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… often sat in for him during cabinet meetings. In 1947, President Truman appointed Donaldson postmaster general upon … post was traditionally given to political leaders in the President's party, and Donaldson was the first career civil …
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… she developed addictions to alcohol and painkillers. President Richard Nixon selected Gerald Ford to fill the recently vacated vice-presidency in 1973. When Nixon resigned in August 1974, Vice …
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… system, kept in touch the liaison for every delegation. President John F. Kennedy announced O’Brien’s appointment as special assistant to the President for congressional relations and personnel on …
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… instead became U.S. minister to Turkey at the request of President Ulysses S. Grant. In 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes tapped Maynard to become his …
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… auditor of the Treasury during the administration of President Andrew Jackson (1832-1835), and later served as postmaster general for both Jackson and President Martin Van Buren (1835-1840). Kendall was a …
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… later dean of the School of Agriculture (1913).In 1925, President Coolidge appointed Jardine as Secretary of … as U.S. minister to Egypt. Jardine returned to serve as president of the University of Wichita (1934-1949). Jardine …
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… War; he would also fight in World War I. On June 4, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Mitchell solicitor general. Mitchell remained at that post until President Herbert Hoover appointed him attorney general, a …
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… he eventually grew active in the union and became vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Doak … in 1920; he also lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 1924. President Herbert Hoover appointed Doak to succeed Secretary …
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… of Neodesha, Kansas, of which he eventually became vice president and then owner. During World War I, Woodring … becoming assistant secretary of war (1933-1936) under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Woodring became acting …
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… in 1930 and served in that body until 1941, at which time President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him associate … nomination in 1944 but was appointed secretary of state by President Harry S. Truman in 1945. He resigned in 1947, …
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… of Representatives in 1924 and was a major supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs. From … war mobilization and reconversion. In July of that year, President Harry S. Truman named Vinson secretary of the …
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… Frederick Mueller was secretary of commerce under President Eisenhower from August 6, 1959, until January 20, … company that year, general manager in 1923, and president of the company after his father's retirement. …
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… hero, she was ecstatic about becoming the wife of the President of the United States. She was thrilled with her husband's nomination for the presidency in 1868--even more than the candidate himself--and … holding the first Inaugural Luncheon so she could still preside as First Lady. When she finally left the White House …
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… society. Congressmen wooed her, but it was the widowed President Tyler, thirty years her senior, who won her. Thus … women strove to copy her stylish fashions, and a smitten President indulged her whims. But while social popularity was …
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… was secretary of health, education and welfare under President Eisenhower from July 20, 1955, until July 31, 1958. … social security system, he served as a member of the President's Advisory Board of the Committee on Economic …
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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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… becoming a Methodist lay leader, serving as school board president, and establishing the Denison Normal and Business … percent of the vote and completed two terms as governor. President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Shaw as secretary of …
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… and his Daughter" (1846). During the administration of President James Madison, Paulding served as secretary of the … appointed naval agent for the port of New York (1824). President Martin Van Buren appointed him secretary of the …
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… James Randolph Garfield, the son of President James Abram Garfield, was born in Hiram, Ohio, on … in the Department of Commerce & Labor in February 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Garfield secretary of …
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… and 1904, and then from 1904 to 1905 as governor general. President Theodore Roosevelt named Wright secretary of war … he served until the end of the Roosevelt administration. President Taft's refusal to retain Wright in that post …