People from Lewis County, West Virginia - Rush D. Holt, JR., Fred Wyant, Andrew Edmiston, JR., William Thomas Bland, Red Edwards (Paperback)

Chapters: Rush D. Holt, Jr., Fred Wyant, Andrew Edmiston, Jr., William Thomas Bland, Red Edwards, Michael Genevie, Russ Bailey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rush Dew Holt, Jr. (born October 15, 1948, Weston, West Virginia) is an American Democratic Party politician and the current U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. He is currently the only Quaker in the Congress. He has also been rated as one of the eight most liberal members of the House of Representatives. Rush D. Holt was born to Rush D. Holt Sr., who served as a United States Senator for West Virginia (19351941), and his wife Helen Holt, the first woman to be appointed West Virginia Secretary of State (19571959). Holt Sr. was the youngest person ever to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, at age 29. He died of cancer when Rush was six years old. Holt graduated with a B.A. degree in physics from Carleton College in Minnesota, and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from New York University. The title of his doctoral dissertation is "Calcium absorption lines and solar activity: a systematic program of observations" and is available from University Microfilms International as document number 8127915. Holt served as a faculty member at Swarthmore College from 1980 to 1988 where he taught physics, public policy, and religion courses. During that time, he also worked as a Congressional Science Fellow for U.S. Representative Bob Edgar of Pennsylvania. From 1987 until 1989, Holt headed the Nuclear and Scientific Division of the Office of Strategic Forces at the U.S. Department of State. From 1989 until his successful congressional campaign in 1998, Holt was the Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University, the Univ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=647787