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… Committee (1928-1929). During that time, he was also president of the American Medical Association (1920).Work served President Warren G. Harding as postmaster general from 1922 …
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… Committee (1928-1929). During that time, he was also president of the American Medical Association (1920).Work served President Warren G. Harding as postmaster general from 1922 …
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… professor in the agriculture department from 1893 to 1894. President Warren G. Harding appointed Wallace secretary of … of the Interior Albert Fall. Wallace was reappointed by President Calvin Coolidge and died in office on October 24, …
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… Committee (1928-1929). During that time, he was also president of the American Medical Association (1920).Work served President Warren G. Harding as postmaster general from 1922 …
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… Court (1919-1924), serving as chief justice (1923-1924). President Coolidge appointed him secretary of the Navy, … as naval secretary from March 19, 1924 to March 4, 1929. President Hoover appointed him to the Ninth Circuit Court of …
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… in the House of Representatives for three terms. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge appointed him undersecretary of … Mellon resigned in February 1932, serving until the end of President Hoover’s term. A strong advocate of the gold …
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… Raymond Wickard served as secretary of agriculture to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940 to 1945. Wickard … named U.S. food administrator but served only four months. President Truman asked for his resignation in 1945, leaving …
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… as a laborer at General Motors but by 1931 had become vice president in charge of industrial and public relations. He … U.S. representative to the United Nations (1945-1946) by President Truman. After resigning from government, Stettinius …
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… Raymond Wickard served as secretary of agriculture to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940 to 1945. Wickard … named U.S. food administrator but served only four months. President Truman asked for his resignation in 1945, leaving …
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… the U.S. (1787) and state (1790) constitutions. In 1790, President George Washington named him U.S. commissioner to … and five more as secretary of state under both Presidents Washington and John Adams (1796-1800). He would …
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… member of the Maryland state assembly (1787-1796).In 1796, President George Washington offered McHenry the position of secretary of war. McHenry accepted and served both Presidents Washington and John Adams before resigning in …
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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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… little political experience, Crowninshield ascended to President James Madison's cabinet in 1815, becoming Madison's … at that post when James Monroe succeeded Madison as President in 1817, but he resigned the following year, …
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… vice chancellor of New Jersey. He entered the cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson in 1913, serving as secretary of war … into war. He resigned his post due to conflicts with the President. Garrison returned to the practice of law following …
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… the Scovill Corporation hired him as an executive vice president. Baldrige supervised the company’s takeover of several important assets, and by 1972, he was president of the international manufacturing company. …
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… 1913 to 1919, having been defeated for reelection in 1918. President Warren G. Harding appointed Weeks secretary of war in 1921, and President Calvin Coolidge reappointed him to that post …
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… (later Princeton University) during Arthur's term as President, and his daughter, Ellen "Nell" Herndon Arthur, age …
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… to the institution. When her husband suddenly became President in September 1901, Edith first turned her attention … to rest and relax with the family. When she thought the presidency was wearing down her husband, Edith considered … he faced. Although she disassociated herself from the President's administration, she placed her office next door …
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… life. In 1794, she accompanied her husband to France after President George Washington appointed him minister to that … is far from clear. She did not insert herself into his presidency and seemed to concentrate her energies mostly on …
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… postmaster himself in 1861, during the administration of President James Buchanan. King served for only about a month before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as President of the United States. Though Lincoln appointed his …