31.  Days after that bill passed an execution day was set for Hatch, and Douglass became the first family member allowed into the death chamber.

32.  Earlier this year, another Chicago alderman, Ambrosio Medrano, became the first City Council member to be buried by the Silver Shovel investigation.

33.  Duane, the first openly gay member elected to the conservative, clubby fraternity that is the state Senate, had his back to the podium.

34.  Equine morbillivirus, as the Australians called it, is the first member of that virus family to afflict more than one species.

35.  Evernham says Hendrick was the first non-family member to visit his son, whose cancer is now in remission.

36.  Fowler is the first senior member of the Mohegans to break with the tribe over the issue of profit-taking from Mohegan Sun.

37.  German Finance Minister Theo Waigel said France will be among the first members in a European monetary union.

38.  Former Rep. Charlie Wilson, the first member of Congress to resign after the House adjourned last month, has a new job with a lobbying firm.

39.  Gore should spend the rest of his years in Florida as the first living member of the Disney World exhibit of presidential robots.

40.  Guests included visiting professors, students from other countries and, frequently, Jeannette Rankin, the first female member of Congress, who had retired nearby.