Her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton, was a great supporter of women's rights issues including the right to birth control.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Mary Travers was a strong supporter of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Mrs. Gardner was a celebrated arts and community supporter in her hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, a Southern supporter shot President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

He became a businessman, a political activist and a strong supporter of civil rights.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Tyler named a new cabinet. And there was not one Clay supporter in it.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Today we tell about the art collector and cultural supporter, Isabella Stewart Gardner.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

This local arts supporter saw the promise the Caf held for new poets.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

A Confederate supporter shot and killed a young officer from the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Miz OLeary is a supporter of honoring space heritage.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Copland was a strong supporter of liberal ideas.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Analysts say Mr.Netanyahu knows it is not in Israel's interest to antagonize Washington the Jewish state's biggest ally and supporter.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Despite his Catholic background, Kennedy also became a strong advocate of abortion rights and later, a supporter of same-sex marriage.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

A Goran supporter, parliament member Sirwan Zahawi, said his bloc "could win up to 35 seats" in the 111 seat Kurdish parliament.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

U.S.Ambassador Timothy Roemer, issued a statement offering his condolences and hailing the chief minister " as a strong supporter of U.S.-India friendship."

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Virginia Democratic Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia was initially a supporter of the war in Afghanistan,but no more.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Julie Heckman is a Tea Party supporter from Maryland who attended the rally against the Democrat's health-care bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

She says it's especially disappointing since the UK has been such a strong supporter of Rwanda.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

Last week an MDC supporter was killed for allegedly singing a pro-Tsvangirai song in a bar.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"The idea that every Sunni was a supporter - every Sunni insurgent was a supporter of al-Qaida - was simply not true, simply not true.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Well I say,'Go for it,'" Obama supporter Alan Bohanan agrees with the president and says he does not think those efforts will win much support.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Critics say it's a stretch to describe a man who had 11 wives, one of whom was a young girl, as a supporter of women's rights.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

MDC supporters and activists are arrested on minor charges, while not a single ZANU-PF supporter has been arrested, despite the 150 murders of MDC supporters last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

It's really a strange situation." Even Dave Salmonsen with the American Farm Bureau Federation - which represents U.S.farmers - is not an enthusiastic supporter of the U.S.aid to Brazil.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Mr.Netanyahu has been a strong supporter of Jewish settlement in all of the biblical land of Israel, but he imposed the construction freeze last month after urging from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

"Some of you legitimately may have been surprised that such a strong supporter of Israel,for the last 37 years and beyond, but 37 years as an elected official, how I can speak out so strongly, given the ties that I share as well as my country shares with Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11