American Decades
Deaths
Ralph Henry Ackerman, 64, U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic (1948-1952), 12 January 1957.
Warren R. Austin, 78, U.S. Ambasador to the United Nations (1946-1954) October 1956.
William Augustus Ayres, 84, congressman (D.) from Kansas (1915-1921, 1923-1935), and member of Federal Trade Commission (1934-1951), 17 February 1952.
Robert M. Barnett, 57, U.S. government personnel expert and liaison officer with the International Labor Organization, 1 January 1953.
Roy Hood Beeler, 72, Tennessee attorney general since 1932, 23 September 1954.
Charles Wayland Brooks, 59, U.S. senator from Illinois (R) from 1939-1948, 14 January 1957.
Joseph R. Bryson, 60, congressman (D) from South Carolina, 10 March 1953.
William Thomas Byrne, 75, congressman (D.) from New York (1935-1951), 27 January 1952.
David D. Caldwell, 83, special...
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1950's Government and Politics
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Cold War: The Bomb
- Cold War: The Korean Conflict
- Cold War: Sputnik
- Government and Business
- Government and Education
- Nationagl Politics: Election 1950
- National Politics: Republican Primaries and Convention 1952
- National Politics: Democratic Primaries and Convention 1952
- National Politics: Election 1952
- National Politics: Election 1954
- National Pollitics: Democratic Primaries and Convention 1956
- National Politics: Republican Convention 1956
- National Politics: Election 1956
- National Politics: Election 1958
- The Press and the Presidency
- Spending and the Federal Government
- Spending at the State and Local Levels
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Government and Politics, 1950–1959
