From the forthcoming CQ’s Politics in America:

In the 1960s, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), as a top aide to the Warren Commission, helped devise the “single bullet” theory that a lone gunman was responsible for the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) is recognized by the American Humanist Association as the highest-ranking U.S. official and the first member of Congress to proclaim that he is an atheist. Stark says he’s a Unitarian who does not believe in a supreme being.

In 1983, while working as a White House aide, Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) proposed to his wife during a Baltimore Orioles baseball game, hiring an airplane to fly overhead with a banner reading, “Amey this is the inning to say yes.”

In 1967, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), as a student at the U.S. Naval Academy, lost a boxing championship to Oliver L. North, who would later become a household name for his role in the Iran-Contra affair.

Rep. Charlie Wilson, D-Ohio, received a certificate in mortuary sciences and was president of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association. Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Tim Murphy dug graves to earn money for college.

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