first Hispanic to serve in the United States Senate and was in office during the Seventieth Congress 12/07/ 1928 –…

Tags: Hispanic, New Mexico, Octaviano Larrazolo, Texas, US Senator, Welfare, Women's Suffrage

Unknown, 1959 - 1977 Hiram Leong Fong - First Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate, Library of Congress, c. 1960-1970

Senator Hiram Leong Fong became one of Hawaii’s first two U.S. Senators in 1959, upon the state’s admission to the Union. The son of Chinese…

Tags: Asian American, Civil Rights, Hawaii, Hiram Leong Fong, Immigration Reform, US Senator, Voting Rights

US Library of Congress, 1907 - 1925 Robert Latham Owen - First US Senator of Native American Descent, Library of Congress, c. 1910 Dec. 31

Oklahoma Sen. Robert L. Owen (1907-1925) was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1856, to Robert Owen, president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railway,…

Tags: Child Labor Act, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Act, Native American, Oklahoma, Robert Latham Owen, US Senator

Jeannette Rankin, First Woman in the United States Congress

Jeannette Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) is often remembered primarily for being the first woman elected into the U.S. Congress. However, her…

Tags: Congress, Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin, Montana, Pacifism, War, Women