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First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville, Tennessee (1835- )
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Analysis | The playbook is familiar as first-time candidate with military record gives GOP a shot at House seat
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(1850) Lucy Stanton, “A Plea for the Oppressed”
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Flake, Floyd Harold (1945- )
Floyd Harold Flake was born to Robert Flake, Sr. and Rosie Lee Johnson-Flake on January 30, 1945 in Los Angeles, California. Flake, though born in California, grew up in Houston, Texas and attended public schools there until his move to Ohio to attend Wilberforce University.  He graduated from
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