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    Galusha Aaron Grow (August 31, 1823 – March 31, 1907) was an American politician, lawyer, writer and businessman, who served as 24th Speaker of the U.S...
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  • actress Erica Grow, (born 1980), American meteorologist and television reporter Galusha A. Grow (1823–1907), American politician Henry Grow (1817–1891)...
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    Jonas Galusha (February 11, 1753 – September 24, 1834) was the sixth and eighth governor of Vermont for two terms in the early 19th century. Galusha, born...
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  • (1832–1918), American theologian Galusha A. Grow (1822–1907), American politician, lawyer, writer and businessman Galusha Pennypacker (1844–1916), Union...
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  • The House elects a new speaker by roll call vote when it first convenes after a general election for its two-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns...
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    his seat within a month. In 1858, he attempted to choke Representative Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania (Republican) for calling him a "negro driver" during...
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    Turpie. Among the incumbents defeated that year was Speaker of the House Galusha Grow. When the 38th Congress convened in December 1863, Colfax was elected...
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  • Archived from the original on February 11, 2018. Retrieved June 14, 2019. Galusha A. Grow: Father of the Homestead Law from Google Books "Texas Rep. Hall switches...
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  • Democrats who joined the Republican Party include Hannibal Hamlin and Galusha A. Grow. Many Southern Whigs became Democrats, though some formed the Constitutional...
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  • won a majority of the seats, and the subsequent secession of several states from the Union at the outset of the Civil War. Galusha A. Grow received a majority...
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    David Wilmot (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    from the 1850 congressional elections in favor of the more moderate Galusha A. Grow. Wilmot was President Judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas...
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  • Representative State District Date Congress Old party New party Notes Galusha A. Grow Pennsylvania 14th February–June 1856 34th Democratic Republican He...
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    a Revolutionary War veteran and was himself Governor of New Jersey from 1813 to 1815 before President Madison appointed him as a federal judge. As a member...
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    district had four seats elected on a general ticket. The 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 10th each had two seats elected on a general ticket. The rest of the districts...
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    resources and population. Meanwhile, the Union turned its growing potential advantage into a much stronger military force. However, much of the Union strength...
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  • Congressman Galusha A. Grow, no stranger to legislative violence, described the precursors thus: Crowd some hundreds of men together on a hot afternoon...
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    in 1797. The borough of Hop Bottom was formed from a part of Lenox Township in 1881. Galusha A. Grow, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives...
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    Rogers, a Republican from Kentucky, who has served in the House since 1981. The dean is a symbolic post, whose only customary duty is to swear in a speaker...
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    Susquehanna County Courthouse Complex (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
    1887 American Civil War memorial, a 1915 monument to Galusha A. Grow (1822-1903), an early surveyor's marker, and a 1930s Veterans' memorial). It was...
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    George Shiras III (January 1, 1859 – March 24, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania and nature photographer who pioneered the...
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    He was the first Speaker of the House in over a century since Galusha Grow in 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington...
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    Solomon Foot (R) Republican Conference Chairman: John P. Hale Speaker: Galusha A. Grow (R) This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed...
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  • and 1867–1877) and United States Secretary of War (1861–1862) 1856 – Galusha A. Grow, while U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1851–1863 and 1894–1903)...
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    considered to be gerrymandered by the Republican-controlled state legislature as a heavily Democratic district. It consisted of all of Greene County, and parts...
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    for communicating the party's message to members. The Conference produces a daily publication of political analysis under the title Legislative Digest...
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  • supported Radical Reconstruction and civil rights for African Americans Galusha A. Grow: representative from Pennsylvania and Speaker of the House 1861 to...
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    1851 – March 3, 1853 32nd Elected in 1850. Retired due to ill health. Galusha A. Grow (Glenwood) Democratic March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857 33rd 34th 35th...
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    Republican Representative Galusha Grow during an argument on the floor of the U.S. House. When the Civil War began, he served as a deputy of the Provisional...
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    The Committee on Education and the Workforce is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. There are 45 members of this committee...
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    Locks) Galusha A. Grow (Ashford) Lyman Hall (Wallingford) Hope Hicks (Greenwich) Titus Hosmer (Middletown) Samuel Huntington (Windham) Robert A. Hurley...
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