Top 10 March 4 Birthdays
Somewhat Honorable Mention: March 4, 1953: Christopher H. Smith. When he was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, he was just 27 years old, the youngest member. He and Hal Rogers of Kentucky are the last remaining members of that Republican Class of 1980, known as the Reagan Robots for their lock-step approval of President Ronald Reagan's agenda. In 1981 and 1982, he was my Congressman. Redistricting meant that, from then until her death in 2006, he was my grandmother's Congressman. She detested that he never met a weapons system he didn't like, and that he was anti-choice. But she liked that he was pro-child care and pro-education, which, to her, made his identification as "pro-life" sincere. He is now the dean of the New Jersey delegation, and, for a brief time in 2019, he was the only Republican left in it. Dishonorable Mention: March 4, 1926: Richard DeVos. Not because he founded Amway, and not because he founded and still owns the NBA's O...