Which explorer claimed to have reached the North Pole in April 1909 but couldn't relay the news until September?

Who won the most popular and electoral votes in 1824, yet saw the House choose John Quincy Adams as president? Which folk artist, her hands crippled by arthritis, began painting seriously in her late 70s? Whose 1916 campaign slogan was "He kept us out of war," though the U.S. entered World War I the next year? Whose 1975 play "Seascape" had only a brief Broadway run but won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama? Although it was a hit, no singles were released in the U.S. from which 1982 Bruce Springsteen album? Though a separate colony, New Hampshire shared a governor with which colony until 1741? Which large Canadian bay is named for the English explorer who sailed into it in 1610? Which Montreal university was chartered in 1821 but didn't open until 1829?