Pennsylvania Avenue lighthearted celebrations, including a series of day- and nighttime Shriner's parades in the 1920s and 1930s. Thomas and Concepcion Picciotto are the founders of the White House Peace Vigil, the longest running anti-nuclear peace vigil in the US, at Lafayette Square on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Secret Service closed the portion of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to all vehicular traffic. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic, however, was still permitted on the sidewalk. After 9/11 this policy was made permanent. Near the White House traffic is redirected to
Harry White (Pennsylvania) Harry White (Pennsylvania) Harry White (January 12, 1834 – June 23, 1920) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Harry White was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He attended the Indiana Academy, and was graduated from Princeton College in 1854. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in June 1855 and commenced practice in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He entered the Union Army as major of the Sixty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, on December 13, 1861. Mustered out February 22, 1865. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate during his military service and attended its