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| x Neil Abercrombie |
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Neil Abercrombie (born June 26, 1938) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Hawaii's 1st congressional district (map) since 1991. He is running for the office of Governor of Hawaii in the upcoming 2010...
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| x Gary Ackerman |
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Gary Leonard Ackerman (born November 19, 1942) is an American politician, presently serving his thirteenth term in the United States House of Representatives. Ackerman represents the Fifth Congressional District of New York, encompassing the North...
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| x Robert Aderholt |
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Robert Brown Aderholt (born July 22, 1965) is an American politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing Alabama's 4th congressional district (map). The district includes most of the far...
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| x Daniel Kahikina Akaka |
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Daniel Kahikina Akaka (born September 11, 1924) is the junior U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is currently the only member of the Senate who has Chinese...
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| x Todd Akin |
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W. Todd Akin (born July 5, 1947), is an American politician from the U.S. state of Missouri currently serving his fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. A Republican, he represents Missouri's 2nd congressional district (map), which...
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| x Lamar Alexander |
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Andrew Lamar Alexander (born July 3, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and Conference Chair of the Republican Party. He was previously the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, U.S. Secretary of Education from 1991 to...
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| x Rodney Alexander |
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Rodney McKinnie Alexander (born December 5, 1946) is an American politician currently affiliated with the Republican Party. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003. He represents the 5th District of Louisiana,...
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| x Wayne Allard |
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Alan Wayne Allard (born December 2, 1943) is a member of the Republican Party, and was a United States Senator from Colorado. He did not seek re-election in 2008.
Allard was born in Fort Collins, Colorado to Sibyl Jean Stewart and Amos Wilson Allard...
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| x Thomas Allen |
Thomas Allen (born 1945) currently represents Maine's First Congressional District in the US House of Representatives. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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| x Jason Altmire |
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Jason Altmire (born March 7, 1968) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania's Fourth Congressional district.
Altmire was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Lower Burrell,...
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| x Rob Andrews |
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Robert Andrews (born 1957) currently represents New Jersey's First Congressional District in the US House of Representatives. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Serving in his 9th term in Congress, Congressman Andrews represents a district...
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| x Mike Arcuri |
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Michael Angelo "Mike" Arcuri (born June 11, 1959) is presently serving his second term in the United States House of Representatives. Arcuri represents New York's 24th congressional district. The district encompasses a large swath of central New...
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| x Joe Baca |
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Jose Baca (born January 23, 1947), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing California's 43rd congressional district (map).
Joe Baca, as he is usually known, has...
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| x Michele Bachmann |
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Michele Marie Amble Bachmann (born April 6, 1956) is the United States Representative of Minnesota's 6 congressional district and member of the Republican Party. She is the third woman and first Republican woman to represent Minnesota in Congress....
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| x Spencer Bachus |
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Spencer Thomas Bachus III (born December 28, 1947), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing Alabama's 6th congressional district. The district includes the whiter,...
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| x Brian Baird |
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Brian Norton Baird (born March 7, 1956) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Washington.
Brian Baird has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing Washington's 3rd congressional...
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| x Tammy Baldwin |
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Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) is an American politician, and has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district.
Baldwin was born to...
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| x John Barrasso |
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John Anthony Barrasso (born July 21, 1952) is the junior U.S. Senator from Wyoming. A Republican, he was appointed by Democratic Governor Dave Freudenthal to succeed the late Craig L. Thomas, taking office on June 25, 2007. He won a special election...
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| x J. Gresham Barrett |
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James Gresham Barrett (born February 14, 1961) is an American politician from South Carolina. Since 2003, Barrett has served as a Republican U.S. Representative, representing South Carolina's 3rd congressional district, which runs along the Savannah...
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| x John Barrow |
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John Jenkins Barrow (born October 31, 1955), American politician, is currently a Democratic Congressman from Georgia's 12th District. The district stretches along the eastern portion of the state, from Augusta to Savannah. Barrow is a Blue Dog...
