Historical records matching Bill Emerson, U.S. Congress
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About Bill Emerson, U.S. Congress
Norvell William 'Bill' Emerson
- https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/E000174
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2014673669/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/24/us/rep-bill-emerson-is-dead-at-5...
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8216/norvell-william-emerson
Emerson was an American politician from Missouri. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death from lung cancer in Bethesda, Maryland in 1996. He was succeeded in the House by his widow, Jo Ann Emerson. Emerson was a Republican.
Legacy The Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge, which crosses the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, is named after him, as is Emerson Hall, the main assembly room in the House Page School in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress and Emerson Hall, an upperclass residence hall at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, his alma mater.
The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996 was named after the congressman, who fought for the proposal but died of cancer before it was passed. This act encourages the donation of food and grocery products to nonprofit organizations for distribution to needy individuals by protecting donors from liability when donating to a nonprofit organization, so long as the product is donated in "good faith," even if it later causes harm to the needy recipient.
The national Food Security Wheat Reserve (1980–1996), later expanded to the Food Security Commodity Reserve (1996–1998), was renamed the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust (1998–) in his memory.
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Bill Emerson, U.S. Congress's Timeline
| 1938 |
January 1, 1938
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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| 1996 |
June 22, 1996
Age 58
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Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
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Hillsboro Cemetery, 584 Vreeland Road, Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri, 63050, United States
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