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Donald Gene Davis (born August 29, 1971) [1] is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2023. [2] A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the 5th district in the North Carolina Senate from 2013 to 2023. Davis was first elected to the post in 2008, representing Pitt ...
Rod Paige. Roderick Raynor Paige (born June 17, 1933) served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, moved from college football coach and classroom teacher to college dean and school superintendent to be the first African American to serve as the U.S. education chief.
Russell Carlos Davis (August 13, 1922 – October 16, 1993) was an American politician and the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, from 1969 to 1977. He was a Democrat. Early life. Russell Carlos Davis was born on August 13, 1922, in Rockville, Maryland, to Roy E. Davis (1890–1937), a landscaper.
Mrs. Davis is an American science fiction comedy drama television limited series created by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof for Peacock. The series stars Betty Gilpin as a nun using her faith to take on technology, and a supporting cast including Jake McDorman , Margo Martindale , David Arquette and Elizabeth Marvel .
Ronald V. Myers, Sr. (born February 29, 1956 – September 7, 2018) was an American physician, Baptist minister, musician, and civil rights activist. He was the founder and chairman of several organizations active in the modern movement to promote the holiday Juneteenth. He worked in the field of medicine, providing care to poor rural residents ...
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field.
The use of # as an abbreviation for "number" is common in informal writing, but use in print is rare. [44] Where Americans might write "Symphony #5", British and Irish people usually write "Symphony No. 5". [citation needed] When # is after a number, it is read as "pound" or "pounds", meaning the unit of weight.
References. List of former members of the Mississippi State Senate. The Mississippi State Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature. [1] It first met in 1817 and currently has 52 members in each session. [1] Sources used in list. 1817-1916 [2] 1888 [3] 1900-1904 [4]