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| x Roscoe Bartlett |
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Roscoe Gardner Bartlett (born June 3, 1926) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 6th district of Maryland since 1993. He is currently the sole Republican member of the U.S. Congress (in either house)...
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| x Joe Barton |
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Joseph Linus "Joe" Barton (born September 15, 1949) is a Republican politician, representing Texas's 6th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1985.
Barton was born in Waco, Texas to Bess Wynell Buice and Larry...
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| x Max Baucus |
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Max Sieben Baucus (born December 11, 1941) is the senior U.S. Senator from Montana and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the current chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and is influential in the debate over health care...
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| x Evan Bayh |
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Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III (pronounced /ˈbaɪ/, like "by"; born December 26, 1955) is an American Democratic politician who has served as the junior U.S. Senator from Indiana since 1999 and earlier served as Governor of Indiana.
Bayh first held...
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| x Melissa Bean |
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Melissa Luburić Bean (born on January 22, 1962), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2004, representing Illinois's 8th congressional district. The district includes parts of the...
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| x Xavier Becerra |
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Xavier Becerra (born January 26, 1958) is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing California's 31st congressional district (map), which is based in Los Angeles....
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| x Robert Foster Bennett |
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Robert Foster "Bob" Bennett (born September 18, 1933) is the Junior Senator from Utah and a member of the Republican Party. In 2006, Bennett was tapped to serve on the Senate Republican Leadership Council as counsel to the Minority Leader, United...
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| x Shelley Berkley |
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Rochelle "Shelley" Berkley (born Rochelle Levine January 20, 1951) is a politician from Las Vegas, and has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing the First Congressional District of Nevada,...
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| x Howard Berman |
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Howard Lawrence Berman (born April 15, 1941) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983, representing the 28th District of California (map). He was born in Los Angeles, California, was educated at the...
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| x Marion Berry |
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Robert Marion Berry (born August 27 1942) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Arkansas's 1st congressional district. Prior to his first election to the House of Representatives in 1997 Berry served on...
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| x Joe Biden |
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Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (pronounced /ˈdʒoʊzɨf rɒbɨˈnɛt ˈbaɪdən/; born November 20, 1942), is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States under the administration of President Barack Obama. He was a United States Senator from...
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| x Judy Biggert |
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Judith Borg "Judy" Biggert (born August 15, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing Illinois's 13th congressional district (map).
Judy...
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| x Brian Bilbray |
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Brian Phillip Bilbray (born January 28, 1951) is a U.S. Republican politician, who is a member of the United States House of Representatives, first serving from 1995 to 2001, representing California's 49th congressional district. After that, he was...
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| x Gus Bilirakis |
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Gus Michael Bilirakis (born February 8, 1963 in Gainesville, Florida) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 9th congressional district. Bilirakis was elected to replace his father, Mike Bilirakis, who did...
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| x Jeff Bingaman |
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Jesse Francis "Jeff" Bingaman, Jr. (born October 3, 1943), is the senior U.S. Senator from New Mexico. He has been in the Senate since 1983 and is a member of the Democratic Party. Bingaman was Attorney General of New Mexico from 1978 until his...
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| x Rob Bishop |
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Robert William "Rob" Bishop (born July 13, 1951) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He is the representative for 1st district of Utah (map). He served on the Rules Committee until the 2006 elections.
Bishop was...
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| x Sanford Bishop |
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Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. (born February 4, 1947) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 2nd District of Georgia (map). The district is located in the southwestern part of the state and...
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| x Tim Bishop |
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Timothy H. "Tim" Bishop (born June 1, 1950) is a politician from New York and the current Congressman for New York's 1st congressional district, which includes most of Central and Eastern Suffolk County, including most of Smithtown, as well as the...
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| x Marsha Blackburn |
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Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburn (born June 6, 1952 in Laurel, Mississippi) is a Tennessee politician. As member of the Republican Party, she represents Tennessee's 7th congressional district since 2003, which stretches from the suburbs of Nashville to...
