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Official account of History, Art & Archives of the U.S. House of Representatives. Specific inquiries: history @mail .house.gov.
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Teachers and students, this year's
@NationalHistory
Day material is available! Check out House of Reps content to inspire and assist with your contest submission for the "Rights and Responsibilities" theme.
#HistoryBlog
#NationalHistoryDay
#sschat
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He played pro baseball and danced the Charleston on the Cannon steps. Rep Thomas McMillan of
#SC
died
#OTD
1939. 📷:
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Rep Patsy Mink of
#HI
, the first woman of color elected to Congress, died
#OTD
2002.
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Rep Eben Martin of
#SD
asked Speaker Joe Cannon for a "lesser" committee assignment
#OTD
1905.
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#OTD
1962, the House unveiled a portrait of Banking Committee Chairman Brent Spence of
#KY
.
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Taken from the Goodyear Blimp, this photograph showed
@USCapitol
and House office buildings, in September 1941.
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#OTD
1789, the First Congress sent 12 Constitutional amendments to the states for ratification. 10 of them became the
#BillofRights
, but one took more than 200 years to be ratified. The 27th Amendment to the Constitution wasn't approved until 1992.
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#OTD
1917 the House created a Committee on Woman Suffrage. This petition urged its creation.
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Speaker Foley's dog Alice roamed the halls of the House in 1989.
#HouseCollection
#DogsInPolitics
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Isabella Greenway, Arizona's first woman in Congress, was an entrepreneurial frontierswoman whose business offered employment opportunities for veterans.
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Kika de la Garza, born
#OTD
in 1927 in South Texas, bringing corn and cows to his
#HouseCollection
portrait.
#HispanicHeritageMonth
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"I am Sue Kelly, I am running for Congress, I'm a small businesswoman, just like you."
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Peruvian President Manuel Prado spoke before a Joint Meeting of Congress
#OTD
in 1961.
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"There is no room in the United States of America for second-class citizenship." Portrait of 1st Asian American Rep Dalip Saund of
#CA
, born
#OTD
in 1899.
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@Pirates
honors another, “power hitting...blazing base-running...amazing ability as a fielder."
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Arrr! Here be a privateer who helped craft the modern American flag!
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#HistoryBlog
📷:
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