Political Party – Republican Party
John C. Asbury (1862-1941)
Attorney John C. Asbury, originally named John Cornelius Asbury, was born on April 9, 1862, in West Middletown, Pennsylvania. He...
Benjamin S. Carson (1951- )
Benjamin S. Carson, neurosurgeon and Republican Presidential Candidate in 2016, was born on September 18, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan. Carson...
George F. Bowles (1844-1899)
George F. Bowles, born enslaved in 1844 in Charleston, South Carolina, was one of the most prominent figures in Reconstruction...
John Edward James (1981-)
John Edward James, an Iraq War Veteran and Tea Party conservative Republican, is currently a member of Congress from Michigan’s...
Peter Crosby (1844-1884)
Peter Crosby was born in 1844 and lived twenty years in Clark County, Mississippi. He moved to Vicksburg in 1864...
Wesley Parish Hunt (1981-)
Wesley Parish Hunt, a Republican member of Congress from Texas, was born on November 13, 1981, in Houston, Texas, to...
Herschel Junior Walker (1962-)
Herschel Junior Walker, a former football running back, was the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in...
Charles Banks (1873-1923)
Booker T. Washington once called Charles Banks the “most influential businessman in the United States” and Mississippi’s “leading Negro Banker.”...
The Jaybird-Woodpecker War (1888-1889)
The Jaybird-Woodpecker War was a conflict between two political factions in Fort Bend County, Texas. The origin of the conflict...
