Barbara Jordan (1936)
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician, lawyer, and educator. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the…
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Tom Cochrane (1953)
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Peter Lever (1940)
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Kick Smit (1911)
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Dave Garroway (1913)
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Jacques Brassard (1940)
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