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… He gained national attention in the House when he presided over the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton and was praised for his …
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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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… in chief of the Continental Army and later the first president of the newly formed United States. Reluctantly, she … with Martha, established during George Washington’s presidency. It conveys a personal touch of grief and … of Dec. 27, on the other hand, carries a different tone. President Adams immediately begins by relaying to Martha …
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… the seventh of nine children and the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy. Robert, known mostly as "Bobby," … presidential campaign. Following the Kennedy victory, the President-elect tapped his brother, on December 16, 1960, to …
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… the seventh of nine children and the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy. Robert, known mostly as "Bobby," … presidential campaign. Following the Kennedy victory, the President-elect tapped his brother, on December 16, 1960, to …
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… home and called for aid to Jews in Russia, an item which President Benjamin Harrison would include in his 1889 State … Jewish homeland in Iraq. He subsequently befriended President Theodore Roosevelt, who named Straus to the …
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… Country Club, yachting, and fishing. He was the first President to have a radio in the White House, and the first … wrote a best-selling book (ninety thousand copies), The President's Daughter, dedicated "to all unwed mothers, and to …
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… ultimately resigned his Senate seat in 1877 to serve as President Rutherford B. Hayes’s secretary of the treasury, a … to the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1897. He was president pro tempore during the Forty-Ninth Congress and, …
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… political, career. While Woodrow Wilson was serving as president of Princeton University, Ellen Wilson gained … his political goals. So when Woodrow Wilson became President in 1913 and Ellen Wilson moved into the White …
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… the Bernalillo County Crime Commission (1967-1968), and as president of the New Mexico Independent Insurance Agents …
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… an offshoot of Fidelity Investments. In 1983, he was named President and chief operating officer of Fidelity. Bodman …
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… management positions at Gold Seal, and in 1978 he became President. Under his leadership, the company's sales climbed …
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… and was promoted to general upon Grant's recommendation. President Grant named him a district judge for Indiana in … unions in the great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the …
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… University of Cincinnati. Though he refused an offer from President Andrew Johnson to serve as the commissioner of internal revenue, Cox did accept President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become secretary of the …
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… of Iowa, where he served from 1847 to 1852. In 1853, President Franklin Pierce tapped Williams to become chief … thereafter. Williams served on a special commission for President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 before becoming Grant’s …
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… and was promoted to general upon Grant's recommendation. President Grant named him a district judge for Indiana in … unions in the great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the …
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… senate seat of James Harlan. who had resigned to become President Andrew Johnson's secretary of the interior. … States Senator. He did not fulfill his full term, as President Garfield tapped him in 1881 to become secretary of …
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… and was promoted to general upon Grant's recommendation. President Grant named him a district judge for Indiana in … unions in the great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the …
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… leadership of the Whig Party in Missouri. Bates declined President Millard Fillmore’s offer to become secretary of war … of the Land Court in St. Louis from 1850 to 1853. He also presided over the 1856 Whig National Convention; since he …
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… in that position for five years before being tapped by President James K. Polk to head the Navy’s Bureau of … of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and was soon tapped by the new President to become secretary of the Navy. During the Civil …