Ashington
Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the 2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is 15 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the south by the River Wansbeck.
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Elizabeth Keckley
American seamstress
Roger B. Taney
Former Chief Justice of the United States
Felix Frankfurter
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Robert H. Jackson
Former United States Attorney General
Earl Warren
Former Governor of California
John Marshall Harlan
Former Attorney General of Kentucky
Fernando Charry Lara
Poet
Shirley Horn
American jazz pianist
Marjorie Merriweather Post
American businesswoman
Richard Holbrooke
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Anthony Hecht
American poet
Emile Berliner
German-American inventor
Joseph Henry
American developer
Ernest Everett Just
Biologist
Jan Karski
Polish soldier
Evalyn Walsh McLean
American socialite
Charles Sumner
Former United States Senator
Allen Dulles
Former United States Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Richard Helms
Former DCI
James Jesus Angleton
Investigator
Marion Barry
Former Mayor of the District of Columbia
John Fairfield
Former Governor of Maine
Nelson Dingley Jr.
Former Governor of Maine
Sidney Perham
Former Governor of Maine
Dorothy Height
American activist
Mal Whitfield
American athlete
Chandra Levy
Jim Jeffords
Former U.S. senator
John Moors Cabot
Former United States Ambassador to Brazil
Charles E. Bohlen
Former United States Ambassador to France
Alfred B. Mullett
American architect
Sandy Berger
Former United States National Security Advisor
Morrie Ryskind
American dramatist
Thomas Gore
Former United States Senator
Clifford P. Case
Former member of the U. S. Senate
William Warren Barbour
Former United States Senator
Kenneth Waltz
American political scientist
Robert M. La Follette
Former Governor of Wisconsin
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Poet
Anna J. Cooper
American author
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Former member of the United States Senate
Henry Wilson
Former Vice President of the United States
John Sherman
Former United States Secretary of State
Edwin Stanton
Former United States Attorney General
Charles Wilkes
American naval officer
Charles Hamilton Houston
American lawyer
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
American educator
