112th Congress, 2nd Session
June 30, 1913
On this date, Lindley Beckworth of Texas, the youngest Member of the 76th Congress (1939–1941), was born in rural Kaufman County, Texas.
January 13, 1955
Grace Jackson Clark, an unemployed stenographer from New Kensington, Pennsylvania, walked uninvited onto the House Floor to ask Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas for time to address the chamber.
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