• American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965?

Facts on topics related to Nelson Cruikshank

Alliance for Retired Americans

• the Alliance for Retired Americans was instrumental in enacting Medicare?

Lyndon B. Johnson

• U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
• Howard Zahniser died a few months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, after spending eight years authoring and promoting it?
• The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
• in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?

Democratic Party (United States)

• Democrat Bob Holden was the first incumbent Missouri Governor to lose a primary?
• Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav?
• Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid?
• Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election?
• New Jersey Assemblymember Jack Casey was one of many Democratic Party incumbents swept out of office in 1991 in what was called an "anti-tax tidal wave"?
• Republican Governor Bobby Jindal supported Joel Chaisson, a Democrat, to become the new president of the Louisiana State Senate?
• Republican Monty Warner called on his Democratic rival Joe Manchin to endorse George Bush for re-election during the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election?
• Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President?
• American politician Dean Alfange (pictured) held either appointments or nominations from four different political parties: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York?
• U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey (pictured) entered the 1968 presidential race too late to participate in the Democratic primaries, and had to use "favorite son" candidates as stand-ins for his campaign?

Illinois

• bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
• Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
• Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War?
• Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
• David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling?
• Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
• Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
• Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?

Rhode Island

• American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press?
• Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South?
• Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution more than a year after the new government had started operating?
• Cards Pond is among only three of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds that receives significant freshwater from streams or rivers?
• Charles R. Brayton, as political boss of Rhode Island, pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary?
• Ninigret Pond is the largest of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds?
• Trustom Pond in Rhode Island, United States is part of a National Wildlife Refuge that contains over 300 species of birds?
• according to legend, clams casino (pictured), a dish that is popular with Italian-Americans, was first created in Narragansett, Rhode Island, in 1917?
• due to certain environmental conditions, Maschaug Pond in Rhode Island is considered particularly vulnerable to storm surge?
• one of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Commuter Rail stations is located in Rhode Island?