More than 1,800 people who served in the U.S. Congress in the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries owned human beings at some point in their lives, according to a Washington Post investigation of ...

Federalist members of Congress considered overturning the election; thousands of people surrounded the Capitol to learn the outcome; and an extended, agonizing tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr ...

This has largely been the case going back to the early 1800s, when the median age of American was about 17 years old — and the median age of a member of Congress was 44. For the bulk of the 19th ...