112th Congress, 2nd Session
March 03, 1911
On this day, Parliamentarian Asher Hinds resigned his position to become a Representative from the State of Maine.
June 19, 1962
The House moved the portrait of Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas from its longtime home to the Speaker’s Lobby.
November 16, 1962
George Maurer, reading clerk for the U. S. House of Representatives for nearly two decades, died at the age of 56.
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