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Vanessa Fica
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Will Lyman
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Olivia DelVecchio
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Erin Cole
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Ken Fishkin
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James Claude Wright, Jr., oil on canvas, Marshall Bouldin III, 1991, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-51981
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Thomas Philip (Tip) O’Neill, Jr., oil on canvas, Robert Vickrey, 1986, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Thomas Stephen Foley, oil on canvas, Frank Wright, 1998, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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