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… for the U.S. Senate. Appointed secretary of labor by President George H.W. Bush, she took the oath of office on …
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… Builders in Chicago. Klutznick was the international president of B'nai B'rith (1953-1959), president of the World Jewish Congress (during the late … Klutznick worked as envoy to the United Nations under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Carter. Klutznick then …
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… figure in the congressional opposition that doomed President Woodrow Wilson's attempts to secure U.S. entry into … the position, which he held until he was nominated as vice president. Curtis sought the presidential nomination in 1928 …
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… and supporting Republican Abraham Lincoln’s reelection as President and President Johnson’s policies of Reconstruction. After the …
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… After victories in the Mississippi Valley and elsewhere, President Abraham Lincoln elevated Grant to major general of … In 1868, Grant ran as the Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States. He won the election that …
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… decades, Noble earned high marks as an attorney; by 1889, President Benjamin Harrison had tapped him to become … of Native American affairs, few disagreed with the President’s choice of the upstanding Noble. During Noble’s … supported the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, which allowed Presidents to set aside forest reserves as national parks. …
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… to become one of the city’s leading railroad attorneys. President Grover Cleveland, during his second term in the … strategies to halt the strike failed, Olney counseled President Cleveland to send in federal troops to put down the …
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… He soon traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak alongside President Theodore Roosevelt about the virtues of Yosemite … Though a Democrat, Lane made such an impression on the President that TR hired him to serve on the Interstate …
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… Cuba. In 1961, Trowbridge moved to Puerto Rico and became president and division manager of Esso Standard Oil. President Johnson tapped Trowbridge to be the assistant …
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… whom Wilson immediately recognized as the de facto president of Mexico. One of Carranza's rivals, Pancho Villa, … drastically curtail submarine warfare. Convinced that the president's policy would lead to an unnecessary war, …
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… Bruce Babbitt served under President Clinton as secretary of the interior from 1993 to …
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… from 1931 to 1936 prior to becoming director and eventual president of the U.S. and Foreign Securities Corporation. In 1938, he was appointed the vice president and director of the Dillon, Read Company, and he …
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… (1953) from Stanford University. Brinegar was senior vice president of Union Oil Company of California and a member of … board of directors and executive committee. He was also president of the Union 76 division of Union Oil. Brinegar … service, Brinegar returned to Union Oil as its senior vice president. He also served on the transition team from Jimmy …
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… the Eastern District of New York, Lynch was nominated by President Bill Clinton as the U. S. Attorney for that same … the U. S. Attorney of the Eastern District, this time by President Barack Obama. She was also a member of the board of …
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… to the West Virginia state House of Delegates. In 1868, President Andrew Johnson tapped Goff to become the United … a position Goff held until 1881. Later that year, President Rutherford B. Hayes named Goff to head the Navy …
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… Office (1822). McLean was appointed postmaster general by President James Monroe and was reappointed to that position by President John Quincy Adams (1825-1829). He declined offers …
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… Office (1822). McLean was appointed postmaster general by President James Monroe and was reappointed to that position by President John Quincy Adams (1825-1829). He declined offers …
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… Denison College in Ohio and then at Duke, becoming a vice president of the university in 1973. She also became director … was also the James B. Duke Professor of Economics and vice president emeritus at Duke University. Kreps sits on various … and is a trustee of the Duke endowment. She is also president of the board of overseers of TIAA-CREF. …
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… administration. He served as secretary of agriculture to President Carter from 1977 to 1981. After his tenure in the cabinet, Bergland served as president of Farmland World Trade from 1981 to 1982 and …
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… term and ultimately served in the House until 1875, when President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him second assistant … general. When Rutherford B. Hayes was inaugurated as President in 1877, he appointed his own postmaster general …