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The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023 is proposed voting rights legislation named after civil rights activist John Lewis.The bill would restore and strengthen parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, most notably its requirement for states and jurisdictions with a history of voting rights violations to seek federal approval before enacting certain changes to their voting laws. [1]
Lewisville (/ ˈ l uː ɪ s v ɪ l / LOO-iss-vil) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Denton County with portions extending into Dallas County.As one of the Mid-Cities within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the 2020 census reported a population of 111,822.
Undated portrait. John Strother Griffin (1816–1898) was a surgeon attached to the General Stephen W. Kearney expedition from New Mexico to California, a landowner and founder of East Los Angeles, and a member of the Common Council of the city of Los Angeles, where he was one of the first university-trained physicians to settle.
A native of the Texas Panhandle, David Glenn Lewis was born on December 11, 1953, in Borger, near Amarillo.After graduating from Phillips High School, he attended Texas Tech, graduating in 1975 with a degree in political science, following that with a law degree from Tech in 1979.
West was born in Brooklyn, New York or Madison, Wisconsin to a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant father and a mother who taught piano. [3] [4] He grew up in poverty in Madison. [4]He subsequently attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison for a year [4] and, after completing prerequisite coursework at the University of Iowa under the aegis of the Army Specialized Training Program during World War ...
On September 28, 1957, Joan married Dr. John Hill, [10] [11] described by the Houston Chronicle as "one of the city's leading plastic surgeons". [2] John Hill in 1956. John Robert Hill (1931–1972) was the second of three children born to farmer Robert Raymond Hill, and his wife, Myra Hannah (Rice) Hill, of Edcouch, Texas.
Gaddis is probably the best known historian writing in English about the Cold War. [16] Perhaps his most famous work is the highly influential Strategies of Containment (1982; rev. 2005), [17] which analyzes in detail the theory and practice of containment that was employed against the Soviet Union by Cold War American presidents, but his 1983 distillation of post-revisionist scholarship ...
Huey Lewis was born in New York City. [1] His father, Hugh Anthony Cregg Jr., was an Irish-American from Boston , and his mother, Maria Magdalena Barcinska, was Polish, from Warsaw . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His grandfather, Hugh Cregg , was district attorney of Essex County, Massachusetts from 1931 to 1959.