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… of such duration was common. During the address, the new president wore no coat or hat. As a soldier, farmer, and … of office, Harrison was dead. It was the most fleeting presidency ever, lasting one scant month. William Henry … William Harrison: Death of the President …
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… stop. "When I received the nomination for the vice presidency I was warned that if I continued to attack the … Ike and Dick won the 1952 election in a landslide. As vice president, Nixon burnished his reputation for foreign policy … Richard Nixon: Life Before the Presidency …
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… of Christ. After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, Jack Reagan was rewarded for his … resonant optimism dazzled Reagan, who imitated the President's 1932 inaugural speech on a broomstick microphone … Ronald Reagan: Life Before the Presidency …
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… $650 annually. Collector of the Port of New York In 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Arthur to the position … grossed $50,000 a year, a salary equivalent to that of the President of the United States. While customs office agents … Chester A. Arthur: Life Before the Presidency …
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… the judge used his contacts in Washington. The new President, John Adams, named Harrison secretary of the … in the region. However, the primary task charged to him by Presidents Adams and Jefferson was to secure legal claims to … high, and the timing for such an action was not good. The presidency of the United States, however, had just changed …
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… for them both. Alexander Stephens, the former vice president of the Confederacy, spoke for many when he said he … Fanny—named after his beloved sister—became the former President's companion, both at home and on his frequent … Rutherford B. Hayes: Life After the Presidency …
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… mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, gave birth to the future President. Raised in the home of his grandmother, Edith … pushed him to the top in student government. He won the presidency of his freshman and sophomore classes. In his … Bill Clinton: Life Before the Presidency …
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… two children and a third on the way. The future President was born ten weeks after his father's death. He was … his grief. He supported the Republican candidate for President, John Charles Fremont—"For free states and against … Rutherford B. Hayes: Life Before the Presidency …
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… California, where he and Mamie spent winters. The former President and his wife also traveled both for pleasure and to … of national affairs. He occasionally provided advice to President John F. Kennedy, and he consulted frequently with … Dwight D. Eisenhower: Life After the Presidency …
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… what became one of the most controversial decisions that a President has ever made, when President Harry S. Truman authorized the use of the atomic … Dwight D. Eisenhower: Life Before the Presidency …
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… graduating magna cum laude and winning election as president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review for the … acknowledged to have done. As the first African American president in the long history of the law review, Obama drew … Barack Obama: Life Before the Presidency …
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… with party regulars that he was given the honor of placing President William Howard Taft's name in nomination at the … stood solidly with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in opposing President Woodrow Wilson's version of the League. … Warren G. Harding: Life Before the Presidency …
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… of the Democratic Party, although he remained fond of then-President Theodore Roosevelt. FDR also began paying more … Jersey, Woodrow Wilson, in his successful campaign for the presidency in 1912. Wilson noted FDR's support and wanted to … Franklin D. Roosevelt: Life Before the Presidency …
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… an honor that he valued more than his nomination for the presidency, and off they marched to war. It was a thirty-day … attracted attention from leaders of the time. Democratic President Andrew Jackson appointed Lincoln postmaster of New … Abraham Lincoln: Life Before the Presidency …
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… summer. Knowing that George Washington would be the first President, Adams sought the vice presidency. He was elected to that position in 1789, … John Adams: Life Before the Presidency …
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… Representatives in 1832. At that time, Andrew Jackson was President. Anyone who saw Jackson as power hungry and … Millard Fillmore: Life Before the Presidency …
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… in the American Whig and Liberal debating clubs, served as president of the campus baseball association and secretary of … domination of government and the weak post-Civil War presidency. He argued in favor of replacing the American … Woodrow Wilson: Life Before the Presidency …
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… believing that he would be considered below average as President in the annals of history. When confronted with this … books about George Washington during the final year of his presidency and said that if historians were still analyzing … George W. Bush: Life After the Presidency …
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… upon his defeat in 1932, the fifty-eight-year-old former President lived another thirty-two years before his death on … instead recognized the greater burdens of the modern presidency and proposed bureaucratic and administrative … Herbert Hoover: Life After the Presidency …
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… Roosevelt was re-appointed to the Commission by Democratic President Grover Cleveland in 1893. As commissioner, he … served dutifully as a commissioner until he accepted the presidency of the New York City Police Board in 1895. He … Theodore Roosevelt: Life Before the Presidency …