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Political Science STUDY NOTES

Samuel Adams

Born in Boston

Dad owned a brewing business

Attended Harvard and graduated in 1740

Tax collector in Boston

Married to Elizabeth Checkley in 1749 (6 kids 2 survived) and passed in 1757

Remarried

Passed the Sugar Act 1764

Stamp Act passed in 1765

Served until 1774

1769 leadership of the radicals

Lost the first congressional election

Governor from 1794-1797

Died October 2nd 1803 in Boston

Influential writer

King George the III

June 4th 1738

England

Close to the British royal family

Private tutors

Favorite subject

Went to Oxford Christ Church

Went to the military and had a title in the 60th regiment

Became king

Oct 25th 1760

Only 22 when crowned

Married queen Charlotte

15 children

Had dementia blindness general physical decline

“Farmer George”

Thomas Paine

Born in 1737 England

Dad is a corseter

Can read and write

Tried many different careers

Moves to Pennsylvania

Met benjamin franklin

Almost died on a trip, editor as PA magazine

Wrote Common Sense in 1775

Wrote American crisis

Moved back to England

Wrote the rights of man

Met napoleon

Returned to America in 1802

Died in 1809 in NYC

James Monroe saved Thomas

Betsy Ross

Lived in Pennsylvania

Quaker public school

Made the American flag

Married Ashburn

2 daughters one died married many people

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Born into a poor family in Auburn CA in 1933

Dead beat dad

Delinquent

Did judo

Highschool judo
Joined U.S. Airforce reacher airman second class

Graduated 1957 degree in PE and fine arts

Teacher rancher jewelry

Transferred jewelry

Got into politics by accident

Colorado state leglature

HOR as democrat

US senate 1992

Became republican 1995

Mitch McConnell R

February 20th Sheffield Alabama

Grew up in Athens Alabama

Paralyzed in the upper left leg

Graduated University of Louisville with B.A. in political science

Enlisted in the Army reserve

Discharged in 1967 optical neuritis

Majority Whip 2003-2007

Minority Leader 2007 to 2015

Longest serving in Senate party

Majority leader 2015-2021

81 years old

Steve Scalise

Born October 6th

Louisiana state university

B.S. degree in computer science

Became a software engineer then later became a marketing executive for a technology company

SHOR- 1996-2008

Majority whip, minority whip

Got shot in the hip while practicing for congressional baseball game

Current majority leader

Attempting to become speaker of the house

Republican

Martha Washington

John Fetterman

Born July 15 1969

Gew up in upper middle class

Worked insurance after graduate school

Teached GED Classes

Settled Braddock easten suburn in pittsburgh

Elected mayor of Braddock in 2006 until 2019

Ran for U.S. Senate in 2016

Lieutenante governor of pennsylvania in 2018

Entered senate race in 2022

He is 6 foot 8

Hirmal Rhodes Revels

Fayetteville North carolina 1827

Parents were not slaveseducator clergyman and politician traveled indiana and illinois

Knox college 1855-1857

Had 6 children

Helped list African Americans into the army

Settled war in Mississippi

Alderman in 1868

State senate (republican)

Left Senate in 1871

President of Alcorn State uni in 1872

Dismissed in 1874

Helped overturn the corrupt government in 1875

Became chief of Alcorn in 1876

Retired in 1882

Died paralytic stroke in 1901

First African American senator

Rashida Tlaib said something anti-Israel

G7(7 biggest economies) gaa conflict and Ukraine

Jeanette Rankin

Born June 11th 1880 in Missoula County

Grew up in the Montana territory

Parent: John and Olivia Rankin

Graduated in 1902 - Biology

Joined women's suffrage movement in 1902

1916 was elected a seat in the House of Representatives

Brother Wellington financed her campaign

Republican

Ran as a progressive

Died May 18th 1973 at 92

“The original dove in congress”

Opposed the declaration of war