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| x Earl Blumenauer |
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Earl Blumenauer (born August 16, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, he spent over 20 years as a public official representing the city before winning election to the United States House of...
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| x Roy Blunt |
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Roy D. Blunt (born January 10, 1950) is an American member of Congress from Missouri. He represents Missouri's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, which takes in most of Southwest Missouri, the most conservative part of...
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| x John Boehner |
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John Andrew Boehner (pronounced /ˈbeɪnər/, BAY-nər; born November 17, 1949) is a conservative Republican American politician who is currently serving as the House Minority Leader in the 111th Congress. He serves as a U.S. Representative from Ohio's...
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| x Kit Bond |
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Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond (born March 6, 1939) is a former governor and current senior United States Senator from Missouri. He has been in the Senate since 1987 and is a member of the Republican Party. He announced on January 8, 2009 that he...
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| x Josiah Bonner |
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Josiah Robins (Jo) Bonner, Jr. (born November 19, 1959), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing Alabama's 1st congressional district.
Bonner was born in Selma, Alabama...
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| x Mary Bono Mack |
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Mary Bono Mack (born October 24, 1961) is an American politician, and since 1998 has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 45th congressional district. The district, numbered as the 44th...
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| x John Boozman |
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John Boozman (born December 10, 1950) is an American politician who has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing Arkansas's 3rd congressional district (map). The district is located in the...
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| x Dan Boren |
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David Daniel "Dan" Boren (born August 2, 1973) is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Oklahoma, representing Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives (map). The district includes most of the eastern part...
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| x Leonard Boswell |
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Leonard L. Boswell (born January 10, 1934) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing the 3rd District of Iowa (map). The district is based in Des Moines.
Boswell was born in Missouri, and was...
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| x Rick Boucher |
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Frederick Carlyle "Rick" Boucher (born August 1, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia's 9th congressional District (map).
Boucher is a native of Abingdon, Virginia, where he currently lives...
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| x Charles Boustany |
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Charles William Boustany, Jr. (born February 21, 1956) represents Louisiana's historically Democratic 7th congressional district as a Republican, serving since 2005.
Boustany (pronounced boo-STAN-ie) won an open race in 2004, when Christopher "Chris...
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| x Barbara Boxer |
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Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is an American Democratic politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the State of California. She holds the record for the most popular votes in a statewide contested election in California,...
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| x Allen Boyd |
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F. Allen Boyd Jr. (born June 6, 1945) is an American politician, and has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing Florida's 2nd congressional district (map). His district includes all of Bay,...
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| x Nancy Boyda |
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Nancy Boyda (born August 2, 1955) was a Democratic congresswoman representing Kansas's 2nd congressional district.
On November 4, 2008, Boyda was defeated for re-election by Kansas State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, after serving one term.
Following her...
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| x Kevin Brady |
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Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 8th congressional district (map). The district includes a large swath of...
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| x Robert A. Brady |
Robert A. Brady (1901 – 1963) was an American economist who analyzed the dynamics of technological change and the structure of business enterprise. Brady developed a potent analysis of fascism and other emerging authoritarian economic and cultural...
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| x Bruce Braley |
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Bruce Braley (born October 30, 1957) is the Democratic Congressman for Iowa's first Congressional District, first elected in the 2006 election. The district lies in northeastern Iowa and includes Davenport, Bettendorf, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Dubuque...
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| x Paul Broun |
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Paul Collins Broun, Jr. (born May 14, 1946) is a Republican United States Representative from Georgia's 10th congressional district. He is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee and the House Science & Technology Committee.
Broun was born...
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| x Corrine Brown |
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Corrine Brown (born November 11, 1946) an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing Florida's 3rd congressional district. The district includes parts of Duval, Clay,...
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| x Henry E. Brown, Jr. |
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Henry Edward Brown, Jr. (born December 20, 1935) is a politician and from the U.S. state of South Carolina, currently representing the state's 1st congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. The district is based in...
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| x Sherrod Brown |
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Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from the state of Ohio, and a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, Brown served as a member of the House of Representatives from...
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