The results of the election of 1825 in the House of Representatives. The 1825 election is unusual in that all of the candidates were from the same Democratic-Republican party, and being the only time since the passage of the Twelfth...

The results of the election of 1825 in the House of Representatives. The 1825 election is unusual in that all of the candidates were from the same Democratic-Republican party, and being the only time since the passage of the Twelfth...

A map of the United States in 1854 showing the results of the test-vote on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in the House of Representatives, which would repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allow territorial settlers to determine if...

A map of the United States showing the results of a test vote of the Compromise of 1850 in the House of Representatives. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills attempting to resolve the territorial slavery controversy following the...

A map of the United States showing the progression of suffrage prior to the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution, ratified on August 18, 1920. "The map shows the status of women suffrage, or the right of women to vote on an equality...

A plan of the ground floor of the Capitol Building from 1825. The map is keyed to show: (A) House of Representatives, 96 feet radius; (B) Senate Chamber, 75 feet radius; (C) Central Rotunda, 96 feet in diameter; (D) Library, 92 x 34...

From 1894 to 1930, this was the home of Andrew J. Volstead (1860-1947), the man who "personified prohibition." Volstead served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1903-23), where he drafted the National Prohibition Enforcement Act...

A map of the United States showing the results of the 1824 presidential election. The 1824 election is unusual in that all of the candidates were from the same Democratic-Republican party, and being the only time since the passage of the...

This was the home of attorney Roswell Field, who represented slave Dred Scott in the U.S. Supreme Court case Scott v. Sandford (1857). Also the birthplace of Field's son, author Eugene Field, the house is currently known as the Eugene...

The outside of the sarcophagus of Senbi has multicolored decorations that represent the typical facade of an ancient Egyptian house.

The lid of this naos is surmounted by a painted statue of the God Horus which might indicate that it had been used to house a mummy of a falcon. The sides of the naos are decorated by some divinities who are represented standing inside...

The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and...

(1835-1910) US representative, Speaker of the House of Representatives, senator Kentucky, and cabinet officer

(1830-1893) US representative, Speaker of the House of Representatives, senator from Maine, and secretary of state.

(1736-1802) Soldier in Revolutionary war. Later served in the House of representatives.

A portrait of Henry Clay. He was the American statesman and orator. He ran for president several times but was unsuccessful. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Secretary of State, Representative, , US Senator from Kentucky.

This is an illustration of John Quincy Adams in the House of Representatives.

Schuyler (pronounced "Sky-ler") Colfax, Jr. (March 23, 1823 - January 13, 1885) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the seventeenth Vice President of the United States.

(1830-1983) An American statesman, legislator of Maine, member of the House of Representatives of the National Congress, Speaker of the House, member of the Senate, and Secretary of State.

(1804-1869) Fourteenth President of the United States and a member in the House of Representatives and Senate.

(1777-1852) An American statesman who served in both the House of Representatives and Senate and is considered one of the five greatest Senators in American history.

(1807-1886) Diplomat and member of the House of Representatives. He was able to lobby to keep Britain neutral during the civil war.

Henry Clay, the famous American statesman and orator. He ran for president unsuccessfully several times. Speaker of the House of Representatives, US Secretary of State, Senator from Kentucky.

A nice biography of the delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Georgia who later served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate.