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Glenn Robert Davis (October 28, 1914 – September 21, 1988) was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Wisconsin's Second Congressional District from April 22, 1947 to January 3, 1957, and Wisconsin's Ninth Congressional District from January 3, 1965 to December 31, 1974.
Davis was born on a small farm to a poor family in Vernon, Wisconsin. He excelled academically despite pressure from his father to forsake school for farming. He skipped several grades and was a teacher of the younger children in his one-room school house before graduating—three years early—from Mukwonago High School in 1930, at age 15.
Davis attended the Platteville State Teachers College (now the University of Wisconsin–Platteville) with a donation from his mother (who had been hiding the money from her husband for just such an occasion). He majored in education and went on to teach high school at Cottage Grove and Waupun for five years. Davis then went back to school, earning a law degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1940.
Abraham Lincoln i/ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator in the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1840s. After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party nomination. With almost no support in the South he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederate States of America. The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found. And the war came.
Angela Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA and Black Panther Party, and through her association with the Civil Rights Movement. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of "Critical Resistance", an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons.
Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She was tried and acquitted of suspected involvement in the Soledad brothers' August 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California.
It's Been a Long, Long, Long, Longtime
I Tried To Forget You Girl
But I Can't Get You Off My Mind
It's Been a Long, Long, Long, Longtime
They Say Good Things Come To An End
But I Just Want To Keep You Mine
Heaven's so lonely
Since you've been gone away
I know that it's only
Been just a couple of days
Oh how I'm wishing
To hear you call out my name
It's you that I'm Missin'
In every single way
It's Been a Long, Long, Long, Longtime
I Tried To Forget You Girl
But I Can't Get You Off My Mind
It's Been a Long, Long, Long, Longtime
They Say Good Things Come To An End
But I Just Want To Keep You Mine
Time moves so slowly
It seems to stand still
I know that it's only
A climb up that long, long hill
I can't change what has been
And I don't want to lose you again
If love is worth winning
I'm right here and singing
It's Been a Long, Long, Long, Longtime
I Tried To Forget You Girl
But I Can't Get You Off My Mind
It's Been a Long, Long, Long, Longtime
They Say Good Things Come To An End
But I Just Want To Keep You Mine
Let's put it back like it was
And please don't say just because
Life's short don't wait anymore
Come back and walk through that door
It feels like a lifetime
Since you have been mine
Lord you are so fine
I'm going out of my mind
It's Been a Long, Long, Long, Longtime
I Tried To Forget You Girl
But I Can't Get You Off My Mind
It's Been a Long, Long, Long, Longtime
They Say Good Things Come To An End
But I Just Want To Keep You Mine
Long, Long, Long, Longtime
Long, Long, Long, Longtime