Lynchburg
Americannoun
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The “country editor,” as the Lynchburg, Va., native styled himself, was elected to Congress in 1902, later becoming the chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
“That’s our genre,” he said in a 2011 interview with the News and Advance in Lynchburg, Va., near his home on a 362-acre horse farm.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
In her poems, Brown, who has cerebral palsy, wrestles with the reality of being raised in the shadow of one of the infamous eugenics hospital founded by DeJarnette in Lynchburg, VA.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024
Capitol and addressed thousands of students at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, with the same message Wednesday: Secure the safe release of their younger brother Alon from Gaza.
From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2023
Before her mother had been carted off to Lynchburg in 1920, Carrie Buck had led an impoverished but still-normal childhood.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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