How many members are there in the U.S. Senate?
There are two members from each state for a total of 100 in the U.S. Senate.
Warren G. Harding was the first president to speak over the radio, on June 14, 1922.
In 1824, the candidates the last time the presidential election went to the House of Representatives were Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay. Jackson won a plurality of both the electoral and popular votes, but not a majority in the Electoral College. In accord with the Constitution, the election was…
The U.S. frontier officially closed in 1890. That was the year in which the Bureau of the Census announced there was no difference between frontier and settlement, meaning that the frontier was now closed.
The gold and silver ore deposit called the Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859 in what is now Virginia City, Nevada.
Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps during John F. Kennedy’s term (1961-63), was Kennedy’s brother-in-law.
The first party platform was negotiated by the Democratic Party for the 1840 election.